The Topic: 100th Day of School
Overview
The Basics - Each year
many students and teachers celebrate the
one-hundredth day of school. Many participate in
events that observe the event. For example, some
bring in collections of 100 different items.More Detail - Celebrations and observances commemorating reaching the 100 mark occur throughout the world. People everywhere observe the end of a century or a millennium, and the dawn of a new era. In American politics, presidents and other political leaders are often judged by their actions during the first 100 days of their administrations. Towns celebrate their centennials of existence. In the year 2003, we observed 100 years of flight. Soon after the 200 year anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition occurred.
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100
Jelly Beans from the Miami Museum of
Science
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/jbean100.html
What does 100 jellybeans look like? What would
10 X 100 jellybeans look like?
Songs and Poems: 100th Day of School from CanTeach
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems80.html
Sing a celebration song for the 100th day of school!
Other Celebration Ideas:
2) 100th Day of School Activities by L. Winrich
http://www.globalclassroom.org/100days.html
and http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Math/100days.html
3) Celebrating Our 100th Day of School
http://www.sknox.k12.in.us/100th%20Day.htm
MegaPenny
Project by Kokogiak Media
http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp
The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking
one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and
building on that to answer the question: 'What
would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look
like?"'
Related Websites:
2) 100 Images of Snow from Snow as a
Resource by D.R. Powell
http://www-geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Powell/powellsnow.html
3) 100 Years of Radio http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com/100years.html
(More about Radio: See 42eXplore
Listen
to the Radio)
4) Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of
over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to
the Times (Recipe Book) http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/receipt/receipt.html
5) Counting to One Hundred http://www.aaamath.com/g14c-nextnum-100.html
6) One Hundred-Kilometer Terrain on Venus
(photograph)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010507.html
This
Day in History from the History
Channel
http://www.history.com/tdih.do
Here you find a summary of events that occurred
today or any day of the year.
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After visiting several of the
websites, complete some of these
activities.
Read a 100th Day Book. Explore
the Literature
Circle page to find some good books
and activities for the 100th Day of
School.
What you would do with a 100 dollar bill? Go to the store or visit online
stores to check your prices. Another
related activity is to list as many
different ways to make $100 in change,
starting with 100 dollar bills, and two
$50, and so on.
Play 100 Things To Do With
Books. Visit 100
Things To Do With Books from the
New Zealand Ministry of Education.
Print out the activities, cut them apart,
and attach to index cards. Then within a
class or large group, draw one card and
follow the procedure.
Create A List of Your 100
Goals. List the top 100 things you
would like to do - - in priority order.
Then see if you can put a estimated date
for completion beside each item on your
list. Keep the list in your journal and
update your progress periodically.
Theoretically, this list could take a
lifetime to achieve.
Create A List of 100 Things To Do
In Your Town/Neighborhood. Imagine
that you are in charge of introducing your
town or neighborhood to a new arrival.
What are the top 100 things to do? Make
your list. Share it with your friends.
Compare it to someone else's list.
Create A List of 100 things to be
happy About or 100 different things to do next summer. Complete your list. Share
it. Be Happy!
Create A Exhibit of '100
Things.' Put together collections and
displays of 100 items. Get ideas about
different types of collections at another
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Things. Remember, you could create a
virtual exhibit using images from a
digital camera, scanned images, and
photographs. You may want to place your
virtual museum on a webpage.
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Usually we think of the '100 Days' topic for elementary age learners. Here are a few other ideas related to 100 day measurements:
100 Days That Shook the World from Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/july/hundred.php
The all-but-forgotten story of the unlikely hero who ensured victory in the American Revolution.
How to Write a Novel in 100 Days or Less by J. Coyne http://peacecorpswriters.org/pages/depts/resources/resour_writers/100daysbook/bk100da.html
What follows is a daily log — each day may have words of encouragement, advice, or wisdom or a task for you to do to get your book written.
Hundred Days from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days
This list was prepared by the Office of
Children's Services.
Learn about the brief conflict and related non-military events known as the Hundred Days (France, Naoleon Bonaparte, and King louis XVIII).
Websites for Teachers
100
Picture Books Everyone Should Know from the
New York Public Library
http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=61
This list was prepared by the Office of
Children's Services.
Other Recommendations:
2) 100 Favorite Children's Books http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=60
3) 100 Best Books (Selected by National Education Association) for Children and Young People
http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm
4) One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century from School Library Journal
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA153035.html
100th
Day of School from Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/math/100th.htm
Looking for ideas to celebrate the 100th day of
school in your classroom? Start here.
Other Related Sites from
Scholastic:
2) 50 Quick & Fun Activities to Celebrate
the 100th Day of School from Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/100dayschool.htm
3) Celebrate the 100th Day of School from
Scholastic http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3177
100th Day of School from Math Forum http://mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.100.html
Here is a collection of links to favorite activities teachers and
students are doing when celebrating the 100th Day
of School!
Other 100th Day Activity Websites:
2) 100th Day of School from Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/hundred.shtml
3)
300 Celebration Ideas from J. Holub http://users.aol.com/a100thday/ideas.html
4)
Math / 100th Day from Mrs. Alphabet http://www.mrsalphabet.com/100thday.html
5)
Suggested
Activities for 100th Day by T.
Payton http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/100th/act.htm
Celebrate
the 100th Day in 100 Ways from Education
World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson149.shtml
Here you find a list of one hundred ideas for
celebrating the 100th day of school!
Similar Websites:
2)100th Day Activities from Teachers.Net http://teachers.net/archive/ec012699.html
3) 100th Day Celebration from The Teacher's
Corner-
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/seasonal/100days/
4) 100th Day of School from A to Z
TeacherStuff
http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/100th_Day/
5) Fun & Educational Activities for the
100th Day of School from EduDeaf
http://www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/12597b.htm
6) Theme Topics : 100th Day from Preschool
Education
http://www.preschooleducation.com/100day.shtml
Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School from ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=891
This lesson guides students in writing descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home. They will write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
Teaching Reading: 100 Days of Reading http://www.learner.org/channel/libraries/readingk2/frost/index.html
In Shari Frost's multi-grade classroom, literacy activities have a real-world emphasis.
Words 2 eXplore
| 100 days | literature | language arts | science | math | celebration |
| school days | $100 | category | social studies | music | song |
| calendar | list | counting | collections | classification | centennial |
| commemorate | party | classroom | activity | anniversary | 100th Day of School |
Created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, 1/02, Updated 7/07.