We have been counting to Day 100 since we first started full time school way back in September. Can you remember our first days at school? Have a look at the blog post from when we started school. Click here to see it. We’ve all done a lot of growing since then and have got a lot cleverer!
We have been putting a straw in our pockets every day since then and marking it off on the hundred square. You can see when we first started on one of our first ever Mathematician of the Week blog post. Click here to see it.
Everyone was very excited that the day had finally come. We’d been planning our promised party for a couple of weeks now!
We did have to do some counting though. We found the easiest ways to count to 100 was to count to ten ten times. Can you see the different ways we have counted in this way?
Some children even measured the KS2 corridor using their steps. They had to predict if they thought there would be 100 steps from the Studio all the way to Miss French’s Office at the other end.
When we found out the steps gave us different measurements we learnt about a metre stick which turned out to have 100 centimetres on it. We’d found another 100! Children had to find objects which were longer or shorter than a metre and record them in their book.
Come back later and see some photographs of our books.
We had great fun making photographs of ourselves look like we were 100 years old. What do you think you’ll be able to do when you’re 100?
Come back later and see some of our pictures.
We’d been busy during the week getting ready. Jayden thought we need decorations so got busy making some in the Workshop. We also made some special Day 100 Crowns which meant we had to do lots of counting.
When it got to Wednesday it was time for our party 🙂
Miss Bibby came through from Nursery with a surprise for us. The Nursery kids had been making pizza for their Pizza Day and sent some through for us to have at our party. You can see more about their Pizza Day here. Thanks Nursery, we thought your pizza was yummy!
We’d thought about the other things we wanted for our party and decided that it couldn’t be a proper party without a chocolate cake and musical statues!
There was one last job to do… we needed to say well done to the rest of the school for their 100 days in school this year. We went to visit every classroom and took them a certificate. They were the same certificates that we got one of each to say well done to us!
What fabulous Day 100! Now we’re interested to know if we will get Day 100.
Don’t forget your Day 100 Homework to bring a collection of 100 items from home. We’ll be putting them on the wall in the classroom for everyone to see.
What have we been learning?
- To count to ten confidently and count out that many objects.
- To count in tens to 100 and know what this looks like.
- To complete challenges and answer questions.
- To measure in different ways and think about which is best.
- To think about ourselves as old people and talk about what we might be able to do.
How can you continue the learning at home?
- Try some of the activities at home like counting pennies in towers or throwing the dice.
- Count out objects in your home, for example, how many stairs are there on the way to bed?
- Count the days until you do something important, like go on holiday, a special visit or until your child’s birthday.
Onyx Class FS2 