Keith Knott

After over 20 years of teaching 3rd grade, I have put together what I think are the most successful talking points that all kids can connect to through this collection of 20 Social Stories. I hope my expertise can provide your class with effective talking points to teach kindness, cooperation, self care, respect, responsibility, problem solving, and advocacy. These 3-5 minute read alouds can make all the difference in setting the tone for the day, responding to misbehaviors, and creating a resp

The ultimate time saver - report card comments at your finger tips! Take my years' crafted refined menu for report card comments for elementary school - good for 2nd-5th grade. Teammates ask me for these every year. I have them separated by reporting quarter. Choose from a selection of Effort, Glow, and Grow comments. Easy color coding allows you to see the types of comments students each have as you copy and paste for your own students. I have refined the comments so that you only have to

After over 20 years of teaching 3rd grade, I have put together what I think are the most successful talking points that all kids can connect to through this collection of 20 Social Stories. I hope my expertise can provide your class with effective talking points to teach kindness, cooperation, self care, respect, responsibility, problem solving, and advocacy. These 3-5 minute reads can make all the difference in setting the tone for the day, responding to behaviors, and creating a responsive cl

Roll the dice to create a multiplication problem (5x4). Students shade in a 4x5 array. Then their partner rolls and shades on their paper. Who can get to a total product of 400 first?

Help your students create a great final representation of a graph with this graphic organizer starting with survey ideas, a survey question, revisiting it, and then surveying the class to gather data. Students then do a draft graph. A great tool in the math workshop before creating the final graph representation!

This is packet for the Shopping Spree game (3 digit version)! Be sure to also download the "Shopping Spree Recording Sheet" or the Shopping Spree game (6 digit version) This math workshop activity allows students to tactfully use $1, $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000 bills to purchase fun items. Students use place value purchase items on the shopping spree. Students can add up the total value, and count money by ones, tens, hundred, etc, and then write a "check" for the final amount.

Students use this easy to read graphic organizer and digit cards to create, read, write, and decompose numbers in expanded form. This activity includes digit cards for students to cut out and have a deck of cards to draw from and create 3-digit, 4-digit, or 6-digit numbers. Students write the number in standard form, expanded form, and word form. Great for a math center practice! Differentiated by how many cards you draw to make up to a 6-digit number. Number cards are placed in the boxes

Design your own bird! By designing your own bird beak and feet, students can illustrate a bird that is best adapted to its environment. The questions dig deeper into rigor into the understanding of how a bird's beak and feet are best adapted to what it eats and where it lives. Great for a culminating project during an animal adaptations unit.

This is packet for the Shopping Spree game (6 digit version)! Be sure to also download the "Shopping Spree Recording Sheet" or the Shopping Spree game (3 digit version) This math workshop activity allows students to tactfully use $1, $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000 bills to purchase fun items. Students use place value purchase items on the shopping spree. Students can add up the total value, and count money by ones, tens, hundred, etc, and then write a "check" for the final amount. Stu

Students can practice using money in 2nd or 3rd grade with this interactive activity. Students can buy a variety of stickers at the cost of your choice. Simply put a collection of stickers in a bin for the seller to sell to the buyer. The seller uses one side of this sheet to sell the stickers. The buyer uses the other side of the sheet to figure out cost and change. All you need is a stickers!

Clean organized visual for comparing numbers by place value. Students can use this in math workshop, and compare 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 digits. Students can use digit cards or dice.

This is recording sheet for the Shopping Spree game! Be sure to also download the "Shopping Spree Game" (either the 3 digit version or the six digit version). This math workshop activity allows students to tactfully use $1, $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000 bills to purchase fun items. Students use place value purchase items on the shopping spree. Students can add up the total value, and count money by ones, tens, hundred, etc, and then write a "check" for the final amount. Students

Teach 3rd grade and want a fun social studies review game? Try my Ancient Greece and Rome Jeopardy! I have tied in the Virginia standards to these units. All you need to do is be a host!

3 pages worth of class jobs to print out, magnetize, and place beside student names. Enjoy!

Students use dice to roll a 4 digit number, then round that number to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand! Great way to practice rounding within!

Need some extra multiplication and division story problems to add to your math workshop in 3rd grade? Don't waste your time typing up your own, just take 4 pages of story problems for $1.00!