100th Day of School!

     The 100th Day of School is such a great time!  My students were sure it was the best day ever this year!  We didn't do too much out of the ordinary - it was just so celebratory!  Here's what we did --
     Each student was asked to bring a collection or display of 100 things - Here's a few of what we received.

   100 baby pictures and tattoos.  100 candies made into flowers of 10.  100 fruit loops.

     Each child shared their collections and how they counted the items out.  Some children counted by ones. Some put the items in piles of 10 and counted by tens. Some let their mother count them.  Some saw that there was a 100 on the package and knew there was 100!

     I took pictures of each child to make a book of our 100 day too.

We used 100 as the theme for all our centers:
 * Building with 100 things - cups, blocks, unifix cubes
 * Putting together a 100 piece puzzle
 * Eating 100 things (10 pieces of 10 things)
 * Making a 100 hat with numerals 1 and 0 and 0 cut from die cut then children decorate and    attach them to a band of construction paper.
* Making 10 dots of 10 different colors using a q-tip
* Attaching one sticker to each number on a 100 chart.

 
 

     We set up the day by earlier reading, Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.  On the day, I read Kindergarten Count To 100  by Jacqueline Rogers. After reading, it's fun to try and see how many steps it takes to get to various parts of the school.

     I found a few videos that were fun as well.

If you need an exercise time, try Jack Hartman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&list=PLwDDRpROK9nTf_D9DVZ42b3SQX_4GTi7S&index=30

This video shows people in order from age 1 to age 100.  My students thought it was great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUHLa1qSy24&index=20&list=PLwDDRpROK9nTf_D9DVZ42b3SQX_4GTi7S

We thought the story of Centipede's 100 Shoes by Tony Ross was really sweet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuAt7qIiF8&index=19&list=PLwDDRpROK9nTf_D9DVZ42b3SQX_4GTi7S

I hope these ideas are helpful as you plan your 100th day of Kindergarten!

Yours truly,
Molly C