Field Trip Forms and 100th Day!

We are going on another field trip!! The grade 2's will be spending the morning (not the full day) at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary on March 7th. The forms went home with students today but we are asking that they be returned by Monday Feb. 27th so that we are well prepared for the trip. Students will leave first thing in the morning and will return to school for lunch that day. We are in need of volunteers once again to make sure that the appropriate supervision ratio is met. Please let me know if you have a police clearance and are interested in joining us. Once again we will need to have volunteers drive themselves and meet us at the Sanctuary as we don't have enough space on the bus to accommodate parents. 

Today was the 100th day of school for us and we had lots of fun with the number 100! We started our morning with a whooping 100 jumping jacks (I was going to let them stop after 75- we went in increments of 25 with breaks in between- but they insisted we keep going and rose to the challenge to complete 100!). We read the book 100 Hungry Ants and looked at how ants could be grouped in different ways to get to the picnic faster ie. 2 lines of 50, 4 lines of 25, 5 lines of 20, 10 lines of 10. Students did some brainstorming and free writing on "I could eat 100.... I could not eat 100...  as well as "I would like 100 ....". In the afternoon we played the game Race to 100. Students worked in partners to roll the dice and built their numbers. They had to practice adding by counting on and representing their number with base 10 blocks. It was an excellent opportunity for me to see which students are comfortable with the process of regrouping and adding numbers accurately. Thank you to Ryker, Scotty, Sara, Corbin, Fofo, Amaan for bringing in 100 little treasures from home to help us see what 100 really looks like in different items. We didn't finish doing our work with these items so I told the students that if they would still like to bring in more things (100 smaller items that could fit in a ziploc bag which I will provide) they can still bring them in tomorrow.