On the 100th day of school I read the book The Wolf's Chicken Stew by
Keiko Kasza. After reading the book, I draw a picture of the fox and a
stew pot and I have my class draw 100 items of food in the pot.
Shari Lawson, Hampton, VA, First grade
In my first grade class we have a reading "Camp Out." Everyone
brings sleeping bags, pillows, and blankets. We spend the day reading 100
books and munching on trail mix made from contributions of 100 small edible
goodies.
Tammy Manley, Massena, NY, First grade
We've been reading Emily's First 100 Days of School by Rosemary
Wells. This book is great for primary grades and allows students to have
a better understanding of time. We have covered interesting math topics
such as skip-counting, counting by 5s and counting by 10s. We use a chart
where we write the days every time we read from the book. This has allowed
us to clearly see the progression of time and even predict how many more
days until the 100th day of school. This is an ongoing project that we
visit every afternoon before we start our math lesson.
Ms. Demas, Plainfield, NJ
In my first grade class, we are going to write 100 words that
we know, count objects to 100 in different ways, and write about what we
would do with $100.
Sally, Tampa, FL, First grade
Our first grade class of 26 children will be collectively reading
100 books and sharing our favorites.
Pat Salvatini, Rolling Meadows, IL, First grade
My class will celebrate our 100th Day of School this year by:
each bringing in a baggie of 100 of something
inviting 100 people to visit our classroom (we give a
lollipop to each person)
reading 100 books by our special day
making a list of 100 words we can read and write to
display in the hallway
Sandy Reiser, Fort Worth, TX, First grade
Writing Activity: Have students make their own books based on one of the following themes (or make up your own):
I Wish I Had 100 _____.
What would you do with 100 brothers and sisters?
What would you do with 100 kisses?
What would you do with 100 pennies?
What would you do with 100 dollars?
What would you do with 100 slimy slugs?
You have been in school for 100 days. What has been your favorite
thing?
What will you do when you are 100 years old?
What was it like to be a student your age 100 years ago?
What will it be like to be a student your age 100 years from
now?
Things Our Moms and Dads Have Told Us 100 Times!
Or, try making a poem or story with exactly 100 words in it.
Reading Activity: Read 100 different stories of any genre (mysteries, fairy tales, etc.). As an extra challenge, do a different author for every 10 books!
Spelling: Ask your students to write down 100 words that they know how to spell.
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Zero Hero comes to our class on the 50th and 100th days of school.
He is a mystery, no one has ever seen him, because of course, he is zero.
Last year he left 100 footprints around our room, and where each set stopped
there was a clue the kindergartners had to solve. We walked 100 steps to
different
places around campus, where they picked up different surprises
Zero Hero had left for them. Then we all came back and had a
100-piece snack.
Cindy Hanmann, Phoenix, AZ, Kindergarten
On the 100th day of school I do a probability lesson that my
class always likes. Before we begin, I have them write down
which number they think will come up most often when rolling
dice. We roll a large die 100 times and tally which number it
lands on each time. Then we total the tally marks to see which
number was rolled the most. Then we check their predictions
with the tally marks.
Shari Lawson, Hampton, VA, First grade
Students bring 100 of something from home to class to share.
We sort into categories first and sometimes we graph these. We
practice dividing our collections into various groupings (e.g. five,
ten). Then we stop and everyone does a quiet walk around the
room to see what each item looks like in various numbers. My
students' favorite activity is drawing a picture of what they
imagine they will look like when they are 100 years old.
Sometimes we turn this into a class book too.
Nancy Latham, Chester, NH, Second grade
The class works together to cut out 100 kindergarten feet by
tracing their feet on 6-by-9-inch pieces of construction paper. I
precut ten pieces of paper in ten different colors. The children
keep tracing and cutting until all the paper is gone. We tape the
finished feet into groups of ten by color. Then the children sit in
the hall in the spot where they think the feet will go. We line the
feet up in the hallway to find out who was closest.
Barb Mazzochi, Villa Park, IL, Kindergarten
In my first grade classroom, the children made a necklace using
100 beads. The children all started with ten beads in a cup. After
placing all ten beads on the necklace, they were allowed to refill
their cups nine times to make 100 beads.
Tonya, NY, First grade
My class begins to bring in 100 food items for the local food
bank a few weeks before school day 100. As the food items
come in, we label each one with a number, happily waiting for
that number 100!
