She told me that it was the 100th day of school.

I thought that maybe it was somebody’s birthday and asked the teacher. The teacher was wearing a vest with 100 pennies glued all over it. I was visiting a school when a tribe of first graders walked into the assembly wearing sashes and hats decorated with all kinds of odd things glued on them. Angela Shelf Medearis told this story about the beginnings of her book The 100th Day of School: It provides a great opportunity for reading a few counting books aloud and making a classroom or library display for children to enjoy.Ī few books have been written specifically for this kind of celebration. Now is the perfect time to bring out your favorite counting books, assess your collection, and add a few new treats to your shelves in preparation for this year’s celebration. Culminating celebration activities abound as cereal, leaves, buttons, beads, and other everyday items are counted, sorted and placed in groups of 10, displayed, or mounted. The count begins on the first day of school, when number lines and tallies begin, and counting sticks are placed in the 1s container. The world may be counting down to the year 2000, but another counting is taking place right now in primary grades throughout the country to commemorate an event that happens every year: the one hundredth day of school. Back matter includes a bibliography, source notes, texts of the Constitution and amendments, a timeline, and an index.Book Links: November 1999 (v.9 no.2) Celebrating the One-Hundredth Day of School Perfect for students who want to know more about voting rights, this nonfiction book contains an extensive view of suffrage from the Founding Fathers to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to today’s voter suppression controversies, and explains the barriers people of color, Indigenous people, and immigrants face. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto power, have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent people from casting ballets or outright stolen votes and sometimes entire elections. For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. The corruption, activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles for the right to vote are chronicled by an award-winning nonfiction author.

Hitty her first 100 years