Happy 100th Day!

1/2B has been counting the days since starting school. We were very excited on Wednesday, July 27th, as it was our hundredth day at school! On Tuesday, we had nine tens and nine ones in bottle tops; Wednesday we added a one, made ten tens and then turned the ten tens into one hundred. That's place value for you!

We started off the 100th day with groovy glasses to set the mood.

We integrated the number 100 into many of our activities during the day, counting the 100th letter and the 100th word in books and making as many words as we could from the words ONE HUNDRED. We made a simple but effective '100' display by sliding, flipping and turning the three digits in 100. Pairs of children particularly enjoyed estimating and counting lollies and Pringles using a counting pattern of their choice. Children found that their estimates were very close to the actual amount - which shows our estimating is improving!

Each child made up their own lolly bag - first taking 5 lollies, then another 5, then we noticed there were not many lollies left so we were allowed 1 more. Mrs Bennett recorded the number sentence - 5+5+1=11, which is also the same as 5+6=11, which also happens to be a near double (we've been talking about them this week!). We ate the contents of our lolly bag whilst watching counting videos on YouTube. (Mrs Bennett reminded us to be careful on YouTube and use it with adult supervision)

We wonder how many school days there are in the year. We'll let you know!