Zelda Zero-100 Days of School

An activity I loved in kindergarten was every 10th day of school. It was a great way to talk about numbers and gave the kiddos many math strategies.  In my classroom it started out with a Zero Hero character.  I would find a parent or a staff person to come in my classroom dressed up as the Zero Hero character. One year it was robe and a crown, and another year it was a superman like outfit.
This became a problem to find a person to be a Zero Hero.

I decided to switch the up some of the ideas for every 10th day of school.
First Zelda Zero could not be a person
It had to continue to be a high interest activity.
I wanted it to include both math, literacy and art.

My first plan was to find the zero character.  The Zero character is a doll.  I found her on clearance at a school store.  She is a Wimzie doll by Cinar Eden LLC and named her Zelda Zero to keep the zero in the name.  She also  had a house made from a box that she lived in between each 10th day of school.

My next plan is to come up with a theme for each month.  It is part of the high interest for the kiddos.  This will include the art project.  My theme did not have to be set in stone, if there was a school happenings for a particular month it would be  to be a part of Zelda Zero's plan. For instance, our school carnival has an auction basket.  Zelda was the spokesman for our class to encourage items.

 Everything was now in place and I was now able to plot it on the calendar for the year.  in fact the kiddos loved it so much we go to 170 days of school.  I save their projects and put all the pages in a student book.

If you want to know more about this fun activity and has the kiddos anticipating  every 10 days of school check out my Zelda Zero product in my store.