100th Day of School Activities

Are you needing activities for the 100th Day of School? Counting objects to 100 requires a lot of hands on practice and understanding of one-to-one correspondence.  Understanding that the numeral 100 means 100 objects requires even more hands practice.  Here are fun ways to work within 100 by using paint sticks and borders.

 MATERIALS REQUIRED

• Dollar store border
• Lids

I purchased this border at the Dollar Tree in the teacher section.  The border has the numbers 1-10 on it and came with 14 different strips.  The lids are from pouches (baby, toddler food).  You can substitute milk jug lids instead.

LET'S LEARN

• Children can lay the strips out counting by 10's to get to 100 (10 strips).
• Children can put a lid on each number to practice one-to-one correspondence.
• Add 1-2 dice to make it a game.
• Each child rolls and adds that many lids to the 100 strips.  Game is over when they cover all of the numbers.
• Children can play the game as above but use 2 different colored lids. Each child uses one color.  When the number strips are full, the children count their lids to see who has the most.  
• For older children, they can tell how many more or how many less they have than their friend.

 MATERIALS REQUIRED

• 10 paint sticks for working within 100
• 12 paint sticks for working within 120
• Mod Podge
• Paint brush
• Scissors
• Copy of free printable (see below)

DIRECTIONS

• Copy the free printable (see below).
• Cut in strips as seen above.
• Paint the stick with Modge Podge.
• Lay a number strip onto of the painted stick.
• Put another coat of Modge Podge on top of stick.
• Let dry.
• READY TO LEARN!

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

• Children place the sticks in order to make 100.
• Have one child remove a stick.
• The other child has to figure out which set of 10 has been removed.
• Use the extra number strips to 120 (included in the free printable) after children master this skill. 

 SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

• Set out number sticks.
• Children arrange them to make 100.
• Children use different manipulatives or counters to build 100.
• Children can put the sets of 100 objects in plastic bags to compare the sizes of the bags. 

ONE MORE ONE LESS (LEVEL 1)

• Remove a few counters as seen in picture below.
• Child says the number of one of the empty squares (5).
• Child tells what is one less (4) and removes that cube.
• Child tells you what is one more (6) and removes that cube.
• Play continues until all the cubes are removed.

Amazon links are included in this post.

TEN MORE TEN LESS (LEVEL 2)

• Bump it up even more if the children are ready.
• Remove a few counters as seen in the picture above.
• Child says the number of one of the empty squares (27).
• Child tells what number is 10 less than 27 (17) and removes the cube.
• Child tell what number is 10 more than 27 (37) and removes the cube.
• Play continues until all cubes are removed.

SUGGESTED COUNTERS

• Beans
• Pennies
• Nickels
• Dimes
• Bears
• Unifix Cubes
• Linking cubes
• Foam Counters
• Clear Color Counters

When your child has mastered working with the paint sticks to 100, you can added 2 more paint sticks to make the total go to 120.  Download your FREE printables HERE. 

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