Reading Bowl

Hannah joined the Tapp Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl team this year. This was the second year for the team. James was on it last year & enjoyed it. Here's last year's post about the event. I was excited that Hannah wanted to participate this year. I even stepped up and helped out with it. 

The list of books came out in March of last year. Hannah started reading a few of the titles last spring and over the summer. The books are all from the Georgia Children's Book Awards. By the time the Reading Bowl competition had arrived in January, Hannah had read all 20 books. She "really really really" liked all but one - the one she didn't care for was a graphic novel geared toward boys. Many of the books were not ones that she would have chosen to read on her own. I read about 8 of them. One of our favorites was the Grim Legacy by Polly Shulman. I would love to see a movie version of it!

If you look at last year's post, you will notice that we had a new banner this year. Our friend Eric (Tyler's Dad) designed it and then Chris & I paid for it. We had the best looking banner at the event!

Here's the team. Not only did we have the best looking banner, but we had the nicest shirts, too. The students all brought in a black or orange polo shirt and then we took them to my embroidery contact and she put a logo on them. The polos are part of the school uniform, so they all had them already. Most of the other teams had team t-shirts, but our polos looked nicer! And they can wear them to school as part of the uniform after the event!

The team played 6 rounds with 10 questions per round. Our team did a great job! Here's Hannah taking a Coke break in between rounds.

Four out of the five team members were 6th graders. Their 6th grade science teacher came to watch them. They were so thrilled to see him out of regular school hours!

We didn't place, but the team did show improvement from last year. Here are some of the team members with the banner & participation trophy.

The new list of books should come out in March. We can't wait to start on next year's books.