Third Grade Summer School Teaching Resources Instructional Pack

Summer school starter pack! Includes: 8 weeks of writing weekly activities, 5 project based math projects focusing on different 3rd grade standards, Word Problems Hidden Mystery Puzzle, Elapsed Time and Telling time Hidden Mystery Puzzle, 3 digit additon and subtraction hidden mystery puzzle, 6 weeks of math problem a day, 5 weeks of literacy plans focusing on different fiction and nonfiction standards and fiction/nonfiction choice board projects!

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8 Weeks Weekly Writing (Summer, Distance and In Class)

Writing is what most of our students struggle  with the most! Let's keep the momentum going with some fun, engaging writing!

8 Weeks of different writing practice! Suitable for 2nd-4th Graders! Comes with Seesaw and Google Links so students can use this for Distance Learning or for Summer Practice! 

Focuses include:

Letter Writing/Emails/Texts

Fun Prompts

Poetry

Diary

Autobiography

Story Telling

Advertisement

Fairytale

SO  MANY OPTIONS!

•Useforsmallgroupinstruction

•Use for independent practice

•Use for homework

•Writingworkshopstation

•Assign students work for distance learning

•Assign studentswork for summer practice

**Canprint out packets for in class paper use

SCIENCE:

Third Grade Interactive Learning Science Activities Printable and Digital

6 Activities that incorproate 3rd grade NGSS Standards.

Activity 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all about direction words and animal tracking. The students will create a treasure map for a family member to follow based on their direction sentences, checkout a real live website that tracks ocean animals and so much more!

Activity 1, 2, 3,4: Forces/Friction 3-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. 3-PS2-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Activity 5 and 6 are weather related where the students will become a meterologist and also research a city of their choice making a bar graph and answering graphing questions!

Activity 5 & 6: Weather 3-ESS2-1 Earth's Systems Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. 3-ESS2-2 Earth's Systems Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

**Each activity has its own separate seesaw link and google classroom link!

Print and use for in class instruction as well!

Severe Weather Project (Distance and In Class Learning)

The students will enjoy researching about Thunderstorms, Blizzards, Drought, Tornadoes and Hurricanes through this weather project. They will utilize given websites if researching and completing online OR utilize websites and books in the classroom!Seesaw and Google Links provided for project for Distance Learning!

Rubric provided for grading for you to choose point allocations.

Students will research Physical Characteristics, cause/effect, predictions, water cycle connection, occurrence and safety of the severe weather!

MATH

PROJECTS:

Building and Planning A Garden (Distance and In Class Learning)

Challenge your students with this fun and interactive project of building a garden! The student's will use area and perimeter to figure out how big their garden will be and how many plants they can buy. Then they will use a real life farm's site to pick their plants and figure out cost for plants and for mulch. Finally they will calculate how much water they will need to water their plants!! Word problems, area, perimeter, multiplication, addition, subtraction and more!!

Suitable for Grades 3-5

**Seesaw Link Included**

**Completely interactive Google Slides link provided to type in answers etc**

Building a garden in action! CLICK HERE

Fraction Pizza Project (Distance Learning/ E learning)

Pizza Math Project that includes: Creating fractions, comparing fractions, fraction word problems, creating word problems, elapsed time, telling time and graphing!

If your students find themselves ordering take out pizza during this time have them keep the box and do the project with it! Makes it more realistic and definitely more engaging and fun!

There is an embedded Seessaw link and Google classroom link if you would like your students to do it all online on their seesaw account OR you can print it for parents for them to pick up at your school OR email it to them to print at home for their child to do. Lots of options!

It also includes a link for easy little pizzas the kids could potentially make at home to incorporate fractions in the real form! Also there is a rubric at the end for grading!

Lemonade Stand Math Project (2-5)

Students will have a chance to use math to plan their own lemonade stand!! Students will work on adding, subtracting, elapsed time, graphing, multiplication, repeated addition, word problems and more with this fun interactive project!!

•Assign students the activity on Seesaw or Google Links provided on the next page for online work

•Print out a packet for students to work on paper/pencil in class

•Can be used for early finishers

•Can be used for summer math fun practice

•Can be used for math stations activities

•Can be used for math homework

•Use as a group project

Shopping Trip Math Project (Distance and in School learning)

Students will be taken through a week of fun making a shopping list and finding prices on Walmart’s site, adding and subtraction problems, word problems, multiplication and division word problems, elapsed time and graphing from data found on a picture graph!

*Seesaw link and google slides link included*

Print and use for a fun project IN CLASS!!

Garage Sale Math Project

Project Based Learning is so helpful for students!!

Your students will plan a Virtual Garage Sale, coming up with their own items they would sell and pricing. Then they will review addition, subtraction, complete word problems, make garage sale posters to advertise, compare numbers, order numbers and so much more!!

**Printable for in class OR google and seesaw links provided for Distance Learning or one on one computer stations, homework or group project!

Math Hidden Mystery Puzzles

Telling time/elapsed time bundle

Your students will LOVE these digital mystery picture puzzles! So engaging and suspenseful and self checking!!

Mystery Picture Puzzles are self checking activities you can use with the whole class, or by sending to students individually.

When the correct answer is selected either with the drop down menu or typing it in, it turns GREEN and parts of the picture magically appear. When answer is incorrect it will appear red so they have a second chance!!

This product includes written and video instructions to make assigning to your class easy and quick! Checkout what activities are included in this product below!

