Ponton's Pond - Leaping into 1st Grade!

100th Day of School!!!!

Our 100th day of school will be January 31st, 2009. We have lots of way cool things happening that day. Take a look at some of our activities to celebrate the fact that we have been in 1st grade for 100 days.

10 x 10 Snack

We will be making a traditional 100th day snack. Each child will count 10 each of 10 different goodies to place in their bowl. The items will include: M&M’s, pretzels, mini-marshmallows, cheese crackers, chocolate chips, Cheerio cereal, peanuts, raisins, candy hearts, and gummy fruits.

100 Candy Valentine Hearts

We will be using candy conversation hearts as one of our yummy math activities. Each group or partner team will have a baggie containing 100 candy hearts. They will sort their hearts by color, then complete a graph, followed by questions to answer using their data. If you're interested in seeing these files, click on the links.
Candy Heart Sort Page
Candy Heart Graph
Candy Heart Questions

Connecting Cube Trains

We will predict how long a train of connecting cubes will measure. After predicting, we will take out our connecting cubes, make our trains in teams of 3-4 and measure.

100 Seconds
We’ll stay silent for 100 seconds! Well…we’ll try☺

If I Had 100...

We're going to be writing about what we would do with 100 of something.First, we'll brainstorm ideas such as 100 dollars, 100 legs, 100 books, 100 dogs, etc. Then we'll each write about what we would do with are 100 items. This will be published into a book to put in our classroom library. I'll try to post here to share with everyone.

Links With Wonderful More Ideas!
300 Ideas for 100th day of School
100th Day from Enchanted Learning
100th Day of School at Starfall.com
100th Day at the Virtual Vine
100th Day from abcteach.com
Poems and Chants for 100 Days

100th Day Bottles

For a home connection, we are making 100th day bottles. The children will put 100 of something that could fit into a clean, empty water or soda bottle. They will write clues of what is in the bottle, without telling us. We'll make our guesses using their clues. The bottles will be brought to school in a brown, paper bag. Each child is completing a page for our class book using this form. This idea is not original to me. I got this great idea from this site. 100th Day Bottles
Below you will find examples from last year's class. I'll update soon with this year's project.

You can eat them with rice. They sound like a maracca when you shake the bottle. They are in different sizes and roundish. Ayana	The color is silver. It feels like cold metal. It holds papers together. Chris	They are fluffy. Their color is white. They are soft. Jacob
They look like precious gems. You can make a necklace. You wear it like fashion jewelry. Marc	It starts with a P. You eat it but you have to cook it first. The shape is long and skinny. Tetta	It is in lots of different colors. It is crunchy. It has a shape like a circle. Javier
It's white and you eat it. It's fluffy on the outside. You can make 'smores with them. Ellie	You can eat it if you soak them and cook them. They're light brown with brown spots. They're smooth and hard. Kimmie	They are tiny and dark brown. They are sweet. You bake them in cookies. Zane
	You eat it for breakfast. It is sweetened corn and oats. You have to enjoy it with milk. Jonathan