On Monday the children were asked to decorate a bag that they would receive Valentine’s in. They used stickers and markers to make their own bag. On Tuesday, the children were very excited to celebrate the holiday. Many of them came in wearing red or pink and were eager to show it off. We had some fun activities around the class for them to do. They had a couple have-to jobs that day that they all did great on. At the circle table the children were given a bag of colored candy hearts and a graph. They had to color in how many of each color heart they got. After they counted each individual color they then were asked to count how many they had all together. This activity helped reinforce many skills such as sorting, counting, and graphing. Another have-to job was to write a card. They each got a heart shaped card and were able to choose what they wanted to write in it. These are the cards that you all received with your carnations. 
Since the beginning of the year we have been counting how many days we have been at school at meeting with popsicle sticks. Every time we got to ten we would make it a bundle by taping the popsicle sticks together. This was allowing the children to learn to also count by ten. By the time we got to 90 the children were extremely eager and counting down the days until the 100th day of school. By the time we got to 100, the children were able to count to 100 all by themselves either by tens or ones. On Wednesday we decided to celebrate the 100th day of school. The children started off the day by wanting crowns that had the number 100 on them. They decorated them and wore them around all day. We also had two have-to jobs that day that you may have seen hanging around the class. The first one was that the children were asked to draw a picture of themselves now and in 100 years. Many of them drew the same picture but made themselves HUGE 100 years later. The other activity was to write what they would buy if they had 100 dollars. The answers were very cute! At the math table we put out pasta for the children to count. They used the 100 grid to match up each number with each piece of pasta until they got up to 100. We also had a sheets with 100 stars on them which some of them used to match the pasta with as well. Other children were writing numbers 1-100. They were eager to go to all the different activities and it was cute to see how truly excited they were.
Some other things going on in the class this week:
*The doctors office*Playing in the sand table
*Doing simple math on the white boards
*Reading in the library
*Painting hearts at the easels
*Using the tweezers and bears
*Using letter and number stamps
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