Third Grade Lex

UPDATED: Grade levels changed to reflect Common Core Shift. Common Core Standards tagged. This is a hands-on experience with 3-D shapes that your students will love. It would be great to use as an introduction to 3-dimensional figures and a helpful experience for students to use the math vocabulary. Students will explore seven polyhedron listed in the table (possibly as a manipulative math center). While exploring the objects, they will be able to record their findings in the table on the work

Give this survey to your students in the first few weeks of school to learn more about them as readers.

This two-page activity can be used as an introduction to the genre of "Mystery." It gauges what one's students might already know about mysteries, and it allows them to define content-specific words related to the genre as well.

I created this work page as a pre-assessment before I explicitly taught any multiplication lessons to my students. My main goal was to see how my students were able to represent their thinking involving real-world multiplication problems. I allowed them ample work space to answer three separate math stories in order to uncover background knowledge and drive my future instruction. This three-question, simple page can reveal many things about your students without overwhelming them. Some may draw

This simple activity allows students to predict and then record the probability of rolling a 6-sided die 60 times. Student tally and make a line plot of the data. Each student needs the recording sheet, a die, and a pencil. It would be a great addition to a Probability page in an interactive math notebook!

This document could easy be used as homework or a math center. Directions: Students, draw a rectangular array to represent the following groups of objects, write the corresponding equation, and solve for the total. Make sure your arrays are neatly drawn so that you do not miscount! Includes 5 groups of objects to show with arrays, and one for the students to write their own group of objects and solve themselves. Answer key included.

I have created a set of behavior tickets that I use in my classroom with my Rainbow Behavior Clip Chart. The PDF includes two pages of tickets in color and two pages of tickets in greyscale (if you do not have a color printer). Every page has 4 different tickets-- there are two copies of the same reward ticket in each row. I find it easier to cut out and separate this way. These are so much less expensive than stocking a treasure box, and I find them to be more motivating to my students as well

This is a simple assessment that will shed light on whether or not your students know how to write money amounts using a dollar sign and a decimal point (rather than using the "cents" sign). Students need to read the money amount and fill in the correct notation in the blank. For example, 3 quarters = ________.

This download includes directions and a final copy page for an activity that includes two of my favorite things: poetry AND candy! With easy to follow instructions, all of your students (including ones that are not so eager to write) will be asking you if they can make more than one of these poems. This activity takes very little preparation on your part. In fact, you only need to pick up a bag or a few boxes of Conversation Hearts at your grocery store. I have always used this as a writing

This two-question page is designed for your students to problem solve and show their thinking in pictures, numbers, and/or words. It works perfectly as a homework, classwork, or quick assessment while revisiting multiplication concepts.