We’re 100 days older and 100 days wiser! On February 10th we celebrated the 100th day of school and it was a fantastic time to reflect upon the social, emotional, and academic growth students have made in 1st grade. All week anticipation mounted, as class activities focused on the number 100, culminating in an exciting grade-wide celebration on Friday afternoon. Early in the week students brought in their wonderfully creative 100th Day projects and we proudly displayed them in the school lobby. In class, our morning activities, literacy centers, and math centers all focused on the first 3-digit number, and provided students with opportunities to use reasoning, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Our grade-wide celebration consisted of a variety of entertaining centers that had kids using their imaginations and squealing with delight! We’re now looking ahead to all of the wonderful things we’ll accomplish throughout the remainder of the year!
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Our morning activities were all focused on 100:
– 100 addition problems
– 100 subtraction problems
– Coloring and comparing patterns on our hundreds charts as we skip counted to 100 in different ways (by 2′s, 5′s and 10′s)
– How many words can you write using the letters from one hundred days?
Our regular literacy centers were replaced with special 100th Day centers, and all of the activities focused on 100:
– 100 Surprise! Poem–
100 _________________ would be so fun to wrap and give away,
As a gift to my friend ________________ on the 100th day!
Students filled in the the blanks of this darling couplet poem, and then created an accompanying illustration.
– 100 Spelling Word Challenge– Students wrote their spelling words over and over until they had each written 100 words! What a test of stamina and determination for our 1st grade friends!
– Think About It– Students were asked the following questions and had to write responses for each and include their reasoning (ex: No I could not eat 100 pizzas because I would feel sick.). They illustrated their responses as well… very cute!
Could you eat 100 pizzas? Why or why not?
Could you eat 100 peanuts? Why or why not?
– 100 Math Pack– Students identified and colored 100 shapes (great plane and solid shape review), according to a key. Next they found and recorded the total number of each shape, made a bar graph of the different shapes, and answered comparison and problem solving questions about the shapes.
– Journal Response– Students answered the following questions in their journals and illustrated their responses.
If you could have 100 of anything what would you want? Why? What would you do with it?
Our shared reading text was a fun poem, titled 100 Animals, written by Karen Fenstermaker. This was definitely a class favorite!
I went to the zoo
And what did I see?
100 animals,
Looking at me.
There were 10 tall giraffes,
Eating from trees,
10 silly monkeys,
Scratching their knees,
10 sleeping snakes,
Lying in the sun,
10 munching elephants,
Eating peanuts one by one,
10 leaping tigers,
Performing in the shows,
10 pink flamingos,
Standing on their toes,
10 grouchy bears,
Trying to get some sleep,
10 happy hippos,
In the water deep,
10 roaring lions,
Walking two by two,
And 10 galloping zebras,
All living in the zoo.
On the 100th day our Friday math centers also focused entirely on the first 3-digit number, 100!
– Make 100 Memory– students played a memory game and had to match the appropriate 10′s to made 100 (ex: 40 and 60).
– Race to 100– Using a large 100′s chart, each student starts on 0. Taking turns, they each pull out cards from a bag that instruct them to add or subtract different numbers. The goal is to reach the number 100 first. You should have heard their squeals when they’d pull out a +10 card (and their groans when the card read -10). =)
– Tally to 100– Students received a page with a 20-box grid. Each box could hold 5 tally marks. Students took turns rolling a dice and would write the number in tally marks. The first to reach 100 was a winner. This activity really got them focused and thinking, as there was often carry-over from one box to the next.
100 Chart Name Patterns– Students received a blank 100′s chart and wrote their name repeatedly in the boxes. Then, they colored the first letter of their names and compared the patterns they created.
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Our 1st Grade 100th Day celebration took place in the commons and we had wonderful parent volunteers assisting with each of the 10 stations. Students completed a variety of activities, such as creating pictures out of 100, decorating 100th Day crowns, sketching themselves at 100, answering If I had 100 … questions, building a tower with 100 cups, stamping to 100, measuring items with 100cm strings, skip counting to 100, filling in the missing numbers on a 100′s chart and more! The kids LOVED the celebration and are still talking about the fun they had on the 100th day of school!
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Wearing their 100th day crowns and pretending to be 100 years old.
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It started snowing!
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