We started off the day singing Jack Hartman's Count to 100 song. After that we read a 100th day of school book and then the students used the numbers from 100 to make a drawing of their own. I have seen this all over pinterest but my favorite drawing from my students was a minion (how creative!):
The students also made lots of animals (giraffes, butterflies, etc) and humans.
The class then worked hard to find 100 Hershey Kisses hidden around the room.
This year I decided to try something different - rather than do a bunch of activities as a whole group I decided to set up 9 centers around the classroom. This took a lot of upfront work but went really well during the day. I went over all the centers at the beginning and told the class there were a few rules:
1. The students could come and go from the centers as much as they would like.
2. Only 4 students per center - if there are more then find another center.
3. If they hit, kick, scream, etc. then they sit in the chill out zone for awhile (yes, unfortunately I have to have this rule this year).
The kids loved the centers and asked for them the next day! Here are a few of them:
Center #1: What can you build with 100 legos? What can you build with 100 shapes?
(The boys tended to love this center).
Center #2: Painting center - put 100 gumdrops in the gumball machine. I used q-tips for this activity.
Center #3: What can you build with 100 cups? This was by far the students favorite center! They worked soooo hard to build a masterpiece. Look at this teamwork --
If you were wondering what 100 cups looks like stacked up this is it (and yes it took them forever to finally create this) :
Center #4: 100 day hats. The students put 10 stickers or stamps on each strip of paper. I then stapled them at the top. They turned out really cute.
The last three centers I created and you can get them for free on my TPT page (just click on the pictures to take you to the page).
Center # 5: Ties - the boys created/decorated 100th day ties to wear to the 100th day party.
Center #6: Hair bows - the girls created/decorated 100th day hair bows to wear to the party. I bought hairclips from the Dollar Tree and taped the bows to the clips. This worked great and stayed in the girls hair all day.
Center # 7: Bracelets. Both the boys and girls wanted to create 100th day bracelets to wear.
Center # 8: Fruit Loop necklace center - the students put 100 Fruit Loops on the yarn to create a necklace.
Center # 9 I forgot to take a picture of but I taped a large pond on the wall. Throughout the day the students came over and drew fish for the pond. Our goal was to get 100 fish in the pond.
TPT FREEBIE - Here is the link to some of my 100th day of school freebies 100th day of school freebies
Well needless to say this teacher was exhausted after the 100th day but it was well worth it - the students had a blast :)
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