Hello! I had a parent ask me to post the actual dates of our upcoming events, so here goes:

Scrimmage: Wednesday, Feb. 7th after school at Warrenton Middle School
Open: Saturday, Feb. 24th from noon to 4 p.m.
BATTLE!: Friday, March 30th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

I hope this helps.

Also, Jacqueline Clemons has volunteered cookies for next week's meeting. Thanks a million.

More tomorrow after the meeting. These kids really are doing a GREAT JOB!!!!

Another great meeting! Annie Bennett so helpfully went over books that have confusing similarities, so we could get those ironed out in our minds. Next week we'll discuss Last Shot. Since we didn't get to too many questions today, we'll go over questions covering Wish You Well, Teacher's Funeral and Midnight Magic, as WELL as Last Shot at the next meeting.

PLEASE encourage the kids to write down at least 5 questions for the books they are reading, though more would be better!!! This is important!!

Play practice might keep some of our team members from the scrimmage on the 7th, but it looks like at this point we could get together a team of 5: Nathan, Annie, Jacob, Sarah and Marina. Lisa Cooper has offered to help with car pool! Should be FUN. The coordinator thinks it will go until about 4:30 or 4:45. I think this will be a blast. I wonder if we should do Coldstone afterward; I think that is a Highland fundraiser night, so our money would go right back to supporting the school. Let me know what you think!

Mrs. DeHart

Parents,
There is a proposed scrimmage at Warrenton Middle School on Feb. 7th, at around 3:30. Could any of your kids make it? We'd need 4-10 kids to participate and I think it would be great practice!! Let me know via email at sdehart@highlandschool.org if you think your child could join us. I'll need carpool help!

I'll report more later today, after our meeting!

Suji

Okay, here it is! The list of books for which each team member will be the "EXPERT"! I tried to upload it in a nice table format, but that didn't work so well. I think this is just fine, however!

Simon: Last Shot, Airborn, Annie B.T. States ,Cryptid Hunter, Number Devil
Nathan: Last Shot, Wish You Well, The Maze, Cryptid Hunter, Code Orange
Jacob: Haymeadow, Left for Dead, Annie B.T. States, Teacher's Funeral, Al Capone DMS
Sarah: I, Coriander, Becoming Naomi L., Outcasts of 19 S.P, Wish You Well, Arkadians
Annie: Code Orange, Left for Dead, I Coriander, Airborn Arkadians
Fiona: Number Devil, Cryptid Hunters, Midnight Magic, Worth, Al Capone DMS
Marina: Midnight Magic, Wish You Well, I Coriander, Annie B.T. States, Arkadians
Dylan: Worth, Airborn, The Maze, Haymeadow, Defiance
Parker: Al Capone DMS, Teacher's Funeral, Haymeadow, Annie B.T. States, Worth
Katie: Welcome to the Ark, Teacher's Funeral, Defiance, Number Devil, Code Orange

ALSO...Annie Bennett has made a great offer! She is going to make up a document with lists of FOOD, ANIMALS, and THEMES (and other lists, if we think of any) of each book. She has read most the books already, so she'll be doing the chart with some of the books we've not gotten to yet. I think this will be a GREAT review tool. THANK YOU ANNIE!!!!

Have a great weekend and HAPPY READING! Mrs. DeHart

Hello! We had a productive meeting today. We assigned each member of our team five books on which to be the "expert". I I didn't have a chance to get that information into a presentable format, but I will post that tomorrow.

I also announced the Battle of the Books Logo competition. I will get more of the specifics soon, but entries must be submitted at 4" x 6" and 8" x 10" sizes. Winners will become the official Piedmont Region Battle of the Books logo! Details to come!!

We're reading TWO books for next week:

Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck
Midnight Magic by Avi

Cookies will be donated by Cathy Treuting for next Wednesday's meeting!

I am REALLY proud of this group. They are fun and enthusiastic and SMART! And boy, can they put away some Oreos!

Mrs. DeHart

Hi! Well, here is the latest! I was out sick yesterday and had to cancel the meeting. I think we are just fine however...the kids are reading and seem to be remembering these books SO WELL. We will meet and discuss Left for Dead AND Wish you Well by David Baldacci next Wednesday at the regular time. Please be reading the upcoming books:


The Teacher's Funeral
Midnight Magic

I have the cookies ready and waiting! One thing we discussed at the last meeting was the idea of assigning each team member 5 books on which to become the "experts". That way, even if all the kids have not read the book at least ONE of the team members will be in charge of knowing the details. We'll assign those at the next meeting. Each kid will be assigned a book he/she has not yet read, so they can get started on that if they'd like.

Sorry about canceling yesterday's meeting. I feel that we are doing very well and have a strong enthusiastic team, so I am not at all worried about one "lost" meeting!

Mrs. DeHart

Here is the latest: we met and had a great discussion of the book Defiance. We have decided that in order to keep up and have the books read by the first meet, we will have an EXTRA meeting next week on Monday! That is the 8th of January and it will be at lunchtime in the library - we will discuss Left for Dead.

Then we'll meet again on Wednesday the 10th, at the regular time, to discuss The Number Devil. I know this is really packing it in, but since most of the kids read the books over the break, it won't require more reading, just more MEETING!

Oh and of course, eating! Thanks to Anna Moser again for cookie supply services! They were SNARFED very quickly.

Thanks to all the parents for their wonderful support and YAY TEAM for the kids who are doing such a lot of reading and remembering and thinking up of questions. This is fun!

Mrs. DeHart