100 Days of School

Last year my son's teacher sent home a thing that had 100 in bubble letters. He had to put 100 of one thing on it. So I did fruit loops and it was cute! He was in 1st grade.

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Last year my son's teacher sent home a thing that had 100 in bubble letters. He had to put 100 of one thing on it. So I did fruit loops and it was cute! He was in 1st grade.

Hi S. - there's probably 100 different ways to answer your question! Ha! I would recommend letting your first-grader explore and come up with the idea. Allow your child to look around the house and in the cupboards etc. for ideas. It might be 100 toothpicks in a styrofoam ball or 100 Cheerios on a string to make a necklace but I think the important part is to let it be your child coming up with something to make 100.

I hope you have a good time!

Our boys had to do posters. Our first son chose a bubble-gum machine too, but it was a disaster - the bubble-gum kept popping off.

For our second son, we did a tree with 100 leaves. It turned out really cute! My son gathered some pretty leaves from our yard and we used them as a pattern to cut five "magic sponges" (those flat sponges that expand when put in water - they were only $.10 each). We chose one color for each sponge; green, red, yellow, orange, and brown. I painted a tree trunk. We added 100 sponge prints. Voila! It didn't take long at all!

PS. I love the other ideas, especially fi you can bring anything.

I bought a bag of colorful feathers at the store and my son made a bird with 100 feathers. One year we counted out 100 fruit loops and my son glued them onto poster board and made a picture of a boat out of them. I've seen a flower box with 100 paper flowers on popsicle sticks. I've also seen a battle scene with 100 of those little plastic army men glued onto a board.

Good luck,
K.

You have to go check out a book at the library called Miss Bindegarten's 100th day of Kindergarten. It has lots of ideas your son could do and it is such a cute book to read!

Keep a journal or diary. Add daily entries for 100 days. Have a disposable camera and take two pictures every day, child choice...but must choose carefully: one picture that shows what the child did that was the most fun/interesting, and one that shows what he/she did that was scary/or challenging, or at least, a favorite thing. Use the pictures to enhance it for a scrapbook effect, and then write a caption for each picture, with date. Take a picture of the child at the beginning of project, and at various stages throughout, so he/she can see how they change over this period. Have him/her write their name in their own handwriting at the beginning and the end, to place side by side and compare. Measure their height at the beginning and again at the end: how much grown in 3 months. Teeth lost. Put that onto a visual ruler (for scale) to affix into the scrapbook. Have them save small treasures and items that can be glued in, with captions the child writes telling what that item is included for,what it means to him/her.
Put it all into an album for presentation at the end. Add student drawings created during this period, favorite lunch item wrappers, description or picture of a favorite outfit, best friends made that year, sad things that happened, glad things that happened. Include copies of report cards or progress reports or thank you notes or birthday cards received during this time period. In short, the child is learning how to capture and document a snapshot of his/her life during that time. This is over 3 months' worth of days.
Include events both in and out of school, during the week, and at home on weekends.
Teach the child how to choose fonts, sizes, colors (if you have a computer with color printer and they are mature enough to do so), making cutouts of titles, captions, labels, etc. and then rubber-cementing them to the album when he/she is assembling the final product.
This will become a keepsake to enjoy when he/she is an adult, to share with his own children. The child might even want to keep this up over the years if they wind up captivated by such things, and it will reveal stages of growth and personal development over time. It could be a prelude to learning how historians learn about people from the past, valuing and documenting a life with primary sources. (These things are your student's primary sources!) Maybe this would lead to an eventual History Project when older.

I'm a teacher and have really seen some cute ones. They were on poster boards. You could draw 50 smiley faces and glue down the wiggle eyes, if your 1st grader is a girl she might want to put on lipstick and kiss a posterboard 100 times, or you could get a magazine and cute out a certain letter or word and glue it down 100 times. I agree with the other poster that you can give your kiddo ideas but the final product needs to be what he/she wants. I know easier said than done. Good Luck! I can't wait to hear about what you all decide.

My son has to do the same thing and he wanted to do candy, wouldn't know why! So he choose valentine conversation hearts. How we are going to display no sure yet but I'm sure we will have fun. When my daughter was in 1st she wanted to do buttons. My parents have a big jar full of old buttons so we fixed a solid backgound fabric with a floral trim and hot glued the buttons to it. Turned out great. Have a great time!

My son made a necklace of 100 Fruit Loops, grouped in colors in 10's. He's also a big fan of money (aren't we all?!) So I scanned a O. hundred dollar bill and a O. dollar bill. Printed out a large iron on transfer of the hundred dollar bill for the front of a long sleeved white tee shirt and printed out a transfer with O. hundred O. dollar bills for the back of the shirt. Turned out really cute! (This was all done the night BEFORE the hundredth day! Grrrrrr......)

I saw one of the kid's projects this year was 100 lollipops made into a bouquet of flowers - stuck into a flower pot. The lollipops were the little round ones. The whole pot was super cute.

-L.