Teaching third grade

Hello darlings! Amy here from That Teaching Spark! If you are like me, you use some semblance of technology in your classroom. You might be 1:1 with each student having a device or you may have access to a few devices for your entire class! I'm lucky enough to have a class set of chrome carts to share with my grade level of five teachers. We rotate the chrome books around to each other. I also have four devices that I use for math rotations every day! I have to admit, I would be lost without…

If you ask me (and I am pretending that you did), third grade is the BEST grade to teach! Third graders are still young enough to love school, love their teacher and get excited over simple things like coloring. However, they are old enough to be independent workers and thinkers. Most third graders know how to read

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Third grade! Yay! I survived the first two weeks of third grade and finally have the time/energy to tell you a little bit about it. I won’t be going into total detail, so please leave a comment if you have a question! (UPDATE: I wrote a much more detailed post with more links and full ... Read More about The First Week of Third Grade

Real-life third grade classrooms!

Great for teachers new to 3rd grade or new to CCSS! I created this pacing guide to assist me in making sure I teach all the third grade CCSS by the end of the year. Included is a "year-at-a-glance" calendar that I keep on my bulletin board to remind me what students should have mastered and what is coming up. There are also monthly calendars (August-May) that include third grade RL, RI, Language, Writing, and Math standards. These have proved to be very beneficial to me and even my parents…

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

These are the top 10 3rd grade room transformations just for you. They are easy to implement, rigorous, and fun for third graders!

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• THIS 2 PAGE DOCUMENT IS AN OVERVIEW AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ALL THIRD GRADE STANDARDS. YOU CAN FIND THE VERSION WITH ALL STANDARDS HERE: 3rd Grade Common Core Standards Visual Reference- All Common Core Standards •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This skill goal sheet is a two page resource that is a fun and very visual way for the kids and parents to see 3rd grade skills. There is one sheet for ELA and one sheet for math. It can be…