I update this blog frequently with pictures of what TEKS we're learning and what fun things we're doing.
I'll start with some pictures of the classroom.
Third grade monolingual teachers!
This is my celebration center. We'll hang up student work here as well as celebrate the exciting things that are happing in our lives.
Shelves of math manipulatives!
This back wall will be covered with anchor charts soon enough!
This is our wish well board as well as our kindness celebration board.
Can't wait to fill them up!
So now that you've had a look at the classroom, let's talk about content.
I teach math and science and next week we'll be diving in to the first units!
Unit one in math is all about place value.
In second grade the kiddos are only expected to know up to the thousands place. In third grade we go up to the hundred thousands place.
These are the Place Value TEKS for third grade:
(A) compose and decompose numbers up to 100,000 as a sum of so many ten thousands, so many thousands, so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones using objects, pictorial models, and numbers, including expanded notation as appropriate;(B) describe the mathematical relationships found in the base-10 place value system through the hundred thousands place;(C) represent a number on a number line as being between two consecutive multiples of 10; 100; 1,000; or 10,000 and use words to describe relative size of numbers in order to round whole numbers; and(D) compare and order whole numbers up to 100,000 and represent comparisons using the symbols >, <, or =.I start with a very simple performance assessment. I write down the number 1,084 and ask students to tell me what that number says. This is where I get answers like, "one zero eighty-four" or "one hundred eighty-four." I also point to each number and ask which place value it is sitting in? (I'm looking for the answers, ones place, tens place, hundreds place, thousands place).
I teach a little place value chant (the kids come up with the motions for each value).
This year the students come up with
Ones- hold up a one
Tens- hold up ten
Hundreds- slap hands on legs
comma (we do a little tushee wag for this one)
Thousands- Arms straight out
Ten Thousands- kick alterning legs
Hundred Thousands- dab
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In science the first thing we learn about is MATTER.
We talk about ways to measure it, ways to observe it, and the differences between the types.
CHORUS:
The stuff of life is matter
Here's some scientific chatter:
I'm gonna' give it to you nice and straight
When it comes to matter, there are 3 states
SOLID or LIQUID, or GAS!
Verse 1:
Solids stay put in a single place
When put in something else, they keep their own shape
Your chair is a solid
And so is a box
Your shirt is a solid
and so are your socks
A table is a solid
And so is your phone
A cookie's a solid
And so is a stone
Can you think of any more solids?
Verse 2:
Liquids flow when they move around
They take... the shape of their container now
Water is a liquid
and so is apple juice
Milk is a liquid- It's good for you
Soda is a liquid
and so is gasoline
Salad dressing is a liquid, you see
Can you think of any more liquids?
Verse 3:
A gas expands to fill any space
Now, a peculiar look may come to your face
because sometimes gases are invisible
Let me explain...
You can't really see it- but you know it's there…
All around you is a gas called air
(fast into)
The helium in a balloon is a gas
And so is the wind as it blows past
Smoke is a gas
and so is steam
You're blowing out gas when you use the AC
Can you think of any more gases?
Verse 4:
You can classify matter in other ways
like by color, or size, or texture, or shape
Like color:
red white blue orange black green
brown yellow pink purple gray, you see
Like size:
(wait) big, small, or medium
skinny or wide
thick or thin
Like Texture:
spiky or furry or smooth or bumpy
or soft or rough or lumpy
Like Shape:
Square……. Circle…….Rectangle
(wait) Starr-oval…… or triangle
Trap e zoids and Hexagons
Diamonds and Octagons!
The stuff of life is matter
Here's some scientific chatter:
I'm gonna' give it to you nice and straight
When it comes to matter, there are 3 states
SOLID or LIQUID, or GAS!
Verse 1:
Solids stay put in a single place
When put in something else, they keep their own shape
Your chair is a solid
And so is a box
Your shirt is a solid
and so are your socks
A table is a solid
And so is your phone
A cookie's a solid
And so is a stone
Can you think of any more solids?
Verse 2:
Liquids flow when they move around
They take... the shape of their container now
Water is a liquid
and so is apple juice
Milk is a liquid- It's good for you
Soda is a liquid
and so is gasoline
Salad dressing is a liquid, you see
Can you think of any more liquids?
Verse 3:
A gas expands to fill any space
Now, a peculiar look may come to your face
because sometimes gases are invisible
Let me explain...
You can't really see it- but you know it's there…
All around you is a gas called air
(fast into)
The helium in a balloon is a gas
And so is the wind as it blows past
Smoke is a gas
and so is steam
You're blowing out gas when you use the AC
Can you think of any more gases?
Verse 4:
You can classify matter in other ways
like by color, or size, or texture, or shape
Like color:
red white blue orange black green
brown yellow pink purple gray, you see
Like size:
(wait) big, small, or medium
skinny or wide
thick or thin
Like Texture:
spiky or furry or smooth or bumpy
or soft or rough or lumpy
Like Shape:
Square……. Circle…….Rectangle
(wait) Starr-oval…… or triangle
Trap e zoids and Hexagons
Diamonds and Octagons!
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