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100th Day Celebrated
On January 27, students in kindergarten through second grade celebrated the 100th day of school with a bang! Thanks to the help of a handful of very special eighth graders, the kindergarten class was able to see what 100 inflated balloons looked like! The kindergartners sat in a circle on the floor and counted each and every balloon to be absolutely positive there were exactly 100. It was very difficult to keep the balloons inside the circle and not play with them. When all 100 balloons were counted the REAL fun began! It took about 10 minutes for all 100 balloons to be popped using only kindergarten bodies – no tools to help!! It certainly was a popping good time!
The kindergartners also joined forces with the second grade to celebrate the 100th day of school. Activities included students writing 100 reasons why they love 1-R, completing 100-piece puzzles, playing a math game in which they had to reach the number 100 while rolling dice, and exercising for 100 seconds.
Second graders also drew pictures of what they look like now and then what they thought they would look like when they are 100. For morning snack, they enjoyed a pretzel and two crackers that looked like 100. The students also brought 100 edible items for their afternoon 100 stew and wore hats with 100 items glued on top. All in all, it was 100% fun!
First graders brought to school plastics bags bulging with 100 objects—plastic cars, tootsie pops, cookies, crayons, paper airplanes, metal cars, candy hearts, pennies and more pennies, noodles and MORE noodles! Using a balance scale, the students gathered data on which of the objects weighed more. Because 100 tootsie pops and 100 cars would not fit into the bucket, it was decided to weigh only 10 of each item. (For example, 10 cars were heavier than 10 tootsie pops, so the students concluded 100 cars would also be heavier than 100 tootsie pops.) At the conclusion of the weighing activity, first graders had a lesson in “how many tootsie pops and candy hearts can 12 first graders get if we had 100 tootsie pops and 100 candy hearts.” (ANSWER: 8 of each and 4 for the teacher!)
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100th Day Quiz
If you weigh 100 of each of the following items, which would weigh more? (Answer and scoring keys are listed below.)
1. Metal cars or tootsie pops
2. Candy hearts or cookies
3. Noodles or noodles
4. Pennies or noodles
5. Pennies or plastic cars
6. Paper airplanes or noodles
7. Cookies or crayons
8. Candy hearts or noodles
9. Crayons or plastic cars
10. Plastic cars or metal cars
Did you know 100 pennies weighed the same as 100 pennies? The set of metal cars weighed the most—they were the heaviest of all. Did you know that even though the paper airplanes were the lightest they would not all fit into the bucket (sometimes)? It was observed that in some cases 10 cars weighed more than even 100 noodles!
Answer Key
1) tootsie pops; 2) candy hearts; 3) noodles; 4) pennies; 5) plastic cars; 6) noodles; 7) cookies; 8) candy hearts; 9) crayons; 10) metal cars
Scoring
10-9 BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
8-7 BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
6-5 BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
4-3 BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
2-1 BRILLIANT
0 NOT A GOOD GUESSER
