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Fall Multiplication Games
Pumpkin Spice is in the air and so is the chanting of math facts. As teachers and homeschoolers we are always looking for fun affordable ways to add quality resources to our teacher arsenal.
Are you looking for fun multiplication games for the fall season?
If so, you have clicked on the right blog post. What's so GREAT about these games? I have composed a list:
- These games are SUPER simple to prep!
- Plus, they are easy to differentiate.
- Candy corn colored multiplication charts are included.
- The games come in 1-10 fact practice or 1-12 facts.
- They are SUPER affordable!
- You can buy in a bundle and SAVE!
Read more about the games below.
Multiplication, Fact Families, and The Bundle
Multiplication Fall-Themed Game
Practice multiplication facts 1-10 or 1-12.
What's Included: 1- Facts 1-10 Spinner Game 1- Facts 1-12 Spinner Game Candy Corn Colored Multiplication Charts Candy Corn Spinner Pieces
Fact Families Fall-Themed Game
Practice Fact Families 1-10 or 1-12.
What's Included: 1- Facts Families 1-10 Spinner Game 1- Facts Families 1-12 Spinner Game Candy Corn Colored Multiplication Charts Candy Corn Spinner Pieces
Multiplication and Fact Families Bundle
Practice multiplication facts and division 1-10 or 1-12.
What's Included: 1- Facts 1-10 Spinner Game 1- Facts 1-12 Spinner Game 1- Facts Families 1-10 Spinner Game 1- Facts Families 1-12 Spinner Game Candy Corn Colored Multiplication Charts Candy Corn Spinner Pieces
Where can you find them?
You can click on the pictures above OR they are available for purchase in my Teacher's Pay Teachers store Raven R Cruz. I have several multiplication resources in my store so check them out!
Thanks for stopping by!
How to make Square Thumbnails for Teachers Pay Teachers
I remember starting my journey on Teachers pay Teachers a few years back. It was 2012 and there were virtually no videos to help me on my journey. Plus, I live where you can't get internet. I'm serious... country girl problems. They are trying to put in fiber optics - $140 for 1G - per month. No thanks, that's snail speed, I'll just try to keep using my cell phone as a spotless hot spot. NOT THE POINT!
My point is, I want to help you be the most efficient, tpt'er/teacherpreneur/entrepreneur/teacher author... Well, you get it right. I want to help you START OFF being successful. I don't want you to have as many tears as I did and still kinda do. So, in the video below I show you how to make square thumbnails for Teachers Pay Teachers.
THINGS CANVA CAN DO
The website I use to create my thumbnails is canva.com (not an affiliate). The video takes you through all the steps because honestly, pictures of how to do it will probably not help, I would watch the video.
Anyhoo, below is a list of the reasons I use Canva to give you an idea if you are a scanner and don't like videos.
- It is easier to access your pictures.
- You can see your pictures better, meaning they are all right there in your dashboard.
- Pictures be can stored directly in Canva and don't need external storage or computer storage space.
- You can download as pdf, png, transparent png, and jpg.
- It is super easy to change a photo size.
- You can edit your photo directly in Canva and don't have to edit before inserting it in to a thumb.
THINGS CANVA CAN'T DO
There are a few things Canva can't do that your other software's can. Below is a short list of a few notable things.
- It doesn't do shadows or text effects.
- You can't put color in text with text effects. The text has to be all one color, no cool outlines.
- You need an internet connection so you can't do it offline.
Thanks for sticking around to the end of the post! Since you did check out on of my freebies.
Multiplication and Division Centers for 3rd Grade
Multiplication and division can be tough! I honestly wish I would have known about multiplication and division centers for 3rd grade sooner! My first few years teaching, I struggled finding quality resources to teach multiplication and division fluency. Teachers Pay Teachers was in the early stages and I found a few free resources to implement.
I gave my students timed test Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! I am not dogging on timed tests, merely stating my lack of preparedness for teaching math. Also, I was provided a set of workbooks and textbooks that had a copyright date of 1997. Yeah, my first year teaching was in 2012, so you do the math.
