100 Days Brighter

Happy 100th Day of School!!! According to kindergarten, "today is the best day EVER!!!"  Why is it so exciting?  Well, it's a great day to celebrate our learning and mastery of counting to 100.  There are so many great resources and ideas out there to make the day fun and educational in every subject area.

We started our morning by diving into our math stations that were all based on 100. The kids worked on putting together a 100 chart puzzle, rolled a dice with a partner to race to 100, flipped a coin 100 times tracking if it landed on heads or tails, and they played Battleship using the 100 chart. We are very proud of the progress we have made in counting to 100 and developing our number sense! 

Our reading activity revolved around the story 100th Day Worries by Margery Cuyler. In this story, the main character worries about what to bring for the 100th day of school. She ends up collecting items from her family members and gets 10 sets of 10 items. After reading the story, the students retold the story by sequencing the events.  We also incorporated phonics and cvc words by writing 100 rhyming words.  There were 20 sections with a picture at the top, we needed to read the cvc word and think of 4 words that rhymed with that word.  We wrote each rhyming word under the picture and used the word family spelling pattern to help sound out the words.

After the morning of 100 day work, we decided to continue the 100th day celebration into the afternoon with a variety of motor skill tasks. We worked on fine motor skills by stringing fruit loops to make a necklace. First, the students had to fill a hundreds chart with fruit loops. Then, they were able to string the fruit loops onto a necklace while making sure to use a straw to separate each set of ten. We also had 100 piece puzzles for the kids to assemble as a team. For gross motor practice, we built a tower using 100 cups as well as participating in 100 exercises.

What a day! By the end we were exhausted... but many students asked if the 101st day could be just like today.