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Spring City Elementary sixth grade class solved Ruined Book mystery

By Staff | Mar 22, 2023

The winners are left to right: Leighton Johansen, Jill Hinckley, Sage Farr, Tegan Richardson, Aeverie Allred, and Jade Johnson

Spring City Elementary’s sixth grade library class, group number two, played Library Clue and solved the Ruined Book mystery. They answered the questions: Who did it? How was it ruined? Where did it happen? The game is patterned after the box game Clue.

The place is the school, the rooms are the rooms in the school, ie., kitchen, custodian’s room, library, principal’s office, etc. The suspects are the teachers, Jelly Beans Johansen, Mango Miller, Rutabaga Rasmussen, Macaroni McVay, Taco Thomas, and Artichoke Allred. The “weapons” are many of the ways books are ruined — coloring, young child, pets, water, boogers, fire, food, and dirty hands.

The fourth through sixth grades participated with two teams per grade. To be able to shake the dice, a team member had to read a chapter fiction book (on their reading level) and then fill out a questionnaire. The librarian, Mrs. Anderson, would check their spelling and punctuation and their summaries.

They would shake the dice and move their class tokens to the various rooms to be able to make a guess. Each guess helped them eliminate a suspect, location, weapon. Through their powers of deduction, the students in the 6th grade, second group, that chose to participate, figured out that it was done by Mango Miller, with fire, in the Custodian’s Room.

Thank you to Elizabeth Hinckley, with Central Utah Counseling — North Sanpete Cares, for providing the winning T-shirts, “Readers are Leaders”!

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