100th Day Plans

Hi blog friends! Just stopping by tonight to share my 100th day activities. Our 100th day of school won't be until next Thursday, February 2nd. Yep, that's also Groundhog Day, so it looks like it will be a very busy Thursday! My teammate had the idea to do Groundhog Day activities the day before when they make their predictions about the groundhog seeing his shadow and I think that is a FABULOUS idea, so I think room B107 will be observing it a day early as well.

This year I will be doing many of the same activities that I did last year, and you can find those here. In addition, we'll be making 100th day trail mix, working on a special 100th day themed homework menu and making words with the letters in "one hundred". Click on the pictures below to download two freebies!

I'm SO looking forward to getting another wear out of my homemade t-shirt from last year. When I taught 2nd grade, we used to dress up as 100 year olds and it was so. much. fun. The kids were the cutest (smallest) elderlies you'd ever seen! Since I've moved down to 1st, we haven't done that and I was hoping we could do that this year... unfortunately I'm teaching a staff development after school that day and I don't think my 100 year old costume (and baby powdered hair) will be the most professional attire. The t-shirt will be much easier to change out of and into something else. Oh well, maybe next year! How will you be celebrating? 

100th Day Hooray!

Last week on Thursday, we FINALLY got to celebrate our 100th day! It was rescheduled twice due to snow days and I think it made our celebration even more exciting - anticipation! We had so much fun! I know my munchkins had a wonderful time because I even got a sweet, sweet card the next day from one of my boys. It said "Thank you for teaching me for 100 days!". That really warmed my heart! A few of us decided to make t-shirts in honor of our big celebration - we glued 100 stars, 100 rhinestones and 100 eyes to our shirts.

Here we are!



We started our day with a rotation through all of the first grade classrooms (there are 4 of us). The students wrote about what they would do with $100, made 100th day art with 100 fingerprints, estimated how many times they could do different activities in 100 seconds, and put Fruit Loops into 10 groups of 10 for a 100 Fruit Loop necklace. With my own class we also did a fabulous critical thinking activity that came from Read Write Think called 100th Day Bottles (click here for the lesson plan), and of course, made portraits of ourselves at 100. Those always turn out so cute! I love the ones with beards! Sadly lots of my kiddos have been sick so I'm missing a few portraits.

What a good looking bunch! (As you can see, I have a sports theme in my room. It was so hard to get that paper up there just right and those letters with the perfect spacing... so it stays up all the time.)