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Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

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Life Skills - COOKING IN THE CLASSROOM RECIPES {An Educational Cooking Unit}

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

COOK TO LEARN! Cooking in the classroom is so much fun and is such an easy way to sneak in so many learning opportunities!!Cooking is not only an essential life skill, it is a great opportunity to teach students essential literacy and mathematical

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, ...

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Life Skills - Meal Prep & Cooking Task Cards for Special Education

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

MEAL PREP TASK CARDS!Knowing how to select the necessary items needed to make a meal or a snack is an essential life skills task that is often difficult to teach in the classroom. Let's face it, these are not items we have readily available in our

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards

$5.00

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Visual Recipe Sequencing Mats® (Cooking, Sequencing, How-to, and More!!!)

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

Cooking, Sequencing, How-to, Transition Words, Language Skills, Listening Skills, Following Directions, and Life Skills ALL-IN-ONE!!!VISUAL RECIPE SEQUENCING MATS ARE HERE!!! We LOVE Sequencing Mats! These mats target so many skills! And everything

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards

$5.50

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At the Market l Sorting Grocery Store Items l Life Skills

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

Let's take a trip to the grocery store / supermarket! Now you can practice grocery shopping life skills right in the classroom! Children place the grocery store items in the correct grocery store section / aisle. Very similar to my best-selling

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards

$4.50

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Apple Week Activities & Johnny Appleseed Reader

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

This APPLE WEEK SET includes a weeks worth of activities to do during apple week or Johnny Appleseed's birthday! Your students will have fun doing an apple investigation, surveying their classmates, taste testing apples, cider, and juice, making

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Cooking, Holidays/Seasonal, For All Subjects

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

$5.00

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Digital Meal Prep & Cooking Task Cards l BOOM Cards

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

Now available in a digital format!!!Knowing how to select the necessary items needed to make a meal or a snack is an essential life skills task that is often difficult to teach in the classroom. Let's face it, these are not items we have readily

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Internet Activities, Task Cards

$3.00

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Build Your Bundle {Kim}

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

This is a custom bundle and includes:Alphabet Letter Chant Posters - UppercaseAlphabet Letter Chant Posters - LowercaseCooking in the Classroom Educational Cooking UnitMenu MathMeal Prep & Cooking Task CardsTask Mats for Following

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, ...

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Activities, Posters, Task Cards

$64.00

$54.40

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Visual Recipe Sequencing Mats® Set 2 (Cooking, Sequencing, How to, and More!!!)

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

Cooking, Sequencing, How-to, Transition Words, Language Skills, Listening Skills, Following Directions, and Life Skills ALL-IN-ONE!!!VISUAL RECIPE SEQUENCING MATS SET 2 IS HERE!!! We LOVE Sequencing Mats! These mats target so many skills! And

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards

$5.50

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Halloween Recipes - Cook to Learn Halloween Sample {Freebie}

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

This is a sample Halloween/Fall Recipe pack from my Best-Selling "Cook to Learn" Educational Cooking Unit. It includes 5 sample Halloween recipes and one sample activity from the "Cook to Learn" Cooking Unit. Recipes Include:No Bake Pumpkin Creme

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Cooking, Autumn, Halloween

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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AT THE MARKET {Grocery Store Board Game}

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

Your students will have fun classifying and sorting grocery store items with this FUN hands-on game that comes in TWO levels!Students take turns drawing a food card and place it on their market card if it matches. The first one to fill their market

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Special Education, Life Skills, Cooking

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Games

$3.50

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Custom Bundle {Shelley}

By Traci Bender - The Bender Bunch

This is a custom bundle and includes: Cook to Learn Where Does It Go? What Do I Need? Money Mats Bundle Touch Point Coin Counting Task Cards Dots, Stripes, and Chevron Decor Set Purchase it yourself, or find out how you can design your own custom

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Math, Life Skills, Cooking

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Not Grade Specific

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Lesson

$33.35

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching in a self-contained primary/intermediate special education classroom for 11 years. I teach in a very diverse classroom with a multitude of disabilities that range from autism, downs, emotional disturbance, OHI, ID, to SLD students. I also taught in a resource room for two years and prior to obtaining my teaching degree, I was an aide in a resource room for five years.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I'm all about a positive learning environment and positive reinforcement. I avoid negative consequences and recognize the best. I believe classroom management, organization, rapport, and honesty are key to running an effective classroom. I use ABA in my classroom and I like to think of my classroom as family and my students feel the same way.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Autism Teaching of Excellence Award 2014 Educator of the Year Award 2015

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

M.Ed in Special Education M.S. in Cognitive Behavioral Disorders (EBD)

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I have two children and am married to the man of my dreams. We love anything outdoors. We enjoy nature, camping, state parks, and our beautiful Colorado River. I love the desert, but my roots and soul are from North Carolina.

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Environment, Other (Science), Social Studies, U.S. History, World Languages, Arts & Music, Physical Education, Computer Science, Special Education, Career and Technical Education, Health, Other (Specialty), Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Business, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Physical Science, Problem Solving, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Speech Therapy, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Products For TpT Sellers, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, American Sign Language, Occupational Therapy, Handwriting, Coaching, End of Year, Phonics, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning