Submitted by Lisa Fesenmaier
SPRING VALLEY, WI – On Monday, February 12, Spring Valley Elementary held its annual Young Author Literacy Night from 3:30 – 5:00. At the event, the Young Author winners were announced and their winning pieces were displayed.
Other activities to do that evening included: literacy themes crafts and games, a book walk (pages of the book were posted down a hallway to read and at the end each family got to take home the book), classroom door decoration contest to vote on (Ms. Jensen’s 5th grade door won.), families could read their child’s writing piece together, families could attend a Book Fair, and families could enjoy a piece of pizza and water.
The 2024 winners were:
- Kindergarten – Things I Love by Nathan Scholtz – Holcomb, This is Me by Levi Nellessen – Hartung, Winter Poem by Evelyn Enberg – Manor
- 1st Grade – Brontey by Daphne Rothstein – Borgerding, Paleotologist by Annabelle Wood – Dykhouse, Dinosaur Adventure by Ximena Reyes-Linhart – Fesenmaier
- 2nd Grade – Feel Good Facts by McKinley Thompson – Pronschinske, Giraffe, Giraffe by Maddox DeBrozzo – Stroo, Football by Abel Degross – O’Meara
- 3rd Grade – Funny Food! by Davis Horner – Blegen, The Rat Adventure by Miles Wilcowski – Trcka, All About French Bulldogs by Peyton Wayne – Wahlquist
- 4th Grade – Nature by Corde Vanasse – Miller, Best Friends Stick Together by Kailyn Scholtz – Anderson, Sinkholes by Andrew Janssen – Stevens
- 5th Grade – The Military Secret by Greyson Vorlicek – Jensen, The Mysteries of the Black Horse by Raina Turner – Nielsen
