In this article, the author relates how she designed a math activity she called Beads to use in conjunction with their school's 100th day celebration. Beads has provided her kindergarten class with many opportunities to practice a variety of math skills - counting, patterning, sorting, comparing, making sets, predicting, identifying numerals, sequencing, adding on, learning about place value, estimating, building math vocabulary and more. Beads has allowed her students to keep track of the days in a month and the number of days until the special 100th day arrive.