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28 GU I D E to Y E L L OW S P R I NG S | 2O22 – 2O23 When you’re 7 or 8, the legacy of your school’s 100- year history isn’t nearly as exciting as reaching the 100th day of the school year. One-hundred-years — an entire century — can be hard to wrap your head around, but 100 days is a little more tangible. At least it was in early 2022 for students in the 100-year-old Antioch School’s Younger Group as they marked their 100th day of classes with a variety of hands-on activities: stringing 100 pieces of Cheerios cereal into a necklace, making chains of 100 strips of construc- tion paper, painting 100 dots of color on a single piece of paper, writing all the numerals from 1 to 100 on long rolls of paper. “I did it,” one youngster exclaimed, finishing her paper-roll sequence. “I’m going to do some more!” Another student wondered aloud about the results of writing one through 10 over and over. “Try it,” Younger Group teacher Elaina Vimmerstedt responded. “How many groups of 10 will you need?” Turns out, writing one through 10 over and over ▲ In 2015, under the direction of Andy Holyoke, Antioch School students and teachers built a strawbale playhouse on school grounds. THE ANTIOCH SCHOOL TURNS1OO By CAROL SIMMONS From March 2022 P H O T O : L A U R E N H E A T O N