100's Day

We had fun celebrating 100 days of learning, 100 days of school and even changed our indoor math game to 111,112,113,115 and 120 to push our brains as we exercised. We did do 100 exercises when we couldn't go out to recess and made our own snack of 10 groups of 10 goodies: like marshmellows, mini-teddy grahams, choc. chips, cherry choc. chips, cheerios, rice chex, cranberry raisins, mini M & M's, fruit loops, and goldfish. As you can see there were 12 choices so the children had to choose 10 out of 12.

We read 2 more 100's Day books, and wrote about what we had as our 100's day homework. When we read about our 100's day bag we told how we counted out our 100 items. 10 people counted by 1's, 8 put them in groups of 10, and 2 grouped them into 5 groups of 20! The children were very honest about how and who counted their items. So if you think you might have "helped" too much, make a fun activity out of them showing YOU that THEY can do it themselves!! I did get a 100's day book put together and it's a really fun "reversible book" (It reads two ways) I will try to remember to send it home with Kanalu first. He is heading back to Texas next week.

Tomorrow we have Mr. Besel talking about being a Bully Buster and we will talk about shadows and the fun tradition of Groundhog's Day. We also need to write sentences about Gabrielle as she had so many fun pictures to share with us as the Star Student and we didn't get time to write about her on the big poster paper. We also ran out of time for our "h" show and tell items, so the Tuesday students and Wednesday students get to share tomorrow.

As you can see our days are full of learning. Our new high frequency words are "do" "that" and "are". Those pages of the Reader Writer Notebook may not get done this week, so please help them learn those 3 words. We will review them next week, but they are a little trickier than some of the words we have already had.

I am off to babysit my granddaughter in Utah for a few days while Mrs. Hansen is teaching, so I wish you all a good weekend and may your team play well in the Super Bowl!

Sincerely, Carol Clapper