Sunday, February 22, 2009

100 Days of First Grade!

We celebrated the 100th day of school on Tuesday! Each day since September, we have counted the days by adding a stick to a ones box. When we got to 10, we made a bundle and added it to a tens box. Finally, we got to make a big bundle of ten tens and we put it in a hundreds box! We read stories about ways to make 100, counted our collections of 100 by making 10 groups of 10, practiced counting by twos, fives, and tens, made a book and a headband, and watched a Reading Rainbow entitled "How Much is a Million?"
Here we all are wearing our headbands.

We brought in a variety of objects to practice counting. We discovered that 100 is a really big number, but not as much as one million!

The marbles were too roly-poly to stay on the work mat.


100 pennies make a dollar!

These beads were pretty little!


So were these!

Cereal worked well.

Mmmmmm - the M&Ms were tempting!

Vienna must have worked hard cutting up 100 pieces of yarn!


Look at all those crayons!


There must be a few more sticks in the bag!


More little pieces.

It's fun to work together.

Counting 100 Legos was a challenge!

More Legos.
Well, we made it to 100 days, and we are over 1/2 way through the school year! It's going really fast, but we have lots more to learn. Keep up the good work, kids!

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