Nothing is off limits...even the ceiling. A cloud hovers over each group of student. This helps with classroom management. I call "Monday table, Tuesday table, etc."

The shape on each one correlates to a basket that holds math supplies for each table.

Our Polygon Creations

100th Day Fun!

One of my FAVORITE 100th day activities is to read One Hundred Hungry Ants. I give each table some Fruit Loops. As we read, we STOP and group the Fruit Loops like the ants in the story. We grouped our Fruit Loops into 100 groups of 1, 2 groups of 50, 4 groups of 25, 5 groups of 20 and 10 groups of 10. It is a fun and meaningful way to develop an understanding of "group." Of course, we ate the "ants" at the end.

We also created 100 day hats, sang lots of 100 day songs and wrote about how we would spend $100. A day full of fun learning. We're 100 days smarter!

100th day of school will be here soon!

100^th DAY of SCHOOL

Here are some ideas I have collected over the years from various locations.

  I do not claim ownership of any of these ideas.  

*100 piece puzzles

*fruit loop graph- count out 100 fruit loops and graph them according to color

*be silent for 100 seconds

*Writing:

If I had $100 dollars

I could eat 100 ______

In 100 years, _________  (crumple paper and draw a portrait of me at 100 years old)

*Create a picture using 100 sticker dots

*Count by 2s, 5s, 10s to 100

*Walk 100 steps

*100 day poem and song

*Write 100 words

*BOOK: 3 pages in the book:

100 days ago, I could not _________ but now I can!

 Title: 100 Days Smarter

*100 stamp book (10 pages with 10 stamps each)

*Read the story The Wolf's Chicken Stew. The wolf tries to fatten up the chicken by cooking 100 donuts, pancakes, etc. Serve 100 pancakes or doughnuts

*Read the book 100 Hungry Ants

More ideas...

*Give out hundreds counting charts. Students work in small groups. Using a die, each child takes a turn throwing the die and coloring their chart the same number as is shown on the die for their turn e.g. roll 5, color the first 5 squares, next turn, roll 3, color next 3 squares etc. The first child to get to 100, filling the entire grid is the winner. No prizes but applause from the group

Snack - Use one pretzel and two oval crackers to make the numeral "100". Using a oval template a little smaller than the cracker, cut two pieces of cheese to go on the cracker.

100 Day Crowns:  Cut a crown to fit each child's head.  Have 10 rubber stamps and stamp pads available. Each child stamps each of the 10 stamps 10 times. Then children can count the sets of 10 by tens to 100.  Children wear their 100 crown during the 100th day celebration.

Click here for a 1oo Days Song/Poem to use for shared reading...

Subtraction Sliders

copyright 2011 Leslie Bussey

What's the Difference?

 This was a "2 a.m. can't sleep" idea that I am so excited about ...I call them subtraction sliders!  I used pipe cleaners, beads, washers and a metal ring to hold it all together.  The point is for students to slide the beads to subtract.  Let's say the number sentence is 15-4 then the students would find the "15" slider and slide 4 away to find the difference.  Easy to make... takes a little time, but easy.  I am excited for students to have this hands-on visual to use for subtracting.  I am going to have a parent volunteer make a few more for me to use with my class.  

   

Math "Spin the Wheels"

What a TERRIFIC Target find! 

The top is for addition and the bottom for subtraction.

You spin the wheels to add and subtract.

They were 4.99 each and in the stationary

and school supplies area.

Math Rocks: Place Value Song

[Video] Math Rocks! Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

Click link above (it says, Video...) 
to watch a really fun song about Place Value, hundreds, tens, ones place.  

Ah-oooooooooooooooooo  (After you watch, you will know what that means! haha)
Found on You Tube

Teacher Tipster (Power Towers)

OK- I can't wait to try this! So cool. you gotta love this guy!

Memory of the Day

Hey, hey, what ya going to say, what you going to say when mom and dad ask what did you do in school today?  At the end of each day, I chant this with the kids, we discuss our day, and then the captain of the day selects a memory from the day.  The memory needs to be something new that we did or learned.  I write it on a sticky note.  This is our growing timeline/number line.

Math GAME Choice Menu

We use the Everyday Math Program.  I made up the rules with the GAME acronym:

G= Get started quickly, A=Always take turns, M= Manners, E= End and clean up when bell rings.  I laminated a bunch of sentence strips.  I write the games on the strips as we learn them.  This way, I can erase and use it again each year.