100 Days of School

We celebrated our 100th day of school on Wednesday. We all, teachers and children, dressed up as hundred year olds!

I managed to stay in character all day! It was a lot of fun hobbling around, prentending to be deaf and mixing up all the children's names.....my throat was a little sore at the end though, from being croaky and old!

We made necklaces, first by placing 100 pieces of cereal on our 100s chart, then by threading the 100 'beads' on to the string...then we wore them and munched on them throughout the rest of the day.

The sugar rush didn't stop there! We also made and ate fairy bread.

We did lots of counting, made glasses shaped liked 100 and pictures from dot stickers (each child had 100 dots). I forgot to take photos of those! Whoops! We read two stories, One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes and Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. My SSO (school support officer...I think that's their current title...anyway, she helps the funded student in my classroom) read Strega Nona - not about 100, but about a grandma! She is Italian and was dressed as Nona Angelina. She spoke a mix of Italian and broken English all day. The children loved her! We had a lot of fun.

My favourite moment though came the next day. One of the children came up to me in the morning and said "We didn't do our reading yesterday. Granny Kay said we didn't have to because too much reading hurts her eyes." Just before our reading session started I announced to the children that I'd heard from one girl they hadn't done their reading the day before. One five year old swung around to the guilty "dobber" and yelled, finger pointing, "Granny Kay said not to tell her! You weren't supposed to tell!" The Dobber smuggly announced "Well there are just some things that Ms Kay needs to know!" It was hard not to laugh! All this from children who had spent the day before questioning exactly who I was and suggesting that I was just Ms Kay dressed up! Huh!