Next Monday is our 100th Day of School.
My kindergarteners will be busy counting all day!
I've looked online for different songs, poems, dances, and activities to do, along with 100-themed books. The kids are very excited about it :)
One fun activity that we are going to try this year is to make a 100 Day Aquarium using blue Jell-O and 100 swedish fish candies. The kids will love getting to "help" make the Jell-O, and it will be a fun afternoon treat for us!
While we are waiting for the Jell-O to set, we're also going to make a paper aquarium to put up on the wall. I've printed out 10 paper fish that each child will decorate and cut out themselves (I have ten students, so it works out perfectly!). We will put our 100 paper fish on our blue paper "aquarium" and count them together.
This is my first year teaching, so I'm curious what other primary teachers are doing to celebrate the 100th day with their classes. Maybe yours has already passed, maybe it's coming up soon. How are you celebrating your 100th day of school?
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I assume you've done the Jell-o? How did that turn out? My initial thought was that the gold fish would get awfully soggy as the jello set! Being in a middle school the students don't get as excited about the 100th day of school, but they sure do count down the days until the next school year!
ReplyDeleteWe did do the Jell-o! The kids loved it. We counted out the 100 gummy fish first thing in the morning, put them in a clear glass baking dish ("the better to see you with, my dear!"), and we all went into the kitchen together to measure out the cups of water and mix the Jell-o. Of course, I was the one to do the mixing since it was hot, but they were fascinated just to watch :)
ReplyDeleteThe Jell-O set for the rest of the day, and we pulled it out 15 minutes before the end of the day. They were so excited to see that the blue Jell-O had made the gummy fish look almost fluorescent. I wish I had taken a picture! With the different colors of the swedish fish, it was actually really pretty. We even got to talk about how colors change when you add blue to them (the blue Jell-o made the yellow gummy fish look green, the red gummy fish look purple, etc).
Lots of extra little lessons were learned/reinforced, and they had a lot of fun. I wasn't a fan of the super-sugary taste, but the kids sure were, and I count the whole experience a success!
p.s. I thought middle schoolers counted down the days 'til SUMMER! :)