Grade 3 Colleagues - ELANCO SD

Example of Franklin D Roosevelts fake wall facebook page.

Can your students SUBITIZE? Ideas for developing number sense (so students do not have to count every.single.time.

This is very interesting. I may try some of this with my math group ... I'm looking for ways to build number sense.

This is a great pdf that explains Reciprocal Teaching.

Students are given clues about a word that has a double meaning, and must type in the word. Example: used to measure and someone in charge of a country (ruler)

This is fun. I can't wait to try it with my students.

Another good fraction game - a harder version of top-it

Interactive games for Idioms, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, etc.

Polygon practice matching game, used in small group at center with low math group.

AWESOME LIST OF WEB 2.0 tools to use in the classroom

This is a great collection of math games - telling time, adding & subtracting, etc.

Select a character to learn more about each one

This is a fun game that requires students to first identify the type of sentence and then capitalize and punctuate the sentence.

Thanks Kim! I used this site in the past, but the post reminded me of it - I have a few students that would really benefit from this, thanks!

I have, Who Has? Students are each given a card with an amount of money displayed. Students count the money on their card and then a kind of "around the world" is played. I like to time my students (the first time is painful) - students keep the same cards and play again. I've used this game in many different ways (multiplication, base-10 blocks, etc)

verb tenses - lesson - I noticed some of my students having trouble with keeping the same tense in their writing, used this lesson to bring it to their attention.

Earth Day resources 4/22/11

Ideas for teaching writing

This is a brief article about Shared Writing, shared by Mrs. Hilt, found on twitter - definitely thinking about how I can implement shared writing in my classroom.

Interactive website for introduction and practice of multiplication.

Great game to play for fractions

Shared by Margaret Kidhardt, this is a teachers collection of links related to our Houghton Mifflin series. Lots of great links including: PowerPoints, Vocabulary, skill builders, etc.

Songs, lyrics, worksheets, etc. for math, science, and social studies.

Owen and Mzee - a great video about a hippo and a tortoise who became unlikely friends after the hippo was displaced from the 2004 tsunami.