Call Day #145, 2/2/16

 Today we celebrated the "100th Day of School" for the year. Eleanor and Claire have enjoyed this the past few years, and it has become something they look forward to. My little secret is that we do it when I get around to it. We're probably closer to the 125th day of school. In any case, they strung 100 Fruit Loops while munching on some for breakfast. This took a while--maybe I should just keep string and cereal on hand and revisit this activity.

Oliver had trouble stringing his so Eleanor helped him.

Finished product. She tore off the tags separating each group of 10, wore it like a necklace, and ate it while doing our next activities.

This was a good opportunity to see how Claire is doing with numbers. I know she can count to 100, but wasn't sure how well she'd be able to fill in numbers since she sometimes switches the tens and ones digits. No problems today. Then, she did another written sheet showing she can count to 100 by 10s, 5s, and 2s.

They remember that in previous years we've done ten each of ten different exercises. They wanted to do that again and chose the exercises. Doing burpees.

The traditional 100 lunch. Ten each of ten different foods.

After choir, we had Nanny over for dinner. Eleanor shows off the newspaper she made. This is one of the many projects she comes up with and works on. It includes news about Carolina going to the Super Bowl and some of her favorite riddles/jokes.

Eleanor has been playing multiplication games on the computer. Claire and, especially, Oliver like to watch her play. Oliver has been asking when he can play math games himself.