Back to school third grade

Starting the year with rich and engaging read alouds sets the tone for the rest of the year. These incredible back to school books will...

day-by-day plans, resources, and activities for the first week of third grade

Get to know your class with these ideas for back to school activities! Make back to school prep and planning a little easier by gathering get to know you activities from this article by Hello Learning. These first week of school activities are perfect for a 4th grade or 5th grade classroom. Kids will love that you want to get to know your class! Click to get some new ideas for your back to school plans!

The first day of third grade should be full of fun and engaging activities. Grab a free first day of school printable with all your plans!

Books, games, and activities for the first week of school (third grade)

Glad to be in Grade 3. (Or, any grade, I suppose.) "I really want to learn about...; I wish we could...; I'm wondering about...; I'm nervous about..." Awesome idea to give you some insight into your kiddos at the beginning of the year. =)

Don't spend all of your time making up your own first day of school activities. I'm sharing my list of first day of school activities that...

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Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

I love reading to my class and I get started on day one! I love the books First Day Jitters and The Juice Box Bully, but by the third grade, all of my students have heard these books several times. So I try to mix in some different books to keep it interesting. The following

Back to school, second grade, procedures, classroom ideas, classroom management

Happy Tuesday! Today I am going to share one of my favorite ways to build classroom community: creating a classroom playlist. Here is what I had on our whiteboard when my third-graders entered Room 21 on our first day: I had placed an index card at each student's seat, and pencils were in the caddy in the center of each table. I told students they were welcome say things like, "That Taylor Swift song where she..." or "Anything by Twenty One Pilots." We have specials first thing in the…

If you ask me (and I am pretending that you did), third grade is the BEST grade to teach! Third graders are still young enough to love school, love their teacher and get excited over simple things like coloring. However, they are old enough to be independent workers and thinkers. Most third graders know how to read

The First Week Back Activity Pack is stuffed full of activities for your first week of 2nd grade. To make it all make sense, I've included a free PDF of lesson plans for the first week of school that blends the activities from this pack with the routine and procedure lessons you need to teach! Click to download your FREE lesson plans for the first week of school, and have your best first week of school, EVER.

Hello darlings! Amy here from That Teaching Spark! If you are like me, you use some semblance of technology in your classroom. You might be 1:1 with each student having a device or you may have access to a few devices for your entire class! I'm lucky enough to have a class set of chrome carts to share with my grade level of five teachers. We rotate the chrome books around to each other. I also have four devices that I use for math rotations every day! I have to admit, I would be lost without…

It's that time of year again...back to school season. You're busy setting up your Pinterest-worthy classroom, focusing on every detail. Y...

Life has been crazy lately! I received a job offer 10 days before school started this year so I am now in a new district, at a new school, in a new grade level! Due to my circumstances, I did not h…