ask me about the 100th day of school, thursday, february 8, 2024

We started our 100th day of school by thinking about a place we would like to go that is about 100 miles from our school for a 100 day of school field trip.  We considered exploring the caverns in Luray, Virginia, spending time around Cambridge, MD watching birds, looking at the beautiful Choptank River and walking along the coast,

We read a beautiful story called 100 Chapatis by Derek Mascarenhas about a grandfather and his grandson making 100 chapatis while waiting on the little boy's new baby sister to be born..  This was something the grandfater did with his wife while waiting on the birth of the little boy.  

We covered a chart with 100 small stickers.  We made it into a race to remind us of working quicker and not stopping.  This was also a great fine motor activitiy to have the children using their fringers to pull the small stickers off the strips of ten I gave them.  To help them rember to work quickly, I played music such as The Fight of the Bumblebee and the Theme from the Lone Ranger to get the kids moving.  We stopped after each song played and counted how many stickers we had put on our paper all ready.  We kept starting and stopping until the chart was covered.  

We enjoyed the projects the children did to show 100.  The children did a great job os explaining how they made their projects!

We ended our day with the 100 Cup Tower Challenge.  This was the first time the children were building with the cups so they needed to work together to find the best way to stack the cups.  They also needed to uderstand that a tower would need to have space in the middle and could not just be a wall.  Before the challenge began, we talked about encouraging each other and being patient and careful.  We knew there would be times when the tower fell down, but that we were not going to blame anyone or get upset.  I'm happy t say the children were worked very well in the groups of four they selected.  The children had a great time with this challenge!

It was a great 100th day of school!
​Miss Wolfe