It's that time of year again, when testing grade teachers are counting down instructional days to the STAAR test. Spending long days at school cramming every little bit of knowledge we can into the minds of the students who are expected to take a very long state test. I have 11 more instructional days until STAAR. After a full day of teaching, I come home every night and look over what we did that day, who needs remediation on certain concepts, see if I can add anything else to tomorrow's plans, the week's plans, etc....
The weekend is no different! It's Friday night and it's all about the STAAR! I have found some great resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, so I am printing and prepping away! I am planning a trip to Mardel tomorrow (Easter Bunny needs to pick up a few things!), and since they have a laminator, tonight's work is making some new centers! We've been bogged down with regular school work and practice tests, there hasn't been any time for centers! Last year I used some wonderful STAAR review task card sets with QR codes and my students LOVED that! This year's group of students are unable to handle the QR code fun independently, so I needed something else!
I found this great 3rd Grade Math Review Station activity set on Teachers Pay Teachers! It has 10 stations that are a perfect review for my students!
*Place Value (Picture, Word, Expanded Notation, Ordering)
*Rounding (Rounding Mat Included!)
*Patterns in Tables (with Multiplication)
*Geometry (2D, 3D)
*Measurement (Perimeter)
*Time to the Quarter Hour
*Fractions
*Bar and Pictographs
*Number Lines
*Money (Counting Coins, Representing Amounts)
*Basic Operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
My goal for tonight is to get 4 stations ready to laminate tomorrow, and the rest I can prep tomorrow afternoon and laminate on Monday at school. I have a lot of Easter Fun planned for Sunday, so I must work tonight and tomorrow afternoon. Such is the life of a teacher! :)
I also found some practice STAAR tests. While they are sold separately, I bought the multi-pack so make sure I have enough practice. I'm not sure if I need them all, but better to have more than less!
Always so fun this time of year! (cough, cough!) On a good note, I found out that I will not have to change the name of my blog next year! I will remain a Third Grade Teacher! Yay! I will have to move classrooms, for the 4th time in 5 years! And I will have to attend more training to be part of the Dual Language Program. I will teach 3 classes of 3rd grade Math, and 2 classes of English Writing, as part of a triad! My students will receive part of their instruction in English, and part of their instruction in Spanish from 2 other teachers. Should be an interesting year!
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