Yesterday I shared all about my fall no-prep math stations. Well, today I thought I would share how I organize these math stations. I’m all about no-fuss, simple, and hassle free.
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The first thing that I do to organize my math stations is gather all of the station materials. The stations I am using are super easy to gather because there is ZERO cutting involved. I get 1 set of the station cards (printed two to a page), the recording sheets for students, and the answer key ready to go. If you don’t want to include an answer sheet, you can always leave that out!
Next, sometimes I hole punch the station cards. This is an optional step because you may want to have them separate for multiple students to use at a time. The hole punch does ensure that cards won’t get left all over the room, but that is totally up to you!
Once I have the station cards and the recording sheets, I put them in a plastic zipper pouch. THESE zipper pouches are my favorite because you can see the contents and there is enough room for a stack of papers!
I repeat all of those steps for each math station. Since there aren’t extra pieces all over the place, this takes just minutes to do!
You can see here that I did not hole punch the cards. Like I mentioned earlier, this is just personal preference. Either way, the cards go inside of the plastic zipper pouch with the recording sheets.
The last thing that I did was gather all of the stations and house them in a white book bin. This takes up such little space! You could definitely do one station per book bin, but I found that these stations just don’t require a lot of room. So, I keep it slim and simple!
It’s seriously fuss-free! Now all of my stations are ready to go! I was able to save so much time and energy getting these stations ready for a 2nd grade classroom. These days I’m all about working smarter, not harder!
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Hi!
I really loved reading your step by step of math stations! I am a college student, and I am very eager to begin my journey as a teacher. I intend to continue to follow your blog and use some of your strategies in the future!
Thank you for sharing your ideas,
Brynn Salge 🙂