100th Day!

Since the first day of school, Joshua's class has been counting and counting and counting the days of school.  They were told that first day that when they got to 100, they would have a special party to celebrate the 100 days of Kindergarten that they had completed.  Well, today was the day.

Joshua began the day requesting pancakes shaped like 100.  If I have perfected any parenting skill over the years, it has been pancake art.  I was pleased to oblige him as long as he promised to gobble up the pancakes so that we could make it to school on time. 



They all were SO excited to get to yell out ONE HUNDRED on their 100 day chart.  I wish I had the video camera going as they were counting and building up their excitement.  This photo looks way too orderly for how the day actually went.  But suffice it to say that they had a blast!

They worked on special 100 Day placemats full of activities that went with the theme.  They also wore crowns and glasses with the number 100 worked into them.  They got new 100th day pencils, stickers and bookmarks.  And I have to be honest....this school supply loving nerd thought they were pretty cool!

It is always fun when there are lots of parents around to help with the kids.  I have to tell you that if we are blessed to share the next 12 years of school with this same group of kids and their parents, we will be so lucky.  What a special group of families.  We all were assigned a station, and I was asked to handle these little charts where we counted a whole bunch of different items (plastic fish, sea shells, pennies and plastic bugs).  The kids had a ball.  But if I never count to 100 again, it will be too soon.

We ended the day with a complete sugar rush.  Good grief.  Each child was asked to bring in 100 edible items that could be added to a class snack mix.  We obviously couldn't partake in that, but Joshua did count out 100 jelly beans to add to the class mix.  And then I put a mixture together for him from things we had at home so that he could eat his own safe snack mix.  Add to that the ice cream sundaes that they had....and don't forget his chocolate milk...he was just about bouncing off the walls, as were the rest of the kids in the class.  I'm hoping by the time I return back home after work, it will all have worn off.

I find it hard to believe that Kindergarten is now more than half way over.  We're just inching closer and closer to him being a big first grader, which will mark the beginning of him going to school all day.  It seems, these days, that every time I look at him, he has grown- with pants and shirts that seem to be shrinking before my very eyes.  I feel very lucky to get to share these experiences with him, and to get to watch him experience all of these special events with the other children in his class.  I am so grateful for his loving school environment.

Way to go, K5!!