Colorful Resources & Ideas for Teachers with a Teaching Heart
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 […]
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 […]
Have you tried the Chatterpix app.? I had fun experimenting with it with my students this past year and look forward to using it earlier in the year this year. ChatterPix is a free and simple app that lets you take a picture of a person (or any object – like a drawing) and make […]
Last year was my first NERDCAMP for teachers! I did a post on the camp which I am reposting here since camp is only a week away and I am excited. I added some tips to my previous post which are added throughout this post below. Hope to meet you at NERD CAMP!!! I can’t […]
To learn more about this file, click here! One of the skills I work on often in third grade is measurement. We start right off reviewing measurement to the inch and half inch. Once we have gone over fractions on a number line (about mid year), I start going over measuring to the quarter inches. […]
Happy summer teachers! Although school is out, I still spend a couple days (maybe more than a couple) planning for next year. Who can relate to that? However, this is the first summer where I feel like my classroom is pretty much ready. I love it and feel like I do not need to change […]
I love teaching elapsed time in third grade. I use a strategy called; mountains, hills, and rocks to teach it! It works like a dream. You can learn more about the strategy by googling it (the last three pages of my file below also detail the strategy) if you are unfamiliar. Click here to download […]
Happy Halloween Week. Here are three NEW free printables from Teaching Heart. One is a homework pass that I made for my class… I stuck these in the treat bags I made them. Another is a Topper to a treat bag as seen in the first picture. Last is a topper to a religious treat […]
Getting ready to celebrate the 50th day of school with my third grade classroom. I created a free printable that you are welcome to use with your class if you would like. 50th Day is tons of fun to celebrate!! I have a larger post all about what I do in my classroom, if interested […]
I love all the fun you can have with all the Halloween goodies at the Dollar Store and Target. I wanted to share three activities that I used with my third graders over the past few days in math centers. The printables to use with these activities are free to print and links are included. […]