100's Day & Valentine's Day Recap!

THE 100th DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!

100's Day was Monday for us. My teaching partner's husband found LOOOONG poster paper for $5 while he was out and about. So we decided to bring my class (1/2) and the other two grade 2 classes down to the gym, along with lots of craft supplies. The students created themselves as 100 year olds and then completed a 100 year old questionnaire. We attached the questionnaire under each 100 year and hung it in our hallway! What a hit! Even the wee JK's and SK's are stopping and looking and older grades are stopping and reading. The kids did a great job.

In math, we played RACE TO 100! Kids loved it. Something easy, but very fun!

Here the students are working on a great team building activity called "Build with 100". After the student designed something with their 100 blocks, the entire class did a Gallery Walk, and was able to provide each group with feedback :)

We did a lot of fun activities on 100's Day. All of our favourite 100 Day Activities are in this package! Check it out :)

For Valentine's Day, we created Valentine's Mailboxes to store our Valentine Cards in. You can get step by step instructions in our Perfect Valentine Pack- HERE.

Last year I purchased a cute little Valentine's Package (All You Need is Love- by The Teacher Wide) for my class. I didn't around to using it because my students were in grade 3 and little more advance.... but this year teaching grade 1/2 it was great. I purchased Candy Conversation Hearts and made a little pack for each student. They used them to sort, add, subtract and graph!

We found the History of St. Valentine was a little too much for our grade 1's, 2's and 3's. So Christine decided to use the history of "The Love Knot" as a writing activity this year. Each student brainstormed and created a love knot letter for their family or family member. I staped the history, love knot (and brainstorm sheet) together and put it in an envelope. The students brought it home to give as a little Valentine note of thanks and love.