@GovAbbott@teainfo Um. Here’s an idea. Hop on literally any social media platform & you’ll have all the answers you want.
✨OR✨
Ask the people in the actual classrooms, on campuses at the ground level. Not a task force under Mike Morath.
Don’t even get me started on state testing. Hard. Pass.
This week in #thirdgrade’s critical writing examples! Division and divisibility rules for even and odd. I’m so proud of how quick students are picking up explaining their work and answering the question “how do you know?” #criticalwriting#math#growinggreatness
More critical writing this week in 3rd grade! Students are getting more comfortable writing about math & explaining why/how they know w/ words. It’s a great closing to a lesson & lets me get a quick peak @ misconceptions to address the next day. #GrowingGreatness#CriticalWriting
Lots going on in #thirdgrade ! Yesterday students had a perimeter challenge as part of station work. They worked in teams to take & plot the coordinates to make a shape in Quadrilateral Bay. Once they discovered their shape, they had to find the perimeter. #iteachthird#math
#CriticalWriting in #math can be HARD! It’s still a work in progress, but kids are doing great! 🤩 I♥️ these examples this week! They know my 1st favorite ? is “why” & my 2nd is “how”. Can you explain it in words? A student even made a connection to what he’s learning in GT! 🥰
It’s a great feeling when you love your kids and what you do and for others to see, recognize, and acknowledge that. It’s humbling and validating at the same time. Love my Thirdies!
This week in 3rd grade it’s all about rounding so we can estimate. Yesterday, students reviewed their rounding skills to the nearest 10 or 100 w/ 3 numbers of their choice by taking a multi-flow map and using it as a math function map! #thinkingmaps#thirdgrade#mathteacher
and how it just wasn’t hot enough to melt a marshmallow. But! It WAS hot enough during our second block to melt the end of the crayon a bit! #iteachthird#science#thirdgrade
#todayin3rdgrade we observed 👀 changes in states of matter with thermal energy ☀️!
Students made predictions on what would melt/what wouldn’t yesterday. Today we put those predictions to the test! We talked about why our cup of ice looked like it was sweating (condensation!)
Today in #3rdgrade we learned how to test temperature and properly read a thermometer! Students then wrote in their journal to tell me what the hardest part was. #iteachthird#science