Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1 ONE HUNDRED GREAT IDEAS FERGUS AND ZEKE loved being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's room. When Miss Maxwell started the day with music, Fergus and Zeke sang along. When the children wrote stories, Fergus and Zeke wrote stories, too. And when the class studied weather, Fergus and Zeke made up their own forecast.

Miss Maxwell kept a big calendar at the front of the room. Some of the days on the calendar had stars. Those were the special days her class loved best of all. Fergus and Zeke loved them, too. They made fancy fall hats to celebrate the first day of autumn. They dressed up for the costume parade on Halloween. And they cut tissue-paper snowflakes on the first day of winter.

One day, Miss Maxwell told her students, "We have been working and playing together as a class for a long time now. Almost one hundred days!" She pointed to a star on her calendar. "On Friday, we will have a party to mark our one hundredth day of school." "How will we celebrate?" asked Jake.