CAHAL Kindergarten marks 100 days

Monday was a very special day for kindergartners in the CAHAL program at HANC — not because of the leap year date, but rather becauser it was the 100th day of school.

Since school started on Sept. 8, the children have been counting every one of the school days on which they have enjoyed learning and playing together. Each morning they added an orange one-unit square to their place value chart, then traded in a group of ten orange ones for a tall green ten stick. Building week by week, month by month, the numbers increased — until they could hardly contain their excitement when the numbers reached into the 90 with 9 ten sticks, approaching the long awaited trade-in for the big blue 100 block. 

When they arrived in the morning, each child paired with a classmate and took a plastic bag filled with 100 Lego blocks of different shapes and sizes. They had to build something together by sharing the blocks and their ideas. While they were limited to 100 blocks, they were not limited in their creativity, making a spaceship, jet boat, Lego factory, RV home on wheels, and a lovely house and garden.

After their building time, the children wrote about what they made with their partners and illustrated the page with a picture of their creation; each group then presented their creation to the class and described its parts and functions.

The children decorated and cut out funny 100-shaped eyeglasses which they happily wore around the room. They were also proud to count out 100 pennies which they put into the class tzedakah box to help the needy. 

The day was truly 100 percent, integrating excitement with learning, math with art and imagination, writing with creativity, and mitzvot with all that we do!

A big yasher koach to CAHAL’s kindergarten children for all they have accomplished in just 100 days.