‘100-year-old’ Broken Arrow first-graders celebrate 100th day of school

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Elementary school students celebrated their 100th day of school on Wednesday by dressing up as 100-year-old people.

First-graders from Leisure Park Elementary participated in arts and crafts all centered around the number 100 to ring in the occasion.

Erin Shelby, a first-grade teacher at Leisure Park, said this is a fun way for the students to reflect on what they have learned in the past 100 days.

“If I gave this to you at the beginning of the year you would have been overwhelmed,” Shelby said to her class. “Now I know you look at this and you, with confidence, know you can do it.”

She said it’s amazing to see how much her students have grown since the beginning of year, and she doesn’t mean the drawn on wrinkles her students are sporting.

“It seems like a fun day to them and, you know, it seems like maybe it’s a wasted day, but to us it’s actually lots of counting activities, lots of literacy engagement that we just kind of sneak in and make them think that they’re just playing all day, but they’re actually doing academics,” Shelby said.

Clary Conner was among the kiddos dressed to the nines, or more like the nineties.

“This morning my mother dropped something so I bent down and picked it up and then I was like,’ Oh! I think I broke my back,’” Clary said.

She was excited she got a laugh out of her mom, she said.

Shelby said this celebration has become tradition at Leisure Park.

“This is my 16th year of teaching and we’ve always celebrated the 100th day of school, but just maybe in the past, I want to say decade, we’ve dressed up as a 100-year-old people,” Shelby said.

She also said the kindergarten students decided to celebrate the 101st day of school, as to not copy the first-graders. They will be dressing up as Dalmatians.

Broken Arrow students aren’t the only ones celebrating. Owasso kindergarteners are looking adorably elderly today as well.

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