100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days

by Bruce Goldstone

It's the 100th day of school--what can you do to celebrate?

Here are 100 different ideas for celebrating this fun and important day. The 100th day is about math--and so much more! From collecting to counting, baking to bouncing, reading to writing, every possible kind of activity is included for 100th day celebrations at home or at school.

 

Bright, detailed photographs and plenty of innovative ideas will make this beautifully designed book the essential, must-have book for every family and classroom.

Genres: Mathematics, Picture Books, Childrens, Nonfiction

48 pages, Hardcover

First published August 3, 2010

About the author

Bruce Goldstone is the author of several books, including 100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days, Great Estimations, Greater Estimations and The Beastly Feast. He has worked in educational publishing for nearly twenty years. Growing up in Ohio, Bruce fell in love with reading and the magic of words, and even back then he knew he wanted to be a writer. Books have always been an important part of his life, from buying used paperbacks to his first job, shelving books as a library page. He now lives in New York City with a plethora of pets including one dog, three parakeets, and an aquarium.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/bruceg...

Reviews

[MYRA JAIN · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was really good and not to spoil it, but it even has a page with 100 languages on how to say hi.( it's the 75th one)

[Tiffany Beedle]

This book is more of an activity book for students to read. This book has 100 days with each day listing an activity to do 100 times. The book contains math as well as other subjects that are fun to learn about. Parts of this book allows the student to learn something, such as words from a different language, learning how to add, exercising, and even fine motor skills.

The audience for this book is children of all ages. This book would fit perfectly for a student who does not like to read because although there are tons of words in this book, it does not seem like there is a lot of reading in the book. This book would also be great for a student who needs an interactive book, this book gives many activities you can do on your own.

I would use this book for class activities. The best way to use this book in a classroom setting would be for the beginning of class to get the students engaged in the activities for the day. I think this is a great idea to show children how many activities there are to do, and doing them 100 times to get the hang of it.

The appeal of this book is the fact that it does not seem like a typical book. Also, since the book is interactive many children tend to sway towards them because there is something else to do besides just reading the book.

Goldstone, Bruce. 100 ways to celebrate 100 days. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Print.

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

•Brief summary
This book is full of 100 ways to celebrate 100 days, from baking, counting, collecting, measuring, recycling, reading, writing, guessing, making, building, stitching, drawing, and so much more.

•Audience
This would probably be a good book for kindergarten to even up to 4th grade, because the things in it do require so thinking.

•Appeal
100 days of school is over whats not to enjoy.

•Implementation
I would use this book the week before or even at the beginning of the school year and have the kids decide what things they think would be fun to do for 100 days of school celebration. Some things would take a while like collecting 100 things so that's why I would start it early so the students have enough time.

Goldstone, B. (2010). 100 ways to celebrate 100 days. New York: Henry Holt and Co..

[Amanda Kaye (More.Reading.Time.Please) · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun book! This book is perfect for any elementary age child, teacher, or parent. Full of color, a variety of activities, and really helps captivate the joy of the 100th day of school. As a teacher I personally found this book enriching. Many times I end up stumped about what to do on the 100th day of school...well not any more! There are activities from building shapes with 100 blocks to stringing 100 cereal loops onto a necklace to saying hello in 100 languages to melting 100 ice cubes and timing how long it would take. Not only will I use the ideas I've read about, but I'm going to read this to my class, and share with my fellow teachers.

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Any kid can find a fun 100th-day project in this book. Of course there are plenty of art and craft projects for arty and crafty kids; but there are also ideas for eco-conscious kids - collect magazines to recycle; kitchen kids can make trail mix out of 100 raisins, peanuts and M&Ms; active kids can stomp 100 times; the writers can write a story with 100 words; the readers can band together and read 100 books; and any kid can borrow a measuring tape or a scale and find out what 100 centimeters looks like or how heavy 100 grams feels.

Full review on Pink Me: http://pinkme.typepad.com/pink-me/201...

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

We got this book primarily on the colorful illustrations of different groupings of 100 throughout the book. We ignored the words & the 100th day of school plot. My kids (6 & 4) loved just looking at the different combinations of 100 and what constitutes it...so basically it was a multiplication / grouping guide for us...which led to 3 days of independent cuisenaire rod play....none of which was my guiding ;)

[Lupine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted this to be something different than it was, so I was disappointed at first. This concept of the 100th day of school is a new one to me and I was hoping for a "activity a day" book like I had when I was a kid. However, I can see how kids might enjoy finding ways to do or make 100 of something. I can see teachers really liking this one.

[Maxwoodliff · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would be great for students that are learning how to count. It starts with 1 and works its way up to 100. I would like to see the numbers also written out as well as just as numerical symbols in the book. I would use this book as a read aloud and project the pictures on my smartboard.

[Shelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for teachers, students and parents to get ideas on how to celebrate the 100th day of school.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas for the "Big 1-0-0" day, for little students and bigger ones, too.

[Alyson (Kid Lit Frenzy) · Rating 4 out of 5]

More of what types of items that you can collect or do as part of 100 day celebrations.

[Laura5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

My new favorite for 100 days.
Love the pictures and the layout of this book.
100 clever, easy (& often free) ways to celebrate 100.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

great, new, original ideas to celebrate 100th day of school with younger students

[Joan Arbogast · Rating 3 out of 5]

A new approach to a familiar topic.

[Miss Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good picture book to teach the concept of numbers.