The Kindergartners at Washington School celebrated the 100th day of school on Friday with a variety of activities. The students visited the four kindergarten classrooms for different activities. The kindergarten teachers are Kaia Bubna, Megan Hanson, Monica Parenteau, and ReNee Tangquist.
“We’re excited to celebrate 100 days of school with our kindergartners,” said Tangquist. “It’s a tradition we do every year. We like to focus in on the 100th day with them because they’ve been building up to that day with lots of counting activities throughout the year. We’ve practiced counting by ones, fives, tens. We doing daily interval counting with our number corner and math activities. It’s trying to give them that sense of numbers and looking at that on a grid. We’ve had them do some writing on a 100s chart, so they can start to see that patterns on the numbers and build up to celebrate on the 100th day. Sometimes they think it’s the end of the school year, but we have to tell them it is not the end and we have more days to go.”
Tangquist said in her station the students use bingo daubers to color a poster of the number 100. “We celebrate with different stations throughout the school, so we rotate from one kindergarten classroom to the next,” said Tangquist. “At my station, they are able to count individually, one-by-one, those daubers that they put on the poster to practice the sequencing of numbers.”
Parenteau said her station has stories that include ‘skip’ counting. “The kids will enjoy a snack and then we’ll read some 100th-day stories that will encourage skip counting,” said Parenteau. “Its fun to see what the kids in the other classrooms are doing as well. The kids decorate crowns occasionally as well to wear in the classrooms during the 100th day and that’s a lot of fun too.”
There is more art with numbers as Bubna said students will use different colors to uncover a picture at her station. “At my station, they will color different numbers in different colors and there is a mystery picture that they will figure out,” said Bubna. “On top of the stations, I also have them bring in 100 of something. And then we look at those collections, count them, and put them out. And then everyone can go around and admire everyone else’s 100 collections.”
Hanson said her station uses dice. “At my station, we’ll be doing a race to 100,” said Hanson. “They are working with a partner. They will be rolling a dice and trying to get up to 100, and then be rolling as many times as it takes to get to 100.”
