Are You Teaching Equal Groups?

You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.

Balancing concrete (manipulatives) & abstract thinking skills  (pencil and paper) can be quite difficult in the elementary classroom. Not everyone is at the same stage, which is why math centers and teacher small groups lessons are the best type of math instruction. However, what is "terrific" in this world and what you can ACTUALLY fit into your schedule are two different things! :)



You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.

I have a set of Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT that have 36 different task cards, the first 18 ask the students to draw the equal groups and the last 18 ask them to count the equal groups and include a final answer. 
You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
18 Equal Groups Task Cards Stating to Draw Equal Groups


When it comes to the ease of prepping these Equal Groups task cards, all pieces are rectangular and easy for you or a parent volunteer to cut on a paper slicer. No need to cut around a cute turkey or round pumpkin task card, just rectangles with graphics that are adorable and eye catching to hold your students' interest!

You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
18 Equal Groups Task Cards Stating to Count Equal Groups


I have included two different recording sheets, one has #1 to #18 and the other has #19 to #36. If you students are advanced enough to complete all 36 task cards in one day, you can copy the recording sheets front to back for one answer sheet.


You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
Equal Groups Task Cards Recording Sheets

Two answer keys are also included to make grade quick and easy. You can also laminate them back to back and place them at your math center to have the students self-check and correct their answers.



You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
Equal Groups Task Cards Answer Keys Included

You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
 Equal Groups Task Cards File Folder Cover Included

These Task Cards are so easy to prep, it is perfect to give to a parent volunteer who is asking, "How can I help?" or your PTA / PTO volunteer room. It is also terrific for an Emergency Substitute Tub, Folder or Binder!

You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
 Equal Groups Task Cards Classroom Center Sign Included

You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
This activity can give you a terrific assessment grade for the week or, completely different, you can use the cards to remediate a few students in your small group using manipulates and white boards. 




You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
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The possibilities are endless! 


Everything also comes in black and white to save you ink. It is not gray scale, but rather black outlines. Print a set for each student to take home and they will also have fun coloring in the pictures!  


You will love how easy it is to prepare these 3rd Grade Go Math 3.1 Equal Groups Task Cards for your class. My students LOVED Task Cards and your students will too! You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a task card center. By changing out the skill each week, your students already know the directions for using the task cards. Your students will enjoy the freedom of task cards while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! Students can answer these Equal Groups task cards in your classroom math journals or on the included recording sheets. Perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter 3! Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Equal Groups Task Cards at TpT.
Equal Groups Task Cards


Equal Groups Task Cards are Perfect for...
Remediation and RTI groups
Substitute teacher folders
Scoot Game! Keep them all up and moving!
Math Workstations
Indoor recess
Read the Room Game
Morning work
Emergency sub tubs
Morning Math buckets
Math centers
Early morning students
After school tutoring
Parent Math Nights
And so much more!



This Equal Groups Task Cards Resource is Also Included in the Following Bundles.




Once your students are use to the expectations of using task cards, your task card math center can run all year with different skills from a variety of over 700+ of my task cards! Click here to see all my task cards.



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Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle

 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.

This time of year things get so overwhelming, Red Ribbon Week, report cards, parties, conferences, these print and go worksheets can add some joy and fun to your classroom while letting your students work on their addition and subtraction skills. Allowing you a few minutes to clear off your desk. 


Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.
This resource has ten pages total, five for subtraction and five for addition. All of the pages allow for the student to pick the skin and hair color of the children, as well as spaces for some "free choice" where they can pick any coloring, making it easy to grade, but still different from the rest of the class. They are great for a bulletin board or a substitute day because answer keys are included too! 
Click here to purchase this resource.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.

  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.

  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.

  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.
  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition and Subtraction Bundle at TeacherspayTeachers.
This bundle can also be purchased as individual resources too.
1. Addition - Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Addition!
2. Subtraction - Color By Numbers Halloween Costumed Kids Subtraction!

http://www.fernsmithsclassroomideas.com/2016/10/color-your-answers-for-halloween-know.html
Need something easier?

I also have Color Your Code Halloween Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors, click here to see more about this resource on my blog.

Have a wonderful week friends!
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Color Your Answers for Halloween - Know Your Colors and Numbers

 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.

This time of year things get hectic, report cards, parties, conferences, these print and go worksheets can add some joy and fun to your classroom while letting your students work on their number and letter recognition skills. Allowing you a few minutes to clear off your desk. 

This resource has 20 pages total, 10 for numbers and 10 for colors. The ten pages are a repeat of each other so you can decorate your classroom and differentiate for each student. They are great for a sub day because answer keys are included too!
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.

 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.

