Happy Friday to everyone! I love Fridays, don’t you? Today’s an extra special Friday for me—it’s my birthday! Yessirree, and I won’t be bashful about it. I love my birthday. 🙂 I mean, what’s not to like? Happy wishes, sweet treats, birthday surprises? Love them all!
Speaking of celebrations, your 100th Day comments put a fire under my fingers! It’s definitely time to share favorite ideas for celebrating the 100th day of school. And a celebration must have prizes, right? Submit your favorite celebration ideas by the end of Wednesday, January 19, and your name will be entered in a drawing for a prize giveaway. What’s the prize (or maybe that’s prizes)? Well, that’s a surprise!
Have a fantastic weekend!
Happily,
Diane
Congratulations to our winner, Kathryn!
My favorite celebration idea for the 100 day of school is to complete a multi-cultural bulletin board showing how numbers to 100 are written in English, Chinese, Native American, and in Sign Language. I then have the students ask their parents/grandparents about their heritage and see if they can bring in a different way of writing numbers or to create their own way of writing to the number 100. We then have a Multi-cultural classroom celebration including food from other cultures and if I can manage it I bring people in from different cultures to interact with my students.
Happy Birthday!!!!
I love 100 day! We count 100 snack items and make a snack mix (10 cheerios, 10 chex, 10 teddy grahams, 10 pretzels, 10 m&ms, 10 goldfish, 10 chocolate chips, 10 fruit loops, 10 pieces of popcorn, and 10 chips). We count 100 steps to see how far we got. We make a 100 day crown with 100 stickers. And lastly, we watch 101 dalmations and eat our 100 day snack mix. A fun day of counting!!!
My favorite idea is to have each child bring 100 somethings in a baggie to school. We sort,graph,and count by 5’s,10’s,and other ways. We also design
“100” crowns to wear all day.Last year we had a 100th
Day Cake baked by a special aide. Yummy!
My favorite 100 day celebration tool is to make a trail mix of 100 things. A week before the 100th day of school, the kids and I brainstorm all the things we like to eat. Then we talk about trail mixes and what they are for and why we eat them. Each child chooses a food item to bring to school on the 100th day of school. We make put all the items in bowls and plates around the room and then begin “shopping” to make our own special blend trail mix for the 100th day. The rule is you must get 10 pieces of 10 different food items. They have a sheet on their desk to place all their items inside circles or graph bars that help them keep track of their total. When they get to the 100th items, all the pieces they have gathered go into a ziplock bag to shake. As we read a favorite 100th day theme book, we eat our trail mix. It’s a favorite! YUM!
I make copies of the cowboy hat from The Mailbox Yearbook, the one divided into ten sections. The kids get 10 sets of 10 stickers to put on their hats. I staple the hats to sentence strips and now they have two hats to wear.
The kids also bring in 100 objects to count into groups of 10, then count by 10s to 100.
This year, my students will be ready to count their collections by 5s and 2s.
I love having the students bring in 100 of something (pennies, erasers, M & M’s and so on) and having them display them to help them understand just how many 100 is.
PS Happy Birthday! My birthday is Tuesday and I am already looking forward to it!
I teach preschool (ages 3,4,&5). Every year we send home a big piece of white bulletin board paper with each student, to decorate with 100 things. We make a big deal of this project.
About three weeks before the celebration, we roll out the paper and each student takes a turn laying on the paper on their back. We trace a generic outline of the student on the paper. A note is sent home with the paper outline stating the return day. The students/parents are supposed to work on the project together and there is no limit.
We get some really cute results. The projects are then hung in the hallway near our classroom. Students have been known to put items such as 100 bandaids on their person. Most of them will make the person like themself (brown yarn ponytails, blue jean skirt from a baby doll) and then they add 100 things such as stickers or cheerios.
I like this project because it allows for diversity and all the children enjoy seeing one anothers work. We leave the projects hanging up for about a month.
My favorite celebration is our Mrs.Kindergarten-styled day, complete with collections from home, 100 hash, counting rotations, and ccol hats and goggles. We end our day with a balloon release. We attach notes with our school’s address to 100 balloons and release them on the playground. The notes describe our celebration, and we ask for their safe return and a quick note telling us where they were found. We’re in Texas, and we’ve gotten replies from as far away as Mississippi! The children are always thrilled to get a response!
My favorite way to celebrate 100 is to have students bring in different foods and count 10 of each – making a 100 pc. snack mix. (cheerios, raisins, m&ms,marshmallows, etc.) For those teachers who have students with food allergies, an alternative to this activity is to count craft supplies. (pipe cleaners, buttons, paper clips, google eyes, pom pons, etc.)
Silly auto-correct!! That’s ‘Bindergarten-styled’! :o)
We count down to the 100th day in all kinds of ways: make a paper chain with a link for every day, fill a jar with jelly beans with a jelly bean for every day, read a poem per day, etc. In preparation for the 100th day, we make 100 day shirts with 100 things glued/painted on the back. Then we stamp 100 times, do 100 jumping jacks, have a 100 snack (10 each of 10 different items such as goldfish crackers, marshmallows, etc.), make 100 necklaces with fruit loops and cheerios, say hello to 100 people at the school, etc. It’s always a fun day!
For my home child care group we count each day by placing an apple on our apple tree and boy do we get excited when the 100th day finally arrives. The children make 100th day glasses to wear and look for 100’s that are hidden in the playroom. We also for snack count out 100 goldfish crackers as a group. I have the children take home a bag the week before our 100th day and they must fill it with a 100 items. In the past children have brought in pennies, mini marshmallows, pretzel sticks. Just another great way to count to a 100.
