Countdown to the 100th Day!
Posted by Hope Spencer on 30 Jan 2009 | Posted in: Holiday and Seasonal, Student Activities
In my school, celebrating the 100th Day was serious business. We had a kindergarten teacher who had her kids count 100 paper clips, counters, shoes, neckties, you name it! Then they took 100 steps, hops, and jumps; drew 100 objects; and made and wore paper crowns with 100 sequins on them. Her enthusiasm was contagious! I found myself counting to 100 by twos, fives, and tens all day long. I looked forward to their 100th Day parade as much as I looked forward to any program our children did. Don’t you think the world would be a happier place if everyone took some time out to have a parade on the 100th day of the year?
In honor of the 100th Day, we’ve included a “purr-fectly” marvelous unit on pages 46 and 47 of the December/January Kindergarten Mailbox® magazine. The ideas are all so cute, but one of them really stands out to me. It’s called “Would You Rather…?” The idea has children deciding whether they would rather have, for example, 100 cupcakes or 100 pizzas. Hmm…tough choice. I can only imagine how much fun kids would have making, and explaining, their choices!
Now it’s your turn. How do your students celebrate the 100th Day? Let’s use this forum to talk about this great day…but don’t blame me if you can’t stop counting to 100!
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I use the place value pocket chart from day one. The excitement builds as we get closer to the 100th day of school. This year, about a week before the special day, I rewarded the children (for behavior, neat work, good listening, etc.) with a numbered snowman cutout to be placed in a pocket chart. Of course the 100th snowman was added right before our special treat and of course the numbered snowmen were from the Mailbox Companion. Every year for a special treat I ceremoniously place a pretzel log and two small donuts on a napkin for each child and wait for their excited voices to call out “It’s a 100″.
Hi in my class the students discuss 100 things we have done so far this year. As a writing project the students choose their favorite activity illustrate and write about it. They also get a fake $100 bill and write what they would do with this amount of money.
My daughter’s 100th day project for Kindergarten consisted of an “I spy bottle”. We collected 100 items around the house that would fit in a plastic juice bottle and a handmade book titled “Can You Spy 100 items?” with her drawings and the word for each item on a page. The Kindergarten teacher passed the book and bottle around to each child twice so they could find the hidden objects. This is a great way to get everyone involved as a team. Plus a great game to play again as a family or as a class.
It was fun to hide 100 paper hearts around the gym/fellowship hall and have the children find them. We then graphed them by color. It was one of their favorite activities for our 100th day. We also like to do the macarena math song/dance by Dr. Jean and count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. It sure gets us all movin’ and groovin’.
Our K class is going on a field trip to a local pizza restaurant and will make their own pizzas (use their 5 senses) and eat them. They will be there for 100 minutes. They will go back to school and have cupcakes with 100th day theme and watch a concert done by the older children.
February 8, 2009
Tomorrow will be 4 days until the 100th day! In response to Ligia Salgado, it is a fun day. Knowing that there are 80 days left in the school year, can also be exciting! 100 is a great number for children. Counting 100 objects, pennies, cereal, buttons, marbles, candy…the list goes on. My class will be counting to 100 (many times)for our math lesson. Thanks to some of your suggestions, we will be making a type of Trail Mix. I have two boys allergic to some foods, so I proceed with caution. My class will have earned a movie during lunch, as a good behavior award. They have worked hard for this as a class. For my 1st and 2nd Grade classroom, it will also be our Valentine’s Day party.
