96 Marshmallows

The other day it was our 100th day of school!  Hard to believe we're already more that half way through this year!  On the 100th day, we celebrate by doing a lot of 100 kind of things.  The students were asked to bring in 100 of a certain item.  It had to be something small enough to fit into a Ziploc baggie.  One student brought in 100 marshmallows.   One of our activities throughout the day was to count the 100 items that they brought in.  I had them put their items into groups of 1, 2, 5, and 10-all different ways to count to 100.  When this boy was getting close to 100 he realized he had a problem.  He came up to me very concerned and told me quite convincingly that he had not brought enough marshmallows.  He only had 96.  I would have believed him if I hadn't seen the white sticky substance all over his lips!  He had brought the right amount, he just ate 4!  When I told him what I thought may have happened to the other 4, he got a guilty "You caught me" grin and went back to sort his now 96 marshmallows.  Haha, can't trick me!