Tomorrow is one of my all-time favorite days in 1st Grade - 100 Day! Now, I'm sure you're the same way, I'm always up for a fun celebration of any sort. An excuse to do fun thematic learning. Crafts. Make silly hats (a total other post I've been meaning to write). You know, the usual fun stuff that makes this job totally awesome! I pretty much plan the entire day to center around the number 100.
Now, I'm not claiming to be totally revolutionary or anything in my celebration. I'm sure you do some similar things on 100 Day. How many ways can you count to 100. What does 100 _____ look like? What would you do with $100 (always one of my favorite writing assignments). What would you look like if you were 100 (always one of my favorite crafts). Then there is the 100 Day project that each student completes at home and brings in to share. Obligatory, but always fun. Then there's the 100 Day snack, made from 10 each of 10 different items. Oh and who can forget 100 day necklaces made of Froot Loops! And while I'm on it, there's a race to fill in a 100 chart the fastest, first boy and first girl win a prize! I think you get the picture.
I always enjoy the 100 day project as a teacher. Seeing what the kids want to collect and how they want to present it. However, being a parent of a 1st Grader, I was able to be on the other side if it all this year. Yikes. I felt a little bad for all of my former parents. Just a little though, it's still a great project! Braeden chose to make a Lego car with 100 Lego pieces. Not too bad right? Well, not until you factor in his indecisiveness and perfectionist qualities. I thought I was going to pull my hair out in frustration at times, but it got finished and he enjoys it. It will be fun to see him present it tomorrow to his friends. I know he's proud of it.
I was going to do the whole "Dress Like You're 100 Years Old" idea, but I didn't get it together. I couldn't make up my mind about it so I just put it off for another year. However, I did come across a neat photo shoot on Facebook the other day that I think I will share with my students tomorrow prior to their craft of what they will look like when they're 100 years old. It is a photo shoot a photography set up of men and women who are 100 years or more older. From a photography standpoint (a little side hobby of mine) they are beautifully done. They are awesome pictures and it is so amazing to think that these people have been alive for 100 years. The things they have seen, done, experienced. It's awesomely mind-boggling. But I digress. You can find the pictures here. I'm going to try an impress the awesomeness of this upon my students but I'm sure there will be giggles and silliness, but I think they will enjoy it. I mean, what is the likelihood that they have ever seen someone who is 100 years old? I'm stoked about it. I'll let you know how it goes.
Oh, one last thing I have planned for tomorrow is a fun little book I created for my students to work on throughout the day. It has some writing prompts (some I've mentioned above), some math work (how many sets of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25 are in 100), a some fill-in-the blank page, and a word search. My kids (and I if truth be told) love these kinds of little booklets with work with so I try to make them when I can. If you're interested head on over to my TPT store here and check it out!
So, what are your plans for 100 Day? Do you go all out like I do or do you stick to just a few activities? Any neat plans/thoughts/ideas you love doing? My 100 Day is early, earlier than most of yours I'm sure, since we start in mid-August. I'll try to make it back tomorrow or Friday to share the 100 Day fun with you and hopefully have some cute pictures of the writing and crafts my kids complete! Until then, hoppy teaching!
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