Ok…I’ve given up the idea of continuing to finish up 2013…it’s just stressing me out and causing me stop blogging all together thinking about where I put the pictures from Christmas and New Year’s Eve. I’ll finish eventually, but I wanted to post a picture of Aiden’s 100 day project.

Each child was asked to make a display of 100 like items – any item they wanted (example: 100 gold fish crackers in the shape of a fish). I, of course, pulled up Pinterest and we started looking at ideas…none of which was “good enough” for Aiden. So…we hit Michael’s craft store for inspiration. Aiden’s eye lit up when he saw this shiny shiny foam board! Next, he picked out shiny shiny pipe cleaners. I was so worried that we were going to be individually gluing each one, which sounded impossible, so I took a bundle of them, wrapped another pipe cleaner around it and showed Aiden that we could make a 1. He LOVED it (called me like super smart or something) and we finished the numbers together. I forgot to take his picture at the house before school so I snapped this one of him outside his classroom after volunteering that afternoon.

Brady’s class did 100 bead counting strings…I can’t find it, but it’s cute and educational. Third graders like Logan don’t celebrate the 100th day – so big…so busy getting smarter! :)