High School Wraps Up Year-Long Reading Challenge
The final day of the high school reading challenge was Friday, May 12, and the results are in! It was another successful year with many library records broken!
As a school, the 7-12th grade students read over 200,000 pages. This equates to an average of 2,811 pages per student! This is 300 pages per student more than last year, however, the overall record of 2902 pages per student set in 2014-2015 is still standing. We will look to beat that next year!
High school librarian, Mrs. Justine Fischer, holds a class reading challenge and an individual reading challenge. In the class challenge, each student had to read an average of 3,500 pages to beat the challenge.
We are pleased to announce that three classes beat the challenge: the 7th grade, 8th grade, and juniors! This is the first time in the history of the reading challenge that more than two grade levels have beat the challenge!
For their efforts, those three classes spent the afternoon of May 17 at the Columbus YMCA where they had access to the volleyball, basketball, and pickleball courts; inflatable bounce houses; foosball tables; and pool. They also made a pit stop at McDonalds.
Mrs. Fischer also recognizes top individual readers in the school. This year’s Top 10 that earned their picture on the library “Hall of Fame” are as follows:
Michaela Hall (1st); Alicia Holmberg (2nd); Justine Thompson (3rd); Emma Labenz (4th); Natalie Brabec (5th); Emily Loseke (6th); Cameron Miller (7th): Aiden Miller (8th): Cassidy Hoffman (9th); Sydney Geier (10th).
Of this group, junior Michaela Hall and 8th-grader Alicia Holmberg had a tight race all year, but Hall finished on top, breaking her own individual record set last year by reading 751.2 Accelerated Reader points, or 18,300 pages.
Holmberg, along with 7th-graders Justine Thompson and Natalie Brabec, were recognized for reading over 10,000 pages.
Mrs. Fischer congratulates all the students for their hard work, and wishes everyone a happy summer of reading!