It's 100 Day!

Today was the 100th day of school!  We  have  a terrific day, the only blip being a snowstorm that caused the buses to not run this afternoon! 

Here are some of the highlights of our day:

Zero the Hero arrived this morning to visit with the students!  He told a funny joke:  "What did the 0 say to the 8?"  "Nice belt!"

   

Zero the Hero did a cool trick where he made the little brown things move from under one hat to the other!

He also did a neat trick with a string.  Zero the Hero is very magical!

Zero the Hero had a treat for each student - a lifesaver - shaped like a zero, of course!

All the grade ones with Zero the Hero

One of the favourite parts of our 100th day was collecting our 100 Day Snack!
Students chose 10 pieces of 10 different kinds of treats.
We had jelly beans, skittles, M and Ms, gummi bears, jujubes, cereal, crackers, taco chips, goldfish crackers and many more!  They were yummy!

100 pieces of food!

Our next activity was to display our 100 Day collections.
This is 10 groups of 10 buttons.

Ten groups of 10 pennies

Two groups of 50 popcorn kernels.

Two groups of 50 pasta shapes.

25 groups of 4 wheels!

20 groups of 5 puzzle pieces

Ten groups of 10 paper clips

20 groups of 5 straws

Ten groups of 10 cheerios

Ten groups of 10 jingle bells

Ten groups of 10 lego

50 groups of 2 spoons

Ten groups of 10 cinnamon hearts

After lunch we had DEAR time.  Our goal was to read at least 100 books in 15 minutes.  When we added up all the books everyone read, the total was 160!

The rest of the afternoon was spent rotating through four activities:  making Fruit Loop necklaces with 100 fruit loops, roll to 100, graphing 100 M and Ms and making a design with 100 pattern blocks.  This picture shows students counting out 10 groups of 10 fruit loops before threading them onto a string.

Students played Roll to 100 with a partner.

Students built a design using 100 pattern blocks, then counted how many of each colour there were.

It was a great day!
Special thanks to all the parents who sent food items for our 100 Day Snack and helped their children find and count the 100 day collections.

Massive Munsch!

This morning we were very fortunate to have a special presentation from Wide Open Theatre.  Students were treated to six Robert Munsch stories (Fire Station, The Paper Bag Princess, Something Good, Zoom, Class Clown and I'm so Embarrassed) told as puppet plays.  The three very talented puppeteers used many puppets and different voices to tell the stories in an interesting and humorous way.  If interested, go to Wide Open Theatre for more information.

Rowen, Morgan and Jordan with some of their puppets.

Groundhog Day

Since Groundhog Day is on Sunday, we spent part of our day learning about Groundhog Day traditions.  We  read stories, viewed some websites, learned about how groundhogs live and made a cute craft!  Students imagined that they were a groundhog and wrote about the burrow that they live in.  Some of the burrows were very creative!  They had X-boxes, TVs, stairs, disco  balls and many other interesting things!  Have a good weekend.