100 Days Smarter

Could there be a more fun day in kindergarten?? I love the 100th day celebration every year, and try to add a different activity each year.  We repeat all day long, "We're 100 days smarter!"  Our 100th day is Tuesday, so I have spent the last couple of weeks compiling activities that I want to do.  In my building, there are 4 sections of kindergarten.  We plan on spending the morning rotating our kiddos among the 4 rooms for different activities.  Here is what they will be doing in each room:


Room 1: 100 footprints
     You may have seen this activity around the internet and it works perfectly for our classes this year.  We have 95 kindergarteners, so each one will trace and decorate their own footprint.  Then, each teacher will do one, and for the 100th footprint, we've asked our principal to trace and decorate her footprint.  I think it will be so cool to not only see each individual design, but for the students to see how far our 100 footprints can reach.


Room 2: 100 glasses
     Students will decorate and wear glasses that look like the number 100.  After they have completed their glasses, they will wear them to help them look for numbers around the room.


Room 3: 100 hat
     Students will decorate a 100 cutout with 100 dots.  It will then be attached to sentence strips or construction paper strips to make it into a crown.  They love wearing these around all day.


Room 4: $100 book
     Students will receive a book with a $100 bill on the front and 3 blank pages inside.  They will write "If I had $100, I would buy..." on the inside of the cover, and then draw and write one thing on each page that they would buy if they had $100.  The students love getting their very own $100 bill. 


Some other activities I am doing with my students in the afternoon:


Hershey's kiss hunt.  I hide 100 Hershey's kisses around the room with colored dots on the bottom and numbers from 1-100.  When a student finds one of the kisses they bring it up to a 100's chart I have laying out on a table and place it on the matching number.  


Fruit Loop Necklace.  Students will string Fruit Loops on yarn in groups of 10 by color until they have 100 on their necklace.  This can also be enjoyed as a treat later!


100 snack.  Each student brings 100 of a small food item.  (i.e. cheerios, M & M's, raisins, etc.)  They count their snack out on a small 100's chart and I take their picture.  Each student puts their snack into a large bowl and we have a snack made up of everyone's items. (I suggest giving them a plastic glove from your cafeteria to avoid germs) :)


100 signatures.  About a week before the 100th day,  I send the students home with a sheet that has room for 100 signatures.  They are supposed to try and collect 100 by the 100th day and bring in their paper to share.  We also hang a poster outside our room that says, "We're collecting 100 signatures for the 100th Day!  Can you help us out?"  Then when other teachers, students, the principal, custodians, etc. pass by, they can sign it for us.  Another way for students to see just how many 100 is.


I would love to hear your 100th day ideas.  I'm working on getting printables for some of these activities up as well.  Enjoy!