Third grade activities

Third grade is a super important year for a kid’s school life. When you look into 3rd grade, you’ll see that this is the year kids move from just learning how to read to using reading to understand more things. During this time, your child is probably getting better at schoolwork, growing physically, and fitting in with friends.

Third grade! Yay! I survived the first two weeks of third grade and finally have the time/energy to tell you a little bit about it. I won’t be going into total detail, so please leave a comment if you have a question! (UPDATE: I wrote a much more detailed post with more links and full ... Read More about The First Week of Third Grade

Do you love STEM challenges but need to stop spending out of pocket on expensive supplies? These 4 challenges are my favorite because they are CHEAP, quick to set up, and use supplies that you probably already have in your classroom. Keep these STEM activities in your back pocket if you teach 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grades.

3rd grade teachers, multiplication can be a tricky skill to teach. Games like Multiplication Knockout is one of the multiplication games 3rd graders will love and beg to play.

If you ask me (and I am pretending that you did), third grade is the BEST grade to teach! Third graders are still young enough to love school, love their teacher and get excited over simple things like coloring. However, they are old enough to be independent workers and thinkers. Most third graders know how to read

These 3rd grade writing prompts give your students the chance to write about their experiences and the issues that are important to their lives.

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Need some fresh first week of school activities? Check out these day-by-day plans for the first week of third grade.