Christina, Warwick, NY, Kindergarten
In my first-grade classroom, we make eyeglasses shaped like the
number 100, each child brings in some collection of 100 objects,
and we spend the day counting and creating 100 collages. We
listen to several stories about the 100th day and we end our day
with a 100th-day party complete with cupcakes decorated with
100 jimmies!
Alison Hague, Philadelphia, PA, First Grade
I have two different activities that I do with my children.
For a 100th-day snack, I give each child a sugar cookie
and yellow icing. They then write the number 100 on the
cookie with the icing for a 100th-day treat.
As a math activity, I give each child a piece of paper with
five circles on it. I then pass out small treats such as
M&M's, Goldfish crackers, and Fruit Loops. Using the
snacks and circles we do counting activities. We first fill
each circle with 20 items. Later we count by 5s and 10s.
Each child fills a plastic baggie with 100 treats. I give
them one more treat to make 101! My children have
loved this activity year after year.
Marie Dara, Meriden, CT, K-2
Give each child $100 in play money to spend and several
catalogs to use. Ask the children to spend their money as they
wish by making a list of what they purchased and a running
balance. You can even have them figure out the tax. Students
have imaginary shopping fun while doing math!
Miss Cochran, Scranton, PA, Fourth grade
Estimation Jars: Fill jars of different sizes with approximately
100 small objects, such as pennies, paper clips, pebbles, marbles,
peanuts, etc. Put one type of item in each jar. One of the jars
should have exactly 100 items. Then, during the day, invite
students to come up and study the jars and write down their
guess as to which jar has exactly 100 items in it. The winners get
100 of something you choose to award (e.g., 100 seconds of
extra recess).
Measurement Activities: Split kids into teams of five, then
have them investigate the following questions:
How tall is a tower of 100 Legos?
How long would a row of 100 Lincoln Logs be?
How high is a pile of 100 pennies?
How long is a path made of 100 sheets of paper?
How far would a line of 100 students, stretched out from
head to toe, reach?
Your class can probably invent their own measurement
investigations just by looking around the classroom.
Collection Activities:
Try to collect 100 DIFFERENT signatures.
Set up a place for both adults and children to dip their
hands in paint and put their "prints" on paper. Try to
collect 100 prints.
See how much 100 drops of water is, and then try to
find objects like blocks, plastic eggs, etc. that will hold
100 drops.
Beanie Babies: Make the 100th day more fun for your students
by asking them to bring in their Beanie Baby collections. Just
send a letter to parents to let them know their kids may bring in
as many Beanie Babies as they wish. (Make sure to keep a list of
which Beanie Babies each child brings in.) Then try doing these
activities as a class.
Estimating: Ask the students to sit in a circle and put all
their Beanie Babies in the center. Have children look at
the pile, then go back to their seats and estimate how
many there are. They can write their answers on small
squares of paper. Then call all numbers starting with 1.
When his/her number is called, each child goes up to the
chalkboard and puts his number up next to the previous
number in a straight row across the chalkboard. When
everyone is finished, have the students reassemble in a
circle.
Counting: Divide the class into groups, then have each
group count the Beanie Babies to see how many there
actually are. Ask the first group to put the Beanie Babies
into groups of two. When they are finished, have one
student pick up the first group of two - the class counts
"two," and the student puts the two Beanie Babies in a
container or basket. Then he/she picks up the next group
of two and the class counts "four." Continue in this
manner until all the Beanie Babies are counted. Then
check the chalkboard to see how well everyone
estimated. Once you're finished, you can ask the class to
count by 5s and 10s using the same method.
Sorting & Classifying: Divide the class into five groups.
Pass out the same number of Beanie Babies to each
group. Have the groups sort and classify their Beanie
Babies by color, shape, eyes, legs, size, etc. Each time a
group sorts their Beanie Babies a different way, they
raise their hands and are awarded a unifix cube. After a
certain amount of time passes, each group can share the
number of unifix cubes they have.
Weighing: Divide the class into five groups and give
each group a scale. Each student selects two Beanie
Babies from his/her group. The students can draw and
label these Beanie Babies on a premade blackline sheet.
Then they can estimate which Beanie Baby weighs more
by holding one in each hand. They should then weigh
each Beanie Baby to see if they were correct. Select two
more Beanie Babies and follow the same procedure.
Estimate which two Beanie Babies might weigh the
same. Weigh the Beanie Babies and record your answers.
