{"id":7603,"date":"2017-11-15T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:36:43","slug":"foa-battle-of-the-books-teams-shine-at-the-scisa-regional-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/foa-battle-of-the-books-teams-shine-at-the-scisa-regional-competition","title":{"rendered":"FOA Battle of the Books Teams Shine at the SCISA Regional Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7605 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-270x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-270x181.jpg 270w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-768x514.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-540x361.jpg 540w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-200x134.jpg 200w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-125x84.jpg 125w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-60x40.jpg 60w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-85x57.jpg 85w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_01-9-e1510757215483-80x54.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Five Oaks Academy&#8217;s Middle School and Upper Elementary\u00a0Battle of the Books teams represented our school well at the South Carolina Independent\u00a0School Association&#8217;s (SCISA&#8217;s) Regional Battle of the Books competition on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at Newberry College. Middle School placed 5th out of 27 teams and will be advancing to the State competition held later this month.\u00a0 The Upper Elementary\u00a0Team placed 12th out of 30 teams. We are so proud of the hard work shown by both of our teams in reading up to 20 books over the summer and practicing weekly in preparation for this competition. Congratulations to both of our teams!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7604 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_02-3-270x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/>Many of the parents of the team members have commented on how the Battle of the Books experience has encouraged their child to read books they might not necessarily\u00a0have chosen on their own and how it has inspired a love of reading in their child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Oaks Academy&#8217;s Middle School and Upper Elementary\u00a0Battle of the Books teams represented our school well at the South Carolina Independent\u00a0School Association&#8217;s (SCISA&#8217;s) Regional Battle of the Books competition on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at Newberry College. Middle School placed 5th out of 27 teams and will be advancing to the State competition held later this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}