3rd Grade Summer Review Packet

7 more days!

I can't believe the year is almost over.

Every year, I have parents that want some sort of review

or extra work for the summer.

To help make my life easier, I made this 3rd grade packet.

I made it last year and the whole 3rd grade team sent it home.

Each month has a calendar of daily activities.

Some will take only a few minutes and others take a bit more time.

Here is the schedule that the kids will follow:

Monday: math review

Tuesday: grammar practice/writing prompt (alternate weeks)

Wednesday: response to reading

Thursday: math facts

Friday: spelling practice/sentence practice (alternate weeks)

I include a parent letter for you to use or you can write your own.

The parents all loved having some structured review to use.

There was also a bit of an incentive for the kids...

A PIZZA PARTY!

Any student that returned a completed packet when school started 

was invited to a pizza party.  

I bet about 25% of the kids completed the packet.

Was it a big group?

No.

My thought was, at least I tried to help.

Are you a 4th grade teacher?

You could use the activities as homework  

or morning work at the beginning of the school year.

Hope your summer is coming soon!

Did we get all the information? - A Get Up and Move Review Activity

This week we read and learned about the Great Chicago Fire.

The kids love learning about this event,

so it makes it easy to teach.

 We watched a movie clip, read the textbook

and used the internet to find information.

They recorded everything in a small foldable book 

with specific titles on each page.

This helped to guide them in finding the info.

Today I wanted to make sure that everyone had 

most of the info.  

I really didn't want to do usual...

sit at my projector and everyone share what they found and record what you don't have and blah, blah, blah.  Boring!

So I quickly created this idea.

The kids had to find a partner and review their info on the first two pages of their book.

Record any new info that their partner shared..

Repeat with two other kids.

Then, we continued this on all the other pages.

It worked well because I didn't have them review

the info in their entire book. I assigned one or two pages at a time.

This is not a super exciting post, 

but its an activity that worked well on a Friday afternoon

and all the kids were engaged. 

How can you use this activity?

Have a great weekend!