Jenn Sayre Date:

Mrs. Evans Time:

Grade 3
Subject: Math
Thanksgiving Budget Challenge
I. Essential Questions
a. What is a budget?
b. How can you budget your money to plan for a Thanksgiving meal?

II. Standards
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.B.5
Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.

III. Learning Objectives and Assessments

Learning Objectives Assessments
Students will be able to utilize their math The students will buy a Thanksgiving
skills to create a budget. meal for their families without going
over the budget.

IV. Materials
a. Posters
b. Grocery store catalogs
c. Budget worksheet
d. A Thanksgiving Dinner by Maude M. Grant

V. Pre-Lesson Assignment and/or Prior Knowledge

a. Students understand the value of money and can add and subtract.

VI. Lesson Beginning

a. The teacher will call the students to the rug and ask students what
kind of food their families eat on Thanksgiving.
b. The teacher will then read the poem

VII. Instructional Plan

a. After reading the book, the teacher will explain the challenge of the
day
i. Students will be split into groups of 3.
ii. Each group will be given a few grocery store catalogs.
iii. The task is to buy food for a Thanksgiving meal for a family of 4
without going over the budget of $50.
iv. There must be at least one meat, one vegetable, one side dish,
one dessert, and one beverage.
v. The students will fill out the budget worksheet as they decide
on what to buy to keep track of their spending.
 vi. Once the items have been finalized and decided upon, the
group will make a poster displaying their menu.
1. Cut out the pictures from the catalogs and write the
prices down on the poster.
2. Show the total amount of money spent.
3. How much under budget were you?
b. Explain how to fill out the worksheet.
c. Give the students their groups, catalogs, and posters.
d. Let the students work anywhere in the classroom.
e. Circulate around the room, listening in on conversations and asking
questions.
f. Allow students to work as long as they need to.
g. When there is about 10 minutes left in the class period, or whenever
every group is done, ask groups to share their posters.
i. How did you decide on what kind of items to buy?
ii. Did you compare prices of items to other catalogs?
iii. Was it difficult to not go over budget?
h. After each group has shared, discuss how having a budget can be
tricky but is very important.

VIII. Questions
a. How much under budget were you?
b. How did you decide on what kind of items to buy?
c. Did you compare prices of items to other catalogs?
d. Was it difficult to not go over budget?

IX. Differentiation
a. For those groups who may be struggling to add with decimals,
calculators will be made available.

X. Transitions
a. Students will be called to the rug by table.
b. The teacher will give the class constant time updates to warn them
when time is almost up.

XI. Classroom Management

a. The teacher will use the chime to get every students attention.

XII. Closure
a. The students will share their posters and discuss the activity.
A THANKSGIVING DINNER
by Maude M. Grant

Take a turkey, stuff it fat,

Some of this and some of that.
Get some turnips, peel them well.
Cook a big squash in its shell.
Now potatoes, big and white,
Mash till they are soft and light.
Cranberries, so tart and sweet,
With the turkey we must eat.
Pickles-yes-and then, oh my!
For a dessert a pumpkin pie,
Golden brown and spicy sweet.
What a fine Thanksgiving treat!