100th Day Olympics

We celebrated our 100th day of school by having a 100 day Olympics.  We have been learning about the Olympics in social studies so the kids were really excited to have their own Olympics.  During the day we had different events that the children participated in and ended our day with a medal ceremony.

Each child received a country that they were representing for our Olympics.  We had a lot of fun finding them all on our globe. 

Our first event was trying to come up with 100 unique ways to make 100.  We had everything from 99 + 1 to 9,000-8,000 - 900.  One of my favorite ways was 100 - 100 + 50 + 50.  All 100 ways are hanging in the hallway for you to see!

Our next event was seeing if we could read 100 books as a class during read to self time! 

 We made it to 138 books!  Great job readers!

One of our favorite events of the day was writing 100 words that we could read and spell correctly in our room!  We turned these words into fancy 100 days crowns. 

To end our Olympics, we tried to see what we could do in 100 seconds.  We estimated and tried to see how many times we could hop, write our name, say the ABC's and many more activities in 100 seconds.

Congratulations 1st grade Olympians!

Non-Fiction Writers Schowcase

Our authors are famous around the school!  I have been so proud of everything each child has accomplished!  As part of our authors celebration, we were able to share our writing with both the 2nd grade and 7th grade classes.  They enjoyed listening and learning interesting facts from our non-fiction books.  After listening to us read, our buddies helped us by giving us a complement on our writing and a piece of advice to make our writing even better!  We know even though our writing is fantastic, we can always make it better. 

After reading to the 7th graders, the 7th graders helped us get ready for our next unit by modeling how to do argumentative speaking/writing.  We are excited to start our next unit on argumentative writing by focusing on judging items and writing reviews! 

Decompose through a ten

 

Lets make a number line

Our math brains continue to grow every day.  As part of our unit on counting to 99, we had to problem solve where numbers might go on a number line.  Sometimes we knew the first or last number and had to fill in the rest and sometimes Mrs. Plaza tried to trick us, but she never can!  Little did we know we were working on our counting skills.

 

 

It took teamwork and problem solving skills for us to find where our numbers would go in our line when we did a whole class number line. 

 



 

Thanks to our great problem solving skills, everyone found their spot in line (even when Mrs. Plaza "forgot" some of the cards). 

 

Please continue to practice counting forwards and backwards to 99 with your child.  We will work our way up to 120 by the end of the year! 

Final Small Moment Stories and Celebration

We have been working hard on our small moment personal narratives.  With our writing partner we worked on revising and editing our writing.  Some of us even chose to act out our stories in order to make sure we had enough details in our writing. 

 

Once our writing was the best it could be, we published our stories by adding a cover and color to the illustrations!  Sitting in the authors chair was a special moment as we shared our stories with the class.  Your first grader was also very excited to pick an adult in the building to give a copy of their story to.  The other copy is hanging in the hallways for anyone to read and then it will be sent home with it's author! 

 

Keep up the great work authors!  Our next unit will be non-fiction.  Your child will get a chance to teach me about something they are expert on!