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 Elizabeth Erickson, Megan Hanson, Monica Parenteau, and ReNee Tangquist.
Tangquist said there several fun activities to do with the kids for the 100th day. “We like to celebrate the 100th day of school with our kindergarteners because it’s a good number-building practice for them,” said Tangquist. “When they get to 100, they think that’s a really big number. We break objects into groupings and line them up around the room to count by fives, tens, and twos. We have some fun books. There is a cute one called – 100 Ants Go Marching – and the ants are going to a picnic. They keep breaking themselves up into different groups and end up getting there slower because they stop to rearrange, and it’s just a lot of fun. We plan to have them read some of those fun books and have them do some counting with manipulatives and other fun activities.”
Hanson said there are also a couple of art projects. “Another fun activity we do with 100 is 100 daubers on a gumball as a fun art project,” said Hanson. “And counting 100 fruit loops and putting them on a necklace.”
Obviously, math is an important part of counting to the 100th day, but there are also English lessons said, Parenteau. “We’ll also be practicing skip counting by fives and tens to 100,” said Parenteau. “The kids have been anticipating this day for quite some time now. We will also be doing some books like The Wolf’s Chicken Stew – where they get to make 100 groupings of something and do some measuring and counting of links, pennies, and dimes as a math activity well. And making a cut apart sentence that they are 100 days smarter.”
This is Erickson’s first 100th-day celebration at Washington, so she said she’ll be learning from her peers about the activities to do. “This is my first year here, so I think I’ll do a lot of seeing what they’re doing and learning from the people who’ve done this before,” said Erickson. “And doing a lot of the same stuff in my own room.”
Tangquist also shared about her favorite 100 days activity. “One last activity that I think is probably my favorite is we have the kids draw a picture of what they think they’ll look like at 100 years old,” said Tangquist. “And they do writing about what they think they will be doing at that age. They are a lot of fun. They are very creative with their writings and their drawings.”
