3rd Grade math resources. Geometry, Touch math posters and number lines, Fractions, polygons.. and so much more!

Well. We have been out of school for almost three weeks. Below are the things I created this year to supplement our HMH curriculum and centers. You can find the entire bundle on TPT.

Pinning special good until 7/4/15...Pin this 10 times on different boards and I will send it to you for free! 

3rd Grade Math Bundle

multiplication strategies foldable 

These foldables work great in our math notebooks. 

sample of geometry quiz

beginning of the year quiz- aligned to the second grade standards. We test the students based on last year's standards to see where we need to begin

Touch math poster

touch math desk number lines 

polygon foldable

sample of fractions test

sample of fraction pre test

150+ math word wall cards with definitions on back. 

check out forms or exit slips

Math resource page to send home to families with report cards

quadrilateral hands on venn diagram activity 

1st Quarter Teacher Docs

This Third Grade teacher has been up to a whole lot... creating and borrowing ideas daily. 

The following is just a small preview of some of the documents I have made to help my and kiddos lives a little easier and bit more students driven.

Writing Paragraphs Graphic Organizer

We use this for paragraph writing.  In third grade, proper and in-depth paragraph writing can be daunting.  This graphic organizer helps students get their thoughts organized without having to write in complete sentences.  My students take the organizer and transfer into their writer's notebooks for editing. 

Common Core Parent Handout

As parent/teacher conferences were looming, I was concerned with common core questions and our 15 minute block of time being taken over by parent lead-ins beginning with... "Well, back when I was in school..."  So I edited this document, which I found on the internet.  I changed the 'showing what they know' portion to align with my districts curriculum and theory on assessment.  

Daily 5 and Math Centers Grouping Poster

These are simple reminder posters for the students as they are grouped based ability and that is often changing.  Our class runs centers for math and reading, so it can be confusing for the students who are in different colored groups etc.  I keep these posted in kid view near the math and reading boards, respectively.  

Reader's Response Choice Board

I use the reader's response choice boards during guided reading.  Students keep this in their guided reading folder and choose a square after a few chapters or after a guided reading assignment.  They cross-out the square they have chosen to do and turn in the work as they go.  Once a choice board is filled they receive an increasingly more difficult choice board throughout the year.  

Welp....Looks like I made it!

Hi Friends,
Fake it til you make it has officially made it! Last summer I accepted a head coaching position for my love in life...volleyball which landed me an aide position at the preschool in district.  Although coaching and being an aide was exciting and fun, I was yearning for my own classroom and to put to work all the amazing things I had learned and created. So off I went on the job hunt which quickly landed me back in 3rd grade! Although my commute went from two blocks to 64 miles one way, I am appreciative and excited to get to work and cannot wait to meet all 26 of those smiling faces in less than 3 weeks!

Below you will find all the things I have been working on for the past year!!! There is a ton of stuff some free some paid, but all made with love and heart!

touch math posters

Touch Math Desk Plates- bookmarks

Touch Math posters

Cursive team themed alphabet letters  

Math posters!

expanded form

word wall words with definitions 

magic e wand

Idiom of the week

intangible classroom rewards


I really hope you find these useful and cute!
Happy Teaching! 

7 habits of highly effective kids posters

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!!!

THESE WERE SO POPULAR LAST YEAR....  I had to repost!!!

Dr. Seuss' birthday is right around the corner! In tribute to him, I have been working long and hard on a  HUGE fluency bundle in celebration of his birthday! This bundle is jam packed with fun games and cool ways to integrate the 4 fluency strategies of Punctuation, Expression, Accuracy, and Rate into a meaningful unit.

The 4 fluency strategies actually create a mnemonic device of PEAR if you use the first letters of each strategy... one of my students actually recognized this, brought it to my attention and we immediately ran with it in the moment and I now have an entire Seuss fluency unit created based all around little miss Samantha's wonderful brain!! Don't you just love when the students remind you how brilliant they are ;)

I am selling these as three separate bundles on TPT or as an entire package ...and am also giving the bookmarks away for FREE!

Most of the Seuss artwork is modified to go with the PEAR theme! 

Hope you enjoy these and your students become fluency aces!

Click here for the entire 49 page unit...which includes everything in this post and much more! 

