100th Day, 2013

The celebration of the 100th day of school has been something we've observed just in the last two years since coming to Tennessee. This is quickly becoming a much beloved tradition in our homeschool, developed and carried out by our dear friend Miss Julie, along with her children Caroline and William. Miss Julie sends out invitations, sets an agenda for activities and even clever homework assignments that deal with the value of 100 to be brought to the party. To further sweeten the pot, she lays out a spread of food and fun (along with friends!) that is just a real treat. The ages of the participants are from itty bitty to teenagers, with Moo actually being the eldest in attendance.

The days before the 100th Day event were spent strategizing about how to creatively explain the difference in the price of groceries, gas and car costs between 1913 and 2013.  If you look closely at the picture of the graph, you will see the 1913 costs are represented by green bar lines, and the 2013 costs are represented by purple.  The difference in car costs over the last hundred years necessitated that she attach a purple strand of ribbon about 35 feet long to the edge of her graph to remain true to scale.  Crazy.

Belle created a magazine cover of the future.  One hundred years from now, she imagined that the headlines may read "Flying Cars Antique?", "These Boots are Made for Flying" and "Moon Population Looks to Mars for Help".  She wrote under her favorite pseudonym, Margaret E. Ginsfort.

Once at Miss Julie's home, there were several activity stations.  The older girls spent a good amount of time at this station doing a lot of math problems.  Who knew math could be fun?

Each family brought a list of favorite books to add to a list...the goal was to reach 100 favorites!

Here, they were required to build a tall structure out of 100 cups.  Moo thought out of the box on this one.

Belle and some friends at the map station.

Belle and her buddy, William.

Belle & Caroline.