Money Activity: Make a "catalog" by cutting and pasting
together ads from Sunday newspaper flyers. Use clippings of
things the children would love to shop for (toys, sports
equipment, etc.). (You might also want to round off all the prices
to the whole-dollar amount.) Then make a copy of the catalog
for each child in the class, along with an "order form." To kick
off the activity, tell the children they've each just won a $100
shopping spree at your department store, and they can buy
anything they want - up to $100 worth of merchandise. The kids
will love being able to pick out all the things they will "buy"
with their $100. They can write down their choices and the
prices on the order form, keeping a running total on a calculator
as they go.
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I get kids thinking about the properties of water by having small
groups try to melt a cube of ice the fastest. Then we move on to
putting 100 ice cubes in a plastic tub and sitting on a table at
room temperature. Children make predictions on when they
think all the ice will melt.
Valerie Hartselle, Alabama, Kindergarten
I teach grades seven and eight science in a K-8 school and I like
my junior high students to take part in the 100th Day of School
celebration. I ask them each to bring in 100 items and we then
identify the physical and chemical properties of the items and
find the mass, volume, and density. We then find the average
mass. This year we are also going to collect 100 "get-well" cards
to send to critically ill children in our two local hospitals. This
will incorporate the celebration of the 100th day and a service
learning project. We will also make an example of a mixture (as
compared to a solution) by combining 100 different types of
snack foods such as raisins, M&M's, pretzels, goldfish crackers,
etc. Junior high students love anything they can eat!
Diane Lautermilch, Glen Rock, NJ, Grades 7-8
Weighing: Divide your class into groups, and give each group
a set of balance scales and a weight of 100 grams. Then ask
them to find items in the classroom that balance the scales. Try
using M&Ms to see how many weigh 100 grams. You can even
experiment to see if different colored M&Ms have different
weights.
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We celebrate The Hundredth Day with a food drive. We collect
at least 100 items of non-perishable food then on the hundredth
day we use the items to create our own understanding of base
10. The entire lesson is integrated into a unit on hunger and
homelessness, where we learn that hunger happens to many
children, even in our neighborhood. We end the lesson by
donating the food to a local food bank.
Mary Smith, Seattle, WA, Second grade
My fourth grade class of 24 is collecting 100 pounds of dog or
cat food to donate to our local humane society. They use this as
a community service activity; they write letters to the humane
society; they calculate the math by adding the pounds and they
do a graph by seeing how much we receive each day. On the
hundredth day of school we will present the humane society the
100 pounds of food. Even the principal and other teachers are
excited about donating food for the animals.
Peggy McKee, Lexington, KY, Fourth grade
The first-grade classes at our school have a "100 Ways to Care
and Share" project. Last year we collected 100 books and
donated them to a neighborhood shelter. This year we will
donate 100 bags to a neighborhood shelter. Each bag will
contain useful items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, socks,
crayons, stickers, pads of paper, and books. Each class will
collect 100 of each item, and then distribute them in the 100
bags. It is great for the children and for the community.
Cecilia H. Thurman, Pacific Palisades, CA, First grade
I break my class into small groups and give them paper, scissors,
and a stapler. Then I tell them that they are to make a paper
chain that has exactly 100 links on it. I give them no other
instructions. They must work as a team to make the chain.
Colleen Monroe, Rochester, MI, First grade
My students and I dress as if we were 100 years old. We think
and talk about what it would be like to have lived through the
events of the past 100 years.
I also ask students to bring 100 edible items, such as 100 raisins,
Cheerios, M & M's, Kix, etc. to class and make a huge bowl of
100 Day Fun Snack. I also ask students to bring in 100 small
items (such as paper clips, buttons, screws, pennies, etc.) to
count with their fourth grade buddies. They divide the objects
into groups of 5s, 10s, 20s, and practice many math counting
skills. We have a blast!
Bonnie Kotlewski, Franklin, WI, First grade
Research Activity: Have students list 100 facts about their
hometown. Develop a large chart that includes their facts and
display it in the library.
Important Dates: Ask your students to make a list of the 100
most important dates in American history. Then have students
share their top five or ten dates.
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We paint T-shirts with 100 stamps and acrylic fabric paint and
wear them on the 100th day. We have found that it is easier if
you use stamps that have five of something on one stamp. This
also helps them in counting by fives.
Christy Cooper, Gruver, TX, First grade
One of our favorite activities is trying to collect 100
"autographs" before the end of the day. Be sure to set rules
about going to the office, etc.