PEAR mnemonic of the 4 fluency reading strategies 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dr-Seuss-Fluency-Unit-49-pages-of-games-and-original-Seuss-activities-1091075

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dr-Seuss-Fluency-Bundle-Tongue-Twister-game-2-Readers-theatres-4-FLUENCY-2410054

This is a crappy picture of what my file folder game looks like :)

we all love an "i have, who has?" game!! 

Below is an example of the Seuss-style poems I created to explain the 4 fluency strategies...the one below is about punctuation...all 4 are equally as quirky and funny! :) 

the fluency strategy poems are a part of this bundle...click here for more details. :) 

Having a writing prompt always makes the writing block so much smoother...here is a simple Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss prompt! 

Happy Teaching! 

-Cole


                                     

Let's Get Acquainted Linky Party!

Alrighty! I have been trying to connect with fellow bloggers and TPTers so I am linking up with Latoya Reed over on her blog flying into first.
This link up is all about getting to know me better so buckle up... my full name is Nicole Christine Holmes... NCH.


N is for neurotic! Seriously, I am very self-aware so let me be the first person to tell you that I have quite the tendency to have tunnel vision and might obsess over non-important/trivial things...often. At times it can be hard for me to multi-task in two or more categories in my life. This is hard to explain because if the tasks are related/micro...I am great at doing things simultaneously. BUT! if you ask me to create a super cute unit and clean the house (or even do a single load of laundry) in the same day it will most likely not happen in the same waking time span.  Does anyone else suffer from this extra crazy form of time warp?

C is for crafty! I might be able to attribute this quality of mine to my particular taste and quirky style because for as long as I can remember it has been hard for me to find decorations, artwork, clothes, (the list goes on) that totally satisfied me, so I started creating certain things from scratch a long time ago. I like things that are just ugly enough to be whimsical and genius! 

When pinterest first launched I thought someone had hacked into my dreams or answered an unspoken prayer because I had been keeping clips, recipes, tutorials and magazine pages in binders for years.  The organization of them was horrendous and I rarely found what I was looking for when I needed it! 

H is for humorous! I love to laugh and I love to make other people laugh. The things I find especially funny are usually very inappropriate and not suitable for a teaching blog, but I can say that a good poop joke gets me every time.  The funniest people in my life are probably my sister and AJP...these lovely ladies totally get and feed into my inappropriate and usually uncalled for sense of humor.  

Glad we could link up! Make sure to check out the linky party! Happy Thursday!

Happy Teaching, Cole! 

Grammar Boot Camp: 8 Parts of Speech and 16 Language posters! Limited-time FREEBIE!

Well hello! It has been a while since I posted anything new...but its because I have good news!! Last week, I had an interview for a coaching job and I GOT IT! Like most teaching hires I was called on Tuesday, interviewed on Wednesday, fingerprinted on Thursday, and held tryouts for the 7th grade boys Volleyball team on Friday! whew...quite the whirlwind!

So needless to say, I have been super busy planning practices and re-shifting my brain into volleyball mode...but I couldn't be happier. (actually, if I were teaching full-time I guess I would be happier...but landing a job after December graduation is tough, right?!) But even with the cra-cra going on in my brain... I have managed to get these grammar boot camp posters done and am working on really fun games to accompany them. Y'all might have to wait til' after Mexico for those puppies...making fun/efficient games is super time-consuming!

Below you will find a link to these military/army-style grammar boot camp posters. There are 24 posters in all and cover the 8 parts of speech and 16 language and grammar topics: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, sentence, comma, colon, semi-colon, personification, hyperbole, homophones, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, suffix, prefix, alliteration, synonyms, antonyms,  and proper noun!
I have to give my coop. teacher credit for inspiring these posters...I remember her mentioning that she halts all mini-lessons for a week and gives the kids a review of all the parts of speech and language- crash-course style! Loved the idea...and it has been on my short list for a while.

IN ORDER TO GRAB THIS FREEBIE:  all you have to do is: follow my tpt store by clicking here, (this also gives you the chance to get a $25 TPT gift card every month), and then leave a comment at the end of this post with your email address and I will email you the pdf asap!

The first 25 commenters will get the entire bundle of camouflage/military/army themed grammar boot camp parts of speech posters for FREE!

Hope you enjoy these!

Happy Teaching, Cole