Area and Perimeter

We have been studying area and perimeter this week and last week.  I made this PowerPoint to help my 3rd graders review for the test.  I just added it to my TpT store.

Just click on the picture above to grab it.  It will be on sale through Friday.

Here are a few of the slides included.

Geometry and Friday Fun

I had a great Friday.  The only thing that would have made it better was if  my student teacher would have been with me.  :(  She had to go to class at college today.  We finished up our Topic on three-digit addition and subtraction earlier this week.  We started leaning about plane and solid figures.  My student teacher is teaching math now.  (It is very hard for me to give over control to her.  I have major issues and obviously  my meds aren't strong enough.)  Since she was gone today I decided not to teach the next lesson.  I love teaching about shapes, so I let the kids make plane figures.  We then turned our plane figures into solid figures by adding height to them.  I saw lots of light bulbs going off above their heads.  When I asked them to make a cube, most of them said they already had and held up their square.  We talked about how plane figures only have length and width and solid figures have length, width, and height.  Here are a few pictures.

We also played this fun game.  I love our Envision math series.  Each topic has a game for the kids to play at school or home.  We played at school today.  The kids loved it!!!

I saw this idea on someone's blog.  I can't remember where.  If you saw it too, please let me know so I can give them credit.  Take a green, yellow, and red cup and stack them together.  Each group starts on green.  If they need a warning, move the green cup to the bottom.  If they need a consequence, move the yellow cup to the bottom.  My class knows that if they get to the red cup before lunch, their group will have silent lunch.  If they get to the red cup after lunch, their group will sit out for half of recess.  So far, no one has gotten to the red cup.  This is working extremely well.  I just walk over and change the cups without saying a word and their group's volume automatically drops.  This will be great for my student teacher while she is being observed by her university supervisor.  She is only supposed to use positive discipline.  This way she can warn them without saying anything negative out loud.  I have also been giving the groups that stay on green a piece of candy fruit.

After lunch we had Fun Friday.  We played Monopoly, iPad, iPods, Candyland, Let's Go Fishin', puzzles,computers, and with pattern blocks.

I can't wait to see what next week will bring.  Also, notice the poster in the picture above.  I have been doing this in small group with my kids this week and it really seemed to help some of them on their reading test today.  I am hoping to do a blog post on it next week.  Have a great weekend!!!

Scoot Over for this Fun Game!

If you have never played scoot with your class, you have to do it tomorrow!!!!  My principal was joking that I never let my class move.  I admit I love to be in control.  We do not talk or leave our seats in my class without permission to do so.  When I found this game I knew it was just what we needed.  You can review any skill while playing scoot.   You just need flashcards and an answer sheet. I didn't have any flashcards with 3-digit addition, so I made some.  I also made a Statements and Questions Scoot game. 

How to Play:  Place a flashcard at each desk.  Because I am a control freak, my kids are not allowed to touch the cards after I lay them down on the desk.  (Their fingers are sticky!)  Each child copies the problem on their answer sheet that corresponds with the number on their flashcard and solves the problem.  When  you say scoot, the students move to the next seat with their answer sheet.  The flashcards do not move.  Students then solve the next problem.  This continues untill everyone is back at their desk.  The trick is to keep them moving so quickly they don't have time to play around.  I make my students stand like soldiers to let me know that they are ready to scoot. 

Yesterday we played addition scoot to review 3-digit addition because we were having a test on it today.

Today we played my Statements and Questions scoot game.

You can puchase these in my TPT store by clicking on the images above. 

I will give both sets to the first 5 people to pin these games on pinterest and leave a comment with a link to your pin here.  Be sure to leave your e-mail address so I can send you your free copy.

If  you like these be sure to become a follower because I am working on a subtraction scoot game and a command and exclamation scoot game.  This is a game we will be playing all year!!!

Math Poster Freebie

Sorry I haven't gotten the jobs chart started  completed yet.  Tomorrow will wrap up my third week of summer school with one left to go.  I have been working every afternoon in my classroom.  I am trying to get my room ready by the time summer school is over so that I don't have to step foot in school during July.  Yeah right, who am I kidding.  I really do plan on spending 99% of my time, at the pool, with my kids in July.  I will take my laptop or iPad with  me to design some things for next year.  So hopefully I will have some more freebies in July.  I created this for Kim tonight.  I hope you enjoy.  I plan on creating one in red, black & white to match my room also. 

I am off to go pack for a short trip to the beach this weekend with my sister-in-law and nieces.  I love spur-of-the-moment trips like this.  My boys and I are really excited.