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Tree Shape Matching Cards

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Cassie

I love that in the spring the tree all come out with new leaves! We go from bare trees to trees with fun colors of green.

I wanted to have something fun to add to our Tree Shape Tracing activity. So I made some fun tree shape matching cards for kids to play with.

Free Tree Shape Matching Cards - 12 shape matching cards for kids to use with tree made from shapes - 3Dinosaurs.com

These matching cards are great for Earth Day or Arbor Day!

Each of the matching cards has one tree with a shape at the top and the matching shape word. You will find the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, diamond, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.

I recommend printing the cards on cardstock and laminating. This will help them last longer.

How to use these cards

These cards match a great matching center for kids. You start by giving them a few cards to match at first for kids that are just starting to learn to match the picture tot he written word.

You can also give them all the cards set out. I like to put the words in a pile and have them go down the pile and match the words.

Here is what all the card matched up look like. You can see how fun all 12 of the cards are for kids to match. Plus the trees are just cute.

If you are looking for more shape activities with trees check out the Tree Shape Find! Each page has shape tracing and tree matching activity. We love using the dot marker on these printables. Plus you can change up the color for the changes in the seasons.

What you will find in the Tree Shape Find

You have 12 different shapes to work on. They have the shape name and the shape to trace and then dot or color on the tree shapes.

Tree Themed Shape Find: shape and shape word with tracing $ - 3Dinosaurs.com

What you will find in these printables:

12 shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, oval, heart, star, crescent, hexagon, octagon.
Tracing section for each shape and shape word
$3.00 for all 26 pages of printables

Click here to get your copy of the Tree Shape Find at Teachers Pay Teachers

What you will find in the free Tree Shape Matching Cards

2 piece matching cards
Shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, diamond, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
4 pages of printables

Click here to get your copy of the Free Tree Shape Matching Cards

Check out all the Earth Day Activities and Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Earth Day Activities and Printables - 3Dinosaurs.com

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Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Cassie

There are some math concepts that are always hard to learn. Fractions can be one of them. There are so many different ways to look and use fractions.

I wanted to create something that would help kids learn their fractions and help with the struggle at the start. I made these fraction help mats.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

These mats are a great way to look at the number line of the fraction and see how it works in different layouts. I love using hands-on activities when I can.

Each of the mats has a fraction at the top, a horizontal fraction, a number line and recording area. It gives kids loads of ways to work on the fractions.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

There are 8 mats in all. I have printed out off on colored card stock. Then I put them in sheet protectors back to back. This allows me to put them in our math help binder. The mats have the following fractions: 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.

You can see the maths below. I printed them on colored cardstock and put them in sheet protects back to back. We store these in our math help binder.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

How we used these mats

We have used these mats with some of the printables on the site. The most recent has been the fraction matching. The cards have repeat addition on them so it makes it great to see you build the fraction and match it on the number line. You can see how we used the card on the number line to add the fractions up. Then we filled out the visual fractions with erasers to make the equation.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

You can use the mats to add two fractions together that have the same denominator. You can see we took two fractions cards and added them together. We got the fraction cards from the Comparing Stormtrooper Fractions printable.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

You can also use these cards to figure out fractions. You can count the spots and get the matching mat. Then use the number line to see what the fraction is.

$Free Easy To Use Math Help: Fraction Help Mats - 8 mats to use with learning about fractions - 3Dinosaurs.com$

What you will find in the free Fraction Help Mats

8 Fraction Help Mats
Fractions for: 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2
Two fraction examples to color in
Number line from 0 to 1 with fractions marked off

$Free Fraction Help Mats - 8 pages of fractions to help kids learn with 2 image types and a number line - 3Dinosaurs.com$

Click here to get your copy of the Free Fraction Help Mats.

Check out these other fraction printables:

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Recycling Earth Day Fraction Matching Cards With Help Mat

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Cassie

Math is always a struggle for some kids and I know that hands-on activities some times go better than worksheets. I have always loved matching cards. There are so many ways to use cards.

Today I have a fraction matching cards with an Earth Day theme. The recycling Earth Day Fraction matching cards are a fun way to do repeat addition with fractions and matching to the correct picture.