The 50th day always falls around Halloween, so many of our students find cute things and dress up in poodle skirts or as a greaser. It makes for a cute photo. I found some fun fabric a few years ago, so we always have a parent taking photos for us.
This is a picture of my son and I from last year.
We always start the day off with some fun math activities focused around the number 50. This year we practiced our tallies and counted by 5’s to 50.
After we have had some whole group tally practice, we work on a find, tally and graph. My kids always love these! After some morning math, we moved to the gym for a sock hop!
Before lunch, we had a discussion about how to make a root beer float. We had a few disagreements as to which comes first; the root beer or the ice cream. Which do you prefer. We are a democratic class, so we voted.
Ice cream first won!
Next, we worked on making our own jukeboxes.
On the back of these, we write about life in the 1950’s and life now. The writing part comes the next day after we have compared the time periods.
The last part of our day consisted of stations with all 62 kids kids. Parents came to help and we had the kids rotate through the following five stations:
1. 1950’s play
We had a room that had toys from that era for the kids to play with. There is also a great youtube video about the toys from the 1950’s. Just search toys from the 50’s on youtube.
2. Root Beer Floats
We had to test our order of events that we had worked on earlier in the class. After our root beer floats, we got a piece of bubble gum to chew on. We were challenged to try and blow a bubble.
3. Hula Hoops, jump ropes and hopscotch
Kids were pulled from this station to have their picture taken with our 1950’s photo booth.
4. Learning the hand jive with our music teacher.
We have music twice a week, so she spent some time teaching them the hand jive. The kids loved it!
5. Tootsie Roll Measuring
When we came back as a class, I took a poll to see if they liked root floats and if they could blow a bubble.
It was a full day of fun and learning. To read about some of our past years click below. Some of the picture from this post are from past year because I am not always good about remembering to take pictures!
- 50th Day of School (2015)
- 50th Day of School (2014)
- 2014- a throwback post
- 50th Day of School (2013 part 1)
- 50th Day of School (2013 part 2)
There you have it, another 50th day in the books. Do you celebrate the 50th day? It’s is great way to incorporate writing, math and social studies; but most importantly…it’s fun!!!
If you are interested in some of the activities from our 50th day of school, check out the pack below.
Find this 50th Day pack in my TPT store or on my website.
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