Rooster Games 2015!

Team Yellow is ready for action!

On Monday our fourth graders participated in the 7th Annual Ashaway School Rooster Games!  All of the students who read at least five of the books on the list of nominees for the Rhode Island Children's Book Award were invited to participate.  The five teams (each a mix of boys and girls from both fourth grade classrooms) competed in a variety of games that were based on books from the list.

Champion Readers!

We start by awarding Champion Reader medals to those who read all of the RICBA nominees that I bought for Ashaway School.  Out of the list of 20, this year I bought 18.  Not only did these two reach that goal, but they both did it relatively early in the school year.  Awesome job, you two!!

Team Blue is all smiles!

 

Team Red works together to match the titles with the last line of each book.

Team Green matching each book title to its setting from the story.

Illustration Round

Three of the games are set up on PowerPoint and the students use marker boards to display their answers. Students match pictures from each book to their titles in the Illustration Round.  They answer multiple choice and short answer questions in the Question Round, and they identify which story a particular item represents in the Object Round.

Question Round

Collaborating on the Creativity Round

In between rounds, each team works together to create something original to represent one of the books on stage.  Their performance might be a skit, poem, commercial, song, or whatever other idea they come up with.  The Creativity Round is the last event in the Rooster Games!

Team Red performs!

Team Orange takes a turn!

This year it was a tie between Team Orange and Team Green, but there's no prize for winning the Rooster Games.  At the end of the day all of the students who qualified to participate in the games gets to enjoy a pizza party sponsored by our P.T.O., so they truly are all winners!

It was a really fun event, and it couldn't have happened without the support of our fourth grade teachers, our parent volunteers, and our Ashaway School P.T.O.  My sincerest thanks go out to them all!

Kids at Ashaway School Pick Their Noses!!

This week I had the pleasure of watching a whole lot of Ashaway School students pick their noses.  Well, some picked a nose.  Others picked a bookmark, a pencil, or one of the other fun "No Time for TV Week" prizes that I have on hand!  (But I think the nose-shaped pencil sharpeners are the best!)

Thanks to the support of the Ashaway School PTO, there are lots of things in my prize basket to motivate the students to take a break from all of their screens.  (You can read more about the program by clicking here.)  As an added incentive, we do a special prize drawing on the day that the participation forms are due.  Ten lucky students also win a $10 certificate to spend on Scholastic books!

Ten students who are looking forward to doing some book shopping!

Thanks again to the 

Ashaway School PTO for their support!

Chariho's Second Elementary Poetry Slam!

Tonight I was delighted to be a part of Chariho's second-ever Elementary Poetry Slam!  Twenty-three of the sixty participants were from Ashaway School, so we were very well represented!  I'm so proud of the students who not only followed through on penning an original poem, but also for courageously standing in front of an audience to share their work. 

 

It was a wonderful evening and my thanks go out to all who helped to make it happen!!


 

Secret World

By Samantha, Grade 3

 

There are secret worlds out there

With unicorns and dragons.

With grass as soft as feathers.

And blossoms as pretty as a whale’s tail.

And clouds as pretty as polka-dotted dresses.

And golden scales as shiny as the sun.

Where the unicorns and dragons have peaceful lives.

I Like Reading                                  

By Paige, Grade 1                            

I like reading, it’s so fun                 

I think I like every one.       

I like reading so you know  

Reading makes you grow. 

It does not make you tall

It makes your brain not so small.

I like to read when it snows

Then I feel happy and it shows.

It relaxes me before bed

As stories play in my head.

I like to read when the sun comes up

Then my mom yells time to get up!

My Cat is Happy

By Ava, Grade 1

My cat is happy

Purr Purr Purr

My cat makes me happy

Smile Smile Smile

We are both happy

All the while

At night we cuddle together

Dream Dream Dream

Science is Everything

By Gabrielle and Lilly, Grade 3

Science is everything, it’s true!

Science even created you!

Science made our schools and houses!

Science made our cats and mouses!

Science made our moon and stars.

Science made Neptune and Mars!

Science made our flowers and plants!

Science made your shirts and pants!

Science made the chairs you sit in.

Science made the world we live in!

See, science is everything!

 

Hop Toads

By Sadie, Grade 1 & Mabel, Grade 4 

Crick croak crick croak

I’m a tiny toad

hop stop hop stop

hopping down the road

brown gray slimy bumpy

please don’t run me over

too hot getting grumpy

looking for some clover

green grass damp and dewy

full of juice bugs

eat them up ooey gooey

great big gulping chugs.

 

 

My Night

By Emma, Grade K

A monster went in my room

And I didn’t know what to do

But then there was another monster

Then I had an idea!

I ate a cookie!

Colors!

By Zoe, Grade 2

The sky is painted blue

The mountains are painted white

Snow leopards roam the mountains

And owls fly at night

The trees are painted green and brown

The water is painted blue 

Monkeys live in the trees

And fish live in the blue

Leaves are painted green

Sticks are painted brown

Leaves float in the breeze

And sticks lay on the ground

The rainbow has all the colors

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue

And did you know there’s purple too?

Thanks for organizing another terrific event, Mr. Gencarelli!

YOU ROCK!!