Reading Rockets

March 31, 2009

I came across an excellent website called “Reading Rockets”. I suggest that anyone who is interested in teaching young children check it out.  It is devoted to helping your child learn to read and it has many great ideas.  It also has a Facebook page that you can join. Reading Rockets is great for parents [...]

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Reading to Your Third Grader

March 23, 2009

So many times when a child learns to read a parent stops reading to a child. We rationalize it by saying, “Well, he can read himself now; he does not need me to read to him anymore.”  This is only partly true. Third graders may indeed know how to read, but they still enjoy being [...]

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Using Candy to Teach Multiplication to Third Graders

February 3, 2009

Remember “Candy Buttons”? When I was little we used to buy them at the little store around the corner and use them as medicine when we played hospital. Now you can use them to help your child learn multiplication.  These candy strips are good examples of arrays. Simply cut them into the size or multiplication [...]

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Using Manipulatives to Teach Multiplication

January 28, 2009

Hands-on learning is always a great way to understand multiplication.  Children naturally like to touch things, that is the way they learn.  So why not use this idea to teach multiplication. There are many kinds of manipulatives that you can buy, but you do not need to do this.  Look around your house,  there are [...]

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Helping Your Third Grader with Multiplication

January 24, 2009

Learning multiplication and third grade go together. It is a big thing for third graders and when they get done, they feel like they have really accomplished something. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Many eager parents go out and buy flash cards or some cute math game for the computer and have their child start practicing. [...]

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Teaching Your Third Grader to Count Back Change

January 10, 2009

Once your child is very comfortable with counting money, he is ready to learn to count change back from a dollar. One way to do this is to use a hundreds chart, real coins and some household objects to which you have attatched a price. In this video I will show you how to help [...]

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Teaching Your Third Grader to Count Money

January 4, 2009

Before your child begins to learn how to count money and then make change, there a few concepts that he needs to know well first. Your child needs to know: the names and values of each coin. how to skip count by 5′s and 10′s. There two things that you need to have on hand: [...]

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Third Graders Can Now Read Newspapers from Around the World

December 18, 2008

There is a museum in Washington D.C. called the Newseum.  My husband and son and I toured it last summer.  A great place to visit if you are in D.C. In the Newseum there is on display the front page of newspapers from all over the world.  Now you can see this all online at [...]

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Learning about Christmas Around the World

December 17, 2008

One of the lessons I found that students really enjoyed when I was teaching was learning about how people celebrate Christmas in other countries.  Too many time children think that because they celebrate Christmas in a certain way that everyone does the same. Here is a link that might help if you are thinking about [...]

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Favorite Christmas Stories for Your Third Grader

December 16, 2008

Christmas stories are one of my favorite parts of Christmas.  Whether you are a parent or teacher Christmas stories can be a great teaching tool for all ages. Here are some of my all time favorites: 1.  The Very First Christmas by Paul Maier is a great telling of the birth of Jesus. 2.  Mr. [...]

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