Students showcase specialty T-shirts for 100th day show
By Stuart Hedstrom
Staff Writer
DOVER-FOXCROFT — For students at the SeDoMoCha School, Feb. 9 marked the 100th day of classes in the current academic year. Grade one pupils celebrated the milestone with a fashion show, featuring T-shirts they decorated with 100 items of their choosing.
Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
100 GEMS FOR THE 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL — SeDoMoCha Elementary School first-grader Payson Hall had 100 gems on her T-shirt as part of the grade 1 100th day fashion show on Feb. 9. Students, working with their families, learned about the quantity of 100 by decorating T-shirts with 100 items.
“It was involving parents and students, counting out whatever with 100 or sets of 10,” first-grade teacher Barbara Wentworth said prior to the 100th day fashion show. “We had some pretty clever designs,” she said, saying some students and their families used decorations such as M&M’s, paper clips, cotton balls and beads along with glitter and fabric paint.
Wentworth said the lesson was intended “to give them an idea of the quantity of 100 and how much that really is.” She added, “We nearly had 100 percent participation.”
The four first-grade classes, together totaling about 80 youngsters, gathered in the hallway to set up the fashion show runway with the students all sitting against the wall. Going homeroom by homeroom, the four teachers took turns introducing each of their students modeling their T-shirt, saying what was on each article of clothing and why the particular item was chosen. Many first-graders indicated they liked certain qualities of their selected items, such as 100 googly eyes looking like monsters and enjoying the glamor of 100 gems.
The T-shirt models then walked down the runway to applause from their peers and teachers. “First-graders, I hope you have a better idea of what 100 is,” Wentworth said at the conclusion of the 100th day fashion show.
Rosie Povak with 100 safety pins
Bryan Anderson
with 100 stickers
Joshua Sinclair with 100 tally marks
Lily Bisson with 100 pompoms
Jenna Hartford with 100 gems
Thomas Atwater
with 100 pictures of his family
Brooke Preble
with 100 pompoms