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PITTSBURG —
Pittsburg USD 250 kindergarten and first grade students extolling the process of learning and counting Thursday afternoon.
The students were celebrating “100 Days of Learning,” an event that recognizes the 100th day of the school year. It’s part of the Everyday Mathematics program the district has adopted for all of its elementary schools — Westside and George Nettels have used the University of Chicago-designed program for about 10 years, and Meadowlark and Lakeside adopted the program this year.
They’re learning how to count by 10 and to do skip counting and sorting,” early years reading and math coordinator Tricia Harrel said. “It just goes right along with their curriculum and they’re excited to bring things in to share with us.”
Each of the students were tasked with building a collage of 100 pieces of any item and bringing them to class for a 100th Day Museum. There were collections of chocolate chips, pom-pom lays, 100-bead necklaces, dragon eyes, cotton balls, Legos and clothes pins, to name a few. One student taped his name on a diorama using 100 pencils.
The students also decorated cookies with frosting, attaching the number 100 with pull-apart cherry Twizzlers, and made 100-piece necklaces out of breakfast cereal fruit rings.
“They made so many cool things,” Meadowlark kindergarten teacher Carol Ayers said. “They’ve been looking forward to it and they did so well.”
Pittsburg USD 250 kindergarten and first grade students extolling the process of learning and counting Thursday afternoon.
The students were celebrating “100 Days of Learning,” an event that recognizes the 100th day of the school year. It’s part of the Everyday Mathematics program the district has adopted for all of its elementary schools — Westside and George Nettels have used the University of Chicago-designed program for about 10 years, and Meadowlark and Lakeside adopted the program this year.
They’re learning how to count by 10 and to do skip counting and sorting,” early years reading and math coordinator Tricia Harrel said. “It just goes right along with their curriculum and they’re excited to bring things in to share with us.”
Each of the students were tasked with building a collage of 100 pieces of any item and bringing them to class for a 100th Day Museum. There were collections of chocolate chips, pom-pom lays, 100-bead necklaces, dragon eyes, cotton balls, Legos and clothes pins, to name a few. One student taped his name on a diorama using 100 pencils.
The students also decorated cookies with frosting, attaching the number 100 with pull-apart cherry Twizzlers, and made 100-piece necklaces out of breakfast cereal fruit rings.
“They made so many cool things,” Meadowlark kindergarten teacher Carol Ayers said. “They’ve been looking forward to it and they did so well.”
