With our silly February schedule, every lesson has to do double duty! Today is the very important last day of Ordinary Time before we begin Lent tomorrow. We tied the traditional way to use up the butter, milk and eggs (making pancakes) with the upcoming 100th day of school.
We read this story, The Wolf's Chicken Stew, and then wondered if the 21 students in our class could eat 100 pancakes.
We took a quick pole and the results are shown above.
We use a hundred chart every morning during our Morning Meeting. In a practical way to see if the students understand and can use the 100 chart, recognizing the rows and columns and the way that the numbers relate to each other, the 100 chicks from the story scattered around our classroom.
Together, we figured out, through lots and lots of discussion, how to put the chicks onto a blank chart with 100 spaces. Once done, the children went looking around the classroom, trying to find the rest of the little chicks. As each child brought back a chick, he or she put it onto the chart, explaining their thinking or reasoning. It gave me a practical opportunity to assess where the students might be making mistakes in their understanding of the place of numbers in relationship to other numbers.
In the meantime, our volunteer mom was busy making 100 pancakes!
They were silver dollar size.
100
We passed them all out and found out that almost every student had a pile of four pancakes, but some students got to have a heap of five!
Along with syrup, an apple juice and some banana pieces, the students enjoyed
their Shrove Tuesday treat.
Yes! 21 students can eat 100 pancakes!
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