100th Day of School - DATE CHANGE - Monday, January 30th

Our 100th Day of School Celebration is fast approaching and THE DATE HAS CHANGED!  Due to scheduling conflicts with our 1/2 teachers and professional development conferences on Tuesday, we will be celebrating the 100th Day on MONDAY, JANUARY 30TH (the actual 100th day).  On Monday our brains will be another 100 days smarter and I'm excited to fill the day with fun activities surrounding the number 100.

As a special treat for Monday, we are in need of snacks for our 100-item snack. Please use the “100th Day Snack Sign Up” link to volunteer to bring in a snack.  When signing up, please include the type of snack you are providing. Snacks should be items where students can easily take 10 pieces from each provided snack. Examples may include small crackers, pretzels, cereal, dried fruit.  There will be 9 students at school on Monday, so please be sure your provided snack has at least 90 items in the box.   Please bring the snack on on our 100th Day of School - Monday, January 30th.  Since there are 10 families (including me) in our class, if each family could bring in one snack to contribute that would be wonderful!!  As a note: there are no food allergies or concerns, but please be sure it is low in sugar.  Many thanks.

To prepare for Monday, your child brought home a letter about our upcoming 100th Day of School and a small homework assignment.  Please take a look at the letter sent home and the information below.  As part of our festivities, I am asking each student to count and collect 100 small objects, and to place those objects in the attached plastic bag labeled “_____’s 100th Day Collection”.  All the objects in your child’s collection bag should be the same.  After all students have returned the bags to class, we will use the collections to conduct fun-filled classroom learning activities.  The bagged collections will then be returned to the students to bring home.  It is important that each bag close securely over the 100 objects, so please help your child count and choose 100 objects small enough to fit in the bag.

Here are some collection ideas:
• 100 pieces of popcorn
• 100 paper clips
• 100 stickers
• 100 metal washers
• 100 hair elastics
• 100 rubber bands
• 100 toothpicks
• 100 pennies
• 100 pieces of cereal
• 100 beans
• 100 pictures of toys (or 100 pictures of animals, etc.) cut from magazines

Please consider the items on this list to be suggestions only.  Feel free to help your child collect any objects that will fit into his or her bag.  I only ask that you avoid objects that are sharp (such as tacks).  Your child’s 100th Day of School Collection is due back to school on our 100th day, THIS MONDAY, JANUARY 31st.

Thank you in advance for helping to make our 100th Day of School a complete success.  Please let me know if you have questions.