Morning work plays a crucial role in my 3rd and 4th grade classroom. It’s what I use for a daily spiral review in math and language arts. Since I’ve been implementing my morning work routine, I’ve seen a significant improvement in students’ overall retention of skills. That retention of skills has reflected in an substantial […]
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Do any of you have one of those topics that you just dread teaching? You know, that topic that you try to put out of your mind as much as possible. For me, that would be elapsed time. It’s the one topic that I wish I could skip. Since that’s not going to happen, I
Since my first year teaching I’ve loved teaching through reading workshop and writing workshop, but I never saw a way to transfer that method of teaching to math. However, I wasn’t too worried about it, because my students appeared to be learning and my test scores looked good. Fast forward three years later and my
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I finally finished my new measurement unit where students measure to the nearest one-fourth inch, and it may very well be my new favorite unit. I’ve always loved teaching measurement, but I didn’t feel like I had a good written plan for teaching it. I always taught piece by piece, but I wanted to have
Geometry for 3rd graders is such a fun unit to teach, because it easily lends itself to hands-on activities. In my Third Grade Geometry Unit there is a major emphasis are the properties and features of quadrilaterals. Like most geometry for 3rd graders resources, there is a heavy emphasis on vocabulary. In the unit, I
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I’ve long since given up the fight in attempting to have a “normal” day on Valentine’s Day. While love may not always be in the air, there’s plenty of chocolate to make up for it! However, I do believe that students can continue to learn while having fun during the madness. I’ve created two different
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