Happy 100 Days of School

Sometimes I feel bad about homeschooling my girls because they miss out on some of the things that were my favorite parts of going to a “brick & mortar” school. One of those things is friends outside our family, and the second is all the fun days that happen at school. 

It has become tradition to do a big celebration on our 100th day of school. I stay up late the night before preparing all sorts of crafts, games, and often a big sign. It also happens to be Groundhog Day which is a more random “holiday” but one that I remember always enjoying as a kid. 

Last night I prepped a special crown for each girl in their favorite color with “Anne (insert child’s name)  is 100 Days smarter”. One craft that we have done every year is stringing 100 fruit loops onto a necklace that they can wear all morning and nibble from. It cracks me up that even Anne, at 10, still finds joy in the fruit loop necklace. 

Under their crown was a beautiful big packet of activities, coloring pages, all related to either 100 days of school  or Groundhog Day. 

This year’s sign included the Groundhog, a red door with Ni Hao (hello in Mandarin), and wishes of warmer days with the apple trees and a happy sun. Also, I did draw this but I was looking at a picture. My girls felt like that was cheating. 

Stringing Tootie Fruities (which we bought at BBs for 50 cents). The cereal was literally the only thing I purchased for this celebration. We had all the other materials on hand already; your celebration doesn’t have to cost a lot to be fun!

We did an interactive game that I really loved. I found a lot of material on the website TeachersPayTeachers.com :: but the ones I used were actually free downloads. The activity the girls are doing in the picture is “Hold a silly face for 100 seconds”. There were tons of very similar ideas that their partner would initial beside once they completed it: such as 100 jumping jacks, stand on one foot for 100 seconds, see how far you get in 100 steps, hold completely still for 100 seconds, etc. 

After being wild they settled down to a writing activity. They had to draw a picture of themselves at 100 years old and fill in the blanks about their 100th birthday party celebration. The girls definitely went the silly route and treated it like a mad lib, but they had a great time. Words are fun! 

They really didn’t want to take a picture in front of the sign but I asked them to. When they were not eager to smile I was literally acting like Stuart (from Mad TV like 100 years ago) saying, “look what I can do! I’m a gazelle, leaping through fields! I just want you to love me and smile!!” Sometimes when I’m weird the girls just roll their eyes, but thankfully they thought it was funny today. But Ruthie was most interested in her cereal necklace. Haha!

It was a really, really great morning. The girls had finished their tiny bit of Friday homework by 10:00 so we spent the rest of the morning and after lunch on the fun stuff. To top off the day, I gave them a break from studying World War 2 and told them to snuggle up and watch a movie together after I put Ruthie down for her nap. 

If you want to find activities for your 100th day of school I would recommend the previously mentioned site: TeachersPayTeachers as well as simply typing into Google, 100 Days of school. No need to reinvent the wheel, the ideas are out there waiting for you. It’s totally up to you how simple or elaborate you want to make the day! Have fun and give yourself a pat on the back! Just 80 more days to go until summer vacation!