Rod and Staff grade 3 Math question

[2_girls_mommy]

We have always made all of the posters and manipulatives in grades 1 & 2. I loved the duck pond in 1 & the boats & bees posters in 2. But grade 3's multiplication poster looks very big and difficult to make. Have you made one as listed in the book, or found a way to change it to make it more usable or smaller?? Is it difficult to make and implement?

All ideas needed with as much detail as possible! Dd and I enjoy the lessons in the books, and I like to stick with it as much as possible. And dd enjoys the little stories and themes in each book.

[Mom0012]

We finished R&S 3 this past month and I did not make the poster. Like you, I did make the posters for 1st and 2nd, but we did fine without it for 3rd grade. Because I didn't make the poster, I had to modify the way I did the oral drill portion of the lesson, but it all worked out fine in the end.

 

If you really want the poster, but don't want to make the R&S one, maybe you could just get a multiplication chart at a teacher store and use that?

 

Lisa

[2_girls_mommy]

Were you able to stick with the ocean theme, and read the little stories and such w/out the poster? Did it still seem to flow? My dds both enjoyed hearing about bees so much this past year w/math 2.

 

I guess a regular multiplication chart is really all they are doing, just introducing it one row at a time with the ocean theme. I will have to look at it some more.

Anybody else modified this?

[Colleen in NS]

But grade 3's multiplication poster looks very big and difficult to make. Have you made one as listed in the book, or found a way to change it to make it more usable or smaller??

 

Are you talking about the terms poster? If so, I just pointed to it in my TM each time I had to use it, and dd memorized it from there.

[Mom0012]

Were you able to stick with the ocean theme, and read the little stories and such w/out the poster? Did it still seem to flow? My dds both enjoyed hearing about bees so much this past year w/math 2.

 

I guess a regular multiplication chart is really all they are doing, just introducing it one row at a time with the ocean theme. I will have to look at it some more.

Anybody else modified this?

 

No, I really didn't stick with the ocean theme. I felt a little guilty about not doing the poster, but I started it and realized it was going to be quite a project.

 

Lisa

[2_girls_mommy]

Are you talking about the terms poster?

 

No, I am wondering about the one where you make rows of ocean creatures for each row of the times table. I didn't start making it yet like the previous poster did, but I could tell by reading about it that is going to be a monster to make, and just big in general. I don't have wall space for something like that all year. That is why I was wondering if anyone had come up with a smaller one that worked, so that I could stick with the ocean theme.

[Colleen in NS]

No, I am wondering about the one where you make rows of ocean creatures for each row of the times table. I didn't start making it yet like the previous poster did, but I could tell by reading about it that is going to be a monster to make, and just big in general. I don't have wall space for something like that all year. That is why I was wondering if anyone had come up with a smaller one that worked, so that I could stick with the ocean theme.

 

Oh! OK, well, no I never made that (we just finished level 3). It was too much work and space, LOL! I think at the beginning, I would draw little symbols on scrap paper, whenever the TM instructed me to use the poster. After a few times of doing that, dd got the concept, so I didn't continue it unless she seemed to need it.