Every Day Counts® Element Organizer

Name of Element: Daily Depositor Grade: 3
Months / Concepts and Skills / Materials / Notes
August/September
Pg. 26-27 / -understand place value
-regroup to add
-use estimation and mental math strategies for addition / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -Read Author Notes on page 26
-Helpful Hints pg. 27
-GPS Guide pg. 15
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 26
October
Pg. 41-42 / -Understand place value of large numbers
-regroup
-practice mental addition strategies / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -GPS Guide pg. 17
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 41
November
Pg. 57-58 / -study place value of large numbers
-regroup
-use estimation and mental math / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -Read Author Notes on page 57
-Helpful Hints pg. 58
-GPS Guide pg. 19
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 57
December
Pg. 70 / -use estimation
-practice mental math
-write large numbers in thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones
-express large numbers in expanded notation / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -GPS Guide pg. 21
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 70
January
Pg. 82-83 / -examine sums of numbers in sequence
-express large numbers in various notation
-use estimation mental addition and subtraction / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -Helpful Hints pg. 83
-GPS Guide pg. 23
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 82
February
Pg. 95-97 / -examine another strategy for adding sums in sequence
-practice mental addition and subtraction
-write large numbers in 1,000, 100, 10, and 1.
-express large numbers in expanded notation / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6,7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8
-copy TR5 hundreds chart / -GPS Guide pg. 25
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 95
March
Pg. 109-110 / -round to the hundreds place and tens place
-use estimation
-practice mental math
-write large numbers in 1,000, 100, 10, and 1. / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -Read Author Notes on page 109
-GPS Guide pg. 27
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 109
April
Pg. 123-124 / -use estimation and mental math
-express large numbers in various notations / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -GPS Guide pg. 29
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 123
May/June
Pg. 133 / -reconsider a question given more data
-study place value of large numbers
-use estimation and mental math / -Daily Depositor
-Play money card stock or copies of TR 6 and TR 7
-self stick notes
-depositor record card stock or copy of TR 8 / -Helpful Hints pg. 133
-GPS Guide pg. 31
-Ongoing Assess. ?’s TE 133