The 3rd Grade October Morning Bins are here, and they are packed with fun activities to teach a variety of skills! Incorporate these into your morning routine, and watch your students become more engaged and eager to learn.
Is your morning routine a bit chaotic? Do you feel like you are wasting the first 10 minutes or so of the day? Do you panic when you realize that you forgot to print out some type of morning work for your students? You are not alone and we all hate it! Many teachers struggle with implementing productive morning routines, but I have a solution for you!
Simply put, our students come into the classroom with a lot of different needs. Some are not quite awake and need a little time to settle in before they start their day. Some students are super social and want to interact with their friends. Teachers need to take lunch count and attendance. There is a LOT to do in the morning? How do we make morning successful and exciting for kids? I have the answer….3rd Grade Morning Bins!
NOTE: Many teachers are choosing to use these as early finisher tubs or during a different part of the day. Generic labels have been included for this purpose.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF MORNING TUBS / BINS?
The benefits of morning bins are endless!
- They are hands-on and engaging
- They provide meaningful practice for basic skills
- Students have opportunities to work on fine motor skills
- They provide group and social interaction
- These offer open-ended practice
- They can be used as an alternative to pencil/paper work
- They provide extra practice for previously taught skills
- Most importantly…they make learning FUN!
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE 3rd GRADE MORNING BIN BUNDLE?
Each monthly theme will include 20 skills. The monthly skills stay the same throughout the months, but the activities change to provide students with more challenging activities.
- 180 Morning Bin activities
- Color AND Black and White Version Included!
- Simplified Student Direction Cards
- Material List for each bin
- Morning Bin Rules Poster
- Labels for Bins (2 options)
- Teacher Progress Monitoring Sheet
- Some bins included accountably sheets, if you choose to use them
SKILLS INCLUDED IN THE MORNING BINS:
- Parts of Speech
- Capitalization, Punctuation and Proofreading
- Word Use and Meaning
- Sentences: Types and Agreement
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Spelling Patterns
- Multisyllabic Words
- Logic and Critical Thinking
- Division and Relationship to Multiplication
- Adding and Subtracting within 1,000
- Math Fluency
- Math Patterns and Word Problems
- Place Value
- Fractions and Shapes
- Time, Data and Money
- Measurement, Area and Perimeter
- Critical Thinking
Each month, you will have access to 20 NEW activities that cover the skills listed above! Certainly, these will get your kids EXCITED about morning routines! Furthermore, you will warm up those brains and start the day with engaging and purposeful activities!
Let’s take a look at each of the 3rd Grade October Morning Bins in action! There is no right or wrong way to use these morning bins! For example, you can place all 21 bins out each month and have students work on an individual bin, or you can bring one bin out each day. However, I like the idea of allowing a table group of 4-6 students to work on one bin at a time. This allows them to socialize, work as partners, and learn from one another. I chose larger bins so that I could place all of my manipulatives, baskets and materials in the bins. See bottom of the post for more storage ideas.
3rd GRADE OCTOBER MORNING BINS:
MORNING BIN #1: PARTS OF SPEECH
Each month, students will have the opportunity to work on practicing parts of speech. In October, students will match the singular and plural irregular nouns with the correct pictures.
MORNING BIN #2: CAPITALIZATION, PUNCTUATION AND PROOFREADING
In the 3rd Grade October Morning Bins, students will identify the two word that make up the contraction. This will help them later on when they are proofreading their work.
MORNING BIN #3: WORD USE AND MEANING
Students will read the words and decide which word does not belong in the group.
MORNING BIN #4: SENTENCES: TYPES AND AGREEMENTS
Students will take turns moving on the board, reading the sentence starter and finishing it with another sentence or a clause.
MORNING BIN #5: PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
Students will spin both spinners to make an inflectional ending word and decide how the word will be spelled.
MORNING BIN #6: TEXT
Students will read a paragraph and decide if each sentence is a fact or an opinion.
MORNING BIN #7: SPELLING PATTERNS
Students will roll a die, listen to the vowel sound, and decide which spelling pattern is used.
MORNING BIN #8: MULTISYLLABIC WORDS
Students will read the word, decide how many syllables the word has and sort it on the board.
MORNING BIN #9: WRITING
Students will read the paragraph and write a beginning sentence.
MORNING BIN #10: LOGIC & CRITICAL THINKING
Students will observe the details in the rebus puzzle and find the phrase or sentence that matches the clues.
MORNING BIN #11: MULTIPLICATION
Students will count the rows and columns in the array and write 2 repeated addition and 2 multiplication equations to match.
MORNING BIN #12: DIVISION AND RELATIONSHIP WITH MULTIPLICATION
Students will flip a number and come up with the double or double plus one equation.
MORNING BIN #13: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION UP TO 1,000
Students will read the numbers on the strip and show their work to find the missing addend in the equation.
MORNING BIN #14: MATH FLUENCY
Students will read a math expression and show their work to decide if it is true or false.
MORNING BIN #15: WORD PROBLEMS AND NUMBER PATTERNS
Students will read a number, decide if it is a factor of 2, 5 or 10 and build a tower according to the color code.
MORNING BIN #16: PLACE VALUE
Students will roll a die and write the value of the number that is underlined.
MORNING BIN #17: FRACTIONS AND SHAPES
Students will name the fraction and sort it to the correct space on the mat.
MORNING BIN #18: TIME, DATA AND MONEY
Students will roll a die 25 times, graph the results and answer the questions relating to the data.
MORNING BIN #19: MEASUREMENT
Students will read and solve the measurement word problem.
MORNING BIN #20: CRITICAL THINKING
Students will use the given numbers to make the sum across and down.
I hope that you find the 3rd Grade October Morning Bins helpful! If you’d like to see any other grade levels in action, click the links below!