Discovery Kidzone Montessori Adventures: math center

100 days of school!! This year has been flying by, I cannot believe it! Today was our 100th day of school it was wild, crazy, a little bit dangerous but fun! We were lucky to have an amazing parent helper stay for our special day. We started out our day making our 100 day crowns. Then we headed to circle time to count our chart and to see what number we ended up on.

Our helper of the day counts the numbers everyday and we count with him. When we get to a "10" we do something different everyday. Today we jumped and clapped every time! :)

We sang our 100 days of school songs and we read an interactive poem together. For Math the first thing we did was dance to this song.

I asked the kids if they had 100 dollars what would they buy. Everybody had a chance to draw on the chart what they would buy.

We even got to see a REAL 100 dollar bill!!

Each Child shared the poster they made at home for a family project with 10 groups of 10

Great family projects!!

Every child brought in 100 of some type of snack. We counted and graphed everyone's snacks then put them all into one big bowl to make "gorp"

Everyone helped make "gorp"

We had a cooperative project where the thinking math question was "how many friends will I need to count 100 fingers?" We had quite a few sick kids today so we had exactly 10 friends to count fingers on. They were excited to see that it equaled exactly 100!!!

our 10 friends equaled 100 fingers!!!

Finally we had a special treat brought in by one of our students!! This was my favorite 100th day memory ever!!! This little boy brought in a cake with 100 candles to celebrate my team teachers' "100th birthday" haha !!

Happy 100th birthday Mrs. Nicole!!

my brave parent helper!! She almost caught on fire, that is dedication!!! haha this is what 100 candles looks like! :)

Happy 100th day everyone!!

Here are the pictures of our homeschool room so far. I am still going to add a few bulletin boards and white board and our centers will change throughout the year. We also have an art center and unit studies/science/social studies center in our family room that I will post pictures of later.

This is our Art/Writing bulletin board and our writing workshop center. I am eventually going to add our "I can" posters to the front of my cabinet

Allie's Desk and our meeting area. I am adding a white board and learning board above the chart paper.

These are our math and geography tubs. The top row is math trays and those will change daily. On top of the shelves is a Vocabulary work box and a dictionary. I will be adding a pocket chart for Vocabulary and the bulletin board will be our math board.

Our Reading center. Allie's goal is 50 books! Everyday she will fill out the reading response page on the clipboard hanging by the bookshelf. It will change daily with different reading response activities.

Our Writers workshop center. She will sit on the fitness ball to aid in movement while she works. There are spelling activities, letter writing, stamp stories, sticker stories, sentence building, journal prompts, poetry, paragraph trains and recipe cards for writing recipes. This center will change weekly with new writing activities. So far this is her favorite one!! Usually she hates to write!!