S is for smarter - one hundred days smarter!

We had lots of fun on the 100th Day of School.

I loved all the collections of 100 things the children brought in - well done Room 6.  Here are a few -

We did lots of counting and maths work in the morning and then shared our 100 cake with our Room 14 buddies.  It was the last time we will be together with them - this term we have a new buddy class.

We were all mixed up for the rest of the day doing a variety of activities -

making hats with 100 "things" on them...

making centipedes with 100 legs...

creating pizza's with 100 toppings...

solving crazy problems that involved 100...

art relating to 100 with puff paint...

pictures of what we will look like when we are 100 years old ...

Mrs Serci worked with her groups on a tree with 100 leaves that will be covered will 100 flowers...

What an awesome day filled with Maths!

O is for One Hundred

Today we had a big catch up on our 100 days at school.  We have been counting each day we have been coming to school since the beginning of the school year.  When we get to 100 days we will celebrate!  We have been so busy lately that we have lost track of the day.

Miss Gargan told the children that we have been coming to school for

"one day less than 1/2 of 100" 

and we had to work it out.

We used the abacus to work out what 1/2 of 100 is.  Charlotte showed us 1/2 of 100 and it looked like this ...

We counted in 5's...5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50.

We also could show 1/2 of 100 like this ...

We counted this in 10's...10, 20, 30, 40, 50

1 less than 50 looks like this ...

So we are up to day 49!

We updated our display to show 49 in lots of different ways - 

Then we got a challenge -

The children worked in small groups to solve this problem - well done Room 6!

D is for Donating

It was with pleasure that some of the children in Room 6 represented the Kiwi and Tui syndicates to donate the 100 cans collected on 100 days of school to the local Salvation Army food bank.

Thanks everyone for your support.

H is for Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th day!

Wow we made it to 100 days of school - awesome.  Was a really fun day thanks for all the effort that was put into the collections.

We had a great time sharing our collections this morning and did lots of maths problems.  They will probably keep us busy for the next week as we work our way through them!

We meet our new buddy class this morning and shared cake with them - YUM!

All the children got to go to two activities where teachers has all sorts of fun activities today - there were 100 day glasses and monsters with 100 eyes, pictures using the numerals 1, 0 and 0, 100 straw challenges...the children that came to Room 6 made 100 day hats - each hat had 10 strips, and each strip had 10 things on them...and as a bonus they looked super cute!!

Thanks for all the cans - we will do a bit more counting and building before we send them to the food bank!

C is for counting!

Wow the first 3 weeks are already done!  We have been busy in Room 6 getting to know each other, setting up our class routines as well as establishing our learning programmes.

We have started counting the days we have been coming to school and are looking forward to the 100th day.  Today was our 14th day at school.  We talked about all the things we could do to celebrate when we get to 100 days.  One suggestion was a pizza party with 100 pieces of pizza!!

I asked the children how many pizza we would need to get 100 pieces - and how many people we might need to eat them!!!  What do you think?

O is for One Hundred!

Today we are all One Hundred Days smarter!  

We celebrated in style with lots of fun activities....thanks everyone for your great collections of 100 things..great counting, there were sea shells and pretzels, stars and jelly beans, stickers and rainbow looms.... to name a few.

We enjoyed cake with our buddy class at morning tea - in the shape of 100...can you guess how many lollies were on it?

We did a lot of counting today!  The children made cool 100 day hats - 10 sticks, with 10 things on each stick - they looked pretty cute!  It was fun counting all the cans that were donated...and building with them!  We will donate them to a local food bank.

The afternoon was busy too - we made pictures of what we think we will look like when we are 100!!  And of course there was the fun of letting the balloons go!  

What fun it has been counting and learning for the past 100 days.  Thanks Mrs Morpeth, parents and  children for a great day...see you tomorrow it will our 101st day of school for the year!!