Are You Ready for Some Football?

In honor of the upcoming SuperBowl, we football-ed it up in the classroom!  Our main learning focus was putting together our secret measurement playbook.  In our playbook we took notes on measuring length, perimeter, capacity, weight, and time. We also had activities to practice each of these important measuring skills. The students worked very hard but I don't think they realized it...we were having too much fun.

With all this measuring work going on....I promise that I didn't ignore our English language arts objectives.  After assigning referee signals to different punctuation marks, we edited and read sentences with our signals.  We also played a game on our mini football fields where students could earn yards by identifying a sentence as simple, compound, or complex. Touchdown!

 

100 Days Smarter

We celebrated 100 days of working hard in third grade.  In years past, we worked on numbers up to one hundred. However, third graders...we needed a challenge. Guess what else goes in a 10 by 10 grid: a multiplication chart!  We went on a Hershey kiss hunt.  I hid 100 kisses in our classroom.  Each piece of chocolate had a product from the multiplication chart.  The students had a hundred different products to find and place correctly on the chart.  They worked really hard and smiled the whole time.

By the end of third grade, students should have all the one digit by one digit multiplication facts memorized. This is not an easy task and one that requires continual maintenance.  You've heard, "If you don't use it, you'll lose it." This certainly applies to memorizing multiplication facts.

This is an easy standard to practice at home.  There are some wonderful apps to use for practice. Three of the students' favorites are Quick Math, Math Bingo, and Big Math Cards.  If you have a computer at home check out these links.  

Meteor Multiplication

Fruit Splat Multiplication

Bleepy's Gifts Multiplication

Croc Doc Division

Demolition Division