Rules and Regulations

Rules and Regulations

The only rule is that students should read and read often! You may read the books on the list both at school and at home. Some books are challenging, others are light. We encourage you to read the challenging books with a parent or an older sibling. You can even listen to audio versions of the books you can check out from the public library.

Create a team. Teams can have up to four members. You can mix grade levels if you so choose. Students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades can join. Your team can divide up the books on the list to make sure between all members you read all 20 of the books on the Bluestem List. 

Read books for understanding. Your goal is to remember facts from each book. The Battle is in a game show style. Comprehension questions will be asked and your answer is always, which book and which author best answers the question.

Our school battle will be held on April 2nd. Students should bring their Chromebooks. We will have one  team that will be our school champions that will move on to the district battle!

The district  battle does take place after school. The battle will be on April 24th. The teams will need to arrive at 4:45 pm with the battle starting at 5:00 pm.  Each team will need a Chromebook on this date as well.