100 DAY PLUS VALENTINES
Our class makes a 100 Thankful Hearts Display..each student writes (or illustrates one thing that they are
thankful for on 4 different hearts. At the end there will be 100 of them. These are displayed on the wall
outside our classroom. Since the 100th day is near Valentines Day, it goes really well with both.
100 DAY & COMMUNITY SERVICE
Submitted by Sara
Combine your celebration of 100 days in school with community service.
We chose to ask our school to help us celebrate our 100th day with a drive for cans for the local animal shelter. Students were paired (some had a group of 3) and asked to make a poster explaining our needs. The groups were each assigned to a specific classroom in the school. The students had to go and give a "commercial" explaining how the drive works. We set a goal of 100 cans for dogs and 100 cans for cats.
Each day the students went to their assigned classroom and collected the cans. We graphed them on a big bulletin board and counted them by 5's, by 2's and by 10s. We sorted them and guessed which group had more. We sorted by flip tops vs. no flip tops, by size, by alphabet and by the color of the label. We even did some building with them.
On the 100th day, the animal shelter came to the classroom and gave a presentation about the shelter.
Great project which covers all areas of the curriculum.
I teach Kindergarten at St. Gabriel School in Milford, CT.
HOW MANY IS 100?
Submitted by Tammie
Fill five one-gallon ziploc bags with different items such as pennies, pencils, gummy bears, M & M's, toothpicks, cotton balls, crayons, connecting rod pieces, etc. Make sure that only one of the bags contains 100 items. Make a display and have the class and/or school guess which one contains 100 items. We had each child make a guess on chart paper. On the 100th day of school count the items in each bag and prove which one contains 100. Then you can write sentences on sentence strips comparing the items in each bag using more and less than statements. Be sure to post your results so that everyone in the school can see your 100 day work.
100 Day ACTIVITIES
Today was our 100th Day of School and here are some of the things we did.
* We made some things ahead of time:
- hats by adding 100 self-sticking stars
- necklace with a medallion that had "100 Days" written on it
- glasses that looked like a 100 ... children looked through the ZEROS to
see
- 10 days prior to the 100th day of school...we started making BIG Books.
The children "sponge-painted" 10 items each on 10 sheets of large
construction paper....10 items each day for 10 days ... to make their "100
Days" BIG BOOK. We put them together with a cover page that had the
title: "Our 100 Days".
Today centers were set up that included:
* Stacking 100 pennies.
* Putting together a 100-piece puzzle....a "group" effort
* Estimation: Which jar had 100 popcorn kernels in it ... A, B, or C?
* What can you do with 100 LEGOs?
* Use toothpicks and marshmallows to make a sculpture.
* Make a picture-poster using 100 Fruit Loops.
* Each child made their own snack using a rectangle cracker for the number
"1" and two circle crackers for the numbers "00" ... thus "100" .... they
then added "squeeze cheese" to their cracker treat
* Watched the movie "101 Dalmatians"
* Read "100" days book
They also took a "100 cracker/cheese snack" to our secretary ... all decked
out in their in their necklaces, hats, and glasses! We had lots of fun and
the kids looked marvelous!
101 DAY
Submitted by Stacey
I have heard of celebrating 101 day and doing the whole 101 Dalmatians theme. I am going to do that this year as it seems a lot more fun preschoolers. Sing PONGO for Bingo, make bone shaped cookies or rice krispie treats, black and white art work, make doggie ear headbands for kids to wear. Have everyone dress in black and white etc.
100TH DAY OF SCHOOL
Following cross curricular ideas submitted by Cathy
Objectives:
1. To "celebrate" learning for 100 days
2. To write numbers to 100
3. To estimate time, weight, and volume
4. To increase creative writing skills
Materials:
1. 100 circles or 100 train cars
2. 100 grid (paper with 100 boxes)
3. clock to time events
4. simple scale
5. jar for saving pennies
6. writing paper
7. "run off" paper money
8. chart paper for graph
Activities:
1. Beginning on the first day of school, we put up one more circle to build a caterpillar. You can put up a train car each day also. Then write the number on it each day until your caterpillar or train has 100 sections.
2. The children write their numbers to 100 and use crayons to color the boxes. Red for all the numbers counting by 2's, green for all the numbers counting by 5's, and blue for all the numbers counting by 10's. It gets really interesting when they realize that the numbers 10, 20, 30, etc. will be 3 different colors.
3. Let the children see how many times they can write their names in 100 seconds.
4. Do 100 arm circles, running in place, jumping jacks, etc.
5. Have a cake and put 100 candles on it!
6. Collect pennies all year and then count them into groups of 100 and donate to the libray to buy a new book or to the charity of your classes choice. Last year my kids were horrified that there were homeless people, so we donated ours to a homeless shelter.
7. Have each child bring 100 objects to school on "100 Day." Suggestions: 100 pencils, pennies, buttons, noodles, pasta, screws, bolts, suckers, bubble gum....
8. Have them sort the objects into groups of 2, 5 or 10 and count them accordingly. If a child doesn't bring anything, he/she can chare and do this with a partner.
9. Count to 100 in a baby bear voice, dinosaur voice, etc.
10. Weigh the objects brought from home. Predict which ones will be heavy, light,etc. Sequence and graph them.
11. Give each child a paper $100.00 bill and the story starter, "If I had $100.00 dollars...
Have fun...these plans will take you all day. Oh, there is a great Wright Group Book called One Hundred Hugs!
