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Thrifty in Third Grade by Cassie Smith

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I love helping grades 1-5 teachers rock math groups! 🚀 Let's make your math time fun and effective! 🌟 Check out my math units and year long curriculum bundles to get everything you need for teaching math in your classroom! www.thriftyinthirdgrade.com/guided-math ✨
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Preview of 3rd Grade Math Interactive Notebook

3rd Grade Math Interactive Notebook

Are you ready to help your 3rd grade students become more independent? This 3rd grade math interactive notebook is a great tool that will empower your students! Instead of coming right to you when they have a question, they will have a tool they can reference first! ✏️ Math interactive notebooks...➡️ Allow your students to become involved in your math lesson.➡️ Provide students with a visual reminder of what they've learned well after your lesson is over.➡️ Give students something to think about
Preview of 4th Grade Math Interactive Notebook

4th Grade Math Interactive Notebook

Are you ready to help your 4th grade students become more independent? This 4th grade math interactive notebook is a great tool that will empower your students! Instead of coming right to you when they have a question, they will have a tool they can reference first! ✏️ Math interactive notebooks...➡️ Allow your students to become involved in your math lesson.➡️ Provide students with a visual reminder of what they've learned well after your lesson is over.➡️ Give students something to think about
Preview of 5th Grade Math Interactive Notebook

5th Grade Math Interactive Notebook

Are you ready to help your 5th grade students become more independent? This 5th grade math interactive notebook is a great tool that will empower your students! Instead of coming right to you when they have a question, they will have a tool they can reference first! ✏️ Math interactive notebooks...➡️ Allow your students to become involved in your math lesson.➡️ Provide students with a visual reminder of what they've learned well after your lesson is over.➡️ Give students something to think about
Preview of Cursive Handwriting Practice Sentences Cursive Writing Sheets Cursive Alphabet

Cursive Handwriting Practice Sentences Cursive Writing Sheets Cursive Alphabet

Are you short on time, but want to teach your students cursive handwriting? This is a set of 180 practice sentences (one for each day!) of positive affirmations. Use these to practice cursive handwriting and to help build a POSITIVE mindset among your students!⭐These cursive sentences can be used as part of your morning work, for growth mindset, or to just simply keep your students encouraged. Use them as full-sized worksheets, or cut them into daily strips.⭐If you've got students who are beggin
Preview of 3rd Grade Math Worksheets Word Problems Games Centers 3rd Grade Math Curriculum

3rd Grade Math Worksheets Word Problems Games Centers 3rd Grade Math Curriculum

This 3rd Grade Math bundle includes everything you need to teach math in your third grade classroom. Whether you're looking for centers, worksheets, editable lesson plans, assessments, or anchor charts--you'll find plenty of materials to help your students grow! Use it as your primary curriculum, or use it as a supplement. The choice is yours! Instead of➡️Lessons that move way too fast for your students (and are just plain old boring!)➡️Constantly searching for activities that match what you
Preview of 3rd Grade Digital Math Google Slides 3rd Grade Math Practice Activities

3rd Grade Digital Math Google Slides 3rd Grade Math Practice Activities

Are you looking for an interactive way to engage your students in your math lesson? These 3rd grade digital math activities are perfect for introducing topics or engaging students in a whole group math game using your interactive whiteboard! You can also assign these slides to your students using Google™ Classroom for independent practice. They can make for a great math center! Getting students to engage with math shouldn’t be this hard!➡️ Shy students staring at their papers...waiting for someo
Preview of Main Idea and Supporting Details Activity Central Idea BUNDLE Graphic Organizer

Main Idea and Supporting Details Activity Central Idea BUNDLE Graphic Organizer

Are your students having trouble identifying the main idea of a paragraph if it's not the first sentence, or super obvious? These main idea and detail sentence sorts can help! Your students will sort sentences from a paragraph on a graphic organizer template. Main idea isn’t always obvious… especially for students!➡️You explaining (again) that the main idea isn’t always the first sentence.➡️That one kid who writes, “I don’t know” when asked to explain their thinking.➡️Graphic organizers that are
Preview of 2nd Grade Math Interactive Notebook

