APRIL 30, 2012 -- MONDAY

BETHANY'S TEAM WINS 

"BATTLE OF THE BOOKS" COMPETITION

Bethany and her other 5 teammates of "Pillow Pets" have been working ALL year reading from a suggested list of books and memorizing titles with authors.  The past month has been practice rounds and competition within the 5th grade to come up with the top 5 teams.
Today in the competition of "Battle of the Books",  5 fifth grade teams had to answer questions related to a certain book from their list (about 95 books on the list) and give the answer of the book and the author.
Bethany's team came out the winners and received 145 out of a possible 160 points!  Bethany was so excited!  Next week they get to go to the district wide competition where one 5th grade team from each of the 12 elementary schools in Fayetteville will compete!

Bethany and her trophy!

The Pillow Pets Team!  Everyone on the team got a trophy!

The team confers on the answer!!!

We got it right!!!

A sample of the questions.  Question is put up first.  The teams have a 1 minute to write their answer on the dry erase board.  They "reveal" their answers at the same time and are awarded 5 points for a correct answer -- and the book title is added to the screen.  Then all teams have a chance to get the correct author for 3 points and that information is added to the screen.  Then finally, a picture of the book cover goes up on the screen.  There are 2 questions per round and they play 10 rounds.