All of Cygnaeus School’s English Classes celebrated our 100th day of school on Thursday of this week. The 100th Day activities kicked off with a short assembly where the English Class teachers lead us all in 100 actions to celebrate our 100 days of learning.
The fourth graders (and their teacher, Ms. Leena who is pictured in the photo collage above on the top right) created morphed photos of themselves showing how they will look when they are 100 years old!
This was all done in the name of fantasy and fun.
The second graders completed a 100th Day challenge that had some second graders huffing and puffing as they climbed 100 steps, jumped up and down 100 times, touched their toes and did jumping jacks along with measuring, sight reading and counting! It was all in good fun.
Some English Classes did more 100th Day activities, some did less because of subjects and projects already under way. No class did more than the first graders because this was their very first 100 days of learning.
Ms. Kati, the first grade teacher, gave first grade partners jars or boxes containing small objects. Each pair had to count out one hundred objects onto a tray. At first their were piles of this and that, but the pupils kept losing track of the count. They also observed that it was time-consuming for Ms. Kati to check the piles. Together they thought about the best possible way to lay out the objects so they could be counted easily.
Ms. Kati was tickled pink (delighted) when the children thought to put the objects in groups of ten. Then someone observed that this is like putting the objects in ten frames! Soon everyone wanted to sort their objects into groups of ten. When they were all done, the pupils toured the classroom looking at the tray displays of one hundred. As they moved around they counted by tens over and over again to the number 100.
Our hundredth school day also marked a special occasion in the first graders’ fish bowl. Since the very first day of school first and second graders have added a fish to the fish bowl in their respective classrooms. This is part of their morning circle time and has been written about in earlier posts. As the fish bowl got crowded, a ten fish replaced the ten unit fish. Even then the fish bowl got too small and it had to be replaced with a larger one. In the picture above, taken in December, there are 8 ten fish and 3 unit fish which denote that the first graders had attended school for 83 school days. On the 100th Day of school a sparkly, colourfully scaled fish replaced ten of the ten fish in the fish bowl. This was a momentous occasion for the first graders -and well it should be! The 100 fish had arrived!
On Friday Ms: Kati continued the 100th Days of School theme by reading the book, 100th Day Worries, by Margery Cuyler. The book tells about a little girl named Jessica who is worried about bringing 100 small objects to school for their school collection. She does not want to do what other classmates are doing. It was a story that all of the children could relate to and was enjoyed by all.
English Classes at Cygnaeus School 