As a teacher, I love to keep the students engaged and excited about what they are learning. I try to make each lesson one that I am excited about teaching, and one that if I were a student in my class, would be enthusiastic about learning. I try to keep a hands-on approach to the lessons that I create, while integrating technology as well as crafty ideas to keep the students excited.
Teacher of the Year 2015-2016
As a teacher, I love to keep the students engaged and excited about what they are learning. I try to make each lesson one that I am excited about teaching, and one that if I were a student in my class, would be enthusiastic about learning. I try to keep a hands-on approach to the lessons that I create, while integrating technology as well as crafty ideas to keep the students excited.
Teacher of the Year 2015-2016
Students will read the short fable, The Crow and the Pitcher. They will then ask and answer questions using direct text evidence.
Asking and Answering Questions, Third Grade, Fables and Folktales
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Abby Sandlin
Have fun illustrating division with the story The Doorbell Rang, by Pat Hutchins. Your students will use Cookie Crisps (or another cereal) as a manipulative with The Doorbell Rang Activity Book. They will practice dividing 12 cookies between 2, 4, 6, and 12 different people and then illustrate their results. Also included are two additional small group activities using the book The Doorbell Rang. Use this as a small group activity or a whole group activity.
INCLUDES:
Title Page
Lesson Plan (2 pages)
Activity Book (6 activity book pages)
2 Additional Small Group Resources:
The Doorbell Rang: Main Idea
The Doorbell Rang: Sequencing Cut and Paste activity
Thank you page
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Abby Sandlin
Standards Addressed:
MCC3.OA.2
Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers (30 into 5 equal groups)
Use this cut-and-paste activity to assess your students' understanding of fractions on the number line. Students will cut the fractions at the bottom of the page and paste them on the correct spot on the number line. This activity meets the Common Core standard listed below:
MCC.3NF.2 : Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
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Abby Sandlin
Play this SCOOT or Scavenger Hunt style game with your students to practice the distributive property using easy area models!
This game meets the standard:
3.OA.B.5: Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.
3.MD.C.7c: Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths (a) and (b + c) is the sum of (a x b) and (a x c). Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
INCLUDES:
Title Page
What is the Distributive Property?
How to Play
20 Delicious Distributive SCOOT Cards (5 pages)
Recording Sheet
Answer Sheet
Thank You Page
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Abby Sandlin
Looking for ways to spice up multiplying single digits by multiples of ten? Use this activity pack as a supplemental resource to fit any of your classroom needs!
Use fun and engaging worksheets as classwork or homework. You may even want to place the Matching Game at a guided math center.
Reinforce your lessons with the partner problems and a group project!
Includes:
Teacher Tips
Mystery Word Worksheet
Word Problem Worksheet
“Total Tens” Number Search
4 Partner Problems
“Let’s Make An Array” Small Group Project (with materials)
2 Whole Group Word Problems
Multiplying by Multiples of Ten Matching Game
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Abby Sandlin
MCC3.NBT.3: Multiply one digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range of 10 - 90 using strategies based on places value and properties of operations.
Have your students extend their thinking with constructed response journal prompts for reader's notebooks! These journal prompts bump up the rigor for the reading Common Core Standards which can be used in either 3rd or 4th grade. All prompts are classroom tested. Use the included teacher examples to model expectations with your students! Check out the preview to get an idea of what this awesome Mega Pack includes!
Included:
Title Page
Thank You Page
Table of Contents
Pg 4 : Asking and Answering Questions (RI.1)
Pg. 5 : A Letter to the Author (RL.1)
Pg. 7 : Retelling Important Events (RL.2)
Pg. 9 : A Letter to the Teacher: Book Review (RL. 2)
Pg. 11 : Ask the Character (RL.3)
Pg. 13 : Dear Diary (RL.3)
Pg. 15 : Incredible Idioms (RL.4)
Pg. 17 : Poetry Rocks (RL.5)
Pg. 19 : Totally Text Features (RI.5)
Pg. 21 : Take it From Me! (RL.6)
Pg. 23 : Let’s Celebrate Kid’s Day (RI.6)
Pg. 25-26: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (RL.7)
Pg.28: Compare and Contrast Informational Texts (RI.9)
Pg. 30 : Author Study (RL.9)
Pg. 32 : Additional Rubrics
*All prompts come with examples*
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Abby Sandlin
Play this SCOOT or Scavenger Hunt style game with your students to practice measuring to the half and quarter inch using rulers. Students will then take the measurement data they collected and plot the measurements on a line plot.
This game meets the standard:
3.MD.B.4: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of a inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units -- whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
INCLUDES:
Title Page
Thank You Page
How to Play
20 Measurement SCOOT Cards (5 pages)
Recording Sheet
Answer Sheet
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Abby Sandlin
Students will have a blast constructing their very own Mr. Fraction during math workstations or independent work time. Students will color various fractions detailed on the recording sheet then construct Mr. Fraction on construction paper. They will then answer questions about the various fractions found on Mr. Fraction.
Included:
Title Page
Thank You Page
How to Use This
Mr. Fraction Example
Mr. Fraction Pages (2 pages)
Mr. Fraction Recording Sheet
Answer Key
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Abby Sandlin
3.NF.A.1: Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into (b) equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by parts of size 1/b.
