More Information

SUBJECT
Reading and Language Arts, Math, Social Studies

GRADE
K-5

AGE
5-11

COLLECTION
Celebrating the 100th Day of School

Source
Instructor Magazine
Six issues per year filled with practical, fun, teacher-tested ideas for your classroom. Keep up with classroom trends, get expert teaching tips, and find dozens of resources in every issue.
Subscribe

32 Quick & Fun Activities to Celebrate the 100th Day of School

March 2005

Hooray! You're more than halfway through the school year and it's time to celebrate with these five minute activities.

 -1-
Make a list of 100 magical events, people, places, or things in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

-2-
Look at a map to find what is 100 miles north, south, east, and west of your school.

-3-
Read One Hundred Hungry Ants, by Elinor Pinczes (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

-4-
What was happening 100 years ago: Who was President? What were some new inventions?

-5-
String necklaces with 100 beads or Cheerios.

-6-
Calculate what year it will be when you turn 100 years old.

-7-
Write a story about what the world will be like in 100 years.

-8-
Find the names of two cities in every state, to add up to 100 cities.

-9-
Are there buildings taller than 100 stories? Find out.

-10-
Sing “100 Bottles of Pop on the Wall” all the way through!

-11-
Do 100 hops or 100 jumping jacks.

-12-
Learn 100 new words.

-13-
Read The 100th Day of School, by Angela Shelf Medearis (Cartwheel, 1996).

-14-
Measure a stack of 100 pennies.

-15-
Read Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day (Penguin, 1996), and make 100 paper snowflakes to decorate your class.

-16-
Build the tallest structure you can, using tape and 100 craft sticks or straws.

-17-
Count and glue 100 beans or seeds to a piece of cardboard.

-18-
Count by 2's to 100.

-19-
Then, count by 5's.

-20-
Get together with another class and blow up 100 balloons.

-21-
What would you do with $100?

-22-
What would you do with 100 Popsicles?

-23-
What would you do with 100 elephants?

-24-
Close your eyes and open them when you think 100 seconds have passed. How close were you?

-25-
Measure a string of 100 paperclips.

-26-
If you have 100 quarters, how many dollars do you have?

-27-
Write a story that uses exactly 100 words.

-28-
Write a shared story of 100 sentences, with each child adding a sentence at a time.

-29-
Put together a class collection of 100 favorite books.

-30-
Make a list of 100 fun things to eat!

-31-
A century lasts 100 years. A decade is 10. Find one fact about each decade of the 20th century.

-32-
How did you spend the last 100 hours? How many hours did you sleep? How many did you do homework? How many did you spend eating?

  • Teacher Store
  • The Teacher Store  
    Guided Reading Content Areas Level Y

    Guided Reading Content Areas Level Y

    Visit the Scholastic Guided Reading Programs website for more information.

    Scholastic Guided Reading Programs deliver the materials you need to help ALL students become strategic and independent readers who love to read! The programs were created and carefully leveled by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, America's leading authority on guided reading. The instruction ali

    $299.95 You save: 25%
    Supplementary Collection | Grade 6
    Add To Cart
    Educators Only
    Guided Reading Content Areas Level Y
    Grade 6 $299.95
    Add To Cart
  • Teacher Store
  • The Teacher Store  
    Guided Reading Content Areas Level P

    Guided Reading Content Areas Level P

    Visit the Scholastic Guided Reading Programs website for more information.

    Scholastic Guided Reading Programs deliver the materials you need to help ALL students become strategic and independent readers who love to read! The programs were created and carefully leveled by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, America's leading authority on guided reading. The instruction ali

    $299.95 You save: 25%
    Supplementary Collection | Grades 3-4
    Add To Cart
    Educators Only
    Guided Reading Content Areas Level P
    Grades 3-4 $299.95
    Add To Cart
Help | Privacy Policy
EMAIL THIS

* YOUR NAME

* YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

* RECIPIENT'S EMAIL ADDRESS(ES)

(Separate multiple email addresses with commas)

Check this box to send yourself a copy of the email.

INCLUDE A PERSONAL MESSAGE (Optional)


Scholastic respects your privacy. We do not retain or distribute lists of email addresses.