{"id":16551,"date":"2019-06-07T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:23:38","slug":"trailblazers-host-first-annual-battle-of-the-books-at-travis-ranch-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=16551","title":{"rendered":"Travis Ranch School hosts first annual Battle of the Books competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Ranch School recently hosted its First Annual Battle of the Books competition! Students in grades 3-5 made teams of two to four students each. A total of 84 students competed.<\/p>\n<p>The teams\u00a0read and studied the book that was chosen for their respective grade levels. Contest rounds consisted of five questions each and featured progressively harder questions in a single-elimination, tournament-style bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 150 family members and friends attended to cheer on their favorite teams. It was an exciting afternoon where students got to show off their love for reading.<\/p>\n<p>This event was made possible because of the tremendous support of Travis Ranch School&#8217;s PTA, including parent Heather Siemons, and\u00a0the school librarian, Mrs. Stephanie Yamashita.<\/p>\n<p>According to Assistant Principal Anne San Roman, students are already talking about next year\u2019s competition and getting their teams formed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16556\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Books at Travis Ranch.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16555\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Books at Travis Ranch.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-5.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16554\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Books at Travis Ranch.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-4.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16553\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Books at Travis Ranch.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Travis-Ranch-Battle-of-Books-6-5-19-3.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Ranch School recently hosted its First Annual Battle of the Books competition! Students in grades 3-5 made teams of two to four students each&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1955,1709,1668,401],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-academics","tag-trailblazers","tag-travis-ranch","tag-travis-ranch-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}