Book Brainiacs

Kei had the "Battle of the Books 2007" at school on Friday. This is a voluntary program for students in 5th grade. Each team has to read 3 different books and then be quizzed on them. Each student forms a team that they will compete with and they come up with team name. Kei's group couldn't agree on a name so they combined them all. They were The 49 Falcons from Greenbay.

The battle is opened up to 4th grade student to come watch along with parents, family and friends of the participants. Each different team is sitting in front of their poster. Kei blends into the black curtain to the far left! He has a white shirt on so you can almost make him out.

The 3 books they were required to read were: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, The Ravenmaster's Secret by Elvira Woodruff and Shark Lady: The Adventures of Eugenie Clark by Ann McGovern. I'm really not sure how the scoring was figured because Kei's team only missed 3 questions out of the 8 rounds and the 2nd place team also missed 3 questions. Hmmm.

Being a slightly competitive person, I wanted to look at the judges score card, but decided it wasn't worth it!

Kei's team did great and they really didn't care that they didn't win. I think they would have put up more of a fight if the prizes were better. The boys had fun and the competition encouraged reading so it can't get much better than that.