Reinforce your lessons with this Perimeter and Area Activity Pack! In this activity pack, students will find the area and perimeter of rectilinear/compound shapes. Use these activities as classwork, homework, partner problems, or cooperative learning guided math stations! This activity pack is to serve as a supplemental resource to fit your classroom needs.
INCLUDES:
Standards Map
How to Use This Pack
10 Perimeter/Area Activities:
Priscilla's Perfect Perimeter
Mystery Side Perimeter
Ana's Awesome Area (Extension)
Andy's Awesome Area (Extension)
Andrew's Awesome Area
Ashley's Awesome Area
Amazing Area
Area and Perimeter Fun
Paste the Perimeter
Answer Key
Standards Addressed:
MCC3.MD.7D; Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
MCC3.MD.8: Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas of with the same area and different perimeters.
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Abby Sandlin
Have your students think critically about fiction and non-fiction texts with this 6 day mini unit. Your students will ask and answer questions about fables, realistic fiction, and informational texts, as well as create a culminating project using facts they've learned about dinosaurs!
This unit is aligned to the standard: ELACC3RI1 and ELACC3RL1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
This unit includes...
Day 1: Using the text to answer our questions (in fiction texts).
Day 2: Using the text to answer our questions in fables.
Day 3: Asking and answering questions from informational texts (infer and question).
Day 4: Asking and answering questions from informational texts (question and answering).
Day 5: Asking our own questions and using the text to answer them.
Day 6: Asking and answering questions (summarize and retell).
Printables...
-Ned's new old sled activity
-The Crow and The Pitcher (2 sheets)
-Informational text organizers (2 sheets)
-Discovering dinosaurs (2 sheets)
-Poster group work checklist
-Asking and answering questions poster rubric
Enjoy and happy learning!
-Abby Sandlin
Students will love practicing naming fractions on a number line with this fun scavenger hunt. There are 24 cards in the set. Cut apart and scatter these fraction cards around your classroom. Have students quietly walk around your room with the recording sheet and write the fraction displayed on each number line. Students struggling with the fractional parts of the number lines can find a hint at the bottom of each card detailing the parts each number line is sectioned.
Included:
Title Page
How to Play
Recording Sheet
Answer Key
24 Fraction on the Number Line Cards
MCC.3NF.2 : Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
Teach commas in dates and addresses with this engaging and interactive story booklet and follow-up activity. Students will help Marty the mailman return all the missing commas to the addresses and dates of the letters he is delivering! Assess your students with a short quiz that will give you great insight as to how well your students understand this concept. Give the follow-up activity for homework or classwork.
Included:
Title Page
Teacher Tips
The Day the Commas Went Missing Booklet (5 half pages; copy front to back)
Assessment
Follow-up Activity
Answer Key
Thank You Page
Thank you for downloading!
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Abby Sandlin
Looking for a fun way to introduce or review equivalent fractions in third or fourth grade? Have partners play Equivalent Fraction Match Up!
Students take turns flipping over pairs of fraction cards. When they collect two equivalent fractions, they write them on the recording sheet and draw again. The students with the most equivalent fraction matches wins! This game integrates equivalent fractions on a number line, fractions on a ruler (to the fourth of an inch), and fractions of geometric figures. Also, the clip art is all original!
Includes:
Title page
Teacher Tips
How To Play
Equivalent Fraction Cards
Player 1 & 2 Recording Sheet
Thank You Page
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Abby Sandlin
MCC3.NF.3a Understand two fractions as equivalent if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.
MCC3.NF.3b Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions. Explain why the fractions are equivalent by using a visual fraction model
Your students will love comparing fractions with this card game!
Students will divide the cards equally between two players. After flipping their first fraction card, they will compare the two fractions. The player with the larger fraction takes the pair and they play again. The player with the most cards at the end, wins!
This is a fun game to put in a guided math center or to use with early finishers.
Includes:
Title Page
Directions (How to Play)
Fraction Cards (6 pages, 35 cards in all)
Thank You Page
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Abby Sandlin
MCC3.NF.3d Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or
Have your students see equivalent fraction models in action with this great activity pack! Students will make their own fraction strips and use them to find different equivalent and not-equivalent fractions. Students will document their learning on two interactive printables. Students will also create equivalent fractions on number lines and rulers. Assess your students using the assessment included in this activity pack.
Use this in a small group or use it as a whole group lesson; your students are bound to get a lot from it!
Includes:
Title Pages for all activities
Standards Map
Equivalent Fraction Strip Activity (3 pages)
Equivalent Fraction Cut and Paste Activity (1 page)
Equivalent Fractions on the Number Line Activity (1 page)
Culminating Assessment (2 Pages)
All Answer Keys are included
Standards Taught and Assessed:
3.NF.3a Understand two fractions as equivalent if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.
3.NF.3b Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions. Explain why the fractions are equivalent by using a visual fraction model
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Abby Sandlin
Reinforce your lesson on multiplying single digits by multiples of ten with this fun color by number sheet! All clip art is original!
*Answer Sheet coming soon!*
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Abby Sandlin
Multiplying by Multiples of Ten 3.NBT.A.3