I am a teacher in Ontario, Canada and the 100th Day at School has traditionally been a day of celebration at the Grade One level at our school. We do many of the activities already mentioned as well. Bwcause we are mandated to have a two hour literacy block in the morning, we have lots of opportunity to read, write and sing about the day. Additional activities I have done are: read the poem 100 Animals (cannot recall the author)–it comes in a booklet form for little ones to read and take home. Then I put the children together in groups of 10 to make class books–this year I have 20 students so one group is doing a booklet about 100 animals on the farm and the other group is doing 100 animals in the ocean. Each child does a page of ten animals and completes the frame sentence of: 10 (name of animal) (verb) in the ________. Each helps to decorate the cover. We read our books to the class and then I send them home on a rotating basis to each family to be shared. I have always enjoyed having the children draw what they think they will look like on their 100th birthday and then complete the frame sentences: When I am 100, I will __________ (3 times)
But I won’t ____________________. It is usually quite a laugh! We also celebrate 50th Day at school with a graphing activity–students predict when they think the 100th day will be–we talk about how many school days in a month and then predict how long it would take for another 50 days. We put the graph up (names of the students are on their sticker)until the 100th day and then check to see who was the closest on their prediction. We also do a 100 piece puzzle, adding a piece each day from the first day of school with the 100th piece added on day 100. I have the students predict every 5th day what they think the puzzle is based on the pieces already there. Because 100th day falls the day before Valentines for us this year (lots of bus cancellations due to snow) we are having to condense what we would normally do during the week on 100th Day to fit in Valentines activities. Happy 100th Day to all!
I have the kids “Search for 100.” I take small round stickers, numbered 1-100, and place them all around the room- it takes quite a while! Then students go around with clipboards and crayons looking for the numbers and coloring them in on a paper 1-100 grid.
Some years, I use two different color stickers. The students need to color the number in the paper grid to match the color of the sticker. For example, by using green stickers for the numbers 11, 21,31, 41, 51, 61, 71, and 81, a large number one will be formed on the grid. The same can be done to form the two zeros beside it. The rest of the numbers can be written on yellow stickers so that once they finish, they see a large number 100 in their grids.
I love celebrating the 100th Day of School with my kinders! From day one and each day thereafter, we read Rosemary Wells book Emily’s First 100 Days of School. We get to practice counting our numbers also. I have my students work on a 100th Day Project at home (family time) and they bring it in to share with the class. I read 100th Day Worries by Margery Cuyler to get my children inspired as to what they can bring/collect 100 of. I also read Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza and we make an innovation of the story so they can read it to their family. I also have 100th Day songs we sing as well as other activities (sitting quietly for 100 seconds, walking 100 steps, jumping 100 times, doing 100 piece puzzles in groups, putting 10 mini stickers in 10 boxes and when done will have 100 stickers, etc.). We make GORP, which is 10 different food/snack items (M & M’s, raisins, peanuts, cheerios, cheese puffs, popcorn, small cookie or cracker item, pretzel sticks, mini marshmallows, chocolate chips) and that the children count 10 of each and they will have 100 pieces of GORP at the end to enjoy. I also have the children bring in 100 pieces of their favorite cereal and we compare volume and we start our 100th Day of School with breakfast eating our favorite cereal. I also like to read 100 Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes (100 ants going to picnic and they keep reorganizing into different groups to make 100)-cute story. We have 6th grade book buddies and they come and make a 100th Day Fruit Loop Necklace with their little buddy. A fun way to end the 100th day for both. I am always looking for new ideas and got some great ones. Thanks for sharing!
The 100th day is a big celebration! Many things that have been listed are what we also use to celebrate the number 100. One thing I do differently is we have a puppet named “Mr. Five” that comes out only on the 5th, 10th, 15th, etc. day of school, all the way to 100. We also count the number of days in school by 1’s on those days, jumping up on the numbers ending in 5 or 0. Mr. 5 has a friend called “Zero the Hero” that he talks about on those days ending in zero when we bundle sticks into another group of 10. The children love this make believe friend and it keeps calendar time interesting throughout the year. Zero the Hero visits our classroom on the 100th day of school and hands out his favorite candy, Life Savers, because they look like a zero! What a super hero!
I checked the Miss Bindergarten books today and I had the author wrong. It is Joseph Slate, and Ashley Wolfe is the illustrator.
We are a urban Christian School K-8 and we are acknowledging the 100 day of school in two ways this year. We have a spare change drive that supports scholarships for our school families with an annual goal of $1000.00. We ask the children to bring in 100 pennies or one dollar for our spare change bucket. We also have the students bring in Bible scriptures which are on hearts that are part of our school wide bulletin board.