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Grade Prep R and 1/2 H have been eagerly counting down to their 100th day of school. Complementing the usual maths focus on understanding number concepts, counting and processes there has been a daily routine of counting down how many days they have been at school in their calendars and on a display, highlighting the number pattern, place value and ordinal status for each number. Each day Grade 1/2H students have earnt $1, displaying this in play money, exchanging equivalent coins and notes from a banker when possible, making links to authentic life skills. This money represents how much they have saved for their 100 day celebration party. The children from both grades have been creating projects as part of the ‘100’ gallery, using 100 diverse objects presented in interesting ways.Preps, ones and twos celebrated their special day in mixed age groups cooking 100 chocolate balls, making 100’s and 1000’s bread and biscuits, creating crowns, participating in a variety of literacy and maths ‘100’ activities and 100 physical exercises. The morning concluded with a lunch party eating the food and the ‘100’ shaped cake with the children taking home one of the 100 helium balloons that decorated our rooms.
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