There are two things that I learned about later that truly would have helped me provide a more quality education to my math students in my first two years of teaching. I am SUPER embarrassed to admit what I just shared, but I truly did not know any better.
Which leads me to the two things I wish I would have know about my first year teaching; math centers and guided math. These two things would have CHANGED my math teacher world!
At the current time I have not made any of my own guided math resources, but I have been working on things to use for math centers.
How I Changed My Math Game
As teachers and home educators it is important to find effective and engaging ways to reinforce multiplication and division fluency outside of timed-worksheets. Math centers are a great way to make multiplication engaging and start building number sense early.
Math centers and math rotations are a type of independent practice with a game, technology, activity, or set of task cards. During this time students have a chance to apply the skills and strategies that they learn during guided practice.
Most teachers are probably familiar with math centers and how to implement them in their classrooms. However, new teachers and home educators that I know don't tend to understand what they are (with the exclusion of a few, especially former teachers).
For that reason, my goal is to encourage more new teachers and home educators to start using math centers in their classroom/home. Also, to provide both teachers and home educators an original and creative multiplication and division resource to use in their math centers. Well, that and offer a few ideas on cute storage ideas. You know, that need to organize is in all of us. It's just an educator thing!
Multiplication and Division Task Cards EVERYWHERE!
No, not really! The photograph truly does look like I have task cards everywhere, though.
Here, let me give you an overview of what is included in my Operations and Algebraic Thinking Mega Bundle for 3rd-Grade. You can read more about the standards here.
What Comes in the Multiplication and Division Mega Bundle?
Operations and Algebraic Thinking Mega Bundle
- Strategies of Multiplication Flip Book
- Multiplication Fact Trackers
- Phone-themed Multiplication Charts Task Cards
- Equal Groups & Multiplication Task Cards
- Arrays & Multiplication Task Cards
- Repeated Addition & Multiplication Task Cards
- Skip Counting & Multiplication Task Cards
- Using Number & Multiplication Lines Task Cards
- Multiplication Fluency Task Cards 1-10 or 1-12
- Multiplication Fluency Flip Book Facts 1-10
- Interpreting Whole Number Quotients Task Cards
- Multiplication Within 100 Word Problems Task Cards
- Determining Unknown Whole Numbers in Multiplication and Division Task Cards
- Arithmetic Patterns Task Cards
- Properties of Multiplication Flip Book
- Properties of Multiplication Interactive Notebook & Task Cards
- Division of Unknown Factors Task Cards
- Fact Families Task Cards
- Division Fluency Task Cards
- C.U.B.E.S. Math Strategy Flip Book
- Multiplication and Divide Within 100 Task Cards
- Two-Step Word Problems and Equations Task Cards
- Identifying Arithmetic Patterns Task Cards
- Multiplication Wheel Task Card
- Division Quotient Maze Task Cards
- School-themed Multiplication Color-by-Number Task Cards
- School-themed Division Color-by-Number Task Cards
What Objectives do the Task Cards Cover?
Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
- Interpreting products of whole numbers.
- Interpreting whole-number quotients of whole numbers.
- Using multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.
- Determining the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
- Applying properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.
- Understanding division as an unknown-factor problem.
Multiply and divide within 100.
- Fluently multiplying and dividing within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division.
Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
- Solving two-step word problems using the four operations.
- Identifying arithmetic patterns, and explaining them using properties of operations.
I Love Teacher Storage!
Most noteworthy, you can see from the photographs above, I use photo boxes to store my task cards. This helps me keep my task cards organized in order of what I will use next. I personally use the cases from Michael's to store the photo boxes. Now, my task cards are organized and easily tuck away when I don't need them.
My smaller sets of task cards fit perfectly in these Dollar Tree lock boxes.
Storage is not TRULY pertinent to this blog post, but I love to share my knowledge and PLUS, everyone asks me what I am using in my photographs.
