80 days to go!

Yesterday, February 4th, was the 100th day of school, and what a wonderful day we had! The majority of the kids came with 100 things on their shirts. I had one little boy who had an iron on of every number up to 100, as well as this awesome hat that he attached 100 pipe cleaners too. Then I had another boy who pinned 100 shapes, with numbers up to 100, all over his shirt. Several of them put 100 foam stickers all over their shirts. If I was able to (or knew how? I might be able, I don't know) fuzz out faces, I would post pictures of them because they were just so cute and proud of themselves.

We'd been working all week on various math and writing activities centered around the number 100, and we put some of them up on our bulletin board for the month.

The chain across the top is a chain of 10 strips in 10 colors. The caterpillar across the bottom has 100 body parts, in a pattern, and we counted by 10s then put the numbers up. The list above his head is a list of 100 things that he might like to eat (the very hungry caterpillar!) Above his head we have 10 rows of 10 strips of paper. They did this activity with my sub on Tuesday. The heart was going to be much cuter but we ran out of time. We did that as our last activity yesterday, and only had about 15 minutes before dismissal so we counted out 10 groups of 10 candy hearts and I gave them glue bottles and they went at it. They loved it because it's not every day I hand them a glue bottle and tell them to have fun. Yikes!

We also did a few simple writing/creative activities. For one of them, they had to draw a picture of how they look now and then a picture of how they think they will look in 100 years. We discussed some of the physical features of the elderly, such as wrinkles, gray or white hair, balding, big ears, etc. There were some hilarious results. This is one of my favorites!

Another writing activity...

" I wish I had 100 dollars. But I'd never want 100 bears."

And it wouldn't be the 100th day without a special hat. I cut out ten trips of 10 different colors, and the kids put 10 thumbprint on each strip. They turned out great (they look super cute when being worn) except for a dumb mistake I made. Can you spot the typo??

I'm so embarrassed that I'm going to send a "recall" letter home on Monday. I didn't notice until right before they were walking out the door. I'm so ashamed! We also made fruit loop necklaces with 100 fruit loops. At the end of the day, there were much less than 100 fruit loops around their necks.

The day was fun, but I'm glad it, as well as the majority of the school year, is over. Woohoo!

After work, Mom and Dad invited us out to dinner. We had dinner at Flippers and then walked across the street to a frozen yogurt place. They had red velvet cake yogurt - oh my, was it delicious! It was a great night. Thanks for a night on the town, guys!