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100th Day of School Hangman Words
Hangman words for the hundredth day of school: number words, counting terms and celebration words. Play online or print a sheet with an answer key.
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The hundredth day of school usually lands in late January or February, and teachers fill it with counting, collections and a little dress-up. This list follows that day: the number words from twenty to ninety, the math vocabulary behind place value and skip counting, and the party words such as crown, cheer and hooray. Most of the audience is kindergarten through second grade, so a large share of the words are short and phonetic.
Harder entries keep older students and parents working. Hundredth, achievement, estimation and subtraction are long and rely on letters that rarely turn up in the first few guesses, while short words like zero and tally can still trip a player who opens with the wrong vowel. Phrases such as ten frame and skip counting give a whole-class round a clear shape on the board.
76 entries. Our solver needed 2.7 wrong guesses on average: 28 easy, 29 medium and 19 hard. The toughest is zero (9 misses), the quickest eighty (0).
- hundred Easy · 1
- hundredth Medium · 2
- count Hard · 6
- counting Medium · 2
- tally Medium · 3
- skip Hard · 6
- fifty Hard · 5
- forty Hard · 5
- thirty Medium · 4
- twenty Medium · 2
- sixty Medium · 4
- seventy Easy · 1
- eighty Easy · 0
- ninety Easy · 1
- tens Easy · 1
- ones Easy · 1
- hundreds Easy · 1
- digits Hard · 5
- number Medium · 4
- zero Hard · 9
- place Hard · 5
- value Easy · 0
- pattern Medium · 2
- sequence Easy · 0
- groups Hard · 5
- bundle Medium · 2
- straws Medium · 2
- cubes Hard · 7
- beads Hard · 5
- cereal Easy · 1
- necklace Medium · 2
- collection Easy · 1
- estimate Easy · 0
- estimation Easy · 0
- quantity Easy · 1
- addition Easy · 1
- subtraction Easy · 0
- multiply Medium · 3
- century Medium · 3
- centimeter Easy · 0
- chart Medium · 3
- graph Hard · 6
- sort Medium · 3
- pencil Medium · 2
- poster Medium · 3
- classroom Medium · 2
- teacher Easy · 0
- student Easy · 0
- calendar Easy · 0
- january Medium · 3
- february Easy · 1
- days Hard · 5
- milestone Easy · 0
- achievement Easy · 0
- celebrate Easy · 0
- celebration Easy · 0
- hooray Medium · 3
- cheer Easy · 1
- crown Medium · 4
- glasses Medium · 3
- countdown Medium · 3
- together Easy · 1
- one hundred Medium · 2
- hundred chart Medium · 2
- skip counting Hard · 6
- count by tens Hard · 5
- ten frame Hard · 5
- place value Hard · 5
- tally marks Medium · 3
- number line Medium · 4
- hundredth day Hard · 5
- counting collection Easy · 1
- dress up day Hard · 9
- days of school Hard · 8
- ten more Medium · 4
- ten less Medium · 2
Words worth a closer look
- hundredSeven letters with the d appearing twice, once in the middle and once at the end, so a single correct guess fills two spaces. A common spelling slip is hundered, which a round of hangman makes visible.
- fortyFour keeps its u, but forty drops it. This is the number word most often spelled with the extra letter, so it earns a moment of discussion after the round.
- ninetyNine plus ty keeps the e, while ninth drops it. The pair makes a quick spelling comparison for second graders.
- centuryFrom the Latin centum, meaning hundred. A century is one hundred years, which makes it a natural word for a day that celebrates one hundred days.
- tallyTally marks are grouped in fives, four strokes and one across them, which is also a tidy way to keep score during a hangman round.
- zeroStarts with z, the rarest letter on the board. Players who open with vowels will fill e and o and still have no idea what the first letter is.
- februaryA well-known spelling trap, because the first r is often skipped in speech and students write febuary. Worth reviewing when the hundredth day falls near the end of winter.
Using this list in class
Use a few words as a morning-meeting warm-up on the day itself: put up one blank phrase such as hundred chart and let the class guess letters while you count the wrong guesses together. Kindergarten and first grade do well with the short number words, since each one can be matched against a printed number line.
Second grade can take the longer math words. For a station, print the sheet and have pairs play with the answer key, then record the words they solved with tally marks. The number words also set up a spelling lesson: forty drops the u from four, and ninety keeps the e from nine.
Print a 100th Day of School Hangman worksheet
Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.
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Draw eight different words from this list, right here. Same layout, new answer key.
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