Literature
Name That Book Club
We are excited to announce that West University Elementary will enter the
HISD Name That Book Contest with two teams of readers for the 2009-2010
school year. Name That Book is a
reading contest sponsored by HISD that challenges kids to read a list of
books and compete against other schools to test their knowledge of those
books. West U has some
awesome student readers. Last
year the K-2nd won 1st place in the finals. The 3rd-5th lost in the preliminaries
by one point to the eventually team
that won the finals
The NTB Contests occur in the Spring.
The Librarian and parent volunteers will sponsor a book club for the
3rd, 4th and 5th graders in order to get
ready for the competition. The
club members will read several of the books from the list each week and then
discuss them at the Book Club meeting. The West U NTB Competition Team of 6
students and two alternate will be chosen in the Spring.
The K-2nd grade team will be chosen on January 26, 2009 and will
start meeting after that date weekly on Mondays.
There will be a team of K through 2nd graders and a team of 3rd
through 5th graders.
K – 2nd team members must read a list 30 books and 3rd
through 5th team members must read a list of 35 books (including
all 20 Bluebonnet books). The
book lists are set out below.
If you have questions for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade, please e- mail: Tara Wuthrich at t.wuthrich0119@att.net.
If you have questions for K, 1st and 2nd grade, e-mail: cburnett5@comcast.net