Candace Bennett

Personal Finance for Elementary is a great set for teaching Personal Finance in grades K - Third. The set is aligned to the National Standards, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and TRS. There are 48 vocabulary word cards with the definitions. There are posters of all coins, including the Half Dollar and the Gold Dollar coin. The coin posters shows the value with a cent sign and a dollar sign with the decimal. There is a poster with all the Dollar Bills and the value. It includes 2 post

Christmas Poetry Pack This set is a great way to get your students excited about poetry during the Christmas Holidays. I've chosen 6 of my favorite Christmas poems for kids. I put together some fun activities for your students. The activities will give your students a chance to respond to poetry. I hope you and your students enjoy my poetry pack, Merry Christmas!

AR Points Club Set is great for getting your students more excited about earning AR points. My fellow teachers and I thought we would like to encourage our second graders to read and earn more AR Points. The set includes a AR Points Club display sign, Signs for Point Clubs, Student Incentive Charts and Student Name Tags for display. I can't wait to use it and I hope you try it, too!! Thanks!

Authors We Love I designed these 28 cards, because I was tired of using my old ones made out of construction paper. I use the cards to introduce a new author to my class. I included the author's website, my students love to go to the websites. I also use the websites for Daily 5 activities. I included the author's genre to help my students learn what type of genre they write. Each card also contains two or three pictures of the author's famous books and titles. When we complete the au

Insect Poetry Pack is a fun set of poems and a writing activities. I have 7 poems that my students and I have enjoyed reading. I also put 3 writing activities ( in the set that are great responses to the poems. The first activity has students creating their own insect poem. The second one has students drawing and writing the stages in the Life Cycle of the Butterfly, this is a great Science Connection. The third activity has the students writing about an insect they observed, which is anothe

The Cynthia Rylant Author Study has facts about the author and balanced literacy activities. There is a poster with facts about the author. The set includes 4 comprehension and writing activities. The activities are great for teaching your students about making literature connections and author's purpose. I use this author study when we read the her story Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea. My students and I love learning about authors. I hope your students enjoy it also!

Phonics Posters were designed to help students to learn to read and spell. I've put these together for teachers to display in the classroom. I use them when introducing a new phoneme to my class. They are then displayed for future reference. I was trained in the traditional Spalding Phonological Awareness Program when I started teaching. I have always incorporated that foundation into my ELAR teaching. I call the phonemes chunks in my class, I've just found it easier for my students to rem

What is a Scientist? I use this at the beginning of the year to start my students' Science journals. We visit the Science Lab and explore everything in the lab. We discuss what a scientist does. We define the vocabulary on the chart to help the students understand. I ask them to try to come up with more words that can be added to the chart. We then put it in our journal as the first entry. During the next lab we go over Safety Rules in the Science lab. Then I explain to them that they a

Authors We Love 2 is my second set of author cards. I have had such good feedback on my first set, I decided to make some more. Friends and customers have been giving me names of their favorite authors to add, I love that. I use these Author cards to teach my students about each author. My students love to learn everything there is to know about the author they love. I keep them up through the school year, because my students like to see how many authors we have learned about. I have had s

Splish, Splash Animal Baths Poetry Pack is a great set of poems and activities to go with story. My students love this story and love reading the fun poems I found to go with the story. Also, my students love doing the activities during Daily Five. I hope you and your class love it, too!!

Keep a Poem in Your Pocket - Poem and Word Work This is a poem by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. I love this poem and so do my students. This is the first poem we read and put in their poetry notebook. I included a colored and black/white copy of poem. I put together the word work sheet to extend the use of the poem and to build reading skills. The word word sheet is based on phonics and rhyming skills. If you like the phonemes or chunks, you might want to look at my phonics cards. This a

Canine Cuties Package is a dog theme classroom decor set. It is bright and colorful. I created it to be used in many ways in the early elementary grades. I hope you enjoy and let me hear from you. Canine Cuties Package contains the following: Word Wall Sign Word Wall Letter Labels - vowels in different colors Blank Word Cards Color Word Cards Month Signs for a Calendar Number Tags - odd/even color pattern (I use number tags on my calendar, lockers an

Winter Poems 6-Pack is a set of fun poems about winter. They are all by great poets. I also included an activity to go along with each poem. The activities include Word Work, Writing and Comprehension. I use these activities in Daily 5 rotations after my students and I have read the poems. My students alway love to read the poems and put them in their Poetry Binder. They get excited when we do the activities that go along with the poems. I hope you and your students enjoy! Thanks!!

Valentine Poetry Pack and Activities is a set of 7 Valentine poems and 3 ELA activities. The pack includes 6 poems that I have used in my class for years and one that I wrote myself. The 3 activities include a Word Work, Poetry Response and a Writing activity for your students to write 2 poems themselves. My class reads the poems, discuss and put them in their Poetry Binder. I use the activities for Daily 5 stations. My students love it and I hope your students do, too! Let me know what yo

Two Tree House Poems - with Word Word and Writing Activities I picked out these 2 poems about tree houses for my students to read and put in their poetry binder. We had read the Time For Kids issue called Dream Houses for Kids, this goes with our Macmillan/McGraw-Hill adoption for 2nd grade. My students loved the poems! I also included a Word Work activity and Writing activity for Daily 5. This also was a hit! Poems By: Shel Silverstein and Jeff Foxworthy Clip Art: www.openclipa

What Number am I? I am happy to share this fun number sense activity with you. This activity is used to help your students with number sense and show math connections. I do this in the morning as a math warm-up, but you can use it in other ways. It can be used as mini-lesson, a small group lesson, or a Daily 5 station activity. I place the Clue Cards in a glass fishbowl. I have students come up and read the clues. We discuss and make guesses. Sometimes it takes a couple of days to fig

Tweet Birds is a bright and fun classroom decor I designed. Don't you just love the little birds, I will be using it in my classroom this year. This set will help organize your class. Station labels are included so it is great for Daily 5. I hope you like it as much as I do. This set includes: Word Wall: Sign and Letters (Vowels are in Different Colors) Calendar: Months and Days of the Week Number Tags: Odd/Even Color Pattern (use for Calendar, Lockers or Buckets)

Sweet Word Problems uses cute tables and graphs to help students practice gathering data and solving math problems. My students loved the pictures and thought it was lots of fun. I made the tables and graphs simple to read. I hope you enjoy! Clip Art: www.theschoolsupplyaddict.com www.sonyadehartdesigns.com

Number Patterns for the Real World are word problems that use Function Tables and Number Patterns to solve. I put this together last year because I could not find anything on this subject for second graders. This also helped me lead my students into multiplication. I hope it helps your students, too. Thanks!!

The Five Math Anchor Charts Set is a set I put together to use during my Morning Math Meeting. It includes an anchor chart for lines, odd and even numbers, base ten blocks and a place value mat. I made the set because I was tired of using my old set I made out of construction paper. I hope they will come in handy for you, too. Thanks!