The 100th Day of School

Yes- the day that every kindergartener dreams of finally arrived--- the 100th Day of School! This is such a monumental occasion that some of the children were convinced that after the 100th day of school, they would need to go to 1st grade. The concept of 100 is quite difficult for 5 and 6 year olds to grasp- so I dressed up as a "100" year old woman to help the kids envision what 100 years might do to a person. The kids were actually kind of scared of me at first, in fact my Emi started crying and told me she didn't like the voice I was using (I was doing an old woman voice). I explained to her that I was doing a different voice like I do for our puppets and she seemed a little less nervous.

By the end of the day, all the kids loved how I was old and they wanted to be old too; although, it took me a while to convince them that everybody grows up, and someday they will be old too (hopefully). To illustrate this, the kids drew pictures of what they look like now and what they will look like at 100. Then, I let several of them, who wanted to, put on makeup with white powder in their hair so they could look old. We also got to spend time sorting and counting groups of 100 things and then we made fruit loop necklaces with 100 fruit loops on each one. The kids had a blast, even Emi asked me if I could do the voice more. Actually, everybody in the whole school got a kick out of my costume.