Every day at calendar time we add something to our count up to 1,000. The hundreds chart we add a card (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc) and then count them out loud. For the place value chart we add a base ten stick and when we get 10 sticks we regroup for a hundred. When we collect 10 hundreds then we regroup for a thousand cube. With money we add a dime each day, and regroup to a dollar or a ten dollar bill when needed.
In first grade we made a necklace with 100 pony beads. Now in second grade a necklace didn't seem plausible, so I came up with what one kid called the Avatar tail. It has ten strings and each string has 10 tens on it, with each ten being a different color. A few students make the same 10 patterns on each string, other students vary their tens group. When it is all finished there would be 100 tens or 10 hundreds. I love dinosaurs and my classroom theme is dinosaurs so we always attach a dinosaur label.
In first grade it was easy to find songs related to 100 off the internet or blogspots. This year I came up with six songs about one thousand. Here they are (it might be helpful for you to know it was midnight or later when I was writing these songs):
1,000 (One Thousand) {tune: He’s a Jolly Good Fellow}
One thousand has three zeroes
One thousand has three zeroes
One thousand has three zeroes
That makes it a big number.
100 Tens (tune: How much is that doggy in the window?)
100 tens are a thousand.
10 hundreds are one too!
100 tens are a thousand.
10 hundreds are one too!
3 Zeroes (tune: Row, row, row, your boat)
Zero, zero, ze—ro,
One thousand has 3 zeroes!
One zero zero zero
One thousand has 3 zeroes.
How many 10s? (tune: Do you know the muffin man?)
How many tens in a thousand, in a thousand, in a thousand?
How many tens in a thousand?
There are 100 tens.
Counting to 1,000 (tune: Twinkle, twinkle little star)
Counting, counting to one thousand
Counting by 100s is much faster
Counting by tens is 100 numbers
Counting by 100s is only ten
Counting, counting to one thousand,
Please don’t make me count again!
Add a zero (tune: Oh my darlin’ Clementine)
Add a zero, add a zero, add a zero to 100
Adding zero to 100 makes 1,000 don’t you know?
I came up with a treat bag too. When I was in first grade the gift bag had these in it:
100 Days of School!!
100 words (and more) to read (book)
100 notes to write (post-its)
100 bubbles to blow (gum)
100 stickers to show (activity book)
100 things when we share (balloons)
100 flights to spare! (Zero the Hero, sock puppet)
Happy 100 Days of School!
This year I came up with this:
Happy 100 Days of School!!
1,000 words (and more) to read (book)
1,000 notes to write (pen)
1,000 bubbles to blow (gum)
100 tens in beads to show (Avatar tail)
1,000 things when we share (post-its)
$1,000 to show I care! (fake money)
The fake money was a replica of $100 bills that the students had to earn. I received it from DirecTv and I modified it to have the Wrangler seal on it and I signed it like the Treasurer. I have Lunch Bunch every Friday that kids are drawn like a lottery winner. Since 100th Day of School was on Friday I changed the entrance fee. The students had two weeks to earn ten $100 bills to come to Lunch Bunch. They really like eating lunch in the classroom because they won't let me forget to give them their $100 bill when assignment has been completed.
Along with individual students earning $100 bills, the class is earning $100 bills. When, or if, we earn ten $100 bills as a class we will have a party on the 100th Day of School. I was thinking and I am planning on 1,000 Olympics. I am thinking of measuring out different 1,000 things (inches, feet, centimeers, meters, ounces) and have races or tosses. There is some snow out on the school playground so I thought for 1,000 inches we could: toss a snowball, sled race, scooter race, marshmallow blow, crab walk, and egg run. We were going to have a measuring section, money section, and a weighing event.
Since we were counting by 10s I thought of finding things that comes in groups of 10. The internet had started a great list and i kept finding some more. Here is the final list we read together as a class:
What things come in groups of 10? Answer:
Ten fingers
Ten toes
Ten Commandments
Ten Plagues inflicted on Egypt (Exodus 7-12)
Ten digits in a telephone number (435-654-0472)
Ten minutes after 10:00 (new clocks are usually advertised showing this time!)
Taxi Vouchers (come in books of ten)
Tens of thousands
Ten Doors Down
Ten things I love about you
Ten things I hate about you
How To Lose a Guy In Ten Days
Ten dollar bill
Ten barrettes
Ten hair ties
Ten seconds till takeoff
Ten seconds till midnight
Top Ten Lists
Ten cents on the Dollar
Ten Ft Tall
Ten spot
Ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Ten dimes to a dollar
Ten hotdogs in a package
Ten Lords a Leaping
Ten Little Indians
Ten Bowling Pins
Ten Frames per bowling game
Ten Fingers in a handshake
Ten Years in a decade
Ten Decades in 100 years or a century
Ten numbers on a keypad
The Group of Ten (G-10) {refers to the group of countries that have agreed to participate in the General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB)}
PAC-10 Conference
10 Grammy Nominations for Beyonce
10% off sales (or groups of 10% off sales: 30%, 20%)
Ten-der loving care
Ten Provinces in Canada
Ten events in Olympic Decathlon (100-meter run, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1500-meter run)
Ten 10s in 100
Ten 100s in 1,000
In first grade I tried to have a snack that was a shape of a zero, or could make 100 (like a banana, a donut, and a cupcake). I could do the same thing. Donuts are easy and look most like a zero and the donettes size would be perfect. It will be a hectic day, but hopefully one that students will remember.
Just two more days!!
