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School Delights: The Hundred Point Challenge


An Award Winning Author's 100 Point Short Term Project Challenge

 

As school starts, parents all over the area are asking what can I do to keep my children mentally active and challenged all year. The document that follows was attached to our school report card and parents were asked to participate in 'The One Hundred Point Challenge' with their children.

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Copy the challenges below and put a five or checkmark next to each project completed. Don't do this challenge as a task. The ideas are meant to be enjoyable and enriching challenges for the whole family.

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Here is what was said in the introduction to parents and students: Your creative projects challenge for the fall is to accumulate 100 points by scoring five points for each mission/project that you complete below. On December 1, when you arrive in your new classroom, you will discuss, write about, and illustrate your five best adventures.

 

Try to challenge yourself by selecting the adventures that will really bring out your spirit of adventure, artistic products, best critical thinking, and unique problem solving skills.

 

1. Visit a museum 1. Create an ABC Book for older children

2. Read Newbery Book 2. Write five humorous rules for home/school

3. Draw Caldecott cover 3. Become one page dictionary expert

4. Rate summer movie 4. Investigate/follow newspaper story

5. Keep weekly journal 5. Conduct interview with the president/wife

 

6. Tutor friend/sibling 6. Create ad poster for your favorite store

7. Design an exercise 7. Make mini-mural for local building

8. Compose song 8. Develop a creative survey

9. Walk someone’s pet 9. Review myth/legend, then change it

10. Design building/bridge/train 10. Design three story starters

 

11. Visit a library three times 11. Outline a creative summer day

12. Record book talk video 12. Design a puppet show for kids

13. Praise yourself in written form 13. Design super hero/heroine

14. Send your favorite author an Email 14. Illustrate five member Hall of Fame

15. Create concrete poem/drawing 15. Design weird eye chart

16. Plant flower/tree 16. Create a new phone app

17. Attend local workshop 17. Create new 4-person Mt. Rushmore

18. Memorize famous speech 18. Sing two songs

19. Design a theme park ride 19 Research how something works

20. Create an educational game 20. Design a community project

 

21. Write imaginary autobiography 21. Construct activity time line

22. Make summer beach product 22. Make perfect day diorama

23. Plan an historical trip 23. Create/illustrate original insect

24. Hug a parent twice in a day 24. Research a modern inventor

25. Author a fashion newsletter 25. Draw a view from your house

 

26. Write community newsletter 26. Chart sporting event

27. Invent labor saving device 27. Conduct a local Clean-up Day

28. Serve a new dessert 28. Write an environmental group

29. Illustrate a comic book 29. Design new award

30. Plan a new holiday 30. Compose 5 quiz show ideas or questions

 

31. Start a club 31. Form an idea for a radio program

32. Make a craft 32. Create a finger paint portrait

33. Design a greeting card poem 33. Make a collage of historical sites

34. Send a letter in code 34. Invent a “your city” tourism ad

35. Learn/teach new dance step 35. Draw a self- portrait

 

More of Mr. Palumbo's FREE award winning ideas can be found at (aimtjp.wikispaces.com).

 

His column on movies, books, television, and the arts can be found at thomasjpalumbo.wordpress.com.

 


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