It’s been a nice two weeks off of school and now we must head back and start 2020 with our favorite students! One thing that has really made the start of the year in my classroom run smoothly is giving students time to reflect and share about their winter break. They have so much to […]
Elf Yourself Writing Project
Looking for a fun activity for the last few days of school before winter break? Want to practice friendly writing? I bet your student want to know what their elf name would be? This will help them find the answer to this question… I have the perfect craft and writing activity for you to make […]
IXL Holiday Motivation….
I created this class game for IXL to motivate my students and to make IXL more engaging for them. As they get a 90 smart score on assigned task, they sign a graphic. Once all the graphics are signed we open the mystery envelope to see who won what. One of their favorite prizes is […]
Compound and Complex Sentences
Just finished teaching compound and complex sentences to my third graders. The lessons were out of this world since they were space and star themed. My students learned all about sentences through engaging activities that are centered around a sentence space wars theme. These lessons are fun to teach and the students are engaged and […]
Halloween Story Problem Craft!
I created this to use in my third grade classroom to help students write their own addition and subtraction story problems. I combined it with Envisions Math Topic 3. Page 4 of the PDF has three digit addition with regrouping. However all the other pages could be used to write easier story problems or more […]
An Adventure with Nouns in Third Grade
I had so much fun teaching about nouns last year and look forward to teaching about nouns again this year!!! I used the theme traveling the world when I taught all about the different kinds of nouns. The students even got to take a pretend airline ride around the world as they learned. They loved […]
Back to School Letter from a Parent….
One of the things I ask the parents of my new students to do is to write a letter to their student. I give them the forms before school starts at an informational meeting and they take a minute to write the letter and stick it in their child’s desk. The kids are always excited […]
Class Callbacks and a free sign…
Although I wish summer was longer, there is something that excites me for Back To School. I always get that back to school feeling and it’s a good thing. I feel recharged and excited to meet my new students and see what challenges this year holds. I am ready for year 4 in third grade […]
Lights, Camera, Action… Dialogue
My teaching partner and I had so much fun teaching grammar concepts last year and we are looking forward to another year of grammar fun! If you click here, you can see all the standards we teach and all the fun lessons that go with those standards. Dialogue is a hard concept to teach to […]
Engage WIth Grammar – Free Printables
My teaching partner in crime (Nancy Hobbs at School of Thought Blog) and I just starting rolling out the grammar program (Engage with Grammar) we created and used in our classroom during the 2018-2019 school year. Keep reading and you can get some free grammar printables below!!!! We just got back from presenting our ideas […]