Calendar Math

In third grade there are so many standards that needs to be met by the end of the school year particularly in Math.

I have found that daily review of the math standards has been beneficial to my students in mastering 3rd Grade Math Standards.

This is how I have displayed the cards that I chose to review in my classroom.

This resource can be used as a daily review on specific standards.

Each poster can be printed on card stock and placed in a page protector, or it can be laminated for use with expo markers . These posters can also be used with the other standards posters as spiral review of all the standards during morning meeting.

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Organize students in cooperative learning teams 

I organize my students heterogeneously.  The teams are grouped according to achievement levels. 

Place headers over each group

I printed a copy of an owl on card stock paper and cut it out. Next, I punched a hole on top of the card stock and placed yarn through it and hung it from the ceiling over each group.  

You can download headers for free here:

Place clothespins onto group headers 

I purchased clothespins from the dollar store and jazzed it up a little with paint and glitter.  I chose two different colors for different rewards.  The green pin is given for working cooperatively together.  The yellow pin is given when students do exceptionally well on a specific task.  

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Bat Themed Activity:

This activity incorporates sequencing, vocabulary and Main Idea and Details.
After reading Bat Loves the Night, I gave my students a list of words to include in their writing activity.  They had to use transition words to tell what happens to a bat when it wakes up.  This was a lot of fun as they sat with other students to come up with ideas to include the vocabulary words properly in their writing.  When they were all finished, they highlighted their vocabulary words and I hung them up on the bulletin board.

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Have you struggled with teaching RL 3.7 or RL 2.7?   I recently taught this skill.  I used a mentor text to assist my students in understanding this standard.  I chose the story Dear Mrs. LaRue.  This is a great story with wonderful illustrations that are easy to understand.  I made large copies of the pages in the story for my students.  I had students work in pairs.    The students also used post its to write down their thoughts of each illustration.  Later they talked about their thoughts on each illustration and shared it with the class.  Finally, I posted it under the anchor chart that was introduced to them earlier in the week.

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How many of you are currently teaching elapsed time to your students and are getting blank faces as you pour your heart out to teach this standard?  Well, my students were struggling with elapsed time tremendously.  I had my students make their own clocks, work with a partner to place the correct numbers on their clocks and even introduced counting by fives while jumping like a frog to learn the elapsed time.  None of those strategies worked.  

I introduced finding the elapsed time on a number line and chart and my students faces began to light up as these strategies worked for them.  I worked on using a number line and chart for a few days. They practiced after I modeled the two strategies for them on their own practice pages. 

Then, I had them find the elapsed time with a partner on a partner sheet.  They absolutely lit up when they had to work with a partner.  The rule was that they can only use one paper and one pencil. 
While the other student was working they had to look on and either cheer on or provide assistance to their partner.  When they were all done they had to give a cheer to let me know that they were finished.  This was a great lesson.  I felt really proud of my students because they put forth a lot of effort on this lesson and finally got it!  You can click here for the activities I used with my students.

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