We Survived 100 Days!

ALL A's on our Math Fact Assessment -- What a way to start off our week!  

We continued our celebration of Chinese New Year by being in a Dragon Parade with the 3rd grade on Wednesday afternoon.  The 3rd graders made a long dragon, and we made masks and carried noisemakers.  The kids had a BLAST making as MUCH noise as they wanted through the halls of the school - a once in a lifetime opportunity!  (Or maybe a once a year opportunity!?)  We wound our way through every classroom making LOTS and LOTS of noise to scare away the old year of monkey and welcome in the new year of the rooster!

We were lucky enough to have Vasa, a High School student here on foreign exchange from Thailand, come in and share with us some Chinese New Year pictures and traditions.  The kindergarteners decided they really wanted to move to Thailand after she told them the kids get money in red paper envelopes for Chinese New Year from all of their relatives! Thank you for sharing Vasa!

In math we combined our study of coins and place value by opening a grocery story to practice spending dimes and pennies.  The kids took turns being the shopkeepers earning money, and the shoppers who were spending money.  It was so much fun, and a good lesson and spending and earning as well!

This was a week of special holidays!  Next we celebrated Ground Hog Day by watching Puxatawny Phil see his shadow and predict 6 more weeks of winter (we could have told you that!)  Then we had fun practicing making shadow puppets on the wall at Morning Meeting!

Now, for the Grand Finale of holidays for the week.... HUNDRED'S DAY!!!!!!!  We celebrated getting 100 days smarter!  

Thank you so much to all of the families who spent time counting to 100 with your kids so they could bring special show-and-tells and snacks.  You were all so creative and it was fun to see what you came up with!!!!!!  Here is Maycie covered with 100 band-aids to show that she survived 100 days of school... with only a few battle wounds!

Olivia brought a delicious 100 centimeter hoagie to share with the class!

We filled our bowl with 100 of each kind of snack brought by the students and made a very... unique snack mix!

We also wrote about what we would do if we got 100 dollars, wrote our names as many times as we could in 100 seconds, and made 100 bead necklaces.  It was a true celebration of all that the kids have accomplished in 100 days.  It is amazing to see how far they have come - I am so proud of my Kinders!