Place value and greater or less than!

Over the past few weeks we've been working on understanding and identifying the place value of numbers.  Now we are using that skill to help identify numbers that are greater than or less than. 

 

We went for a hands on fun approach to this concept.  Today we made our own greater than/less than sign!  We call them Mr. or Mrs. More since we always open the mouth (the greater than sign) to the side that has more!  During the week we will get to use them to play partner games and practice identifying which number the "Mr./Mrs More" wants to eat (always more).  They had a great time creating their own math materials.  Once we are done with them they will get to take them home and can practice more with them :) 

 

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!