Dear Parents,
Today was our 100th day of school!  Which I am still a little bit in shock over...but anyways....

This greeted the kids this morning ...

 

They had these waiting for them on their desks, 

which I have to give them credit for, no one ate any until I said that it was okay.... which they really didn't HAVE to wait for my okay.... but they did anyways! Ha.

We took our Math test almost right away, but before that, all of the firsties got out the 100 items that they brought from home, and then I had each kiddo put their items into groups of ten. 

And then they were able to use their items as "counters" for the math test.  

Spanish and Computers were next and then we went to lunch. After lunch we read a story about 100 days of school and the book "The Night Before Valentine's Day" (much like The Night Before Christmas") and then headed outside for recess...FRESH AIR!!!  When we came back in it was time for our 100 day activities!

I split them up into 5 different groups which rotated every about 5-7 minutes. One group had to "discover" how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop....which, in general, seemed to be A LOT of licks! Another group had to use the digits of 100, cut them out, and create a picture.

It's a horse!

The third activity was to follow the directions and create a 100 day monster.

The fourth activity was to write 100 words (each group came up with 20 words that we added to a list).  And the fifth and final activity was to create a tower with 100 solo cups.  The only direction that I gave for this activity was that they had to use all 100 cups and it had to stay up!
Here are what each group came up with....

They were SO PROUD of their towers!  I love it! All in all, it was a good day!

Spelling practice test tomorrow and don't forget to continue to practice the 7th, 8th, and 9th commandments for our test on Friday.
Blessings on your evening!
Miss Gallagher
"Following the Signs"