3rd Grade Math Planning
December 3, 2018
DCA: Training is November 28th. Math Test is Dec. 4th. 2 Hours
- Preview DCA Blueprints
- Remind before test starts about reading assistance. Make yourself available. Move students who will need reading assistance to the back of the room.
- Materials: highlighters, grid paper, pencils sharpened, math chart(not at this time)
- Meet with reading partner to discuss your expectations (check the griddables! when to pick up booklets, etc)
- All anchor charts need to be covered.
- 2 hours (Extended time will get 3)
- Monitor pacing carefully to help make decisions for designated support.
- Designated support includes: number charts, cubes, blank fraction bars, etc. All students are eligible, however, you need to meet in a school committee format and document. Usually with the counselor or at STAT.
IReady- All students will begin taking the growth monitors each month.
- How To's-stored in the common-math-IReady folder
- December's Window: December 6th-12th
- January: all students will take the 60 minute diagnostic, begin signing up for lab times.
Share STAAR SE Data-PLC on Monday, January 7th.
What were our lowest performing SEs? Look at the released test question. Discuss.
Do NOT use the questions on the released test for instruction as it will be our DCA 2.
- 9:00-11:00 and/or 1:00-3:00
EDC and DMR- December: Please refer to Discussion Questions at the bottom of the Smore
- December
- Sentence Stems posted on EDC: The area inside is ___. The perimeter around is ___?
- Quality Question posted on EDC: If I covered an object with ____ color tiles, what might the object be? Using ____ square tiles, how many different rectangles can you make? Can you find somethings that have a greater/less area than your desk top? It is possible to draw letters of the alphabet on grid paper. How many letters can you make and what is their area? Perimeter? I have drawn a shape on my grid paper with a perimeter of____. What might my shape look like?
- PLAN: Begin the discussion on page 79 explaining the definitions of area and perimeter and provide vocabulary cards. 2 times a week. Use color tiles and inch grid paper first, then can go to the card stock colored squares and then finally to coloring it in with a marker. Record different ways to make the area with today's date. TEK 3.6 C-(R). In December we will use the area/perimeter arrays only pictures to show length times width.
SLO Goal Tracker
- Are you using the bar model questions in small groups?
We will use this question to test students in December.
Rees Elementary has 289 girls, 329 boys , and 75 adults. How many more students are there than adults at Rees Elementary?
Plans for Digi-Days: December 19th and 20th
- Look at the calendar
- What did you do in November?
- Pentominoes?
Vertical Alignment PLC with 2nd grade on January 18th
- Suggestions and requests?
Small Group Accommodations/DCA
- Review testing accommodation
- Designated Support
- Math Manipulatives
- Blueprint
- Classroom Displays
- Digital Version
- scan mistakes like last year to use for instruction?
- Use the district mistake profile sheet again for data?
Brenda will share how she uses Edpuzzle in her classroom.
Small Group Differentiation
- How do you differentiate? Is it the same lesson, 3 different times?
- Ways to differentiate: Questioning, materials, scaffold, pacing, sequence, numbers, etc.
Dig into Data with DMAC: Multiplication and Division Test
**Use the new geometry cards :)
Unit 9: Geometry Test is December 13th. Preview test.
- Review 2-D anchor chart. Begin 3-D anchor charts.
- 4th grade does not have any 3-D TEKS! Third grade is responsible.
- Please add congruent and heptagon to the vocabulary list.
- Do not need to spend a lot of time, but do need to teach right angles.
- Skip the parallel and perpendicular lines lesson. Can save that for sub folder or after STAR.
- have lots of PFL resources. Let me know if you need lessons to cover particular vocab.
- Use Anglegs, geoboards (also Math Learning Center App/Website),
- Pyramids are not in our TEKS
- Triangular prisms are missing from EDC, please add them.
- Emphasize examples and non-examples
- practice sorting quadrilaterals into subcategories based on their attributes
- expose students to both regular and irregular shapes
- Id both regular and right angled trapezoids
- a cube is a special rectangular prism
- a square is a special rectangle
- Quality Questions:
- Which shape is NOT a _____________ or a _________________?
- Which of the following does NOT describe this figure?
- How would you describe this figure?
Homework Guidelines
- How does it look for your classrooms?