Category Archives: 3rd Grade
3rd Grade Patterns in Google Drawing
In 3rd grade at Crestview we made patterns using Google Drawing. Collaborative Google Drawing is one of my favorite ways to introduce a few topics. Patterns and arrays are two math topics that are perfect for Google Drawing. For this lesson I set up a folder in Google with enough templates to pair the students …
Hooray For Arrays!
Our new Math on the Spot episode is up, and it’s pretty delicious if I do say so myself! We had a blast working with the students and teachers at Glen Allen High School! We teamed up with the ITRT at Glen Allen High School, Drew Baker, to work with the Family and Consumer Sciences …
#TechTakeout Brings Word Study Fun to Montrose
Today the #TechTakeout crew headed over to Montrose Elementary to work on language arts! Mrs. Hues, the ITRT at Montrose, met with the Title I Reading Teacher, Kathy Rohr, to find the grade level and topic with the greatest need. The winners of the #TechTakeout Continue reading
3rd Grade Food Chains
Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about aquatic and terrestrial food chains in Science (SOL3.5), so today students in Ms. Middleton’s class created animated food chains using Google Slides. First I posted a blank template to Google classroom and set it up to make a copy for each student. We discussed the different…
New Math on the Spot Episode!
The HCPS Elementary ITRT team has been hard at work connecting math standards to the real world. We have a blog where everything is housed blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/mathspot and it’s going to start growing this year! So far we only have two episodes finished, but we filmed our 3rd episode last week, so we have to get cracking …
New Math on the Spot Episode!
The HCPS Elementary ITRT team has been hard at work connecting math standards to the real world. We have a blog where everything is housed blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/mathspot and it’s going to start growing this year! So far we only have two episodes finished, but we filmed our 3rd episode last week, so we have to get cracking …
Comparing Numbers and Place Value With PixiClip!
In Ms. Giorgis’ third grade class we used an awesome tool called PixiClip! It looks like it’s still in the beta version which is even more exciting. Since it is so great early on I’m pumped to see where this goes! Julie Smith, Jessica Robinson, and I planned this together. Since I was new to …
Comparing Numbers and Place Value With PixiClip!
In Ms. Giorgis’ third grade class we used an awesome tool called PixiClip! It looks like it’s still in the beta version which is even more exciting. Since it is so great early on I’m pumped to see where this goes! Julie Smith, Jessica Robinson, and I planned this together. Since I was new to …
3rd Grade Pumpkin Facebook
Third graders at Davis Elementary have been working on pumpkin creative writing projects. Each student decorated a pumpkin like a story character and chose from a variety of suggested ideas for writing about their pumpkin (journal, interview, comic, etc). The 3rd grade teachers wanted a technology activity as one of the choices, and Ms. Parkinson…
Commutative and Identity Properties
In 3rd grade at Short Pump Elementary they were talking about the commutative and identity properties of addition. I wanted to make this lesson as fun as possible, so I thought to myself…hmm what could make a lesson on this more fun, maybe iPads! I really love the app Videolicious and so do the kids! I …
