Our 100th Day Celebration!

Today for our 100th day of school, we celebrated being 100 days SMARTER! We started off our day with some music and writing. We finished the writing prompt: When I am 100 years old.... Some of the ideas were pretty funny including, ' I will be sky diving' to 'I will be jumping on a trampoline with squirrels!' The students also got their picture taken (for those who wanted to participate) and had it turned into an old picture using the Aging Booth app. The students were pretty excited to see themselves at 100 years old and are excited to bring them home on Monday to share with their families!

For math we practiced skip counting to 100 in different ways. We sang songs, did movement and wrote down how to count by 2s, 5s and 10s. The the students were challenged to work in a group to create different piles of 100 objects using things found in the room. The students came up with some very clever ideas for how to collect the objects and worked as a team to make groups of 10. Some of their ideas included counting out 100 blocks, 100 books, 100 pencil crayons and 100 markers.

After lunch, the students were posed a problem that they needed to solve in order to get their treat from me! I had a bag of M&Ms. I told the students that there were 100 M&Ms and that they needed to work as a team to figure out how many each student should get if there are 23 students in the class. They could use blocks, drawings and/or whiteboards to solve the problem, but they couldn't get their M&Ms until they had a solution! I was VERY proud when 3 different table groups solved the problem in 3 different ways! One team used blocks and created 23 piles. They started out with 2 blocks in each pile and counted the total number of blocks they had. They continued to add one block to each pile until they knew they were close to 100. Another group used a whiteboard and drew a picture of 23 circles in which they added dots to until they had equal numbers in each group that added up to 100. The third group wrote numbers inside their circles on a whiteboard and counted first by 2s and then by 3s and then by 4s to come up with their solution. The answer was that each student would have 4 M&Ms and that there would be 8 left over!

It was a great 100th day of school and I look forward to many more with these wonderful students! Hope you all have a great weekend:)