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Same thing!
By Lianne

I am teaching a 23 split. Our board just recently sent us on a one week workshop to discuss and find solutions to this exact problem. We are in northern Ontario , Canada, up here everyone has split grades. I can offer a few
things we discussed last week.
1) Sit down with the curriculum and find out which expectations or processes that are the same but maybe giving your grade 3's a little more "meat" ex. subtraction 2 digits grade 2 and 3 digits the grade 3's . You can save alot of time and energy this way.
2) Find the "essantial understanding" what do they really have to know!! We have general

expectations and specific expectations , I had to search a little to find what it is they really have to know.

3) Our presenter ,starts with a science or social studies theme and get her art, music, reading, writing from there.

She showed us a "Community unit" , were she had them work all year on building a community. She had them building using math measurement, geometry, collected data, etc...The grade two had to build boats (science) powered by wind for a regata, while the grade 3 built amusement park (science). She managed to cover our 5 science strands in both grades with one big pictures.

It seems more difficult than it is but organization is the key. You must have good classroom management skills. You can do it!