100th Day of School

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100th Day of School Hats

Print these onto legal paper and cut another piece of legal paper in half for the back.

Dress Up for the 100th Day of School

Young children will have a blast (and look so adorable) dressed as the 100-year-old version of themselves. Older students who are “over” this activity will likely enjoy dressing up as if it were 100 years ago. Send this note home to let parents know about your plans for the class.

Collection of 100 Things Grid

100-Year-Old Portraits

100th Day of School Banner

Print this color banner, or the black & white version onto color cardstock to welcome your students to the 100th Day of School.

100th Day of School Writing Prompts

Fill a T-Shirt with 100 Objects

Fill Jars with 100 Objects

100th Day Activities

  • Name things your teacher has said 100 times.
  • See how many words you can make out of the word ONE HUNDRED.
  • Try as a class to read 100 pages during independent reading time.
  • Use a face aging phone app to take picture of students and show them what they might look like at 100.
  • Have a Hundredth Day of School snack bar. Have volunteers bring in ten snacks that are in small pieces (Chex mix, chocolate chips, grapes, blueberries, etc), and each child assembled a plate of ten of each item.
  • Hide 100 small items in the room and have students go on a treasure hunt.
  • Have children time how quickly they can read 100 words

100th Day Math Activities

  • Count to 100 over the first hundred days
  • Make a sticky note hundreds chart
  • Fill in a blank 100 chart
  • Count backwards from 100 to 0
  • Count to 100 with tally marks
  • Make a counting maze for children to follow the numbers on the floor
  • Count to 100 by 2s, 5s, 10s, 25s
  • Create the number 100 with pattern tiles
  • Create different arrays of 100 small items
  • Find all ways to add and/or multiply to 100
  • Give students dice and a 100 chart to fill in numbers as they roll their way up to 100
  • Find objects that are about 100 inches or centimeters
  • Round numbers to the nearest hundred
  • Add the first nine prime numbers (their sum is 100)
  • Research items in a category (food, clothes, etc.) that would cost exactly 100 dollars
  • Estimate the height of a stack of 100 pennies
  • Estimate the distance of 100 steps and then measure it
  • Create word problems with an answer of 100
  • Make dollar words (a=1 cent, b= 2 cents, etc. & all letters in the word must add up to $1)
  • Make shapes with an area of 100 inches or centimeters (or even feet or meters)
  • Calculate how many seconds are in 100 minutes, how many minutes equal 100 seconds, etc.
  • See how high you can count by 100s

100 Things Group Wall

Have all the students in a grade or division work together to each list one of a hundred things they have learned so far this year. Create a wall of 100 things in a shared hallway.

And don’t forget that the 100th Day of School for everyone else is the 1,000th Day of School for 5th Graders!

1,000th Day of School Activities

  • See how high you can count by 1,000s
  • Make shapes with an area of 1,000 inches or centimeters (or even feet or meters)
  • Calculate how many seconds are in 1,000 minutes, how many minutes equal 1,000 seconds, etc.
  • Create word problems with an answer of 1,000
  • Estimate the distance of 1,000 steps and then measure it
  • Estimate the height of a stack of 1,000 pieces of paper
  • Research items in a category (food, clothes, etc.) that would cost exactly 1,000 dollars
  • Round numbers to the nearest thousand
  • Find objects that are about 1,000 inches or centimeters
  • Find objects that are about 1,000 inches or centimeters

Tired of celebrating the 100th day?

Celebrate the 101st day by dressing up like Dalmatians.

Celebrate February 2nd in 2nd grade, March 3rd in 3rd grade, April 4th in 4th grade, and May 5th in 5th grade.

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