100 School Days: A Charming Story About Counting to 100 and Celebrating a Classroom Milestone for Kids

Mrs. Madoff's Class

by Anne Rockwell, Lizzy Rockwell (Illustrator)

Mrs. Madoff's class is counting pennies -- one for every day of school. When they get to 10 pennies, they know they've been going to school for 10 days. What will happen when they get to 100? How will they celebrate Day 100, and what will they do with their 100 pennies?

Genres: Picture Books, School, Mathematics, Childrens, Nonfiction, Counting, Number

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Cassidy Ringle]

This book is about student bring in a penny a day until they read the 100th day. Once it got to ten they counted and student brought in 10 pieces of something, once it got to twenty they counted and a student brought in 20 pieces of something and so on until 100. The students in this book were also different races so it is a very inclusive book. Once they got 100 pennies they sent the money to a place that had just had a natural disaster occur. I would include this in my library.

[Lacy | literary_lacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a cute story about going to school for 100 days! My daughter loves books about school, and this one was no exception!

This book also teaches counting as the kids bring things to school each day until they eventually get to 100. This is a great book for school-ages children, especially ones in Kindergarten.

[Clare D · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your looking for inspiration for making your hundredth day celebrations about giving to others, this is it! I like how the teacher celebrates by counting in increments of ten too.

[Olivia Repass]

I love the 100th day of school growing up because we got to do fun activities and this book would be a great one to share. The story includes fun ways to celebrate or to track the days of school!

[Natalie Traylor]

One-hundred School Days is a cute story about children in a young classroom who are learning to count. One the first day of school, the narrator is chosen to put one penny in a jar to represent day one. Each day, another student adds a penny. Every ten days, one student brings that many of an object to share with the class. On the hundredth day, all of the students bring in one hundred of some type of snack. The class mixes the snacks together and they all share. The teacher then tells the class that all of the pennies they have added to the jar are going to help people affected by the hurricane.

One way I would use this book in my classroom is to teach my kindergartens how to count by ones and tens to one hundred. A way to demonstrate this would be to have beans represent the ones place and cups to represent the tens place. They would use the book to help them count the beans aloud.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book... it was neat how the teacher started helping the class with the 1st day of school count down the days of school with pennies in a jar and in the end donating the money. And throughout the book the children would bring 10, 20, 30 etc amount of things when that day came up and shared with the class.

I good helpful 'counting' book as there are pictures of the items the kids bring in (20 matchbox cars, 40 leaves etc) I took advantage of them and practiced counting to 10 with my 2 year old grandbaby pointing to each item as we counted. So youcan use this book in a variety of ways with the nicely illustrations it has.

[Eva-Marie Nevarez · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'd only recommend this to a child learning to count. Otherwise it's going to get boring. Julia's been counting for years now and I didn't actually look through the story before bringing it home. Had I known it was a "counting" book I would have passed on it.
It's not a counting book like the usual though - this is slightly different which is always a good thing when you're just starting to open a child up to the world of numbers and counting.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great diverse cast of school children and adults, and a great way to reinforce counting by 10's and to 100, which is what we are working on right now with our 4 year old. And there are a lot of fun pictures of items your child can count (For 90, there is a 90-piece jigsaw puzzle pictured, and I was very impressed that it actually had 90 pieces even though it was only half put together and so pieces were scattered everywhere!).

[Devone Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

100 School Days teaches kids to count by 10's to 100. For every tenth day of school, a different student brings in that number of items to share with the class. I thought this was a fun idea to someday incorporate this into a classroom while teaching children counting by 10's to 100. I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would because the way idea the author suggests to teach numbers is unique and fun.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every year in elementary school, we always celebrated the 100th day of school. This book would be great to go along and read on the 100th day. Students bring in 100 pennies, 100 ballons, 100 toy cars, etc. You could have students bring in a 100 of something to share with the class, just like they did in the book!

[Hannah Starnes]

There are so many things you can do with this book in Kindergarten and First grade. Because 100 days of school is always a big event, you can use it to teach students how to count to 100 by 1's and 10's in so many ways. You can also correlate activities to make it more fun and still have students learn to count.

[Gloria]

This could be used on the 100th day of school. It would be used to give ideas of what 100 things children could bring to count. The Kindergarten classroom I was in for my internship used 100 counting bears to count. The kids had fun. Children could also practice counting by 10s or 5s.

[Ashley Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to read to your students about counting by 10s. I would ask the student what comes next if we are counting by 10s after 10. I would also use it to help celebrate the 100th day of school.

[Sebin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book that counts the school days. This book counts by ten's to 100. This can be used to teach students to count to 100 by ten's and do the activity done in book by Mrs. Madoff's classroom where students brought in 100 things on the 100th day of school *

[Ali Hembree · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to use with 3rd- 5th grade math students.

On the hundredth day of school students bring in different items. This book works on grouping the 100 objects into different number groups as well as counting to 100.

[Brooke Jones]

100 School days is about a classroom who celebrates the days as they count to get to the 100th day of school. I could use this book by helping to count by tens in my second or first grade class during math.

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun way to mark the 100th for kinders. Lots of fun demonstrations of numbers, and not just the numbers of food treats in bags of varying sizes. And it ends with a fun way to use the 100 pennies they collected.

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[Christine Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

The students in Mrs. Madoff's class keep track of the days they have been in school, marking each interval of ten, until they reach 100 days. www.hcpl.net

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considering doing a 100 School Days penny project with BB when he starts Kindergarten in the fall.

[Isela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book can make students count in groups of 10s. Such as 10 pennies, 20 matchboxes ... This book gives different ideas that students can do after every 10 days.

[Glennisha]

Great book to read especially when its the 100th day of school. It helps kids with counting. The can count the pennies in the book and in you class you can do the same as in the book

[Amanda Davenport · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was the best of the 3 i ordered, but there's gotta be something better

[Chloe Terry]

This would be used for a kindergarten math lesson. It would teach how to count by ones and tens to one hundred.

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for kindergarten or first grade. It is a fun way to practice how to count to 100.

[Bethe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Students count the days by tens until the 100th day of school for a celebration. First grade noticed the pattern quickly and especially enjoyed the 100 pieces of snacks at the end!

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

You could easily turn this page into activities every 10 days of school - wonderful book!