| Hundred’s Day is so much fun in the early | | | | Digital still pictures are required, yet many |
| grades, but it can also be fun when you add the | | | | students wanted to use the video camera and |
| older children into the celebration. | | | | add the commentary with their comparisons. Both |
| The focus in this activity is comparing how one | | | | are nice! |
| hundred can be big in size, or one hundred can be | | | | In addition, when doing this with a class, the |
| small in size. For instance, one hundred could fit in | | | | younger grades had made collections of one |
| the palm of a hand if you were holding about one | | | | hundred objects in many different ways and |
| hundred staples or one hundred grains of rice. A | | | | upper elementary students photographed these |
| hundred can be huge if you are looking at one | | | | projects and quickly dropped them into the end |
| hundred cars in the parking lot or a pile of a | | | | of the movie for added excitement from the |
| hundred coats. | | | | younger children. One class had to wear their |
| How stinky do you think one hundred shoes might | | | | collections on their T-shirts so those photos were |
| be? | | | | great with the smiling youngsters. Other classes |
| Could you read one hundred books? Even that | | | | had to put them on a poster board, so those |
| could be compared. 100 textbooks versus 100 | | | | photos were easier to take before the day of |
| paperback picture books. Those stacks would be | | | | celebration. |
| an interesting comparison! | | | | The upper elementary classes that made these |
| Upper elementary aged students have a | | | | movies can join in the celebrations and have a |
| spectacular time creating a movie to be shown to | | | | spectacular time while also learning comparative |
| the younger students in honor of Hundred’s | | | | mathematical skills along with photography, digital |
| Day. | | | | movie making, and cooperative teamwork skills. |