2nd Grade Math Interactive Notebook

Are you ready to help your 2nd grade students become more independent? This 2nd grade math interactive notebook is a great tool that will empower your students! Instead of coming right to you when they have a question, they will have a tool they can reference first! ✏️ Math interactive notebooks...➡️ Allow your students to become involved in your math lesson.➡️ Provide students with a visual reminder of what they've learned well after your lesson is over.➡️ Give students something to think abo
Preview of 3rd Grade Science Units Worksheets Vocabulary Posters Curriculum NGSS Experiment

3rd Grade Science Units Worksheets Vocabulary Posters Curriculum NGSS Experiment

Need engaging science materials for your third grade NGSS lessons? These science units include so many activities and resources that you can use! There are mini books, vocabulary, posters, hands-on activities, passages, and so much more! Your students are full of curiosity, but keeping them engaged while covering everything NGSS? ... That’s a ... challenge. ➡️ You explain magnetic forces, and your students are trying to stick everything to the side of their desks to see if its magnetic.➡️ You
Preview of 4th Grade Math Word Problems Games Centers Worksheets 4th Grade Math Curriculum

4th Grade Math Word Problems Games Centers Worksheets 4th Grade Math Curriculum

This 4th Grade Math bundle includes everything you need to teach math in your fourth grade classroom. Whether you're looking for centers, worksheets, editable lesson plans, assessments, or anchor charts--you'll find plenty of materials to help your students grow! Use it as your primary curriculum, or use it as a supplement. The choice is yours! Instead of➡️Lessons that move way too fast for your students (and are just plain old boring!)➡️Constantly searching for activities that match what you
Preview of Personal Narrative Writing Unit 3rd Grade Graphic Organizer Anchor Charts

Personal Narrative Writing Unit 3rd Grade Graphic Organizer Anchor Charts

Are you looking for a fun way to teach your third grade students how to write personal narratives? This Personal Narrative Writing Unit is perfect for you! It comes with kid-friendly rubrics, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and centers. Plus, there’s even a mentor text to help you get started. ✏️ "Nothing interesting ever happens to me."✏️ "I don’t know where to start."✏️ "Is this enough detail?"Sound familiar? Teaching personal narrative writing can feel like an uphill battle—especially w
Preview of Place Value Relationships 4th Grade 5th Grade Ten Times Greater Decimal Value

Place Value Relationships 4th Grade 5th Grade Ten Times Greater Decimal Value

Are your students struggling with place value relationships? 4.NBT.1 and 5.NBT.1 are hard standards for 4th and 5th grade! If you are teaching ten times greater, less than, and even decimals, then YOU NEED THESE hands-on manipulatives to help your students compare the value of digits and better understand place value relationships! I created these arrow manipulatives to help students SEE how digits can be 10 times, 100 times, 1,000 times, and 10,000 times smaller or larger based on their pla
Preview of 3rd Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational

3rd Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational

Do you want your writing block to be more fun and engaging for your third graders? This bundle includes writing units that are KID-FRIENDLY and make teaching writing a breeze! It's got everything you need to get your students writing narratives, informational reports, and opinion pieces! The writing units bundle includes SIX writing units! ✏️ "I don’t know what to write."✏️ "Is this good enough?"✏️ "How many sentences do I need to write?"Sound familiar? Teaching writing can sometimes feel li
Preview of 5th Grade Math Centers Games Worksheets Word Problems 5th Grade Math Curriculum

5th Grade Math Centers Games Worksheets Word Problems 5th Grade Math Curriculum

This 5th Grade Math bundle includes everything you need to teach math in your fifth grade classroom. Whether you're looking for centers, worksheets, editable lesson plans, assessments, or anchor charts--you'll find plenty of materials to help your students grow! Use it as your primary curriculum, or use it as a supplement. The choice is yours! Instead of➡️Lessons that move way too fast for your students (and are just plain old boring!)➡️Constantly searching for activities that match what you
Preview of 3rd Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Short Reading Passages

