The 100th day of school has become a milestone day in elementary schools across the country. Help your elementary classes celebrate the day with these 100th day of school writing activities.
Have each student write a story that is 100 words long. To make counting easier, have each student count out 20 lines of paper and then write five words of the story on each line.
Give each child a piece of construction paper to make the cover for a book titled 100 Facts About Me. Fold the paper in half and let them write the title and their name and decorate the book. Meanwhile, give each child five pieces of blank typing paper to fold for the inside pages. Assist the children in stapling the pages inside to make a book. Have each child write five facts about herself on each page under topics like: Five foods I like, Five foods I hate, five books I have read, five people that I love, five animals I like, five places I want to visit someday, five words that describe what I look like, and so on until you have twenty topics.
Help each child create a small blank book to collect 100 signatures in a week. At the end of the book each student can write a few sentences explaining how he got the signatures and what he did and did not enjoy about the activity.
Have a 100 book read-a-thon with mini book reports. Provide each group of tables with a basket of books and let children read. Each time a child finishes a book, let him or her fill out a card with the title of the book and a sentence or two describing the book. Continue until at least 100 cards are posted.
As a class, make a list of 100 important people in history. Even if they don’t know the names they can write a description such as “the person who invented the bicycle.” Divide the 100 people among the class, so each child had three or four people. Take a class trip to the library to research their person. Make sure they write down each person’s name, when and where that person lived, and why that person was important. Back in class, hand out blank 5×7 index cards and let each child write a few sentences about their individual with picture symbolizing that person. So Abraham Lincoln may be represented by a stovepipe hat and Henry Ford would have an automobile. Dedicate a bulletin board to the project.
Additional Journal Topics and Writing Prompts
What would you do with 100 dollars?
If you had 100 ice cream cones on a hot day, what would you do?
How would you keep cool if the temperature was 100 degrees?
If you could collect 100 of anything, what would you collect?
What will the world be like 100 years from now?
If you live to be 100 years old, what will your life be like?
