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For the most part, third grade has been a HUGE learning experience. I often find myself having to “study up” on concepts before I teach them, especially in math. #teacherproblems. But when I saw that capacity was taught in MY third-grade curriculum, I jumped for joy! YEAH! Something I was used to teaching! Capacity (and actually ALL things measurement for that… Read More
One of the hardest concepts to teach in second grade was time. But that challenge was also the most rewarding for me! So when I moved up to third, I figured ALL my 3rds would know how to tell and therefor elapsed time (the third grade standard) would be like a dream boat… Yeah… not so much… #teacherproblems Lucky for… Read More
Even though we just got back from Thanksgiving break and Christmas break is literally just around the corner (how can that be?!) we’re still working through content like it’s no one’s business. Who’s got down time in 3rd grade? #notthisteacher This week is all about solving multi-step word problems. Now, any teacher can tell you that word problems on their… Read More
Can you believe we are already half way through May? Time’s-a-tickin’! We only have 15 more days of school left. But, SHHHH! Don’t tell my kiddos!! Even though summer vacation is just around the corner, we’re still in full on learning mode in the Applicious classroom. For the past few weeks, we’ve been working on linear measurement To help practice… Read More
I am serious guys… I don’t know how I made it to Friday. I.was.DONE.on.Tuesday. Why is it that the week back from a break is always the hardest? This week was especially gruesome due to some not so fun SAT-10 testing we did… Because we spent half the week testing and the other half veggie, I figured this hodge-podege of… Read More
Last week, I blogged about how excited I was to be teaching geometry with no curriculum provided (I was being serious!) Well…we have just finished up our shapes and are moving on to fractions! Now that we are geometry pros, we’re moving in to partitioning shapes. To introduce this concept, I read, “The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions Book” Click the… Read More