We're Number Two!

Maysen's team competed in the regional Reading Bowl today. Some of the questions were HARD! Maysen's team did great! They won every round except one. One round the score was 90 - 10. I wish we would have videoed that round. Maysen answered three in a row super quick. Our team came in 2nd place. We lost by 20 points. (Each question is worth 10 points, so we lost by 2). The 3rd place team was 100 points behind us, so Maysen's team did really good! Come to find out, the team we lost to was stacked with 6th graders. This is a 4th and 5th grade competition. One kid had a mustache, so when our coach was trying to explain them, she called them the mustache team. Pretty funny. Anyway, the top two teams move on to the next regional competition. We compete in two weeks! We're so excited! Although Rachel will be making her way back to California by then, so she won't be able to watch our kids...that's a bummer. Also, the competition is a Saturday after we have an entire week off of school. I hope some key players aren't on vacation!

Here is the team before competition started. They were all staring into the sun, so we told them to close their eyes and open on three. Diereshe is cheating with sunglasses. The team all received snazzy new shirts that say Reading Bowl Champions on the front with their name on the back.

They're ready!
We are so proud of them! What a great time this has been!
Nice work Maysen! We're SO proud of you!!!