Summer Review

I can already feel summer coming on in spite of the cool, wet days we have been having lately in the Northwest. Once spring break is done with, it seems like we arrive back to school ready for the final "home stretch" before testing. Once testing is done, it's not long before the final day arrives and the classroom empties out for the last time.

But not so fast.... what about those students you worry about? You know - the ones that struggle throughout the year, and finally get it (tentatively). Then summer comes and they enter the world of I'M PLAYING AND SPENDING TIME WITH MY FAMILY AND I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT SCHOOL, OR THINGS LIKE MULTIPLICATION, HOW TO FIND AREA, OR THE ATTRIBUTES OF A TRAPEZOID.

With the new Common Core standards, we just don't have time to spend the first 4 weeks in Sept reviewing.  It's pretty much hang onto your hats and go!

A couple of parents requested some resources that they could spend time with their children at home over summer break so I decided to put together a "fun" book of most things learned in 3rd grade math. I designed the pages to take 20 minutes a day and to be visually pleasing. Here is a finished pic.