Last, if you are interested in multiplication and division, you will also like this article.
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Report Cards
Are you a classroom teacher, admistrator, or homeschooling family that needs an effective report cards for your record keeping purposes? I know that I am, and I hate paying for one each year.
Well, one day I decided to do something about my expensive report card angst and MADE SOME!
They don't have to specifically be used in homeschool, they can be used for classroom purposes too.
There are 2 designs for each school level; Elementary, Middle, and High School.
Click on the pictures below to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store and grab your set! You can use them through your child's entire school experience.
They are $6 for the set. If you add up how much I have spent on them over the past few years, you will save around $70 after purchasing these!
It is important to save money when you are homeschooling, it gets expensive.
How to print on both sides.
- Put card-stock in your printer
- Print the first side.
- Feed the paper back through by laying it in the tray print side up EXACTLY the way it came out of the printer.
- Fold down the middle after printing.
United States with Capitals Task Cards
I remember when I was required to memorize the 50 U.S. states. I was in sixth grade. Our class did boring worksheets and had to practice memorizing the locations and capitals of each state. It was SO boring! Plus, I don't remember anything that I learned.
Engage with QR Codes
Well, the fact that you are reading this article means you care enough not to inflict your students with the boredom I suffered. So if you are you searching for a fun and engaging United States Geography lesson for you class or homeschool, you came to the right post.
To make your students' learning more engaging and fun I have created fun task cards to help you students and children learn about the 50 U.S. States. The task cards have a significant QR code on each sending your student to an interactive website to learn more about each state. They can even check most of their answers on that site.
I don't think I need to stress how important it is not to bore your students. What are you waiting for? Grab these cards and add them to your curriculum today!
Task cards are a great way to reinforce and assess your students. With the addition of the QR codes, these task cards add an interactive quality to further engage your students. As teachers and homeschoolers we all know that interactive and engaging lessons are a must-have in our teaching. Students easily get bored, as did I like I mentioned before so we have to strive as teachers to find something that is interactive and engaging
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Have I peaked your interest? You can get this task cards in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.
Four Spanish Learning Games to Keep Your Kids Busy
School break is here and you want to keep your child's skills sharp. From my teaching perspective I applaud you.
I feel the same way so I rounded up four of my funnest Spanish and English learning games to keep your child busy over school break. They are designed for both English language learners and Spanish language learners.
Los números is a fun themed Súper detective game to get your kids and students engaged in practicing their numbers in Spanish.
Let your child help the Súper detective in matching the correct number with it's Spanish name. You can cut down the amount of numbers they learn at one time, leaving it simple and not overwhelming, because the cards and game-cards are organized in 25 number increments.
I used a cheap personal laminator with card stock and heavy weight lamination sleeves to provide durability to the game.
Los números is currently only a Spanish learning game, but will soon be updated to both Spanish and English learning game.
La hora is another fun themed Súper detective game that helps your child practice learning time in Spanish. It teaches time by 5-minutes.
Match the correct time in Spanish to the digital clock time. There are several ways you could use this game, but two game cards are included with the game pieces.
I suggest laminating the game with heavyweight lamination pockets and using velcro type sticky dots to adhere the game pieces to the game cards.
La hora is currently only a Spanish learning game, but will soon be updated to both Spanish and English learning game.
Las frutas is another Spanish learning game that teaches your child fruit names in both Spanish and English. There are 16 English fruit names and 16 Spanish fruit names to match with adorable little game pieces.
Las frutas was my daughter's favorite game out of all four choices.
Like the games before, I suggest heavyweight lamination sleeves, card stock, and velcro type dots for efficiency. This step just helps keep track of the game pieces and makes the game last longer.
The last game of the four is Los colores. This game helps your child learn colors in Spanish and English.
The game is in the form of a puzzle, but if you follow the instructions, the game can be used in two different ways.
This is a great bargain for those parents that want there kids to learn Spanish or English over the summer and winter months while school is out.
If you are interested in any of the games above, click on their picture to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store or by clicking HERE.