Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2016 • The kindergarten class at Fletcher Walker celebrates 100 days of learning
Publisher’s note: This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 edition of the Lassen County Times.
Fletcher Walker Elementary kindergarteners wear super student costumes they made to celebrate their 100th day of study for the 2015-2016 school year. They are Noah Theobald, back row left, Courtlynn Workman, Jaxon Robinson, Emma Nelson, and Cameron Squezello; Kristopher Inman, middle row left, Sophia Lemaster, Declan Harrington, Brooklyn Schier, Riet Graves; Jocelyn Russell, Anaya Tollefson; Damian Workman, on knees, Nolan Gurnee, Landon Aitken, Jordan Guldaman, Elaina Strand; Rebekah Garcia, seated, and Will Strand.The number 100 is big to any kindergarten student, especially when he or she must press stickers in that amount to a superhero cape. That was the task teacher Cassandra Strand gave her students at Fletcher Walker Elementary as part of a lesson plan to commemorate 100 days of school Monday, Feb. 8.
Jaxon Robinson models the face mask he is working on which will be part of his super student costume to commemorate 100 days of school.The capes were an element of a super student costume the children created to defeat the evil Dr. Double Digit as they moved in their lessons to triple-digit numbers. Their mask was the number, 100, with the two zeros making perfect eyeholes.
Kindergarten students at Fletcher Walker Elementary do their best to impersonate a 100-year-old as part of their 100th Day of School celebration. They are Cameron Squezello, Emma Nelson, Jocelyn Russell and Jaxon Robinson.This number did much more than improve the children’s math skills. It became an art lesson, with each student creating a portrait of how they might look at age 100. Strand also used it to improve writing skills with students journaling about what life might be like when they hit the century mark.
Fletcher Walker Elementary kindergarten students apply stickers to a cape for their super student costume. Their teache, Cassandra Strand asks for the application of 100 stickers as part of a day-long celebration of 100 days of learning.Some thought Jell-O, marshmallows and pudding might be on the menu; they envisioned gray hair, wrinkles and maybe a set of glasses to see better; and thought an outing with old friends might include playing cards, fishing or simply walking around looking at trees.
Self-portraits at age 100 were part of an artwork project completed by the Fletcher Walker Elementary kindergarten class during a lesson on the triple-digit number.Once students had completed their costumes, they teamed up to build a structure out of 100 paper cups and were rewarded with cotton candy for being 100 days smarter. Before the final bell they went to the gym to find 100 balloons the sixth-grade class had inflated, which they were invited to pop.
Kindergarten students at Fletcher Walker Elementary chase 100 balloons around the gym dressed in super student costumes as they study this triple digit number on the 100th day of school They are: Courtlynn Workman, Emma Nelson, Jordan Guldaman, Rebekah Garcia, Anaya Tollefson, and Riet Graves.They came to school dressed as someone old, quite difficult for students who on average were born five years ago. Many played the part with ingenuity… perhaps adding a drama lesson to the curriculum.
The 100th day of school was a time to celebrate all the learning that had taken place during the course of the 2015-2016 school year.
