Ways to Celebrate the 100th Day of School
Depending on when school started in your state, it may soon be time to celebrate the 100th day of school. As the name would imply, this is the day that the kids have been in school for exactly 100 days. Your child’s teacher likely has some fun activities planned already, but she might be looking for additional ideas. You could offer to go in for a little while to help with the festivities, or you could reinforce some of the “100 Days” ideas at home! Here are some ways to observe the day:
- Show your kids how much (or how little!) one hundred is. Have them count out 100 pieces of breakfast cereal. If that seems too daunting a task, have them make ten groups of ten, five groups of twenty, or four groups of twenty-five. Better yet, if you have more than one child, give them each a different grouping to count out that adds up to one hundred. Afterward, let them eat their early-morning math lesson!
- Talk about what your child would do with $100. This can be a very entertaining discussion, as young children often have very interesting ideas about what one can actually buy for $100! If your kids have been frequent visitors to a dollar store, then be prepared to hear that they’d buy a hundred yo-yos or one hundred packages of little army men (or maybe a hundred candy bars). Encourage older kids to think out of the box a little. How many books do they think they could buy for a hundred dollars? How many pairs of shoes? What if they had to spend the money on five different items?
- Think about what was happening in your area a century ago. What types of things were different in the year 1913? Who was President? Ask your kids if they think that certain things had been invented yet (the telephone, the cellphone, television, cars, candles, airplanes), then go and look up when those things actually were invented. Who in your family was alive in 1913? Since your child probably doesn’t know anyone personally, you can frame it as “grandma’s grandma,” or “your great-great-great grandfather.”
- Another fun activity for older kids is to think about how things will be 100 years from now. In the year 2113, how will people get around from place to place? How will they communicate? What will the houses be like?
- Ask your child’s teacher how you can help. Maybe she’d like help packaging up things in quantities of one hundred: Erasers, beads, peanuts, packing peanuts, etc. Or she might need some assistance in cleaning up, after hundreds of little items are spilled in the classroom. Find out what she has planned!
When is the 100th day of school in your area? Have you ever participated in any 100th-Day celebrations?
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Wow! thanks for the tips & ideas 😉
great tips love the ideas thanks
I like the counting of the numbers up to 100, and then the child can see that this is not too many days that they have been in school. I also like the other ideas that you have!
I really like #1 “Show your kids how much (or how little!) one hundred is” When I was in grade school (I think 5th grade) our teacher challeged us to make 1 million dots and we would get an A for math class. Well, I took his challenge and made the 1 million dots and WOW, turns out one million of anything is a whole lot! And since I didn’t know if I would finish in time, I had to keep up in class and ended up with an A without the dots – it was an interesting lesson but took a long time!
Wow! I loved this post. I don’t have children but it sounds like a great idea.
Thanks for sharing.
wow.. i really love this post. Its overwhelming mostly for us teenagers <3
Thanx for these lovely ideas 🙂
Some ideas my kids did was count 100 hersey kisses and put them in a baggie to share with the class. Each class brought different kids of candy to share.
Great fun ideas. Kids and adults will surely love it.
We never celebrated this “holiday” in shcool, but it could be good for both math and history projects
I have never thought of celebrating this before. We never did when I was in school. This is new to me, but interesting.
This is a great idea – we homeschool and it would be a great morale booster for both myself and my children 🙂 Thank you for the idea!
These are great fun ideas! Thanks for the post!
What cute and inventive ideas! I never would have thought to do this, great post!
Some great ideas for celebrating 100 days! Hard to believe the year has gone by so quickly!
Wow! I never knew that were gonna celebrate our kids 100th day in school. Now Ive got an idea next time when my daughter will be in kindergarten 2 next year. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips. This year is very special My last little started Pre-K this year. So her teacher is going to make 100 days very special.
This is a great post. The ideas are wonderful!
great ideas i will give it a try