5 Puzzles:

Telling Time:

• Analog to digital with and without choice bank
• Digital to analog with and without choice bank
• elapsed time word problems

Students match the answer to the question. 

Video of Product in Action

Word Problems- Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication Hidden Mystery

Your students will LOVE this digital mystery picture puzzles! So engaging and suspenseful and self checking!!

Mystery Picture Puzzles are self checking activities you can use with the whole class, or by sending to students individually.

When the correct answer is selected either with the drop down menu or typing it in, it turns GREEN and parts of the picture magically appear. When answer is incorrect it will appear red so they have a second chance!!

This product includes written and video instructions to make assigning to your class easy and quick! Checkout what activities are included in this product below!

This puzzle will focus on students reading a word problem, determining which operation they need to use to solve with the first drop down menu and then solving it and submitting an open ended response with their answer WITH units. My student struggle immensely with remembering their units AND knowing which math action word to use with a given problem. I hope this helps your students navigate this tricky skill!

Checkout the fulll product video!

3 digit Addition with and without regrouping Hidden Mystery Picture Puzzle

Your students will LOVE these digital mystery picture puzzles! So engaging and suspenseful and self checking!!

Mystery Picture Puzzles are self checking activities you can use with the whole class, or by sending to students individually.

When the correct answer is selected either with the drop down menu or typing it in, it turns GREEN and parts of the picture magically appear. When answer is incorrect it will appear red so they have a second chance!!

This product includes written and video instructions to make assigning to your class easy and quick! Checkout what activities are included in this product below!

2 Puzzles:

3 Digit Addition with Regrouping (cute pic with good luck and clover picture)

3 Digit Addition without regrouping (rainbow picture)

Students match the answer to the question. 

Math Problem a Day:

6 Weeks of “A Math Problem a Day” based on different third grade CCSS.

Rubrics included for each week to grade student work on Exceeds, meeting, needs with standard provided for assessment, instruction and further teaching, standards based reporting.

Weekly Seesaw and google classroom Links to post for children to do it electronically Standard alignment for each activity for easy access Printable for Use in classroom as well!

Can't wait to use this in my in person classroom but this will be great virtually as the srtudents have space to work and I can grade it right then and there and track their progress!!

LITERACY

5 Weeks of Literacy Activites:

All of the weeks include Seesaw and google classroom Links!

Week 1 of Literacy activities:

~This pack includes 5 days of activities that include Reading and Writing activities to match up with Standards we have already taught during 3rd grade thus far. The week will take the students through reading/listening to/watching a classic fairytale and adaptation of same fairytale, comparing/contrasting, story mountains, lesson learned and drafting their own adaptation!

Week 2 of Literacy Activities:

~This pack includes 5 days of activities that include Reading and Writing activities to match up with Standards we have already taught during 3rd grade thus far. The week will take the students through reading/listening to Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. The student's will analyze the main character's, compare/contrast them with evidence from the text and finally making a text to self connection!

Week 3 of Literacy activities:

~This pack includes 5 days of activities that include Reading and Writing activities to match up with Standards we have already taught during 3rd grade thus far. The week will take the students through reading/listening to a narrative nonfiction book about Pierre the Penguin and a nonfiction video about Penguins. The student's will analyze the vocabulary, summarize the text and synthesize the two infformational texts/videos to figure out the main idea/subtopic.

Week 4 of Literacy Activities:

~This pack includes 5 days of activities that include Reading and Writing activities to match up with Standards we have already taught during 3rd grade thus far. The week will take the students through watching their favorite show or movie and summarizing it then recording themselves doing a review of it! Then they will do something similiar with a book of their choice (or links of youtube read alouds provided if they don't have access to books) where they will review the book and then choose a character to do a character map on and anayzing the lesson of the story!

Week 5 of Literacy Activities:

**Seesaw link included

Previewing nonfiction text by looking at the meaning of the word PREVIEW, making predictions about the text and triggering prior knowedge on the topic. Nonfiction text feature focus with a scavenger hunt in a RAZ KIDS text. Comprehension Questions specific to text. Boxes and bullets for two sections of table of contents of the text.

Fiction/Nonfiction Choice Board Projects:

NONFICTION and FICTION choice boards!

1.These resources/activities can be used paper pencil or digitally on Google with a choice board.

2.Students can choose a menu item to answer to for the book they are reading

3.These can be used during independent reading to show understanding of the text, periodically throughout a novel you are reading to a class, for Daily 5 or Reader’s workshop stations, for early finishers and much more!

4.If you go paper pencil with it-print out the menu for all students to have and then have abundance of copies of each resource for students to grab (OR you can give the students all of the copies straight out in a Reading Restaurant Menu Binder.

5.Keep extra copies of the rubrics as well for each project.

6.In order to turn it in they need to staple or paper clip their project to correct rubric and turn it in.

7.If students are completing online they will have a digital choice board to use that will direct them to the activity and rubric so when they turn it into the teacher its all together!

8.Give each student the menu so they can cross off ones they have already done as they need to do all of them at some point.

9.These can be kept to show understanding of standards for data binders, conferences to show parents student work, standard based learning/reporting.

10.You can either have the students complete ALL of them in a period of time or have them choose one appetizer, one main dish and one dessert to do for the whole “project:”.

11.There is a rubric that is the same that you will use for ALL of the projects to make it less confused and easier on the grader.

**editable teacher rubrics for easy grading! so many uses-reading log, workshop stations, at home reading practice, assessment etc!