At the Rooster Games, Everyone's a Winner!

Team Red works together during the "Object Round"

This week at long last my fourth graders participated in the Rooster Games, a kind of "book Olympics".  (You can read more details about it in last year's post by clicking here.)  While we did have a team that earned the most points (congratulations Team White!), I like to say that every student who participated was a winner.  They all enjoyed playing the different games and acting out an original skit for us on the stage, plus every single student who qualified to be on a team was invited to join the pizza party at the end of the day (courtesy of our wonderful P.T.O.).  So how many of our fourth graders were able to take part?  EVERY SINGLE ONE!  I am so proud of them!  We even had two students who enrolled in fourth grade when the school year was already half over, and I explained that they could qualify with fewer books.  They both went ahead and read their five anyway!

Team Orange records a correct answer during the "Multiple Choice Round"

This year I was delighted to see that the books never rested on the shelf for long.  Most of the students didn't stop reading after qualifying with their first five books, and four students went ahead and read every single one on the list.  Wow! 

Four students earned a "Champion Reader" medal by reading all the books on the list!

Team White - Winners of the 2012 Ashaway School Rooster Games!