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Create the spirit of "can-do" in your classroom! Discuss with each child his/her strengths and what they CAN DO!

Allow each child to draw a picture of something that makes them happy, feel successful and certainly something they can do! Mount the drawings on construction paper. Challenge each student to write a sentence or story on the back. Decorate an old popcorn can or box with the words "Kids Can Do!" Place drawings in the container. Day after day, read, discover and discuss what each child can do. If desired, choose a child to share and instruct the class on his/her special strength or ability.

Create a special spot in your room to display the drawing and allow each student to shine... a bulletin board, area over the door, in the hallway... whatever space can be given to recognize children who "CAN DO!"

Count 1, 2, 3
Endless 100 day counting activities can be incorporated into learning important math facts and skills!

My 100 Autographs
By: _____________

Name writing, recognition and penmanship continue through the early years! Have a volunteer cut enough strips of colored paper for each child to have over one hundred. Place strips in individual baggies for each child.

Begin this activity, by creating an "Autograph" Book for each child in the classroom. Allow each child to collect the "autographs" of every child in their room. Discuss the meaning of autograph and allow each child to be the star for the moment.

After collecting the classroom autographs, challenge the children to begin thinking of ALL the names they could collect! Have students collect autographs at home, during lunch or after school. Have students recount by 1's, 5's and 10's.

For additional practice, names could be sorted by color of strips, first letters, number of letters, vowels, consonants, syllables, etc.

After sorting, you may bind each book in a variety of ways. By using a hole punch and yarn or metal ring or stapling in groups of five, ten, twenty.