Happy Snow Week, friends! With 12ish inches of snow on the ground, I wanted to stop by and share an updated file that many friends have been asking for – 2017 Tournament of Books!
Last year, one of my 5th grade highlights was our Book Madness – Tournament of Books. My 5th graders were ALL about March Madness and ALL about UK, so it was the perfect time to channel their competitive spirits in the name of great chapter books! This year in 1st grade, I’ll still host a tournament using picture books!
So, are your READy???? You can snag the materials to set-up your tournament of books free at my TpT store here. So, are your ready for Book Madness?!? If so, I’d love to hear any ideas or books that will be on your bracket this year! 🙂
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Mrs. Wendy Yount says
February 19, 2015 at 2:21 pmI loved this idea and used it last year. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen won the whole tournament!
luckeyfrog says
February 19, 2015 at 8:00 pmI just have to say that it would hurt my heart to have to vote between Wonder and One and Only Ivan. Pairing them together is evil 🙂
I love this idea, though!
Kate says
February 19, 2015 at 11:46 pmI know, right?!?! It was SO fun to hear my kids' thinking as they voted. 😉
Amy Mezni says
February 20, 2015 at 12:11 amI have never heard of Socrative. Can you do a post about that please?
Kate says
February 20, 2015 at 12:13 amSocrative is THEBOMBDOTCOM!!! I used it ever.single.day last year teaching 5th grade. You get all kids of great data and since the update (over the summer), it has some crazy-awesome features. I wrote about the older version last fall here – http://thebrownbagteacher.blogspot.com/2013/10/socrative-and-superintendents.html
Katie Rokusek says
February 23, 2015 at 6:47 pmI just created a Socrative account – but how did you use it to vote? Just trying to get a picture of what the structure looked like as I get ready to do my very first tournament of books 🙂
Amanda H says
March 4, 2015 at 1:32 amI'm so grateful you put all of your ideas about this book tournament out there! I'm not ashamed to say I'm borrowing them 🙂 But I am also wondering how you use Socrative. I use it frequently, but there is no survery/vote feature, so did you just make a quiz?
Amanda H says
March 4, 2015 at 1:37 amI'm so grateful you put all of your ideas about this book tournament out there! I'm not ashamed to say I'm borrowing them 🙂 But I am also wondering how you use Socrative. I use it frequently, but there is no survery/vote feature, so did you just make a quiz?
Emily Venson says
March 6, 2015 at 2:47 pmThank you for this amazing idea! I just completed and hung my poster and my kids are so excited!!! I've also signed up for Socrative and shared the link with my colleagues. 🙂 Your blog is awesome!!!
spaceonthespectrum.org says
March 7, 2015 at 3:32 amThank you for sharing! As soon as I saw this my wheels started turning and now we are doing this as a school. We've got our bracket up in the cafeteria and are using Google Forms for voting. I haven't had a breath yet to write about it and the snow has slowed some parts down, but it's really very exciting. This was just such an awesome idea and I'm so glad you shared!