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!