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The 100th day of school took an exra 5 days to arrive at Maple Valley Elementary, but on Wednesday, January 27th the lower elementary classes did celebrate this special day. These two pages are dedicated to these classes.
Mrs. Hamers' kindergarten class all had a hand in decorating for the 100th day of school. Among the many activities in their classroom, the children decorated a banner with their handprints so that 100 fingers they could count by five to the magic number. The children also donned "100" glasses for their celebration. They also put together 100 piece puzzles, strung 100 piece necklaces, and placed 100 items on a 100 chart.
Mrs. Woodward's first grade class royally celebrated the 100th day of school as they decorated crowns and wore them during their celebration.
Mrs. Brouillette’s students recognized the 100th day by doing several activities. In math, they assigned a number value to each letter in their names to see which name came closest to 100. They did a choral reading, acting out a poem about zoo animals. They made patterns using a 100-grid paper. To finish the day, they counted out 100 pieces of assorted snacks to make a 100-day stew.
The Maple Valley 2nd & 3rd Multiage class focused a day of activities around the number “100” in celebration of their 100th day of school. The day started out with Claire Mikkelson surprising Mrs. Bollig with an artist poster declaring the special event. After reading aloud “The Night Before the 100th Day of School” by Natasha Wing, the class worked in centers throughout the day. Activities for the day included a probability experiment predicting what the likely results would be as they repeated the process of dice rolling and tally marking their outcome. How many rolls Ð 100 of course!
Additional centers included a survey form, wrote ”I Wish I Had 100” poem, choral read poems about the day, wrote what they would do if they had $100, and predicted how many licks it would take to get to the tootsie roll center of a sucker. Did it take a hundred or less? Try it and see for yourself!
Mrs. Swanson's third grade class split into groups for some of their projects. They strung 100-bead necklaces and used their math skills to create 100 math problems from the necklace patterns. They also made lines of 100 items, weighed 100 items, compared, and estimated items.
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The 100th day of school took an exra 6 days to arrive at Danbury Catholic Elementary, but on Friday, January 29th the lower elementary classes did celebrate this special day. These two pages are feature these classes.
Mrs. Drees' kindergarten class were busy with 100 day activities all day. They put 100 dots on a cardboard dog, used 100 fingers to count to 100, wrote 100 words, wrote to 100, and made 100 mats which were used when they combined 100 food items for their 100 Day snack. The class held a candy hunt to find 100 Hershey's Kisses and matched numbers to a chart. They read Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten during their reading time.
The Anthon-Oto Maple Valley Middle School held their annual spelling bee on January 15, 2010, with 37 students participating. The spellers were winners from the 5th -8th grade.
The competition was fierce with few of the spellers leaving the stage for the first four rounds. However, by the 7th round there were only 5 spellers left. Logan Buth, son of Michael and Lynn Buth of Danbury; and Paul Weber, son of Mark and Laura Weber of Mapleton both missed their words, putting them in a tie for fourth place. In following rounds, Drew Fitzpatrick, son of Bobbi Robbins of Mapleton, misspelled "palatable" and became the third place winner, and Luke Whitney, son of Steve and Julie Whitney of Castana misspelled "anticoagulant" and place 2nd. Laura Perez, daughter of Marcella and John Babl of Mapleton spelled "latitudinarian" correctly in the 10th round and was declared the winner. This was Laura's second consecutive year as the first place winner.
The competition then focused on the fourth place winner. At the time of the local bee, a regional spelling bee had been planned with the top four spellers advancing. Therefore, Buth and Weber got up to the mike to duke it out. "Vengeance" was not Paul's as he misspelled the word, giving the fourth place spot to Buth.
Perez and Whitney will be going to the Iowa State Spelling Bee in Sioux City on March 20 to represent AOMV Middle School. Fitzpatrick will be an alternate.