Geometry Concentration and a Freebie

I am seriously enjoying my Spring Break this week and finally got motivated today to post some newbies.

We worked on geometry a few weeks back and I made a couple of games to help students practice identifying geometric figures and shapes. 

The first game is called Geometry Concentration and it was designed to help students practice identifying kinds of lines, pairs of lines, angles, and parts of a circle. It is available for $2.00 in my TPT shop!

Just click below my shop button below to grab your set!

And here is a free game to help your students practice identifying polygons with names and with riddles.

Just click the image above to download your FREE copy!

I hope to be back soon with more stuff for you all!

And per usual, if you want to win the Geometry Concentration for FREE, riddle me this:

What tune has been on repeat on my itunes in the last two weeks? 

Hint: It's a male artist and it's a fairly new song on the radio!

Happy Guessing!

A little of this and that...

I promised I would be back to share some things we have been working on, so here I am!

In Math, we have been doing some serious geometry. We have been learning about kinds of lines, pairs of lines, the parts of a circle, and angles!

To help us review the different kinds of lines, I gave the students some sequins and cardstock and they created each kind of line. See pictures below! 

We have also been studying the branches of our state government. After learning about them, they had to make a branches of government tree as a project grade.

(Aren't they super cute!?)

And then we FINALLY finished up our animal research papers and students were asked to create a poster to display their research. I gave them two sheets they were required to use to show what they learned. 

As our Valentine's Day Party craft, I asked students to make Valentine people on their bags! They came out so cute!

This is just a little bit of what we have been doing! I will be back soon with some actual free downloads for some our Geometry activities and the Branches of Government tree template so you can do them too!

And don't forget about my Brag Tag giveaway! It is going on until midnight Saturday! Click HERE to view the post and enter to win yourself 100 brag tags!

Happy Hump Day!!

Brag Tag Giveaway

Hey blog friends! It's been a hot minute since I've been able to blog and I apologize for that! I have been busy!

Anyway, I was contacted a while back by Boost Promotions about teaming up for a review and giveaway of their amazing brag tags! 

In case you are wondering, this is a brag tag!

 I bought the little army tag necklaces from Wilson's to hang the tags on. 

There are all sorts to choose from! And let me tell you, my students LOVE wearing them around and showing them off to their peers! You can check them all out on their website by clicking HERE!

I thought that the best way to review how successful they have been in my class was to video some of my students telling me their opinion! So, here is my little friend explaining which ones he has and what he thinks of them!

These tags are so amazing and fun! I do the homework club every month. If students have their homework all month long, with the exception of one free miss (cause you know, we all have bad days) then they stay in the homework club! At the end of the month, if they are still in the homework club, they earn a free night of no homework and they also get various treats at lunch. We have done pizza, ice cream, brownies, etc..I do think it's great motivation for them to do their homework. They also get really crazy about not losing their brag tag due to missed homework! At the end of every day, their brag tag necklace returns to their desk and they wear them again the next day.

Our RTI teacher next door asked me about them one day and then ranted and raved about how excited the kids were about them when they go to her class. She said they couldn't stop talking about them! Nuff said!

I use the Homework Club tags, Student of the Week (Helpers), STAR Student (I pick two people every Friday who had a great week), and the Academic Achievement tags for students with all A and all A/B Honor Roll. 

I'm sure there are about a million other ways to use these bad boys in your classroom, but this is how I've been doing it for the last couple of weeks! I'd love to hear your ideas on how you would use them too!

And my friends, you can win yourself a 100 brag tags!! 

Use the Rafflecopter below to enter! Good luck!! The giveaway will end Saturday at midnight and I will announce the winner on Sunday!

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I will be back soon with what we have been up to lately in class! =) 

Happy Tuesday!

Animal Research Note Sheet

We are starting animal research reports this week and the kids are so stinkin' excited! We decided this year to partner kids up based on their interests and since I have such a low class this year, I thought this would work out really well! 

Anyway, last week, they met with their partner and brainstormed some things they already knew about their animals and then wrote down questions they had. 

Starting tomorrow and all of next week, we will be doing our actual research! We ask that students gather information based on these four main areas: Interesting Facts, Life Cycle, Habitat, and Adpatations and Defenses. These four areas align perfectly with our SC science standards so it's always a five paragraph research paper when we are all done! 

Here is the note sheet we are using next week! Feel free to download! Just click on the image!

Happy MLK Day everyone! 

I certainly enjoyed my day off! Got to have lunch and then a pedicure with a friend! 

Units of Length Scavenger Hunts

Two days in a row...this has to be a miracle!!! I promised you a freebie, and here I am delivering! 

We started a new unit on measurement yesterday and I must say I HATE this unit every year!!! It is always our districts lowest scoring area in 3rd grade and so I get a little intimidated. We decided to take more of an individual discovery approach this year in hopes that it would help the ideas stick a bit more. 

Yesterday I introduced the customary units of length with the story "King Inch and the Kingdom of Measure." The story introduces the customary units in a fun and relatable manner. (I have no idea where this story came from because I've scoured the internet to make sure I wasn't violating any copyright laws and couldn't find it, but it was on our schools resource drive and so I made it into a flipchart. If you happen to know where it came from, please let me know!) You can download it by clicking the image below.

** The file below is a flipchart file and you must have Activ Inspire Promethean software for you to be able to download it! **

After we read the story, I drew lines on the white board showing how long each unit really is and then gave an example of something that is about the same length as each unit. After I did this, I turned the kids loose with their scavenger hunt sheets to search for other items in the room that were about the same length. I have to say, I was SUPER impressed with the things they found! 

I repeated the same process for metric units today with the scavenger hunt and again, I was impressed with what they came up with! (Sidenote: We obviously did not do the hunt when it came to miles or kilometers. At the end of the lesson, we brainstormed things that could be measured in both units since they are so large.) It was definitely the hardest one!

Click the picture below to download the sheets I used for today and yesterday!

And because I'm feeling all SHARE-Y, I even took a video of them during the Metric Scavenger hunt today! 

To wrap up both days of customary and metric units of length, we put our charts side by side and discussed the similarities between things they found. According to South Carolina math standards, students have to know that 1 yard and 1 meter are about the same and 1 kilometer is about half of 1 mile. Soooo, we took the similarities from the charts and came to the conclusion that some of the things we found for meters and yards were the same! It was so exciting that they came to this all on their own!

YAY for measurement! HAHA

But, tomorrow is last day of the week with kids and I'm pretty excited about our four day weekend! I'm taking Friday (the teacher workday) as an exchange day, which means I don't have to go!!! WHOO HOO!  

Happy Friday tomorrow to me!