Wednesday 30 April 2014

Word Family Activities

Here are some great word family activities!  When you use these recycled old egg cartons, don't cut apart the word family.  Each word family should be a "chunk."  At first, I tried to write directly on the egg cartons, but that wasn't super easy to read. I dug around and found these old garage sale stickers. Voila! Colorful and perfect!


Garage sale stickers work great!  You may want to glue them down 
and seal the tops with modge podge.


Keep word family parts as a "chunk."  

Here the -ore is chunked together:


Students manipulate the single letters to make words.


Single letters may be used for multiple word family parts.


Students love these!


You may also like this blog post:


A Rhyming Rap!



For more practice with 77 word families (WOW), check out this bundle:


They are also available separately.











Very basic video for beginning readers:








Tuesday 29 April 2014

Place Value Games

This place value game is a  great way to recycle some egg cartons.  Your students will love this game!  This game works well for place values up to hundred thousand; however, you could tape over some of the slot to modify for lower grade levels.





Just right click and choose "save as" for this free printable game sheet. Enjoy!




FREE Place Value Task Cards - Click HERE.

FREE Place Value Task Cards - Click HERE.











Monday 28 April 2014

Fraction Activities for Third Grade

For today, I will share several  fraction activities for third grade.  It is important to use manipulatives and pictorial representations for students to truly comprehend the concepts.


Comparing Fractions with Greater Than and Less Than Symbols
(Like Denominators)



Comparing Fractions with Greater Than and Less Than Symbols
(Unlike Denominators)




Comparing Fractions - SHOW them how they compare. :)



Online Games to Demonstrate - Click the pictures or HERE.


Find Grammy - Online Game 
Creates a Nice Number Line






Enter the fractions and it shows you how to compare them.
Nice tutorial program!

You can even compare mixed numbers.





















Here are some resources from Amazon affiliate: