Cedar Mountain students celebrate 100th day

VERNON — Cedar Mountain Primary School students celebrated their 100th Day at school on Feb. 11, courtesy of the School Community Association (SCA), school, and teachers.
Parents greeted children outside at the entrance, cheering, waving balloons and signs, while buses beeped and dropped students off at the school.
In honor of the day, students dressed up as if they were 100 years-old — decked in gray hair. One little girl dressed up in a bathrobe and wore big fat rollers in her hair. Many other children also wore bathrobes, fancy necklaces, and plastic glasses.
Little boys wore gray mustaches, and one boy sported a long, white beard. Still another showed-off his suspenders.
Teachers and Aides wore t-shirts celebrating the day; and some students wore shirts decorated with: “100 days,” 100 gumballs, and 100 Legos.
One little boy even flexed his muscle to show his SCA provided “100th day of school” band.
Cedar Mountain Primary School SCA President Denise Clarke said they originally had also planned a 100th Day Valentine’s Day Craft Night, but due to the snowy weather conditions, the SCA would postpone the event to a craft and movie night in a couple of weeks.
Clarke’s own son had dressed up as a 100-year-old man, imitating her father, Pop-Pop. She said she mixed baby powder and hair spray and then put it in his hair.
Her father, Robert Ulrich, is an Army Veteran.
Cedar Mountain Primary School SCA Vice President Megan Minter’s son wore a shirt which said “100 days until spring,” with a baseball bat.
Minter commented said the kids were excited, and each of the teachers did things throughout the day: certificates, pencils, bookmarks, and projects of counting to 100.
Teacher Kristina Megnin did a dance for her first-grade class, Clarke said, counting by 2s and then 5s.
Principal Rosemary Gebhardt wrote, the Kindergarten classes practiced counting to 100, and the First Grade classes practiced counting to 120 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. “It’s like a national holiday at Cedar Mountain,” she observed.