This past week the Super Kids celebrated two big days! Valentine’s Day and the 100th day of school. The kids were so excited to celebrate their classroom friendships and making it through the first 100 days of learning together.
Valentine’s Day began with our 3/4 learning buddies from Ms. Lagimodiere’s classroom joining us for some acts of kindness bingo and reading stories that they picked from the library about friendship.
Next, the class exchanged Valentine cards with each other. They couldn’t wait to deliver the cards to each other and open them. If your child brought Valentine cards, thank you for sending cards in for the whole class so students didn’t feel left out.
Valentines themed centers were a highlight of the day. The kids rotated through activities such as sight word heart bingo, coding a friend with valentine’s actions like blowing kisses and picking flowers, building a structure out of foam hearts, reading Valentine’s themed books, and themed math games. We even had a timer set for 10 minutes per station with hearts and music. 🙂
The 100th day of school was on Friday and the class was told that there was going to be a mystery for them to solve. The class was invited to wear black, sunglasses, and come ready to investigate like secret agents. The class came in and I greeted them with an app to confirm their identify with their fingerprint. When they were granted access to the classroom they were asked to find their secret agent badges and be ready for a top secret briefing. To say they were excited would be an understatement!
Classroom setup 100th day video
All the grade 1 and 2 classes on the English side of our school and the grade 1 classes on the French side of the school rotated through activities set up in the rooms to help them earn words that when put together at the end of the day formed a sentence clue. With this clue the class would hopefully solve the mystery of who agent 99 was and why they stole all of the zeros in our classrooms! Activities involved fingerprint science, ninja training, a laser beam obstacle course, secret message in invisible ink, 100 cup towers, coded messages, bowling, and special glasses. The kids were so pumped! These activities took the whole day with some breaks for snack, recess, and lunch. At the end of the day they all headed outside for some Phys Ed time before solving our mystery.
When arranging the words collected it formed the sentence…”The zeros were not stolen, they are just lost!” Where do things go in our school when they are lost? The lost and found in the office. We took off to the office and found them!
The kids left school with smiles on their faces and a bit tired from their day being a secret agents. It was a great day where the kids got to spend time in many classes in our school and I got to spend time with so many kids that go to school in our building. I missed being able to do that during our Covid restrictions and I’m so glad that we have the opportunity to be a school community again in these meaningful ways. 🙂
