Stephanie Benware

**This set is also available in a polka dot border. Check my store! It is extremely important for kids to have a SOLID understanding of what a number is, or number sense. This packet shows many different ways to represent a number, helps kids visualize what a number is, helps promote number sense and is a great tool to help children subitize. When you roll a die, you don’t count the dots. You subitize! We learn to recognize on dice, dominoes, ten frames, etc. the number quickly, without having

**This set is also available in a squiggly black and white border. Check out my store! It is extremely important for kids to have a SOLID understanding of what a number is, or number sense. This packet shows many different ways to represent a number, helps kids visualize what a number is, helps promote number sense and is a great tool to help children subitize. When you roll a die, you don’t count the dots. You subitize! We learn to recognize on dice, dominoes, ten frames, etc. the number

Want a simple set of picture cards reminding your kiddos how to be good listeners at the rug?? Here you go! Included are picture cards that remind the kids: eyes watching ears listening think hands still lips closed raise your hand criss cross applesauce. Check out my store for Class Rules pictures pack coming soon!

Today's Number / Number of the Day is a great whole group, small group or individual center activity that reinforces many different ways to represent a number and builds strong number sense. It aligns nicely to the common core. I start using this more complex version in January as a whole group activity as some of the concepts are not taught until later in the year. The ten frames only allow for the representation of numbers to 30 which goes beyond the kindergarten common core. But our kiddo

This number poster set accompanies my number posters 0-20 found in my TPT store. Due to popular demand, I've added posters to 30. I've deleted dominoes, dice and the number line to fit other graphics. Enjoy!! This set is also found with the polka dot border.

One of my kids' favorite things to make are CLASS BOOKS! When it is free-reading time they always go for the ones they've made. Kids feel a great sense of pride when their work is a part of something the class treasures. In this pack you will find 47 books that span the year. You get a cute cover and a student writing page for each book. Each writing page has a thought-provoking question for the kids to answer. Here are themes: :) Beginning of year books - 7 Apples - 2 Halloween - 3 Thank

This tally mark puzzle represents numbers and tallies from 1-20. Print on cardstock and laminate for durability. Cut along the lines. And there you have a math center! I teach tally marks even though it is not in the kindergarten Common Core. It doesn't hurt to push the kids, right? ©Stephanie Benware. All Rights Reserved. Purchaser may copy for their own classroom use and for no other uses. Purchaser may not resell. Not to be shared with non-purchasers. Please respect the copyright!

This 34 page packet is full of games, centers, flashcards, posters, worksheets and ideas to help teach and reinforce Base Ten / Place Value for numbers 11-19 (some activities include 0-30). Aligned with kindergarten Common Core: CCSS.Math.Content.K.NBT.A.1: Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value. In it you will find: *place value block coloring *write addition equations for block pictures *base ten blocks / numeral matching *dice games *WAR games *addition matching ga

This cute skill mastery check off sheet is a fun way for the kids to see what skills they have mastered. When a skill has been mastered, the child can check off that skill or put a sticker in the box next to the skill. They enjoy seeing their progress and are so excited when their chart starts filling up with stickers! I have homework folders that have a clear sleeve on the back. I put these check off sheets in the sleeve. It is a quick way for the kids and parents to see what they have mas

Use this puzzle to help your students see the relationship between base ten blocks and numerals. This helps reinforce the skill of subitizing. Download, copy on cardstock and laminate for durability. Cut along the lines and you have an instant math center! ©Stephanie Benware. All Rights Reserved. Purchaser may copy for their own classroom use and for no other uses. Purchaser may not resell. Not to be shared with non-purchasers. Please respect the copyright! 

This center activity focuses on number sense, subitizing and different ways to represent numbers. You’ll need a large pocket chart with 10 rows. On the side of each row put the numbers 1-10 or 10-20, depending upon what numbers you are studying, one card being on the left side of each row. On the top row of the chart, evenly space the other number representation cards. When I set out this center, each child takes turns and randomly pulls one card out of the pile. They find the correct row

This number poster set accompanies my number posters 0-20 found in my TPT store. Due to popular demand, I've added posters to 30. I've deleted dominoes, dice and the number line to fit other graphics. Enjoy!! This set is also found with the squiggly border.

Simple one page sheet that can be used at the beginning of the year or during your VIP / Star Student weeks. We use these at the beginning of the year and make into a class book which the kids LOVE. Encourage kids to print off family pictures to glue in the family box. The kids love looking at real pictures.

Keep track of your students' home reading progress by using these monthly reading logs. For each day where the child reads 20 minutes or more they color in one picture. When all of the pictures have been colored in and the parent signs the bottom, the child returns for a prize. Happy reading! ©Stephanie Benware. All Rights Reserved. Purchaser may copy for their own classroom use and for no other uses. Purchaser may not resell. Not to be shared with non-purchasers. Please respect the copy

This lesson helps introduce making a ten and is reinforced with the attached practice sheet. 'The kid roll a die, record the number that was rolled, color in that many dots on the ten frame and count how many more are needed to make a ten. They then complete the number equation. This starts out as a whole group activity and can continue to be so, or allow your students who find the concept easy to work on their own. This can also be a center when the concept has already been mastered.

This puzzle focuses subitizing with ten frames using numbers and ten frames from 0-20. It is important for kids to instantly recognize numbers in different ways without having to count them. Simply download, print on cardstock and laminate for durability. Cut along the lines and you have an instant math center! ©Stephanie Benware. All Rights Reserved. Purchaser may copy for their own classroom use and for no other uses. Purchaser may not resell. Not to be shared with non-purchasers. Pl

Here's a yummy way to talk about our 5 senses! There are so many different kinds of candy canes out there during the holiday season. Buy a variety and have fun with your kiddos!!

I've tried just about everything to help my kids remember spaces between words and letters! So far, this has been my kids' favorite! Show them that small spaces between letters are spaghetti spaces and large spaces between words are meatball spaces! Voila! My kids love it and it works!

This packet includes one number activity for each month. The kids color and cutout pictures that contain a number in the middle. They then glue the pictures in order from either 1-10, 11-20, 1-20 or by tens, according to the directions on each page. Use as a math center or assessment tool. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1) ©Stephanie

Mr. Bear is going to visit your students’ homes! Here is a journal that your students can write in to detail what they did with Mr. Bear. They can write, draw, or take pictures of their adventures! All you need to provide is a small teddy bear, a bag (his suitcase) his journal and a toothbrush. Copy multiple pages of the journal page and bind. My kids love to brush his teeth before bed! Attached is a parent instruction sheet to put in the cover of his journal. When Mr. Bear returns, the c