My students love to make 100 day gorp on the 100th day of school. I give each of them a hundreds chart. Then I give them each 10 pieces of 10 different kinds of small edible items to place on each row of the 100’s chart. For example, we use Cheerios, popcorn, M & M’s, chocolate chips, goldfish crackers, pretzels, Chex cereal, jelly beans,peanuts(be aware of allergies), mini marshmellows etc. After the students fill in their charts they have 100 things. They put it in a cup and eat it. Some students want to take it home, so I put it in a baggie for them.
We count down by reading our favorite 100 books. Then the children bring in 100 of their favorite small items that will fit in ziplock bags. I have a chart numbered 1-100. They put their items on and we all count. I have also had them each bring in 100 pennies and then we go to McDonald’s for sundaes.
I have nejoyed having each Child bring in a jar of 100 something’s. You never know what you will get. It helps me discover some surprising things about them. LOL
We celebrate the day with doing activities that have something to do with 100. We make a 100 bead necklace, write a 100 words, do 100 piece puzzels, make 100 piece paper chain, make a 100 cube train, use the computer, Kid Pix, and make 100 stamps. For phy-ed we do 10 different moves and do 10 of each to get to 100, we write our numbers to 100 first by 1’s then by 2’s 5’s and 10’s, and we have each student bring in 100 pieces of some snack then we mix them together for a special 100 day snack. We find out that we truly are 100 days smarter.
I celebrate the one hundred day of school by having the students bring in one hundred of their favorite items in a jar. We compare and contrast the items in the jar. Some of the activities that we do are count to 100, say 100 words, clap 100 times,write 100 colors, names,and get one hundred signatures.I also give perfect attendance certificates to the students. The students also wear a pin that says I am one hundred days smarter. Each students receives a one hundred reasons to read bookmark. At the end of the day we have a One Hundred Day Of School Party. The students enjoy a delicious cake that is donated by a local bakery. This special day is enjoyed by everyone.
The 100th day of school is a fun but educational day at school! We count to 100, make a 100 snack, do several activities with our third-grade buddies–take a 100-step walk, write (dictate) what they would do with $100 (always very interesting!!) The children bring a collection of 100 things in a bag with 3 clues. The children guess what is in the bag. On the 100th day, all children who can count to 100 are invited to a pizza party!
The kindergarten teachers have asked their students to think of something they could make with 100 items. On the 99th day, they bring their projects to school to be displayed in the hallway for all other grades to see. Some fantastic ideas have included: making their name with 100 pennies, making a bridge with 100 popsicle sticks, making an igloo or a snowman with 100 cotton balls, displaying 100 plastic toy animals on a farm scene, fish stickers in a pond or river scene, 100 marbles in a jar, 100 sticker hearts in the shape of a large heart, etc. They can think of so many creative ways to make a display with 100 items. We also put banners in the hallway with “This is the 100th day!” The children would color them and string them to hang from the ceiling. Another idea is to have each child bring in 100 small items to eat: cheerios, M&Ms, goldfish crackers, tiny marshmallows, gummy bears, etc. These are mixed in a large bowl and then scooped out to serve for a snack. (Be sure that the items are not individually wrapped!)
I also do the 100 collections in a ziplock, counting snacks to 100, and read 100 day books. One thing I will add this year will be a clipart of a $100 bill that I will put my students face in the middle as if they were the President. I will then laminate as a keepsake for parents. This will go home along with a picture of what they will buy with $100.
For 100th Day of school we start a unit on Family. We talk about the stages of life for a human and brain storm things a person can do at each stage. We look at pictures of various people and try to esitmate how old they are. (I sometimes graph their responses.)Wem look at a lot of pictures of older persons and compare and contrast the differences between different males, then different females and then males and females.As an art peoject we make torn paper portraits of what we think we will look like when we are 100 years old. On the 100th day of school I invite a guest that is 100 years old (or as close to 100 as I can find)to visit our class and tell how things were like when they were 6 and 7 years old. We also bake 100 cookies or cupcakes to share with other classes and the children have to find ways to manage how many we have baked and how many more we need…we do this a day or two before so that they are ready to be shared on the 100th day of school. We guess how much room 100 children would take up in our class and then for the 100th day we invite 100 children to have a cookie in our classroom and help us celevrate the 100th day.
1. We go on a dollar dig in the sand box with 100 pennies.
2. The kids also get to go on a Hundred Hershey Hunt for 100 Hershey kisses hidden around the room.
3. We also make headbands that say, “I’m Wild about the 100th Day of School. There are 10 strips that have the numbers 1 – 100 on them. Each strip has a group of ten. You could also put the dot stamps or stickers on each strip.
4. The favorite activity that we do is a guessing activity. The students have to guess whether or not they will get to the center of a Tootsie Pop with 100 licks. They then keep track of their licks by make tallies in a box.
For a wrting activity, we’ve enlarged and duplicated a clipart copy of a $100 bill and had students write on the back what they would do with $100.
I set up 100th day stations in my classroom. The students make trail mix, do 100 exercises,connect 100 unifix cubes and see how far they will measure across the room, and write about what they would like 100 of & what they wouldn’t want 100 of. My favorite is when we finish the stations we have 100 seconds of silence!
Jennie –
I love the hundred penny hunt in the sand & the Hundred Hershey Hunt. Those are cool ideas. Thanks for sharing!
– Ruth 🙂
One year in a VPK classroom in FL I told my little students to draw of picture of how they see themselve when they are 100 years old. The kids love it and even one students drew himself like a skeleton.I save all the pictures and made a book of it. I still have the book 😉
My first graders do a 100th day project. They need to find 100 items around their house and glue or paste them on a display board in rows or groups of 5 or 10. When they bring their displays to school, we practice counting by 5’s and 10’s as they show their display. We put their displays in our “Museum of the 100’s” and invite other classes to view their displays.