Mrs. Garrabrant's Classroom: Valentine's Day, 100th Day & More!

We had a very busy week this week. We celebrated Valentine's Day, the 100th Day & more! Take a look below to find out more details.

In Literacy Lab, I read a President's Day book with my groups along with the "On The Farm" & "Snowman" books.

The students worked around the room on pointing to words while reading, sounding out and writing words, making sight words, listening to the story "The Little Red Hen", and drawing a picture of their favorite part of the story.

The students finished making their valentines and they took them home. The students made them for family members or friends. After they took them home, some of the students who made them for their friends were allowed to bring them back to school to deliver them.

On Valentine's Day, the students passed out their valentines to their friends while they worked on Valentine's Day themed activities.

They received candy hearts to sort and graph.

They predicted and recorded how many they could hold in their hands, as well as created and recorded patterns with them.

They worked on reading sight words and color words in order to color the valentine appropriately. They also matched the hearts with the upper and lowercase letters together.

With our 100th day of school celebration approaching, we did an experiment earlier on in the week. They predicted whether it would take more or less than 100 licks to finish their lollipops. Together as a class we counted and recorded 10 licks at a time until we reached 100. We noticed that it barely made a difference in our lollipops and they needed much more than 100 licks to finish their lollipops.

We played a Valentine themed game of "I have who has". They students had to read a number that they had and ask to see who had the next number. They enjoyed this game!

Throughout the week, the students shared their 100 item collections. They came up and gave their clues while the rest of the students guessed what they thought was inside the bags. They had a lot of fun with these, thank you for your help in making this possible!

The students made 100 day glasses to wear on the 100th day of school to go along with their fruit loop necklaces.

We also wrote about various writing prompts dealing with 100. They came up with some great answers and I really enjoyed hearing them all!

The students shared their books about 100 as well as some of their writing with their preschool reading buddies. We switched up the groups so the students had new reading groups.

For the 100th day of school, we dressed up like 100 year olds and we had a lot of fun with it. Here are some of the teachers dressed up. The students couldn't believe how old I looked and were amazed that they didn't recognize me at first!

Here are the students from our class that dressed up along with myself (left) & Mrs. Boyd (right). The bottom picture is with Ms. Riggs' friends who dressed up as well.

We worked on a couple 100 day activities like finding hidden items in the number 100 and more!

We also did another fun activity where the students chose a Hershey kiss, had to identify the number on the bottom, and find it on the 100's chart. The students enjoyed clicking and revealing the number as well as getting to eat the Hershey kiss!

We did a rotation for the 100th day with 3 other classes. In Mrs. Keck's class the students put 100 gum balls in the gum ball machines.

In Ms. Riggs class, the students used the numbers 1, 0 and 0 from the number 100 to make different pictures. Below you can see a monster truck, butterfly, giraffe, and a minion. They came up with some really creative pictures!

They also did 100 different exercises in Mrs. Smith's class but I don't have any pictures from that one! In our class we worked on making self-portraits from when they are 100. They had to choose the face that matched their skin color, draw details on, and add cotton balls for hair.

They turned out awesome!

While our class was rotating to the other classes, those students were in our class working with me on making their self-portraits. First we watched a video that showed people from ages 1-100 so they could see what happens to their skin, hair, etc.

The students enjoyed getting to wear their fruit loop necklaces and 100 day glasses for our celebration!

"We are 100 days smarter!"

I sent home these 100 day snacks and hopefully they shared them with you when they got home and told you about their day.

I aged the students and told them this was what I thought they would look like when they were 100 years old. I revealed these to the class and the students thought they were hilarious! These will be in their portfolios at the end of the year for you to keep but here are all of the pictures for your enjoyment!