Waiting for Superman...Nope, we Have plenty of our own super heroes!

Well, NECAPs are finally over and the 4th graders really worked hard. We are so proud of the effort and perseverance that they exhibited throughout the past two weeks.  We celebrated today with a visit from author/ illustrator Dan Santat. To prepare for his visit each 4th grader created their own super hero mask, a theme that goes along with Mr. Santat's book, Sidekick's.

Columbus Day Parade Fun

Ashaway Elementary School PTO put together an amazing float for the annual Columbus Day parade. The theme was "Reading Oasis", and they truly created a beautiful oasis! Mr. Ornburn and I were in the truck towing the float. It was so much fun people watching our way down the parade route. I saw so many Ashaway friends along the way. The Ashaway kids did a great job handing out books and dancing their way down the streets.  Here are a few pictures of  the float and the friends I spotted along the way. What a great day!

Fun in Math

This week we have been learning about factors and multiples using the area model.  Students used colored tiles to create all the possible rectangular, area models to represent a given number. This helped them find the factor pairs of that number. Once they discovered the factor pairs they were able to determine whether the number was prime or composite.

They were able to see the relationship between factors and multiples by creating area models to help them skip count by a given number. They realized that the multiples of a number were actually the multiplication table of a given number.  For example, one set of three is three, two sets of three is six, etc.

They played several different games, Prime or Composite, Factor Flip and Buzz, to help them practice the skills they worked on all week. Math can be fun!