How did you apprentice to calculation to 100?
Tough to remember, isn’t it? But you did, and already you did you acceptable affronted the adults in your activity by proving your newfound accomplishment — over and over again.
These days, 100 has become the brilliant of a accepted elementary academy holiday.
Schools beyond the country now accomplish a big accord about the 100th day of school. Agents alpha counting at the alpha of the year, and back they ability 100 canicule of chic time things get a little crazy.
In the Miss-Lou this year, the trend has been to bless 100 canicule by bathrobe up like a 100-year-old. The aftereffect is a akin of cuteness about amid 4-day-old puppy laps milk and bairn babyish discovers mirror. It’s aloof accursed cute.
If you’ve absent the fun, photos from this year’s diplomacy at Cathedral, Trinity and now the Concordia Parish allurement academy are all attainable on our newspaper’s website.
Other schools bless the anniversary bazaar by accepting acceptance accompany 100 items to academy — 100 buttons, 100 pieces of candy, 100 ancestors photos, 100 blimp cats, etc.
Some added agents accept acceptance accomplish T-shirts active with 100 items or necklaces address 100 Fruit Loops.
The affair can calmly backpack throughout the day. In PE acceptance do 100 jumping jacks. In English chic they address 100 words. In algebraic they calculation out 100 blocks or counterbalance 100 pennies.
It’s an accessible assignment to adapt, well, 100 altered ways.
That acceptable explains why the anniversary has bent on so bound in such a abbreviate bulk of time. Back I was in school, there was no 100th day party.
Someone’s able abstraction has led to hours of fun for acceptance and a new assignment plan for teachers. But, what about the parents?
I’ve heard at atomic a few busy, alive parents let apart the contemptuous ache about the new assignment of accession 100 abandoned peanut adulate jars afore the abutting day’s classes begin. Finding the adapted accoutrements to accomplish your 7-year-old arise 100 is acceptable no accessible assignment either.
Like so abounding age-old academy projects, the assignment about avalanche on the parents.
In my day, my poor mother had her ample of busy science fair projects, I know.
Today, the cuteness akin sometimes accepted for — or aloof perceived — is ramped up 100 notches though, acknowledgment to the Internet.
Type in 100 canicule of academy on Google or Pinterest and the account for your child’s activity are endless, but not after assignment — affectionate work.
It’s allotment of the charge parents accomplish back accepting children, I suppose. And acrimony aside, the assignment can absolutely be fun if the adolescent is absolutely learning.
But for parents who’ve appear from a altered bearing — one that counted on fingers and toes not with stickers and bows — adjusting can be difficult.
It’s not yesterday’s world, and academy won’t necessarily be the way you remembered it.
Some traditions such as bootleg valentines survive, but new ones are added annually.
The 100th day fad is acceptable aloof that, a concise trend.
But until it passes, moms and dads may acquisition themselves accomplishing an abominable lot of counting, decorating and dressing.
Julie Cooper is the managing editor of The Natchez Democrat. She can be accomplished at 601-445-3551 or julie.cooper@natchezdemocrat.com.
