Lesson Plan
32 Quick & Fun Activities to Celebrate the 100th Day of School
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Hooray! You're more than halfway through the school year and it's time to celebrate with these five minute activities.
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Make a list of 100 magical events, people, places, or things in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Look at a map to find what is 100 miles north, south, east, and west of your school.
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Read One Hundred Hungry Ants, by Elinor Pinczes (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
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What was happening 100 years ago: Who was President? What were some new inventions?
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String necklaces with 100 beads or Cheerios.
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Calculate what year it will be when you turn 100 years old.
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Write a story about what the world will be like in 100 years.
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Find the names of two cities in every state, to add up to 100 cities.
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Are there buildings taller than 100 stories? Find out.
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Sing “100 Bottles of Pop on the Wall” all the way through!
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Do 100 hops or 100 jumping jacks.
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Learn 100 new words.
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Read The 100th Day of School, by Angela Shelf Medearis (Cartwheel, 1996).
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Measure a stack of 100 pennies.
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Read Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day (Penguin, 1996), and make 100 paper snowflakes to decorate your class.
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Build the tallest structure you can, using tape and 100 craft sticks or straws.
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Count and glue 100 beans or seeds to a piece of cardboard.
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Count by 2's to 100.
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Then, count by 5's.
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Get together with another class and blow up 100 balloons.
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What would you do with $100?
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What would you do with 100 Popsicles?
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What would you do with 100 elephants?
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Close your eyes and open them when you think 100 seconds have passed. How close were you?
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Measure a string of 100 paperclips.
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If you have 100 quarters, how many dollars do you have?
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Write a story that uses exactly 100 words.
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Write a shared story of 100 sentences, with each child adding a sentence at a time.
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Put together a class collection of 100 favorite books.
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Make a list of 100 fun things to eat!
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A century lasts 100 years. A decade is 10. Find one fact about each decade of the 20th century.
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How did you spend the last 100 hours? How many hours did you sleep? How many did you do homework? How many did you spend eating?
- Subjects:Reading, Math, Social Studies


