Battle Of The Books!

Battle of the Books was this week. Elizabeth has been preparing for this for months now. They were placed in groups and assigned books to read. Elizabeth read her 5 books plus 3 more that she said no one in her group had read yet. She worked so hard and was so excited. Elizabeth can be a little competitive sometimes. I was a judge for it ALL week long! Monday and Tuesday was 5th and 6th graders and Wednesday was 3rd and 4th. Then on Thursday was the finals. It was pretty fun until you got to Wednesday when they announced who was going on to the finals....yep you guessed it Elizabeth's team didn't make it and she held it together pretty good while all the kids where still there....then....tears....big tear balls started coming down. Elizabeth was so sad so I checked her out of school and we went for some frozen yogurt. This has been a really good lesson for Elizabeth. Working with a team and realizing that she may need to work harder if she wants to win. And this has motivated her. By the end of the frozen yogurt and while I was checking her back into school she told me that she will work EVEN harder next year and read more of the books and review the books over and over before the competition! 

You can tell in the pictures when she found out that they didn't win....she is so hopeful in the second picture and then it all comes crashing down! Elizabeth I am so proud of all the hard work that you put forward in this and know that you will do better next year...oh man that means I have to do this next year too!