Singular and Plural Concentration Game -- Freebie!

Here is a fun freebie for your kids to use to practice singular and plural forms of words. These words are the Spelling words for "What About Me?" in the Third Grade Scott Foresman Reading Street basal, but can be used as a review no matter what series you are using. If you download, please leave me a comment......and think about clicking on my Limeades for Learning project at the top right of my blog!

Steps of the Writing Process Poster for Writing Notebook

Here's a new freebie for you! My kids are going to put this in the front of their Writing notebooks/journals as a reminder of the steps in the writing process. Click on the pic below to download. If you download the poster, please leave me a comment.

Celebrate! It's Our Fall Break!

We are on our "Fall Break", known around here as Horse Show Break. We have been in school for three weeks, but are out now for the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. Many of our families rent their houses out and leave town during the Horse Show, so schools have traditionally let out for the full week of the Show until the day after Labor Day. To celebrate our break, I'm giving you a freebie on rounding numbers to the nearest ten. Click on the pic below for a Google Doc. If you download, please leave me a comment.

I'm planning on going to my classroom tomorrow to get everything ready for our first day back after Labor Day. Keep checking back here for more freebies as I have time to post them! 

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Nightly Pinterest Journey

On my nightly Pinterest journey, I found one of the best Math sites I have ever come across. It has task cards to accompany suggested children's books that can be used in learning stations and is correlated to the Common Core Standards. Click on the picture below to go to K-5TeachingResources.com.

And why haven't I thought about using the game "Guess Who" to teach how to ask good questions when reading???!!!! Click on the picture of the game below to go to ReadingResource.net for more great literacy ideas!  

And to try on my iPad....

ScreenChomp. Haven't used it yet, but it's a free App that lets you doodle on a white board with markers, and share your screenshots with your kids! Click below to go to iTunes for more info.

And because who can go to Pinterest and NOT pin something to eat....

S'More Croissants! I actually made these this weekend and they are yummo!

Click on my Pinterest button to the right to check out my other pins. And if you are already hooked on Pinterest, share your finds in the cool Pinterest Linky Party over at Michelle's Math in the Middle. Click on the pic below to check out the Linky Party.

Visions of Place Value Dance in My Head!!!!!

We have worked on Place Value all week long and my kids are beginning to get it! One of the activities we did to work on ordering numbers with four digits was to try to get every student in the class lined up in the correct order in under thirty seconds. They beat the clock and ended the week trying to line up in fifteen seconds! I just wrote four digit numbers {3,024; 3,204; 3,420; 3,240} on large index cards. Each child held a card up to their chest and raced to get in the correct order.

Tomorrow I plan on dividing the class into three teams. Each student will get a card with either a number or comma on it. When I call out a number, the students will have to race to their team's place value chart and stand under the correct heading. Click on the picture below to download the Place Value Headings. Print on bright paper and laminate so they will withstand the racing! They aren't fancy and there's no clip art, but it will save you time!

I'm going to put Number Play in one of my Math Stations. Click on the picture below for the Freebie!

We are going to fill out a graphic organizer to put in our Math Journals to help the students remember the different ways to write a number.

Please leave me a comment if you download any of the Freebies. (And if you haven't already become a follower or left a comment that you ARE a follower OR added my button to your blog, go HERE and do it now for your chance to win the Target gift card! Be sure to leave the comment on the original post.)

Woot Woot Giveaway!

Third Grade Meanderings has reached 300 followers and has a FABULOUS giveaway to celebrate. Go on over to her site and leave a comment for a chance to win a Miss Malarkey book PLUS a Barnes and Noble gift card! Click on the pic below to go to her blog and enter!

Grade Level Linky Party

What a great idea! The Teacher's Lane is hosting a grade level Linky Party so that we can always have a place to go to find blogs on our own grade level! 

Click on the picture below to link up.