Today was our district battle of the books.  Our school level champions, the Rainbow Glitter Sweet Tooths, represented Barrow at this year’s district competition.

To get to this point, this team of 5 girls has spent time since December reading and rereading the 10 books for this year’s battle.  They competed against 5 other teams at the school level to become the school champions.  They spent hours upon hours practicing questions at school and at home to prepare for today.

At the district competition, the 14 elementary schools all brought their winning school team to compete against one another.  The girls participated in 2 rounds of 20 questions.  The points in those rounds were totaled and the top 2 scores moved on to the final battle.  Barrow batted against Timothy Road Elementary in the final.

The 2 final teams had 20 new questions for the final battle.  It was an extremely close battle because both of these teams were strong.  The questions went back and forth with Barrow and Timothy both getting almost every question correct.  The points were so close, but Barrow came ahead with just a few points above Timothy.  Both of these teams should be extremely proud of their hard work.

When we returned to school, the entire 5th grade lined the hallways and cheered on the team as they walked to the library for a pizza and cookie cake celebration.  We are all exhausted, but very proud.  The girls immediately checked out some new books in the library.  They have spent so much time with the 10 battle books that they are eager to move on to many new adventures in reading.

Way to represent Barrow School Cate, Irene, Sophia, Italia, and Lauren, aka the Rainbow Glitter Sweet Tooths!  We are so very proud of you.