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100th Day of School Fun & Owl Themed 100th Day

100th Day Collage done

The 100th Day of School has been one of my favorite days of the year.  There’s so much excitement about this day from kids bringing in their collections of 100 items to dressing up and doing 100’s of activities (not to mention it marks a place on the calendar to remind you that you’re over half-way through the year, exciting for students and teachers alike)!

I love to go all out on the 100th Day and I found these amazing ideas on Pinterest to share.

1.  Build a 100 Cup Structure  How much fun would this be?  You could even have two stations set up and have a little competition to see who could build a structure first that doesn’t fall over.

2.  100 Snack This looks like a tasty treat to pass out to your kiddos using Chips Ahoy and Vienna Fingers. Yum!

3. 100 Hands Heart This is such a neat idea especially being so close to Valentine’s Day!

4. 100 Number Art I have done this for the last few years and love it!  We had a die cut machine last year which made it really easy.  It’s so interesting to see what the kids come up with.

5. 100th Day Door Decor  I love this!  The kids would be so excited to come and see something like this hanging from your door when they first get to school.

6. 100 Fingers Art This is a great activity to practice up on skip counting and to get a little messy!

7. 100 Years Old I just love all of the art you can do with kids that have them imagine themselves when they are 100 years old.

One other favorite activity I’ve done is to flip the idea of dressing up as a 100-year-old (other classrooms did this in my school and I was wanting to change it up a little) and to have the students dress up like it was 100 years ago.

100th Day 100 Years ago

Aren’t these two the cutest?  They are dressing as if they were in 1912.  So darling!!

If you’re looking for fun decorations and activities to do for the 100th Day that are Owl themed I’ve created a “Look Whoo’s 100 Days Smarter!” Celebration Pack!

100th Day Owl Blog Pic

I just love this pack!  It has a fun owl headband, 100 Days Smarter Certificates, Owl Activity Packet, Owl Badges, 100th Day Banner and more!

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100th Day Paisley headband blogI couldn’t resist adding a picture of the cutest little model showing off the 100th Day Headband!

Happy 100th Day of School to all of you.  What’s your favorite 100th Day Activity?

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Nativity Themed Math Centers

Welcome Baby Jesus {Nativity Themed Math Centers and Activities} Religious/Bible Based Centers

I absolutely ENJOY Math Centers!  I know the kids do too.  There’s something so great about turning the concepts you’re learning about into more of a fun game, then a required workbook page.

During the year it seems easy to find centers based on Seasons and Holidays, but I find it difficult to find many Bible based centers.  That’s why I came up with “Welcome Baby Jesus! {Nativity Themed Math Centers and Activities}”.  These are fun centers that hit Math concepts that students need to be learning in 1st and 2nd Grades and have the characters represented from the first Christmas like Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, Shepherds and more.

Bible based center activities

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

* “Welcome Baby Jesus!” Nativity Counting Mini-Book and Class Book Idea

* Magi Skip Counting (Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s)

* Sheepish Doubles (Adding doubles 1-9)

*“Time” to Follow the Star (Telling time to the hour and half hour)

* Silent Night Sums (Addition)

* Donkey Differences (Subtraction)

*Addition and Subtraction True and False

The fun thing is, these don’t even have to be only for your students, you can give them for your own kids, grandkids, church kids.

Enjoy sharing the greatest story on earth about Jesus’ birth in a fun, cross-curricular way!

Blessings,

Michaela Peterson 🙂

Fire Safety Month Craftivity, Freebie + Guest Post

Fire Safety Month Craft

October is Fire Safety month!  I’m so glad they do this in our elementary schools and make it such a priority to help our young people be prepared in the case of an emergency.  It is especially great if local firefighters can come to your school (or you can visit a station) and your students can meet these outstanding individuals.  I always found that it eased some of the fears about those scary sirens and masks, and helped students realize that firefighters are their friends and heroes!  I personally always thought it was a great idea for them to speak to the kids while wearing their masks, just in case they are in a real fire and ever hear that kind of “Darth Vader” type voice.

Fire Safety Book

“Fire! Fire!” By Gail Gibbons An oldie but a goodie for teaching about fire safety!

I have created a Firefighter Hero Craftivity that students can make that focuses on the hero aspect of firefighters.  This unit can be used for remembering 9/11, Fire Safety Month, or even when studying community helpers!  It comes with templates for each aspect of the firefighter as well as My Hero is… writing prompt pages.

Firefighter Hero Craft

I also have a fire safety freebie for you!  It’s a Fire Safety Pledge Jumbo Bookmark, great for reviewing fire safety with your kids.

Fire Safety Bookmarks

FREE Fire Safety Bookmarks

One last thing, I had the HONOR of helping with a guest post on the Beginner Beans Blog today.  Trina is doing a 31 day series on letting your lil’ light shine.  We posted today on how to turn a bad day around.  Head on over to Beginner Beans and check it out.  We would LOVE to hear your tips for turning those bad days into good ones (teacher’s should be pros at this!), so go ahead and leave some comment love while you’re there.

Turn a bad day around Beginner Beans

How do you celebrate Fire Safety Month in your classroom or home school?? Leave a comment and share with us.

2 HUGE Teacher Giveaways!

TpT Giveaway

Who doesn’t love a good giveaway??? Umm….and who doesn’t love 2 HUGE giveaways??  I have the privilege of being a part of 2 awesome giveaways that are going on right now.  You have the opportunity to win 2 different items of your choice from my Teachers Pay Teachers store and over 63 different items combined from these 2 sites. You have 3 more days to enter. Wahoo!

First, head on over to Liv to Teach for her 42 product 500 Followers Giveaway!

Liv to Teach Giveaway

Liv to Teach Giveaway!

OK, I hope you’ve saved some energy, now head over to Teacher’s Toolkit.  Oooo I hope you win!

Teacher's Toolkit Giveaway

Teacher’s Toolkit 100 Followers Giveaway

Love isn’t love, ’til you give it away!  i{heart}giving!  Be on the lookout for some more great giveaways, and chances that you can be involved in some great outreach/giving projects for some schools in need.