As I mentioned in my last post, I have been teaching Virtual for a few weeks now since my school closed until the New Year. I am working hard to keep online teaching before Holiday break similar to how I would end the year in the actual classroom. Today, we worked in winter PJ’s! The […]
Virtual Grinch Day
I started the school year in class with my students in early August and we made it 57 days of social distance schooling until we shut down. We are due to go back on January 7th! I have been teaching online for about three weeks now. I wanted to keep my holiday “fun days” still […]
Verbs Sports Themed Lessons
Looking for some engaging lessons to teach your students about main verbs, helping verbs, linking verbs, and verb tenses? My teaching partner and I created these lessons to excite our students about grammar. We have grammar sets for many of the third grade grammar standards. Verbs is one of our larger packets. We created it […]
Online Teaching Resources and a few ideas.
Three months of teaching third grade online and these are the resources / tools I have loved… I know many of them became free because of COVID. These are the ones I would consider the best and most used in my third grade online classroom!! 1.) FlipGrid – Cannot say enough about how this made […]
Missing My Peeps Art Break
Online learning got you missing your peeps? Share a little kindness and send them a peeps card with this fun craft great for preschool and on. My middle school child will be making one today for her grandmother. Many moons ago when I taught preschool I did this craft with my class… It was a […]
Holy Week Resources
Hello Friends. Besides being a Public School Third Grade Teacher I also have taught Faith Formation at my church for over 10 years. I wanted to repost some Holy Week resources. Many are free and some link to resources I love. I hope you can use them with your own children this week. Resurrection Eggs […]
Third Grade Online Resources For At Home Learning
My school district in PA closed all schools for at least two weeks. Many of the parents of my students asked for resources of online activities and books that would be good for their students to use during this break. I came up with a list of ideas and resources that I thought would be […]
Winter Tell All and 2020 Craft
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 […]