100th day of school craft ideas to help celebrate kindergarten & first grade
Parent Teacher Conference late nights. Field trip on Wednesday. Church for me Wednesday night. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow.
And smashed in between this crazy week is the 100th day of school today. Let’s take a look at the fun 100th day of school craft ideas and games we played!
A Valentine 100 days of school
So, yes. Today we celebrated 100 days of school.
But it was actually the 103rd day of school.
But it should have been the 114th day of school. (Thanks, snow days!)
I think this is the first year that I have celebrated the 100th day of school and Valentine’s Day in the same week. I guess that’s why I decided to make our “100 years smarter” doorway hanger Valentine’s style this year…
100 year old dress up day
Our whole grade level always dresses up like we are 100 years old. It’s so fun…and {bonus!} our classrooms always smell like baby powder! Here are {most} of my awesome teammates. One sweet teammate was out of state today and the other is preggers and decided against dressing up like a pregnant 100 year old lady…{Sarah from the Bible, anyone??} But seriously, these 6 ladies I teach with are amazing! It’s not often that a team of 7 teachers can work together as well as we do, but I’m am proud to call them all some of my dearest friends! Aren’t they precious??
Not all of my kids chose to dress up, but we did get an awesome picture with the ones who did! Darn privacy rules keep you from seeing their sweet old people glasses, mustaches, and unibrows! They were fantastic! My two sweeties with the canes played the part and wobbled around the room and down the hallway. All. Day. Long. So fun!
100th day of school social studies lessons
We did lots of the 100th day of school craft ideas from this 100s Day Packet today! They are tried and true and have stood the test of 8 years. I just don’t get tired of some of this fun stuff!
We made 100s Day trail mix with a twist this year…by accident…I send home a note {included in the packet} asking some parents to bring in a specific item. We usually ask for cheerios, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, raisins, goldfish, pretzels, m&m’s, peanut m&m’s, peanuts and marshmallows. But apparently this year goldfish were actually animal crackers and white chocolate chips were chocolate animal crackers! Ha! It was great though. Just funny! The kids loved rotating through the trail mix stations and counting out their snacks. We did this first thing this morning and snacked all through the day!
Then, we did the Then & Now slideshow included in the packet. We looked at pictures of airplanes, cars, sports, phones, schools, families and first graders from 100 years ago. This year, my kids were OBSESSED with the fact that nobody smiled for pictures 100 years ago. Maybe they weren’t happy because they didn’t have computers! Maybe they didn’t like smiling! Maybe they didn’t like wearing weird clothes! They were seriously cracking me up! We also sorted pictures into “Then” and “Now” categories using this slide:
Race to 100 Math Game
During math, we played Race to 100. Partners take turns rolling a die and adding that many numbers on their blank 100s chart. The person to get to 100 wins! We only had about 15 minutes for them to play because our day was so packed, but I think they could have played all morning! It’s a first grade favorite!
During all of our games and independent activities, we listened to “100 year old” music…instead of our usual classical music. They loved listening to different music today and even bounced to the beat. Gave a whole new meaning to “Whistle While You Work…” Here’s the album we listened to.
100th day of school craft ideas
After that, we wrote about what our lives might be like when we are 100 years old. We reviewed and discussed future tense verbs and talked about the need to use them when we are talking about what WILL happen when we are 100 years old. This is hands down, my favorite 100th day of school craft ideas! Their writing is just priceless. We made a 100 year old self-portrait to go with our writing {a teammate of mine found the frame on Pinterest a few years ago, and I can’t seem to track down the link…the writing paper is in the 100th Day of School craft ideas packet, though!}
If you were to look at my teammates’ portraits, you would see super cute cotton ball hair. Not on mine. I have issues with cotton balls. That story is for another time though…
“I might wear glasses and I also might enjoy going to the mall with my grandchildren. I’ll maybe have wrinkles.”
I love the curly hair on the left and the “gaudy” earrings!
I believe this little guy thinks he might be the Incredible Hulk at 100.
Check out this one…you just can’t make this stuff up!
Omigoodness, what a day! I think I laughed all day long! As exhausting as some weeks are, teaching 6 year olds is just plain fun when you are surrounded by such amazing people!