100 Days - Hooray!

The 100th Day of School is a huge cause for celebration! We excitedly celebrated this special day with lots of math, writing, and art activities in K5.

Every day during our calendar meeting we add a "stick" to the place value pocket. When there are 10 sticks in the ones pocket, they are bundled and moved to the tens pocket, modeling how place value works. This is a foundational concept for not only counting, but addition and subtraction as well as higher level math skills. Today we got to bundle all of our tens bundles into one HUGE bundle for the hundred's pocket. The kids were thrilled!

We count daily - by tens, ones, and fives. We'll soon add counting by twos.

For our 100th Day celebration, we had a full day of activities designed to support skills in counting, patterning, and place value. First, we played a game in pairs called "Roll to 100". The students took turns rolling the number dice and recording the number they rolled in the grid.

After rolling 100 times, I showed the kids how to color each square according to a key. The goal with this activity was not only to practice number writing, counting, and cooperation, but to allow students to look at their numbers as data. By color coding them, the kids were more clearly able to see which numbers were rolled most and least frequently. As an extension, the kids were challenged to graph their information - they did wonderfully!

**PS - Although it looks crazy, my shirt is a nod to this special day - it has 100 bows!

In the afternoon, we worked in small groups on art and writing activities. We made 10 groups of 10 "jellybeans" (thumbprints) in a jar.

We made wild-looking hats to celebrate! Each of the 10 strips has 10 items on it - 100!

We read around the room and wrote 100 words.

We predicted what we'll look like when we are 100 years old! I can only hope I hold up as well as some of these drawings predict. They all made me smile!

We also ate a special 100's day trail mix that included 10 items of 10 different kinds of snack.

Whew - - we were all exhausted after such a busy day! We look forward to the next 100 days of school being just as much fun. Happy 100th Day from K5!