100 Day Ideas: Celebrating With Ants

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  • To get your students “wiggles” out and to introduce these activities, tell them they need to wiggle the ants out of their pants for 100 seconds.
  • Put on some jazzy music and have them get those ants out while you watch the clock.

Click on the link for a You Tube video of a teenager dancing to a remix of The Ants Go Marching  for the perfect music to jump and wiggle to.

  • ants in your pants activity, ant craft, 100 day ideas, 100 day activities, 100 day certificates, 100 hungry ants, 100 day graph, 100 day counting activities, 100 day math activitiesLater, using a black marker, have students make 10 ant dots in each pocket or patch on the blue jeans for a total of 100 ants on their pants.
  • Read Elinor J. Pinczes’ book, One Hundred Hungry Ants. {amazonWS:itemId=0395971233}
  • Have your students march down the hall 1-by-1, 2-by-2, 3-by-3, 5-by-5 and finally 10-by-10.
  • Ask for their predictions of which way they think will take the longest, shortest or be the easiest or most fun?
  • Time how long it takes them.
  • A fun song to sing while they accomplish this feat is, “The Ants Go Marching”

You Tube video #1 has this song up to the #3 with really catchy music; I wish they would have done the entire song instead of only 1 minutes worth. Click on the link to check it out.

You Tube video #2 goes through the #5 with children at a playground marching. Count by 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s to whatever number your students are able.

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  •  Graph the question: Would you eat a chocolate covered ant?
  • Pass out a name label to each of your students.
  •  Using raisins, have them guesstimate how long they think a line of raisin ants will be, and have them put their name label on the floor.
  •  Give each student 5 raisins (if you have 20 in your class) and have them begin to lay them down in a line.
  •  100 day certificates, 100 day ideas, 100 day activities, 100 day unit, 100 day bulletin boards, 100 day bulletin board ideas, 100 day centers, 100 day math activities, ant activities, ant projects, 100 day charts, 100 day necklace, counting to 100 by 10's, The student that comes closest to where the 100th raisin ant ended, receives my certificate or whatever you deem appropriate.
  •  Pass out the Trace & Write ant worksheets and have students complete them with a variety of colored markers.
  • tracing number cards, counting to 100 by 10's, 100 day activities, 100 day ideas, 100 day certificates, 100 day bulletin boards, 100 day games, 100 day ideas, ant activities, 100 day centers, 100 day math activities,  I’ve also included number cards by 10’s and 5’s that they can trace, cut, and sequence and then turn into Itty Bitty Books.
  •  You could also make these into memory match games by printing sets on different colors and having students play with a partner or in a group of 3.
  • 100 day activities, 100 day ideas, 100 day bulletin boards, 100 day bulletin board ideas, 100 day math activities, 100 day centers, 100 day graph, 100 day certificates, 100 day necklaces, ant activities, ant projects, There’s also a Secret Code 100’s chart for them to figure out the picture by coloring in the appropriate numbers.
  • 100 day badge, 100 day activities, 100 day ideas, 100 day certificates, 100 day bulletin boards, 100 day unit, 100 day centers, 100 day math activities, ant activities, 100 day certificates, At the end of the day give them an "I survived 100 Day! badge to wear home.
  • You could turn these into necklaces by punching a hole in either corner, putting a piece of yarn through and having students string some pony beads on either end.I also have certificates of participation for everyone.

I hope your 100 Day celebration is more fun than a summer picnic, simply fANTastic! Thank you for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything that you think others may find helpful. 

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