We made it to the 100th day of school! Can you believe it? I’m not going to lie, the school year was off to a VERY rough start but I pulled through. From getting engaged to wedding planning, principal evaluations to state visits, grad school to blogging and being a new seller on Teachers Pay Teachers, I can say that I definitely had my hands full! In the fall semester I reached a breaking point, I felt like I just couldn’t do it anymore. I cried several times in our storage room, sometimes we just have to cry it out. It was clear to me that I needed to “let go” of somethings, temporarily until I could handle them again. A big part of the reason I felt so stressed was because I have poor time management. Time management is something I really need to work on, so if you have any tips let me know!
So I made it to day 100, how? I have no idea, but I’m happy I made it. You may have seen this on my social media but I’ll say it again. The 100th day was such a joy for me. It was not only a celebration for the kids, but for me as well. Teaching is such a delight, I love it but it also has its difficult times too. The 100th day of school was a kind of renewal for me, it was just the boost I needed for the next 80 days. The 100th day of school was HANDS DOWN the most fun day of school so far since I’ve been working. I’m pretty sure I was more excited than my kids! I’m so HAPPY and THANKFUL that I get to do what I ABSOLUTELY love and what I’m GREAT at every single day! Check out the highlights below from our 100th day of school!
100th Day of School Door Banner
I made this banner for the outside of my door using materials I found at my school. For the words I used ASTROBRIGHTS
100th Day of School Hats
As soon as the students put away their belongings they sat down and decorated their hats. I found these hats from Teaching My Tribe on Teachers Pay Teachers as a freebie. To download this free resource click HERE. We stapled the hats to sentence strips and wrapped them around the student’s heads, they turned out so cute and they loved them!
100th Day of School Dot the Hundred
This is another resource that I found on Teachers Pay Teachers free from Keeping it Captivating. After the students made their hats, they worked on this worksheet using Do A Dot Markers to fill in the empty circles. Then they dotted the circles containing 100. Click HERE to download this freebie.
100th Day of School Song
For those of you who know me, you know I LOVE music and even more I love sharing it with my students. So of course I had to find a song to go with the occasion. I found the song on Pinterest but I don’t know who the original author is. To see the video look below. The lyrics are:
Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho!
100 days ago!
We came to school,
And we’re so cool!
Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho!
100th Day of School Counting Bears
We have a lot of math manipulatives in our classroom so I thought it would be fun to count something that they use all the time. I decided to use counting bears (find them here) since we have a ton of them! I used an old pretzel container to store the bears but I think any container will do. That day we had 16 students so I gave each a counting bear we counted to 84 and then the students each had a turn counting and putting their bear into the container. They enjoyed it a lot.
100th Day of School Music & Movement
My class just loves Jack Hartmann’s videos, they’re educational and fun! We exercise and practice counting with this video once a week, it gets the kids moving and excited about counting. Check out the video below!
100th Day of School Treats
This is yet another freebie I found on Teachers Pay Teachers at Miss Yoder’s Firsties store. I printed this freebie on cardstock and taped on Smarties. I passed them out at the end of the day. Click HERE to download the freebie.
100th Day of School Shirt
Here is one more picture of our 100th day banner, this time with me in it! If you like my shirt go check out The Wright Stuff Chics, I love their stuff! Hopefully this one is still available!
What was your 100th day of school like? Are there any traditions that you do year after year? How do you build up the anticipation earlier?
