All eyes were on first grade teacher Anne Mack Feb. 25 as the class, with some fifth-grade visitors, celebrated the 100th day of school in the Hood River County School District. Students help Mack count the foam rubber letters she had put in a clear plastic tub. Other containers held pencils, buttons, rocks, tiddlywinks and toy dinosaurs. Students visually judged which container held 100 items, and then voted. (The tiddlywinks won.) Above, Lauren Decker assembles the letters as Mack puts them on the desk, and below, “tries them on for eyes.” Fifth graders Taylor Scribner, next to Lauren, and Zane Webber, center, were among the elder students who toured the first-grade collections of 100 things.

Above right, first-grade teacher Stephanie Perkins wears “about 100” scrunchies in her hair. Principal Susan Henness said the annual 100th day tradition took on new meaning as this is May Street’s centennial year as a school site.