L. Murray, Pacifica, CA, Second grade
A few ideas I used:
1.Our class ate 100s in the morning by cooking sausage
links and mini-bagels and lining up one sausage and two
mini-bagels to form 100.
2.I broke the class into groups and gave each a 100-piece
puzzle. They had a race to finish the puzzles.
3.Students worked in pairs with 100 mini-marshmallows
and toothpicks to design a sculpture.
Jennifer Farrand, Canton, MI, First grade
At my school we have observed 101 days of school. We had the
children make dalmatian t-shirts (white shirts with black spots),
we made dog headbands and had them make 101 spots on the
ears, we painted their faces and made treat bags with 101 treats
in them for them to eat while watching the movie 101
Dalmatians. This year you could even celebrate 102 days of
school with the release of the new movie!
Shari Lawson, Hampton, VA, First grade
We have a 100-day salad. Each child bring 100 pieces of
something edible. Then we mix it and each student gets some of
the salad to share.
Juli Michaels, Burlington, WY, First grade
We made 100-day badges to wear all day. We made a sign
showing the many ways that we could count to 100. We also
brought in ten different snacks. Each child chose ten pieces of
each of the ten snacks. We then ate our 100 snacks. It was a lot
of fun.
Sandy Jo Heller, Ocala, FL, Kindergarten
We floated 100 balloons in the main hallway for a festive look.
Each class did activities geared for their grade level.
Fifth-grade teacher, Birmingham, Alabama
I do a lot of the usual things such as bringing in a baggie filled
with 100 items, writing 100 words, etc. I also like to have my
first graders do a dot-to-dot with 100 numbers. I really like the
idea of 100 valentines and sending them to the hospital.
Amy, Tucson, AZ, First grade
For our 100th day of school, both kindergartens get together
and we complete different 100 activities. Examples: 100-piece
puzzle, create a special 100-piece snack, and draw a picture of
what we will look like when we are 100 years old. Then we
have lunch together and watch a special movie in the afternoon.
It's a big party day!
Kindergarten teacher, Glenview, IL
We write stories using 100 words, count 100 shells, keys, etc...,
eat a cake with 100 M&M's on it, and decorate badges with 100
jewels.
Denise Bowers, Hilton Head Island, SC, First grade
Make t-shirts with 100 designs on them. Make a trail mix with
100 food items. Flip coins and roll dice for probability.
Tammy Hernandez, McDonough, GA, Second grade
We started out the day by counting 100 pieces of cereal, adding
milk, and eating it. It was so much fun! We played 100-second
games and 100-word games. For math, we had ten stations set
with ten types of snacks such as M&M's, popcorn, raisins, etc.
The students went to each station and grabbed ten pieces. We
sorted, counted, and estimated. What a wonderful day!
Angela Kiser, Durham, NC, Second grade
I send home an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of posterboard cut out in the
shape of 100. Each student glues on 100 of something and
brings it to school on 100's Day to share. We also send out a
message in our daily bulletin about the 100 signatures that we
would like to collect. Each visitor signs our banner and gets a
sweet treat. My class is always anxious to see where 100 feet
will take us in our school by cutting out our footprints and lining
them up down the hall. We also enjoy several 100's Day stories
throughout the day, and make necklaces out of 100 Cheerios.
Jodi Morgan, Denton, MT, First grade
I have my second graders dress up as centenarians, people who
are 100 years old. They list 100 words they know. They bring in
100 items and we sort them into 2 equal piles, then four, five,
and ten equal piles. Pennies, cotton balls, uncooked macaroni all
work well. Using 100 pieces of cut-up paper, they make the
numeral 100 on construction paper. They make a 100th-day
book, in which they write about various 100's topics. With a
partner they roll a die 100 times and chart what number the die
lands on and then figure out which number it landed on the
most and least often.
Amy, Orlando, FL, Second grade
Our first graders have a 100th-Day Celebration. On about the
90th day of school, we send home directions for the children to
create "100 Collections" and bring them in on the 100th Day.
We then have a "100 Collection Show" and invite the whole
school and families. The kids love to answer questions about the
collections (which are in groups of five or ten) and show off
their projects. We then make a special 100th-Day "trail mix" that
all the kids have contributed to by bringing in 100 things for the
snack. We also have 100th-Day Centers, like making necklaces
with 100 pieces of cereal, or making 100 glasses, or patterning
with a 100 grid. These are combined centers with our
kindergartners and vary from year to year. We make sure that
photos (no names, of course) are on the school's Web site, are
included in the district newsletter, and we always STRONGLY
urge our principal and superintendent to attend the 100 show!
