The Fancy 100 Heart Celebration!
/The Whales classroom was buzzing this week with excitement about the 100 Day of School and Friendship Day. In preparation for the 100th day of school, the Whales worked together to cut out 100 hearts. We organized the hearts into ten groups of ten. We hung them up and have been using them to practice counting to 100. We noticed that it is quicker to count to 100 by 10’s rather than 1’s. The Whales have also been creating self-portraits of what they would look like when they are 100 years old. They will finish up the 100 year old self-portraits next week. Look forward to seeing some spectacular 100 year old Whales!!
On Wednesday, the Whales arrived in their most fancy attire. We saw bow ties, sparkly dresses, fancy jerseys, button up shirts, cowboy boots, princess dresses, and so so so much more! The Whales definitely were dressed to impress. In the morning, we decorated some 100 heart crowns, created desk buddies, completed addition mystery coloring, and engineered with 100 cups. At calendar time it was finally time to add our 100th day to our countdown to one hundred. We packed up all ten of our ten sticks and moved them into a 100 plate. Instead of doing the ten stick cha-cha, we did a 100 day march. We marched through the ELC, up the Berglund stairs, and all the way to the tip top of the building. When we got to the top, we were able to look down upon our Cedar Classroom and Piazza. What a view!!! We then counted to 100 AGAIN on our way back to our classroom. Along our route we stopped at the Sea Lion classroom. We wished the Sea Lions a happy 100 day! We love showing the 3rd and 4th graders all of the amazing learning we are doing in Kindergarten! The Sea Lions are the best supporters of our Whales.
The fun did not stop there! Now we were on to celebrating friendship! We sat in a large circle. We passed out our friendship cards one at a time. This was so we could individually say thank you to all of our friends. We wanted to make sure that our friends knew we are thankful for them. The Whales did an amazing job appreciating their friends. It is so special to see the friendships (new and old) that have formed and deepened over this year. After we passed out our friendship cards we enjoyed some strawberry cookies together. YUM!! The Whales are still talking about how much fun they had on our celebration day.
This week the Whales have started presenting about their migrating animals. So far we have learned about the American Eel, the Arctic Tundra, and the Bar Tailed Godwit. Thanks to Everett, Joella, and Landon we have learned so much already! We have been mapping their migration paths on the SMART board. We have noticed that many of our migrating animals start in the Arctic Tundra (PARTY IN THE TUNDRA!) in the North, and migrate in the cooler months to the South (Mexico, Hawaii, etc.). The Whales will continue to look at maps and talk about shorter and longer distances. We are so excited to hear more presentations. The Whales are amazing scientists.
