The 100th Day of School!!!

We had an AMAZING 100th day of school :).  Everyone was so excited and eager to wear their crowns they made.  We went to the hallway for a 1st grade parade to share our crowns with the whole grade!!!

 

 

Then it was time for 100 themed exercises!  We counted to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's all while dancing and moving to the songs.

 

Then it was time to see if 100 licks would get us to the middle of a mini tootsie roll pop!  The answer to that question is...NO!  We licked 100 times and still no one reached the tootsie roll.  Of course we kept licking until the center was reached.

 

Then we got to work on our 100 themed centers.  We made 100 fruit loop necklaces, wrote about how it would feel to be 100, make a 100th day bookmark, and used 100 cups to build!

 

In the middle of all the 100 themed fun Zero the Hero showed up to bring us a 0 treat!  It turned out that our Zero the Hero was really Pouncer and he brought us DONUTS!  Thanks for visiting Pouncer!!!

 

At the end of the day we used the numbers that make up the number 100 to create a picture for the AMAZING 100 book!

 

Overall it was a great day and lots of 100 fun was had!

Fast Math Facts!

We've been doing some fluency games!  We play it like a card game and have the partner answer the fast math fact.  If they get it correct they get to keep the card.  When the deck is empty the person with the most cards is the winner (though aren't we all really winners since we are having fun practicing math)! 

 

I did notice that at Target in the dollar section there are addition and subtraction flash cards.  While just using them as regular flash cards could be boring (though some kids love it) they are great to play games with.  Practicing math addition and subtraction facts will help improve your child's fluency and speed in solving these types of problems :). 

 

Magnetic hunt!

We went on a magnetism hunt!  There are LOTS of awesome items around our room and we had the opportunity to hunt around and see what was and wasn't magnetic.  They were very adventurous and tried things under the tables, in other items, and even found that some items were part magnetic and part non magnetic.  They had a great time and got to do some hands on exploration. 

 

After we were done we drew pictures of one item that was and one item that was not magnetic.  With that we made a chart for our classroom :).  Feel free to come see it!

 

Sharing travel experiences and ramp building!

We started our morning with some EEKK (partner reading) with our story of the week!  It is called The Big Trip and they were all very excited about it because some of them had gone on a trip during winter break.  They were all sharing experiences about traveling and I loved hearing the discussions and that they were bringing in personal experiences :). 

 

We've continued working on force of motion this week!  Our class went hands on!  Each table had the opportunity to create their own ramp that would "push" their car down fastest.  We also included the concept of friction because we used our carpet for our first runs.  The goal was to create a ramp that would help push their car the farther than any other group.  No matter who was winners or losers we all had a GREAT time :).  Thank you to everyone who let us borrow cars :).  We didn't get to finish due to the snow day so I'll make sure you get your cars back next week!

Holiday WISHES!!!

I didn't want to publish these before everyone had for sure opened their holiday presents!  Here are all of our holiday wishes for 2016!!!