Northview — A 15-station obstacle course served as the culmination of a reading challenge for nearly 100 Highlands Middle sixth-graders from the homerooms of teachers Marli Oliver, Keith Hillary, Julie Williams and Mikhaila Hart Knoper.
The entire challenge, which just wrapped up its third year, looks like this: Students log their reading minutes over two weeks. The five students with the most reading time from each class, or someone they designate, gets to participate in a relay obstacle course. The prize: a popcorn party read-in for their entire homeroom.
Among the four classes, the combined reading time this year was a whopping 31,627 minutes, 527 hours and seven minutes, or nearly 22 days straight. Williams’s class, with the most logged time, read a combined 13,642 minutes, or 227 hours and 22 minutes.
Their top students, Milo McKay and Liam Scholton, each read for 1,330 minutes — more than 22 hours.
“I didn’t even have to try,” Milo said. “I just really like to read.”
For Carlena Medina, the challenge provided a chance to push herself to read more chapter books to help boost her homeroom’s overall score. “I usually read graphic novels,” she said.
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