Welcome to Mrs. McKoy's 3rd Grade Classroom Website!

Students- Please use this site to practice academic concepts presented in class. You will find links to Study Island and other online activities to reinforce the skills you gain in the classroom!

Parents- You will be able to view my lesson plans each week. I have also provided links to my procedures and policies. I also provided links to websites that will provide more information regarding my personal teaching style.

Teachers- I have provided links that I use daily for developing lesson plans and in the classroom. Feel free to explore my resources. I intended it to be a place for me to store my favorite sites! I thought maybe others could benefit as well.

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." Chinese Proverb

After a long, anticipated wait our first two books are finally here!
Engaging Mathematics Numbers & Operations, and Algebra Melissa Agnew and Stefanie McKoy (Grades 2–4)	You want to make math engaging and take advantage of the power of peer tutoring and interaction, but you don’t have the time to plan all-new activities, nor the time to re-create all those math worksheets. Don’t fret. All the work has been done for you! All your need-to-teach numbers & operations and algebra curriculum is matched up with some of Kagan’s best structures for math practice, including RallyCoach, Sage-N-Scribe, and Find-N-Fix. Plus you’ll find more great math activities to keep students excited about math with structures including Quiz-Quiz-Trade, Fan-N-Pick, Showdown, and Clue Linkages. Engaging math just got easy!
Cooperative Learning & Grammar Melissa Agnew and Stefanie McKoy (Grades 3-5)	Grammar activities galore! But these aren't just any run-of-the mill grammar worksheets. They're based on favorite Kagan Structures to make grammar an engaging process. Students play Showdown to master verb usage. Students play Quiz-Quiz-Trade to memorize contractions. Students Find Someone Who can fix a punctuation problem. You'll find over 100 ready-to-use grammar blacklines covering all the grammar essentials including antonyms, synonyms, homophones, parts of speech, plurals, possessives, prefixes, suffixes, root words, contractions, capital letters, commas, punctuation, quotation marks, subjects, predicates, clauses, complete sentences, sentence types, and more! 272 pages