 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color By Code Halloween Fun Know Your Numbers and Know Your Colors Bundle at TeachersPayTeachers, TPT.


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Making Cubbies When You Only Have Shelves




Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas You Oughta Know About blog hop Making Cubbies When You Only Have Shelves

You Oughta Know About...making cubbies when you only have shelves. I wish I had known it sooner! 
Do you remember when you first started teaching and everything had to be perfect? Maybe it was last year for some of you, maybe it was in 1989, like it was for me! Yep, I'm old, but with age comes wisdom. When we moved back to Florida as a Navy family, I was giddy to be back in my old school district. I could have been given a Sear's tool shed to teach in and I would have been happy as a clam. AND... my portable was pretty much that, a Sear's tool shed! My portable had no storage, no built in shelves, nothing as fancy as my two beautiful "in the building" classrooms I was given in Texas. I was spoiled rotten in Texas, my rooms were so nice.... anyway... One thing my school in Florida had was old black bookcases, old black file cabinets, old black cabinets...at least, most of them were old, I mean, black! :) Black didn't show the outdated age as much as the avocado green ones!  

To give the students a sense of "their space" I give each one a plastic shoe box from ole' happy Wal-Mart. They are only a dollar each and I could fit four on a shelf. I love these because they are roomier than pencil boxes. The students can dump their crayons, their pencils, their erasers, everything, into these boxes. Then you don't have a lot of wasted academic time with a student trying to re-stuff their crayons back into that small Crayola box!
So that's my tip, it's more like, be happy with what you have, real life is not always going to be Pinterest-Perfect, but student's feed off of your mood. When you're happy, their happy! :)
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Halloween Quick and Easy To Prep Center Games

One of my favorite ways to store and use center games are with large Ziploc baggies. At the beginning of the school year I taught my students to leave the cover sheet in the baggie and just pull out the cards and directions. This made cleaning up the center even quick and easier than it is to make it in the first place! Most all of my centers are rectangles so that you or a parent volunteer can quickly use a slicer to cut out all the pieces and make the center. Then everything fits in your file cabinet or storage bucket for that season or skill and you can still see the cover! My newest Halloween centers are no different and they are now available in my store at TPT.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.

 Two more different Halloween Fun Centers for Addition! Click on the picture to see them too!
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas  Halloween Quick and Easy to Prep Center Games at Teacherspayteachers.
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Using Seasonal Sticky Notes in the Classroom!

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Using Seasonal Sticky Notes in the Classroom for a Working Number Line.
Creating a Daily Classroom Number Line
One of my favorite things to do, is a Morning Meeting at my classroom calendar. Many skills can be tucked into a quick ten minutes in the morning. During October, it is not too late to start!
Seasonal sticky notes are a terrific way to keep track of the number of days we've been at school. Even with the upper elementary grades I loved doing this because as the year rolls on, they have a visual number line, in groups of ten, to help as an anchor chart for multiplication, division, even some intermediate level students still need support with basic addition and subtraction facts....

Directions and Materials:
* 20 - 21 different seasonal sticky note pads, you will need 10 of each type. Ellison die cuts will also work well.
* Pre-cut a strip of ribbon, cash register tape, construction paper, etc. to the length of TEN seasonal sticky notes. About four feet for the store bought sticky notes.
* Place on an empty area next to your calendar. It will grow and fill the space as school progresses.
* Each day write the number for that school day and place on the ribbon. This is also a great job for the class helper. It is always very hot in Florida when we go back in August, so I use some summer themes and then progress to the cute back to school stuff for September, fall for October, etc.
* As each day unfolds you will have created in groups of ten, a working number line for your classroom.

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Using Seasonal Sticky Notes in the Classroom for a Working Number Line.
Perfect for a visual anchor chart for a large variety of math skills.


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Halloween - Two Digit Addition Center Game

Quick and Easy to Prep Halloween - Addition of Two Digit Numbers with No Regrouping Center Game.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Halloween - Two Digit Addition Without Regrouping Math Center Game at TeachersPayTeachers.
This math resource includes ~ Center cover, math center sign, four pages of playing cards, student directions and a self-checking answer key.  

These center games are perfect for Match Game, Go Fish, Concentration, Sorting, Matching, Scoot, Exit Cards, Flip Charts... the possibilities are endless! Once you teach your class the different ways to play my centers, they will no longer need directions and have more time to focus on the skills being taught!

I have two other literacy centers that I really love that you might like this week for your Reading Center, Word Work Area or Literacy Center.
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Halloween - Noun or Verb? A Halloween Center Game at TeachersPayTeachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Halloween - Adjective or Adverb? A Happy Halloween Center Game at TeachersPayTeachers.
 


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