3rd Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Short Reading Passages

Are you looking for 3rd grade reading passages and comprehension questions? This is a bundle of all of my 3rd grade reading comprehension lessons. The lessons are aligned to standards, so you can just choose your standard and teach! Each lesson is included in both Google Slides and as a printable resource. Are your 3rd graders still struggling with certain reading standards? ​ Try some targeted practice! ​ Instead of: ➡️passages that test many standards ➡️long, intimidating texts (that ma
Preview of 4th Grade Digital Math Google Slides 4th Grade Math Practice Activities

4th Grade Digital Math Google Slides 4th Grade Math Practice Activities

Are you looking for an interactive way to engage your students in your math lesson? These 4th grade digital math activities are perfect for introducing topics or engaging students in a whole group math game using your interactive whiteboard! You can also assign these slides to your students using Google™ Classroom for independent practice. They can make for a great math center! Getting students to engage with math shouldn’t be this hard!➡️ Shy students staring at their papers...waiting for someo
Preview of Weather and Climate Worksheets Activities Severe Weather Instruments Tools Unit

Weather and Climate Worksheets Activities Severe Weather Instruments Tools Unit

Are you looking for a fun way to teach 3rd grade weather and climate? In this third grade science unit students will learn about types of weather, the water cycle, meteorologists, weather tools, reading the temperature on a thermometer, predicting weather vs. actual weather, graphing weather, severe weather hazards and solutions, and climates of the world. Teaching weather and climate to third graders? Get ready for some stormy distractions! 😄🤦 ➡️ You talk about rain, and a student announces
Preview of Skeletal System Activities - Cut and Paste Skeleton Craft - Skeleton Unit - ELA

Skeletal System Activities - Cut and Paste Skeleton Craft - Skeleton Unit - ELA

Teach your students all about their skeletal system with these interactive resources! This mini-unit makes for a fun activity for Halloween, or any other time of the year! Teaching the skeletal system? Get ready for some bone-rattling student questions!➡️ You explain that bones are alive, and someone gasps, “Wait… so they grow when I sleep?” ➡️ You introduce broken bones, and suddenly kids are competing to share their worst injuries.➡️ You talk about keeping bones strong, and a student asks, “S
Preview of 3rd Grade Inherited Traits Activities Animal Traits Plant & Animal Life Cycles

3rd Grade Inherited Traits Activities Animal Traits Plant & Animal Life Cycles

Are you looking for a fun way to teach 3rd grade inherited traits and life cycles? In this third grade science unit students will learn about plant and animal life cycles and how they have similar stages, inherited traits of plants, animals, and people, plus how the environment can influence traits. This third grade science unit has everything you need to engage your students and learn! There are many high interest activities that your students will love! Teaching inherited traits and life
Preview of 3rd Grade Rounding to the Nearest 10 and 100 Worksheets Activities 3.NBT.1

3rd Grade Rounding to the Nearest 10 and 100 Worksheets Activities 3.NBT.1

Make teaching rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 fun with this 3rd grade hands-on math unit! This 3rd grade math unit covers standard 3.NBT.1. Your students will learn about identifying the tens and hundreds numbers fall between, as well as how to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Instead of➡️Lessons that move way too fast for your students (and are just plain old boring!)➡️Constantly searching for activities that match what you just taught➡️Trying to come up with ways to support A
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About the store

Experience

I love helping grades 1-5 teachers rock math groups! 🚀 Let's make your math time fun and effective! 🌟 Check out my math units and year long curriculum bundles to get everything you need for teaching math in your classroom! www.thriftyinthirdgrade.com/guided-math ✨

Teaching style

High expectations, creativity, and fun!

Awards & shining teacher moments

I am a published author and have been creating teaching curriculum since 2013. In 2018 I began sharing professional development courses, including my best-selling course, Digging Deeper with Guided Math.

My own education history

I graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education.

Additional biographical information

Since becoming a teacher author, I have worked with thousands of teachers and supported them as they teach their district's standards in their classrooms. I also love to share fun teaching ideas and activities for math, reading, writing, and science on my blog www.thriftyinthirdgrade.com!