100th Day of School!

It's hard to believe that we are already at the 100th day of school. We had a fun 100-packed day of

activities.  In an effort to build number sense and use concrete examples of abstract thoughts we made necklaces out of cereal. I encouraged the class to develop a pattern using colors in groups of 10. This was a fun activity, but difficult to keep the kids from eating the "beads" of the necklace!

Our class also made these cute little 100 day hats; again, we used groups of 10 to develop the concept of 100. We discussed what we would buy if we had $100, which was very interesting, but also an opportunity to discuss the average cost of things. Unfortunately $100 won't buy a swimming pool for the school! 

We wrapped up our festivities with a trip to the Dollar Store. Both our class, Mrs. Blodgett's class and

Mrs. McMurphy's class joined us. I was so impressed with everyone's polite manners in the store. The fun thing about the Dollar Store is being able to "you can have anything in this store!"

We wrote stories about what we will do and look like when we are 100, and I found a really cool app

that ages people in pictures. I'm going to make a bulletin board with the stories and pictures we took-They turned out really great (but a bit disturbing)! Check out Davis at 100! I will soon upload pictures of the bulletin board once I have it completed. 

One more picture of the "crazy boys!"