Give Daily Oral Language, geography, analogies, and a problem of the day. Each activity is a mini-lesson in itself. This serves as a review for what has been taught and an introduction of what is to come. Start map skills and graphs the first week of school. We do an activity every week analyzing information.
Children can act out word problems.
They must count out the amounts and add or subtract to see if the operation is possible. Have students write their own math problems for each other or another class. To make them more challenging, set parameters like they have to include 2 operations or subtraction with regrouping. Have them write the math problem, story solution, and draw a model to show it. Third grade has a geo adventure that s good for map reading review.