Items filtered by date: December 2011

• To get your students “wiggles” out and to introduce these activities, tell them they need to wiggle the ants out of their pants for 100 seconds.

• Put on some jazzy music and have them get those ants out while you watch the clock.

Click on the link for a You Tube video of a teenager dancing to a remix of The Ants Go Marching  for the perfect music to jump and wiggle to.

• Later, using a black marker, have students make 10 ant dots in each pocket or patch on the blue jeans for a total of 100 ants on their pants.
• Read Elinor J. Pinczes’ book, One Hundred Hungry Ants. {amazonWS:itemId=0395971233}
• Have your students march down the hall 1-by-1, 2-by-2, 3-by-3, 5-by-5 and finally 10-by-10.

• Ask for their predictions of which way they think will take the longest, shortest or be the easiest or most fun?
• Time how long it takes them.
• A fun song to sing while they accomplish this feat is, “The Ants Go Marching”

You Tube video #1 has this song up to the #3 with really catchy music; I wish they would have done the entire song instead of only 1 minutes worth. Click on the link to check it out.

You Tube video #2 goes through the #5 with children at a playground marching. Count by 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s to whatever number your students are able.

•  Inform your students that eating insects is a delicacy in some countries and that even here in the United States some people eat chocolate covered ants!
  
•  Graph the question: Would you eat a chocolate covered ant?
  
• Pass out a name label to each of your students.

•  Using raisins, have them guesstimate how long they think a line of raisin ants will be, and have them put their name label on the floor.
  
•  Give each student 5 raisins (if you have 20 in your class) and have them begin to lay them down in a line.

•  The student that comes closest to where the 100th raisin ant ended, receives my certificate or whatever you deem appropriate.

•  Pass out the Trace & Write ant worksheets and have students complete them with a variety of colored markers.

•  I’ve also included number cards by 10’s and 5’s that they can trace, cut, and sequence and then turn into Itty Bitty Books.

•  You could also make these into memory match games by printing sets on different colors and having students play with a partner or in a group of 3.

• There’s also a Secret Code 100’s chart for them to figure out the picture by coloring in the appropriate numbers.

• At the end of the day give them an "I survived 100 Day! badge to wear home.
• You could turn these into necklaces by punching a hole in either corner, putting a piece of yarn through and having students string some pony beads on either end.I also have certificates of participation for everyone.

•  Click on the link to view/print 100 Day Ant Activities

I hope your 100 Day celebration is more fun than a summer picnic, simply fANTastic! Thank you for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything that you think others may find helpful. 

7 pages. Students are "O-fish-ally" 100 Days smarter as they O-fish-ally celebrate their 100th Day of school with this simple and inexpensive snack teachers can whip together as a special treat.

"O-fish-ally" 100 Days Smarter!

I LOVE play on words, not that younger students always “get it” but hopefully their parents will, and appreciate a teacher’s efforts at creating special things to make their child’s days at school extra fun.

I was inspired by Mary Beth’s “O-fish-ally” play on words on her Nothing But Country site, where she attached a die cut fish to bags of cinnamon cookie fish, as gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week. Click on the link to see this cute idea.

I revamped this concept for a quick and inexpensive thing teachers can whip together for their students for 100 Day. I chose the colored Goldfish and put 20 in netting.  These tulle circles are sold at The Dollar Store (20 in a pack).

I’ve included a graphing extension that you can do if you want, as there are 4 colors of fish. Tie shut with curling ribbon or yarn and you are done in a jiffy!

I made a poem to go with it, so students can practice their rhyming skills.  There’s one for August as well as September.  Here in Michigan we don’t start ‘til after Labor Day.

I loved this play on words so much that I also made a matching 100 Day certificate.

Many teachers also have 100 Day counting mats where students put 10 things in each one of the circles and then count by 10’s.  Students could munch down 10 goldfish and then use the other 10 fishy crackers for one of their counters on the mat.

Click on the link to print my 100 Day circle counting mat.

Click on the link to print the “O-fish-ally” 100 Days smarter stuff.

Click on the link for other 100 Day freebies including art projects, center activities, bulletin board ideas + an 85-page unit.  Be sure and check back tomorrow for yet another 100 Day idea!

 Whatever you’ve planned for your 100 Day, I hope it’s “golden!”

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"There's a way to do it better! Find it." -Thomas Edison

I give credit for using reinforcement holes to construct a snowman to my fellow teacher Anita.  Mrs. Kosack's has lots of cute ideas for her kindergartners.  I've used reinforcement holes in the past for the various shapes, but this is just too cute. I revamped her concept with this idea just in time for 100 Day!

• Run off the 5x7 circle template on blue construction paper, or if you want your picture’s background bigger like mine, make circle templates from a file folder and students can trace larger banner-size backgrounds, or a room helper can have these traced for younger students.  Make sure to remind students if they are tracing that they need to leave a gap in between the circles.

• Students or a room helper can punch the mini dots or you can use micro sticker dots for this part.

• If you opt to use the hole punched dots, put a dollop of glue on a paper plate.  Using a toothpick, students put tiny dots of glue on their picture.  Using a different toothpick, they put the smallest dot of glue on the tip, to pick up their mini dots on the edge of the circle, and then press them on the little glue specks.

• You can keep things simple for younger students and have them just follow the circle outlines and make only a reinforcement hole snowman. They can then add details with colored chalk.

• You can also stop with the micro dots as shown in the photo, or turn this into a 100-Day activity, and have students dip the end of their pencil into a tiny amount of white paint. Press the eraser on the blue background to make 26 snowflakes. 
• If you’ve followed the amount of dots and reinforcement holes used on my picture they will equal 74.  74 + 26 snowflakes will give students 100 dots to spot!

• These look nice hung on an aluminum foil background on your bulletin board, or punch a hole in either corner, add a yarn tie and hang back-to-back from the ceiling or in a row along the top wall in your hallway.  Brrr-illiant!

Click on the link to view/print the 100 Day Reinforcement Hole snowman patterns, pix and directions from this article.  Would love a comment if you print or download my freebies.  I truly enjoy hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com

Be sure and pop back tomorrow for another 100 Day idea!   Click on the link to view other 100-Day Freebies!

I am joining up with Mrs. Wills from  Mrs. Wills' Kindergarten to donate something to the teachers in Joplin.  Mrs. Wills received this email below:

I teach in Joplin, which made worldwide news last May when our town was cut in half by an F5 tornado.  Many of our elementary schools were destroyed or damaged, and as teachers, we have had a roller coaster year.  I came from a meeting yesterday where many are struggling with the weight of all we are dealing with.  My request is this:  would you be willing to donate a created pack of your choosing to give away at a drawing at our upcoming district Kindergarten grade level meeting?  The meeting is Monday and I am sorry for the short notice but I did not realize until the meeting how down everyone is feeling.

If you're a teacher that has a website that offers items on TPT or Teacher's Notebook, or you have a website like mine, won't you consider donating something to send. How wonderful to just overload them with units/activities and really show them the love of fellow teachers.   Click on the link to head over to Mrs. Wills' to link up and join this WONDERFUL idea!!

I had no idea what unit to send so I thought why not let them have the opportunity to be able to choose what they’d like, so I'm donating 3 subscriptions to TeachWithMe.com Those teachers can download everything from the shopping cart for an entire year. I hope this in some small way helps put a smile on someone's face, I can't even imagine the tremendous loss the people of Joplin must feel.