Michelle Enser & Mary Price, West Valley, NY, First grade
1.Students write as many words as they can think of in
100 seconds. They share lists and see who has the most
unusual words.
2.Students try to hold their breath for 100 seconds.
3.Build a log house with 100 toothpicks.
4.Creative Writing: If you were given $100, what would
you do with it? If I am living 100 years from now, this is
how my life will be…
5.I have a paper with 100 dots. Students can connect the
dots to make a design or picture, or they can play the
"squares" game. Each partner takes turns connecting one
dot to another. If the person finishes a square they put
their initials in the square and make one more line. The
person with the most squares is the winner.
6.PE activities: Do an activity for 100 seconds, like
hopping on one foot or jogging in place.
7.Do Sustained Silent Reading for 100 minutes throughout
the day.
8.Students bring a collection of 100 items in a baggie
(paper clips, M&M's, etc.).
9.A worksheet has the words ONE HUNDRED printed at
the top. Students try to see how many words they can
make using only those letters.
Debi Fielding, Colfax, WA, Third Grade
I actually celebrate 101 days of school and turn it into a 101
Dalmatians day! I have the students each bring in 101 small food
items (peanuts, Chex cereal, Cheerios, etc) and we mix them all
together to make a huge class party mix. We eat that while
watching the 101 Dalmatians movie. We also have Dalmatian
bingo and other games we play.
Lou, New Orleans, LA, Second Grade
For a home project, each student creates a 100-item T-shirt. For
example, my shirt has 100 safety pins attached to it. A student
once sewed 100 buttons on a shirt. The students also create a
100-item project. For example, a student once built a house out
of 100 Popsicle sticks. Another student wrote his name with 100
stickers. It is a lot of fun to see the creative things the kids come
up with.
Name withheld
In the past, I have made a 100 out of a large heavy cardboard
box and cut holes out of the zeros so that the children can walk
through them when they come into school. Also, I lined the hall
with 100 balloons that I blew up with a rented machine. The
children had a ball.
P. Hendrickson
We make 100 valentines to send to local hospitals, Headstart
Centers, and retirement homes.
Eileen Hardin, Metairie, LA, K-2
My first-grade bilingual class and I write down 100 acts of
kindness onto small heart-shaped cutouts and glue them onto a
chart. We make a list of 100 words we can spell. We make
eyeglasses in the shape of the number 100. We join 100 chain
links and measure how far it will reach. (The students also enjoy
measuring the teacher!) Lastly, using a measuring cup, we
estimate how high 100 spoonfuls of water will reach. (Food
coloring makes this fun.)
Michelle DeLuca-Serpenti, New Rochelle, NY, First Grade
Students in my class sew books together the week before the
100th day. They decorate the covers and then have a week to
fill the book with names of 100 people they know. They begin
with the names of the students in our room and are only allowed
to get other schoolmates' names at recess and lunch. A cover
letter goes home with each child so the parents are aware of the
project. They are asked to help their child with this task. On the
100th day we have a celebration sharing our books.
Cheryl Beauregard, Berlin, MA, Third Grade
Special Snacks: Put 100 Cheerios, 100 raisins, 100
mini-marshmallows, 100 kernels of popcorn, 100 fish crackers,
100 pieces of Chex cereal, and 100 pretzel sticks into a
container. Mix it up and enjoy!
Hundreds Olympics: Assign each student a partner, and tally
how many of each of the following activities the kids can do in
100 seconds: jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-ups, hops, laps around
the gym, hand claps, etc.
100th Day Sing-a-long: Bring all the children in your school or
grade - over 100 children - into the gym. Tape ten large squares
to the floor. Then sing "One little two little three little
children/Four little five little six little children." As you sing,
bring the children into the squares until they are all full. (You
should make sure in advance that the squares are large enough
to fit ten children!) That way, the children can see what 100
looks like. It's great fun for children from ages four to ten.
100th Day Banner: On the 100th day of school, stretch a
banner with the number 100 across one of the hallways in your
school. Cut out the zeros, and glue 100 items around each
numeral - things like stickers, shapes, photos, etc. All day,
students and staff will have to walk through the zeros to get
from one end of the hall to the next!
