Hello!
Jack is a HUGE reader and this year participated in the district wide competition called: Reading Relays.
First, the kids create a team of four at the beginning of the school year. Then each person in the group reads books from a list of 25 books that need to be read. The groups get together and discuss who is reading which books, a goal being that each book is read by at least two members, if not more, in the group.
Long story short, there are 64 fifth grade teams in the district that are all hoping to score one of the 16 spots in the Relays. Happily, Jack’s team was one of the 16 teams in the finals!
On Reading Relays day, the groups are asked questions about the books they read (oh my, they were very specific questions!) and awarded points.
The four teams that scored the highest, went onto the finals for more questions and a winner is awareded!
Unfortunately, Jack’s group wasn’t one of the four in the finals, but they were all pretty excited to get tot he semi-finals!
Also, the overall Reading Relays winning group was from Jack’s elementary, which made them all very proud!
What a fun day for all those readers!
(Yes, this is a longer post, but I had written before my epiphany!)