100th Day of School Books

The 100th day celebration for Miss Bindergarten's kindergarten class is just what you'd hope such a celebration to be...whimsical, thoughtful and joyous. This book is exemplary.

This book is an excellent choice for a hundred day of school celebration. My pre-k class loved the story and the colorful pages. We still read it several days later and they still really enjoy it! I would definitely recommend it to anyone!

I love reading this to my first grade class. It gets them excited for the 100th day of school.

Excellent book to continue with the Bindergarten series. Mainly deals with the activities on the 100th day, not the "math" concepts of how to make 100. Of course, for any Kindergartner this day and book are a must!

One of my 4-year-old's absolute favorites, and educational to boot. The illustrations are especially good. We love Miss Bindergarten!

My grade 1-2 students enjoy this book every year. We read it on the 100th day of school and also do lots of the activities in the book. My kids especially enjoy making the hats with 100 things stuck on.

If you you are wanting a book that would grabb you and make you keep reading, read this book. It is just the most exciting book there is. Trust me on this. Have fun reading!

This is easy enough for my 6 year old and her best (7 year old) friend really likes it too. A fun read for the 100th day of school.

I read this book to my class on the 100th day of school every year. It's short, energetic, idea-inspiring, and the kids love the rhyme. It mirrors the way we celebrate the 100th day at our school, so the kids think it's fun to see another class celebrating in a similar way.

I bought this book for my 6 year old daughter who loves all the Biscuit's books. She also enjoyed this one. She loves to read everyday and I just keep adding to her collection! Very happy with purchase!

Your kids will adore this book and its young hero. Jake is the kind of kid who tugs at your heart. He forgets his 100th-Day project, and that's where the fun begins.

This is a story of kindness and love ... but I don't want to give the plot away, so ... see for yourself. You'll love it as much as I do, I'm sure.

Fine description from an author who really understands what kids like to read. And the illustrations are fantastic!

My 4 year old daughter (preschool age) LOVES this book! She asks to read it over and over! Everyone has to bring in 100 "somethings" to school for the 100th day of school celebration. One little boy doesn't know what to bring...he finally decides and what an adventure occurs as a result! It's a great book for school aged, even older preschool kids!

There are 100's of 100 Day books out in the market, but this BOOK is the BEST one by far. The reason why I love this book so much is that it is always every child's worry about what they will do for their collection and this books puts every one at ease. A wonderful, fun book!

Margery Cuyler (Author), Arthur Howard (Illustrator) have done a brilliant job. They have taken an anchor senior management tool that has strong, striding legs on four continents for three decades; and given it a fresh and strikingly relevant slant... dressed up as a kiddies book.

Never mind that the kids get a serious teaching that can last them a life time, if they get under the 100-Day Action Projects skin and grasp the blunder that Mr. Martin (the kindergarten fall-guy in the story) makes, because he is as clueless as most senior managers and many school teachers are, when it comes to cutting-edge project management.

Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) includes the catalytic seeds of 100-Day Action Projects - the way, we at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ taught in Sub Saharan Southern Africa timber, sugar and commodity sectors with massive success in the 1980-2000 era as we waited for Nelson Mandela to restore socio-economic sanity to the sub-continent.

Collaberating with Robert Schaffer High-Impact Consulting: How Clients and Consultants Can Work Together to Achieve Extraordinary Results (Completely Revised and Updated) and more recently Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change thousands of 100-Day Action Projects seeded the thinking of hundreds of soon-to-be managers with 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change.

Jessica's story is artfully simple, as all great teaching is. It would be a shame if senior management around the world missed it while they struggled through 'education' like The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised and Expanded Edition and 'training' like Six Sigma for Dummies which might easily be 'Six Sigma By Dummies For Dummies'.

Our own educational and training programme 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change is simple, straight-forward and successful and it would have saved Jessica (the plucky little heroine in Cuyler and Howard's book/story) all the agonising worries from her 100th Day project.

Of course, if Jassica is the chronic worry wart that she is made out to be
in the book, then she needs help outside of management, something like. I'm OK--You're OK should do the trick.

Before you, as a senior manager, authorise/design the next mangement project in your life, study this book very carefully, before you launch it. Just keep Jessica in mind, and make sure you are not another Mr. Martin full of kind intentions and clueless as to reality.

"100th Day Worries" is a story about a girl who is supposed to bring a collection of one hundred things into school for the 100th day of school. She worries about it up until the night before the 100th day still with no idea about what kind of collection she is going to take into school. The next morning, she was still stumped, so she turned to her family for help. They gave her each groups of ten things to take into school. So her problem was solved and she ended up having the best collection because her collection was "filled with love".
I think that this is a pretty good book. I didn't really think too much of it, but I'm sure many other people think highly of it. I didn't think it had too much of a meaning to it. The plot was pretty well put together, but it wasn't anything to get all hyped up about. Overall, I think it was an ok book.

We first checked this book out of the library and we just love it. The story is so refreshing and Jessica's(the main character and the worrier) family really comes through for her. My five-year-old loves the math concept: the different ways to get to 100. This book reinforces a little learning in a loving and thoughtful way.

I found this book to naturally combine important math concepts (different ways to get 100 items) with the many emotions and experiences that the average child faces. I believe children (and even adults) will find themselves in the pages of this book as they relate to the times when the creative energies are not flowing and the deadlines are fast approaching.

I purchased this book for my sister who is a kindergarten teacher. The class reads a new page everyday. She says that the children love this book and look forward to it each day.

Once in a while you see a picture book that steeps its illustrations in a thick coat of heavy-duty nostalgia. The somewhat recent "Halibut Jackson" had it. Anything by Hanako Wakiyama has it. And Betsy Franco's, "Counting Our Way to the 100th Day" has it too. Now there are plenty of books out there that discuss the 100th day of school for kids. I'm not entirely certain why this is. I mean, it's not as if school gets out on the 100th day or any particular celebration takes place at that time. Still, like its predecessors before it, "Counting Our Way", is goes through the usual rigmarole of checking off each day. As it stands, it's a perfectly nice book but not one that you can separate from its gimmicky premise.

For each day that's counted down in this hefty 48 page tome there are poems of varying lengths. The poems here have one common thread running through them: They must count 100 of something within their lines. A simple sounding premise, Franco exhausts every conceivable thing a child could count. Patchwork quilt squares, ostriches, centipede feet, etc. But since this kind of exercise might prove dull, she spots other poems with thoughtful ponderings on everything from the size of coins to the way to create 100 perfectly planted flowers. By the end, 100 poems have been successfully completed and 100 days counted down.

There's a small flaw with this book. It may count down 100 days from the beginning of school, but it doesn't tend to keep its poems season-centric. Therefore poem #78 shows a kid in shorts while poem #10 is under the impression that dandelions are still in bloom in August. To be fair, though, Franco does tip her hat to a rough approximation of where holidays land. The best use of this book, by far, would be by teachers in schools. They could turn "Counting Our Way to the 100th Day" into a poem-a-day presentation. That way, kids would look eagerly towards hearing what the author has in store for them each and every day they're in the classroom.

But will kids pick up this book on their own? Not so much. I'm not saying it's impossible but I've had two copies of this puppy in my New Books section of my children's room for 2 months, and neither parents nor children have been inclined to nab it. I think it definitely (like all the other 100 day books before it) has its uses, but I cannot imagine the child that checks it out for their own reading pleasure. Just my two cents.