100th Day of School Activities

Depending on your school district’s calendar, the 100th day of school will be sometime this month!! Here are some great ideas for celebrating the 100th day milestone!

Xerox a copy of $100 bill and have the kids write what they would buy if they had $100 to spend all around the printed bill.
Collect 100 books to donate to a local library or Boys and Girls club.
Make 100 cards for local nursing home residents
Students draw pictures of themselves when they are 100 years old. They write about what the world will be like that far in the future.
As a class, or individually, write 100 things you are thankful for.
In groups, see what the students can build with 100 Legos.

This site has links to sites all over the internet with more cool ideas to commerate 100th Day! Vicki Blackwell has also compiled a lot of links for teachers to use. See them here.

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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