100th Day of School

Wow! We've been in school for 100 days already! We celebrated on Friday by doing lots of activities involving counting to 100. Everyday during calendar time, we put a stick in a little box for the day. When we get to 10, we make a bundle and put it in the ten's box. Yesterday, we had 9 bundles of 10 and 9 single sticks (99), so today, when we added our stick, we got to ten bundles of ten. We had to put them all together to make a bundle of 100! That's a lot of sticks!

We started the day by making a "100" headband to wear all day.

We all brought in collections of 100 small objects. During Math, we counted our objects into 10 groups of 10. It was kind of tempting to eat a few of these Reece's Pieces!



Q-tips were easy to count, and weren't so tempting to eat!

Chocolate chips made some yummy piles, too.

The smallest objects were little tiny staples - they were tricky to count!

All done -100 pieces of pasta!

During Reading, we heard stories about the 100th day of school. We talked about the different ways to make 100 (2 groups of 50, 4, groups of 25, 5 groups of 20, and 10 groups of 10) and then we practiced reading 100 words. We had 20 kids in class today, so we each got to put words on 5 hearts. Then we grouped the hearts into 10 rows of 10 words. All of the hearts are up in the hall for everyone to read!

We also sang some songs, made a book, and watched a Reading Rainbow called "How Much is a Million?". Now, that's a really big number! And we thought counting to 100 was a lot!