100th day of school!!!

Today we celebrated the hundredth day of school. Going along with our daily routine, we did the straw count. We got to 101. What my mentor teacher did today was have three students stand in front of the rest of the students. She had the straw bundles and one big rubber band around ten groups of tens along with one single straw. She had the three students and then with the large hundred straw bundles she tapped the student all the way to the left on the head and handed it to him saying "one hundred" and over the middle student "and" and then finally over the last student with the one straw tapped on all three heads "one".  She explained to them that when writing this even though it is 100 and 1 numbers we write it 1-0-1 for one hundred and one.

This is teaching these kindergartners the fundamentals. They are learning the basic writings skills of numbers and counting past one-hundred. To continue with hundred day celebrations we listed out how far one-hundred steps would take us. They made guesses, which my MT wrote down. We then tested out our guesses by having the students line up in their line. From the door one student would take 10 steps then go to the back of the line. Ten students took ten steps  and we realized that all of our guesses were incorrect and that 100 steps gets the students to the 2nd grade classroom. 

This math task I had the students make an estimation and then test their  answer. These tasks did not dive deeper into measurements or anything like that. A way that my MT could have deepened the question was what are other ways that we can measure 100? What 100 things could get us to the rooms that we guessed our steps would.

I was unable to get photos of this task due to the students being in the pictures along with the excitement of one hundredth day I accidentally forgot to snap a photo of the boards but I can do Friday for you!