50th Day of School
No better way to celebrate the 50th Day of School than in 50's style. Students dressed in poodle skirts, saddle shoes, jeans, white t-shirts, leather jackets, and slicked back hair. We incorporated math by counting and writing numbers to 50; skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s; matching and writing double facts of fries and hamburgers; and sorting records of numbers less than and greater than 50. Language Arts was explored through writing steps for making coke floats, writing stories comparing 50's kids with today's kids, and sorting 50's word cards in ABC order. Social Studies was a part of our day by comparing "then" and "now" with a Venn Diagram. We looked at pictures from the fifties and now to compare. Cruising through the 50 first days of school was a hit!