One hundred days smarter
In most US schools, the 100th day falls in late January or the first half of February, depending on when your year started. It's a favourite in the early grades because the number finally means something real: children have lived every one of those days. This puzzle adds a quiet activity to a day that can get noisy.
Plan your 100th day
- Ask students to bring in a collection of 100 small things, like buttons, cereal or stickers.
- Have them sort their collection into ten groups of ten.
- Practise counting by tens, fives and twos, all the way to 100.
- Write 100 words, read for 100 minutes as a class, or do 100 quick exercises together.
Where this puzzle fits
Use it as a morning starter while children hand in their collections, or as a station between bigger activities. Early finishers can make as many small words as possible from the letters in "one hundred days".
Make it your class's own
Replace a few words with students' names or with your school mascot. For first graders, choose Easy and a smaller grid, and keep the words short. The teal border prints clearly in black and white.