Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity



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Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game with Interactive Notebook Activity
*Center Folder Cover*
Common Core State Standards
Kinder: K.OA.A.2, K.OA.A.3, K.OA.A.4, K.OA.A.5
First Grade: .OA.B.3, 1.OA.B.4, 1.OA.C.5, 1.OA.C.6
Second Grade: 2.OA.B.2
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
1. A center game to sort and organized different addition and subtraction fact families by critter and houses!
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
2. Every fact family for a printable Fact Family House for your Math Interactive Notebooks. 
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
Pick and Differentiate which ones 
you want to use for each student!
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
All Common Core Listed for Your Lesson Planning!
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
Picture of Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center Game and Interactive Notebook Activity!
*Math Center Sign*
If you head over to any of my stores and download the
FREE PREVIEW the Math Center Sign is there for you for FREE!

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Halloween Fun ~ Addition Add One and Subtraction Minus One Center Game!



Fern Smith's Halloween Fun ~ Addition Add One and Subtraction Minus One Center Game!
Common Core Standards For Addition and Subtraction
1.OA.1 1.OA.3 1.OA.5 1.OA.6 & 2.AO.1 2.OA.2 2.NBT.5
 
Three Games In One! 
Addition Plus One Center Game,
Subtraction Minus One Center Game, and
Addition and Subtraction MIXED Plus One/Minus One Center Game

* 21 PAGES of Halloween Dressed Up Monkey Fun! 
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Taking a Clinic Bucket to the Playground

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Fern Smith's Taking a Clinic Bucket to the Playground.
This is My Clinic Bucket!
It is heavily guarded by Monkey and Monkey Boy! Florida is all about the FCAT, but these 8 & 9 year olds still need a little fun. When they need a band aid, I tell them to go over there and ask Monkey for one....
We also grab this bucket and take it to the playground daily. In it I keep a pen, clinic passes, the copy of the pass so I know if someone is still missing and the red first aid kit. Inside the red first aid kit is just the teacher gloves for emergencies and band aids. I have two daily helpers, the first one brings it out and the other one brings it in. 
When it is in the classroom, if something life shattering has happened {lost tooth, picked scab, you know what I really mean....}
I let the helpers take the poor, sad victim to the clinic with the sick child clutching Monkey Boy, one of my daughter's old Beanie Babies.
Cheap, free, priceless help!
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Mystery Motivators for Improving Behavior!

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How to improve behavior in our classroom with a very successful mystery motivators idea.
Mystery Motivators for Improving Behavior!
So today, as you read this, I'm entering week five of school. I started my blog to only focus on the positive side of teaching....that's why you haven't seen many posts this school year! 
Hahahahaha! 

Yep, it has been bad, we've been over crowded, we've spent every moment working on behavior, calling parents, having parent conferences, you know the drill. But we now have another 3rd grade class, so our classes are smaller and things are perking up. 

I have 15 in my first group and 14 in my second group. If you are new to my blog, I teach Math and Science twice a day. I love it!! Our entire school 'teams' and our scores show amazing results. I have become very good at teaching 3rd grade Math and although I miss literature and writing, I ♥MATH!

Using a Mystery Motivator in My Class Has Turned Things Completely Around
It is very easy to start and would even be something good to use midyear when your behavior plan needs a pick me up!
Everyday you need a prize, something small, a pencil, a sheet of stickers, a FREE to MAKE coupon to sit by a friend, maybe every once in awhile a biggie to get excitement up and running again. 
If you look at my picture, it is just two gift bags from the store, goes with my new owl theme! :) The bigger bag has the daily prize and in my case, two prizes that are the same since I teach two groups. The smaller bag is where the kids put their tickets. As you are teaching, hand out tickets that the students write their name on and place in the small bag. Focus on the good behavior and reward it instantly, the others will sit up, notice and try to copy the desired behavior. I've seen it now for four weeks with some of the most hard core children ever.....it works, it really works. 
The tickets are nothing fancy, my co-teacher uses paper cut into squares. I have some reward tickets I downloaded somewhere online and our wonderful Paraprofessional {who we call Nanny Flynn since she takes such great care of us} copied on color paper and cut for me. Nothing fancy, nothing expensive is needed.
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Review of Mystery Motivators for Improving Behavior!
At the end of the day, pull out a name....I use the bell as they are packing up to get their attention. The ONLY thing the bell is for is to let them know I'm doing the drawing! I have a silly pattern that I do, and let me tell you, every head in the room spins around to see me when they hear it! :)
I leave their names on their slips of paper in the bag for the entire week, so everyone doesn't give up if they don't get their name pulled that day. I also learned if you have someone who is DRIVING YOU CRAZY, TOTALLY AND COMPETELY NUTSO CRAZY and finally has a great day, you can tell the class that it is a special "Two Prize Day!" Pull two names and the second name is the child who has shown great improvement that day! The children NEVER have to see the ticket, they will believe you and that child needs the love that day, I promise! It was worth the second prize!

This system is such an inexpensive way to reward your class, the THRILL comes as you build excitement during the lesson. After I read our Champs Expectations for the lesson, I peek in the bag and say something silly like, "No way! That's the prize?" {I just put it in the bag an hour or so ago, it's not like I didn't know.....} They LOVE it! These past four weeks I've given away camo pencils with cap erasers, sheets of stickers, gel pens, markers, roll-up crayons, rulers, most everything is school supply related! Then once a week I put a bigger item in, nothing expensive, a stuffed manatee that someone donated to the school, one of my daughter's old beanie babies that was in new condition, a fancy pencil case.....the possibilities are endless.

How to improve behavior in our classroom with a very successful mystery motivators idea.



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Fifty Dollar Giveaway At Our TPT Stores! Yipee!


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Today Is THE Day!
We've been having some terrific daily giveaways over at Owl-ways Be Inspired and today is my day!! Well, my day and Denise at Sunny Days in Second Grade! Denise was one of the first blogs I ever read and some of my first couple of purchases from her TPT Store!  When I finally meet her last summer all I could do was stammer...."hey....."
I Be Edumacated!
**Star**Stuck**
Now we're in some groups together on FB and I constantly "Like" pretty much everything she ever types!! 
**Stalker**
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Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes


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Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes
 TEN Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes at TPT
Also at my TN and Edworld stores. 
This is a discounted bundle of these two centers.
These three new centers are something to encourage all the little boys we live with daily! :)
Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes
 Subtraction Centers Planes Theme - Five Different Strategies at TPT
 Also at my TN and Edworld stores. 
Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes
 
Free Math Center Sign when you download the Free Preview!
Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes 
 Addition Centers Cars Theme - Five Different Strategies at TPT
 Also at my TN and Edworld stores.
Fern Smith's Addition and Subtraction Math Centers for Cars and Planes
Free Math Center Sign when you download the Free Preview!  
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