Counting To 100-Day Continues...

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Drop something into a jar!

100-Day Jar:

• The Dollar Store sells all sizes of plastic jars.
• Buy TWO and have them be your “Counting our way to 100-Day!” jars.
• Decide what “thing” you want to count and then put them in the jar.

•  I like the look and feel of marbles and so do my Y5’s.
• I’m also fond of saying: “Don’t lose your marbles!” for a variety of reasons. (We have the games Hungry Hippos and Hungry Frogs! Arggg to the noise, but they love them.)

•  Print off my labels. One label says: Counting our way to 100 Day.  The other label says: Counters for !00-Day. 
•  Think of something easily accessible, that won’t break or spoil and is cheap.
• You might also want to consider what your “theme” if any, will be, that you are counting to 100 around.

•  Perhaps you want it to be something the children can have as a prize to be divided among them when it’s 100-Day, or perhaps you want your students to be able to eat what’s in the jar!
• Put your jars by your calendar center as it’s a nice part of the day to run this into.
• Click on the link to view/print the 100-Day counting jar things.

Add A Piece To A Puzzle Each Day!

100-Day Puzzle:

• Buy a 100-piece puzzle at The Dollar Store. I just bought a Spiderman one because my Y5 boys LOVE Spiderman and I toss him in during our spider unit. 
•  The caption over the puzzle will be “We’re caught in a web of learning!” It will be a hint about what the puzzle will be, so they can enjoy making guesses.
• Also buy a piece of tag board (They sell it there 2 for a Dollar.)

•  Put the puzzle together on the poster board.
• When you’re done, flip the puzzle over.


• Number the pieces.
• Slide the puzzle off the tag board and trace each piece.
• Number the pieces on the tag board.

• Write “Puzzling Our Way To 100 Day” on the poster, or hang up my mini poster.
• Click on the link to view/print it.

• Put 10 pieces in snack Baggies and number the baggies.
• Keep the snack Baggies in 2 large baggies in a basket under the puzzle.

•  Each day pick a child to put that day’s puzzle piece on the board with a glue dot.
• If you use peel off glue dots you can re-use the poster.

•  Since this is so easy and inexpensive I toss the students’ “It’s My Turn” Popsicle sticks in a basket, and have someone choose one. That child gets to take the puzzle home as a 100-Day prize.
• I let them know this ahead of time so that they can look forward to it.
• You can also make guessing what the puzzle is, while they are counting up to the big day, a prize thing too.

•  Scroll down if you want to see the last mini-sub article about 100-Day pennant-banners and posters!