School Decoration: A hundred days is a long time, but each
day has a lot of time in it as well. Every 24 hours is filled with
things to do. You and your children and a lot of children from
other classes (at least 100 total) can show how far 100 days of
24 hours each can stretch down your hallway if you use a roll
(or so) of adding-machine tape. Use a meter stick to measure out
one-meter sections on the tape with a marker. Then tape 100
meters of tape down the sides of the hallway at a convenient
height for your students. If you run out of hallway, just come
back up the opposite side. The beauty of using a meter stick is
that it has a hundred of something on it as well. When the
hallway is completely papered, assign each child one meter-long
strip of tape. Have them break their meters down into 24 hours,
starting at midnight. Now all they have to do is write in all the
activities of a typical busy day in the proper time slots. They can
add in illustrations above or below your time tape to dress it up.
Don't forget to let them go check out each other's handiwork!
100th Day Raffle: For each assignment that students complete
and earn a score of 100 on during a week, they can earn a
chance to win a jar filled with 100 pennies. The raffle can be
held at the end of the school on the 100th day.
Show & Tell: Ask students to bring into school their collections
of 100 objects. Kids can bring in buttons, stickers, Legos,
Cheerios, blocks, small balls, rocks, baseball cards, and pogs.
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50 Quick & Fun Activities to Celebrate the 100th Day of School
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Look at a map to find what is 100 miles north, south,
east, and west of your school.
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Read One Hundred Hungry Ants, by Elinor Pinczes (Houghton
Mifflin, 1999).
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What was happening 100 years ago: Who was President? What
were some new inventions?
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String necklaces with 100 beads or Cheerios.
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Calculate what year it will be when you turn 100 years
old.
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Write a story about what the world will be like in 100
years.
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Find the names of two cities in every state, to add up
to 100 cities.
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Are there buildings taller than 100 stories? Find out.
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Sing “100 Bottles of Pop on the Wall” all the way through!
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Do 100 hops or 100 jumping jacks.
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Learn 100 new words.
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Read The 100th Day of School, by Angela Shelf Medearis
(Cartwheel, 1996).
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Measure a stack of 100 pennies.
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Read Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day (Penguin, 1996),
and make 100 paper snowflakes to decorate your class.
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Build the tallest structure you can, using tape and 100
craft sticks or straws.
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Count and glue 100 beans or seeds to a piece of cardboard.
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Count by 2's to 100.
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Then, count by 5's.
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Get together with another class and blow up 100 balloons.
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What would you do with $100?
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What would you do with 100 Popsicles?
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What would you do with 100 elephants?
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Close your eyes and open them when you think 100 seconds
have passed. How close were you?
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Measure a string of 100 paperclips.
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If you have 100 quarters, how many dollars do you have?
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Write a story that uses exactly 100 words.
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Write a shared story of 100 sentences, with each child
adding a sentence at a time.
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Put together a class collection of 100 favorite books.
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Make a list of 100 fun things to eat!
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A century lasts 100 years. A decade is 10. Find one fact
about each decade of the 20th century.
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How did you spend the last 100 hours? How many hours did
you sleep? How many hours were you in school?
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What numbers can you add together to make 100? List as
many combinations as you can.
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Measure out 100 feet of string. Does the string reach
all the way around the classroom?
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If you take 100, and add a zero after the first two zeros,
what number is it? What if you add another zero? Another?
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Add up the heights of everyone in the class. Together,
are you taller or shorter than 100 feet? By how much?
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What can go faster than 100 miles per hour?
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If 100 people are voting to decide an issue, how many
people will it take to form a majority? How many to form a 2/3
majority?
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Make a class exhibit of collections of 100, such as 100
buttons, 100 baseball cards, 100 photographs, or 100 stories
written by your class.
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Read 101 Dalmatians, by Justine Korman (Disney Press,
1997), or schedule a special screening of the film.
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Write down a number between 1 and 100. Challenge your
students to guess the number. Tell them higher or lower,
until they zero in on the right number!
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Find and cut out the numbers from 1 to 100 from magazines
and catalogs. Glue them to a poster board.
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Play Bingo using numbers between 1 and 100.
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Plant 100 seeds to grow in boxes on your windowsills.
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Take a box of chalk outside with all your students and
write the numbers 1 to 100 on the sidewalk.
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How many U.S. Senators are there? Why that many?
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What month will it be 100 days from now? What day of the
week?
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Make a class book of 100 riddles and jokes.
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Put together a puzzle with 100 pieces.
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Make a list of 100 people you and your students know who
make the world a better place!