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Rossmoor Elementary Goes Medieval
As a reward for meeting reading goals, students got to watch fights between the Green, Yellow, Red and Blue knights of Medieval Times.
Local students got a good knight Friday morning.
Five good knights, actually.
Performers from Medieval Times, the family dinner-theater company, battled for supremacy in a campus ceremony as a reward for Rossmoor Elementary School students meeting reading goals.
From September to May, 90 percent of the students -- who's school mascot is the Rossmoor Knight -- read for 20 minutes a day 90 percent of the time, according to school officials.
Three separate matches between Red, Green, Yellow and Blue Knights in the center had kids cheering on their favorite.
“It was awesome ‘cuz we got to see sparks, hear clangs, (and) I got to hold a sword,” said 9-year-old Elliot Unverzagt. “It was just a really cool sight to be seen with all the kids."
At the ceremony after the battles (the Blue Knight, played by John Natividad, was victorious), the warriors knighted students who had managed to read a million words or more.
Parent Katie Faith, a Garden Grove resident whose son Jack attends Kindergarten at the school, helped organize the event for the kids.
“Watching Jack, at age six now, reads stories to his four year old sister at night, and it just melts my heart,” faith said. “If the school hadn’t pushed so hard for the kids to know how to read, I don’t think he’d be doing that.”
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