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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Gazing at the Stars

Our Ashaway School fourth graders have been eager readers of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominees!

As I was updating our "Rooster Poster" will all the new stars the fourth graders earned recently, I found myself thinking about what a wonderful activity this is.  As I broke into yet another fresh pack of stars, I thought about the fact that the reason I've needed to open so many new packages is because I keep running out of the gold ones!  I'm sure that the goal of qualifying for the Rooster Games has been a huge motivator for the students, and it's just so gratifying to know that the students have been exposed to such a variety of high-quality literature.


After the students earn a star for a book they read, they get to tell me which color star they would award the book: gold = "I loved it!", silver = "I thought it was good, you should read it", red = "It was okay", and blue = "I didn't like it".  Today when I asked one student what color star she would give to the book Wish she gushed, "A gold star isn't high enough! What's above a gold star?!"





It's so fabulous to hear their enthusiasm about books, especially since I know most of them never would have picked up these titles on their own.  I love this program!!


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