Tomorrow is the 100th Day of School, due to the snow days we've had. Our celebration will have to be cut short because tomorrow also happens to be a previously scheduled inservice for teachers. The students have a two-hour delay. Which means that some of the neat ideas I had planned for language arts will have to be pushed to next year. (I usually read a story and do some activities with it, the students create a 100 book, and we write about what our lives would be like if we lived to be 100 years old. We'll have time to do Daily Edit and write about our lives at 100 before it's time to go to lunch.)
After lunch, we have special. Then we have social studies. Since we are talking about natural resources and goods made from those resources, we will see if we can come up with 100 products and categorize them.
During math, we will see if we can come up with 100 ways to add/multiply/subtract/divided to get answers of 100, write our names on the number grid to determine what patterns our names make, and add the numbers of our name to see who's name comes closest to equaling 100. (You assign each letter a value from 1 to 26 and go from there. The students do their first names only.) If there is time, we will have a 100-piece puzzle challenge to lead us into recess.
After recess, it will be time to pack up and go home.
I don't make as big a deal of the 100th day as kindergarten and first grade does, mainly because by the time they've reached the 100th day with me, 100 is not such an awe-inspiring number to them anymore. They are more interested in 1,000 and 10,000!
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