100 Days of Kindergarten

Elise had her 100 day celebration on Wednesday. She had been looking forward to it for weeks. (No one gets quite as excited about a party as Elise does. She’s already written out invitations for her birthday party in September . . . of 2012.) Her homework assignment was to make a collection of 100 things to take and show her class. She was pretty picky about what went into her bag and spent loads of time counting and recounting. She would sort the items by type and then by color and then she would arrange them all into little mosaics (a birthday cake, a flower, etc.) She is a funny girl.


Abby and I got to help with some party preparations on Monday and then went back to the school on Wednesday to help out during the party. Being in a class full of kindergarteners can be revelatory. I tend to be a bit tough on my kids and have pretty high expectations for them. It is good for me to see them with their peers so I can appreciate that they really are smart and well-behaved kids (if not objectively, at least by comparison).


With all of the talk about Elise’s 100 day party, we found pictures from when Ben and Emily were in kindergarten. They went to a different school and had to make a project out of their 100 items, not just a collection. Ben’s was 100 pennies in the shape of a dollar and Emily’s was a rainbow necklace with 100 beads. Kindergarten is fun!