100th Day of School

Today is the 100th day of School in Fairfax County. Evidently sometime between the time I left elementary and the time Sam started this has become a very big deal. This year, to celebrate this day, we had to start a collection, which would ultimately contain 100 items. The directions were very clear that these items could not all be the same. Thanks to Nancy, my faithful teacher friend, we came up with the idea of collecting lids. Big lids, small lids, white lids, black lids, you get the picture. All told we ended up with a TON of lids. The next step of the project was to sort them in to groups, display them creatively and write a word problem to show how your groups equal 100. This is what we came up with (click on it to get the full effect):

Sam painted the whole thing, glued on most of the lids with the hot glue gun and my help, and typed out his word equation all by himself. We took it in today and his teacher was very impressed. She also told me that he is doing really well in school this year and plans on putting his name in to the gifted and talented teacher to be evaluated for next year. Yeah! She says his math skills are impressive and his reading has taken off.

Sam and I are very proud of his "project". I have to say I dreamed all last night of what Ethan and I can do for his project when he's in 1st grade, YIKES, these projects could get a little overwhelming!!