Fayetteville-Manlius students recently competed against teams from across Central New York in the Regional Battle of the Books tournament, with three F-M teams earning spots in the upcoming Super Regional competitions.
The Book Swimmers representing grades 3 and 4 from Enders Road Elementary School, Slay Queen 101 representing grades 5 and 6 from Wellwood Middle School and Process of Elimination representing grades 9–12 from Fayetteville-Manlius High School each advanced after placing in the regional round.
Battle of the Books is a reading competition organized by the OCM BOCES School Library Systems. The program encourages a love of reading while helping students strengthen reading comprehension, teamwork and academic skills.
Throughout the school year, student teams read and study a set of eight selected books. Teams then compete in building and district-level trivia-style battles, answering Jeopardy-like questions that test their knowledge of the books. The highest-scoring teams advance to regional and super regional competitions.
Several Fayetteville-Manlius teams placed in this year’s regional competition:
- Grades 3 & 4: Enders Road Elementary School, Book Swimmers, first place
- Grades 5 & 6: Wellwood Middle School, Slay Queen 101, second place; The Refrigerators, fourth place
- Grades 5 & 6: Eagle Hill Middle School, The Cliffhangers, fourth place
- Grades 7 & 8: Wellwood Middle School, Abnormal Humans, third place
- Grades 9–12: F-M High School, Process of Elimination, first place
The Super Regional competitions will take place Wednesday, March 11, for grades 3 and 4, Thursday, March 12, for grades 5 and 6 and March 16 for grades 9 through 12.
Fayetteville-Manlius congratulates all of the student readers who participated and wishes the advancing teams the best of luck at Super Regionals.
Members of the Enders Road Book Swimmers pictured above include Chloe Ma, Cora Talbot, Teddy Sympson and Siho Kim. Below are members of the high school and Wellwood teams that advanced to Super Regionals.
Madison Ringwald.