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This past year, I had the AWESOME privilege of having a cart of thirty Ipads to share with my third grade team. #teacherdreamcometrue Let’s be honest for a moment: In the beginning, I was completely intimidated by them… Although I was more than familiar with the technology on a personal level, I NEVER dreamed of using it in the… Read More
Yeah! FSA is over! We finished our last 2 sessions of our state testing this week. My kiddos were pretty fried… but I didn’t want to lose speed in our last 9 weeks of 3rd grade. I knew that this week would need a special kind of book to keep my kiddos engaged… Charlotte’s Web! (affiliate link) (You can check… Read More
Whew! It’s been a busy week, I just *HAVE* to share all the measurement fun we’ve had these past few weeks! Last week, I shared how we worked through understanding capacity like scientists. Then, we were ready to move on to mass! Measuring Mass: Building Background To start, we discussed the units of measurement scientists use to measure the mass,… Read More
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
This was our first week back from break! I had totally forgotten how exhausting teaching can be. I tried to keep this week open for review, but still hit some of those harder skills (cuz we’re in 3rd now) I thought it’d be fun to do a little penguins unit! Activating Our Prior Knowledge on Penguins We started with a… Read More
Do you have High Stakes Testing in your state? Yeah… it makes me shutter too… #teacherproblems My kiddos just finished our SAT-10 testing a few weeks ago and now its the big kids’ turn to take FCAT. FCAT testing means quiet campus, and quiet campus means- at least for this teacher and her students- absolute torture! Do you know how… Read More
