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Third Grade Activities

Mix some of these third grade activities into your next lesson to break up the routine and allow kids to learn and interact with the material in new ways. Interactive math games make multiplication practice a lot more fun, and young learners will enjoy growing their vocabulary and building reading fluency through a wide range of hands-on reading and writing crafts and projects.

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Five-Finger Relaxation

Five-Finger Relaxation

Tracing is a great technique for clearing your mind and relaxing. Help your students learn how to calm themselves down and clear their minds with by tracing their hands.

2nd grade

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Be Present with Mindful Movement

Be Present with Mindful Movement

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

2nd grade

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Create an Internal Weather Report

Create an Internal Weather Report

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

2nd grade

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Back-to-Back Breathing

Back-to-Back Breathing

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practice self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

2nd grade

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Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Morse Code Messaging

Morse Code Messaging

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

3rd grade

Social studies

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Understanding Braille

Understanding Braille

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

3rd grade

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The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Make Your Own Cloud!

Make Your Own Cloud!

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

3rd grade

Science

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What's a Zipper? A Writing Game

What's a Zipper? A Writing Game

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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P.E. Party

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

3rd grade

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Homemade Submarine

Homemade Submarine

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

3rd grade

Science

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Pop Bottle Science

Pop Bottle Science

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

3rd grade

Science

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Superhero Strength

Superhero Strength

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

3rd grade

Science

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Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Make an Obstacle Course!

Make an Obstacle Course!

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

3rd grade

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Explore the Phases of the Moon

Explore the Phases of the Moon

We all know that the Moon has different phases, but it can be hard to figure out why. Try this activity to see how the Moon's phases really work.

3rd grade

Science

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Number Maker: A Card Game to Practice Place Value

Number Maker: A Card Game to Practice Place Value

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

3rd grade

Math

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A Rapid Rounding Game

A Rapid Rounding Game

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

3rd grade

Math

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Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes

Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Race for Spelling Patterns!

Race for Spelling Patterns!

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

3rd grade

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Make a Book Square!

Make a Book Square!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Create a Recipe to Practice Writing

Create a Recipe to Practice Writing

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Make a Wish Box

Make a Wish Box

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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