I have a total of 27 years teaching experience . After I received my M.Ed. from the University of Florida (hence the name "HappyEdugator"), I began teaching in elementary school, where I taught pull-out remedial classes for grades 2-5 and a section of K-1. Then I taught Pre-K for 5 years, before I went up to Middle School, where I have been in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Last year, I went back to 1st grade in a private setting. I have traveled worldwide and am also fluent in Spanish.
I have a total of 27 years teaching experience . After I received my M.Ed. from the University of Florida (hence the name "HappyEdugator"), I began teaching in elementary school, where I taught pull-out remedial classes for grades 2-5 and a section of K-1. Then I taught Pre-K for 5 years, before I went up to Middle School, where I have been in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Last year, I went back to 1st grade in a private setting. I have traveled worldwide and am also fluent in Spanish.
Inspirational Posters - Beach Theme. 10 Motivational posters for your clasroom decor. Sized 81/2 X 11. Print and laminate, or project on your whiteboard as a daily message for students to see as they walk in the door. These can also be used as daily writing prompts. Have students reflect on the meaning of the poster and the image. Great for summer school or a beach themed classroom. Enjoy!
- HappyEdugator
Supply Labels - EDITABLE 67 supply labels, 2 sizes, and blank labels with editable textboxes so you can also just type in what you need. Multicolored chevron theme. Includes ready made labels for:
Awards
Band-Aids
Batteries
Beads
Bears
Binder Clips
Binder Rings
Bingo Daubers
Brass Fasteners
Calculators
Chalkboards and chalk
Clay
Clipboards
Colored Pencils
Composition Notebooks
Cotton Balls
Craft Sticks
Crayon Boxes
Crasyons - Assorted
Dry Erase Markers
Envelopes
Erasers
Fancy Scissors
Glue Bottles
Glue Sticks
Highlighters
Hole Punches
Index Cards
Magnet Boys
Marker Boxes
Markers - Assorted
Masking Tape
Notebook Paper
Notebook Binders
Paint - Finger
Paint - Poster
Paint Brushes
Paper Bags
Paper Clips
Pencil Cap Erasers
Pencils
Pens - Assorted
Pens - Black
Pens - Blue
Pens - Red
Permanent Markers
Push Pins
Rubberbands
Sandwich Baggies
Scissors
Shape Punches
Spiral Notebooks
Staplers
Staples
Stickers
Tape Dispensers
Tape
Washi Tape
Watercolors
Wet Erase Markers
Whiteboards
Whiteboards Erasers
White Out
Writing Pads and Sticky Notes
Yarn
Just print and copy how many of each style or size you need and laminate for durability if you desire..
Supply Labels - Owls and Chevron. EDITABLE 67 supply labels, 2 sizes, and blank labels with editable textboxes so you can also just type in what you need. Includes ready made labels for:
Awards
Band-Aids
Batteries
Beads
Bears
Binder Clips
Binder Rings
Bingo Daubers
Brass Fasteners
Calculators
Chalkboards and chalk
Clay
Clipboards
Colored Pencils
Composition Notebooks
Cotton Balls
Craft Sticks
Crayon Boxes
Crayons - Assorted
Dry Erase Markers
Envelopes
Erasers
Fancy Scissors
Glue Bottles
Glue Sticks
Highlighters
Hole Punches
Index Cards
Magnet Boys
Marker Boxes
Markers - Assorted
Masking Tape
Notebook Paper
Notebook Binders
Paint - Finger
Paint - Poster
Paint Brushes
Paper Bags
Paper Clips
Pencil Cap Erasers
Pencils
Pens - Assorted
Pens - Black
Pens - Blue
Pens - Red
Permanent Markers
Push Pins
Rubber bands
Sandwich Baggies
Scissors
Shape Punches
Spiral Notebooks
Staplers
Staples
Stickers
Tape Dispensers
Tape
Washi Tape
Watercolors
Wet Erase Markers
Whiteboards
Whiteboards Erasers
White Out
Writing Pads and Sticky Notes
Yarn
Just print and copy how many of each style or size you need and laminate for durability if you desire.
HappyEdugator
Your kids will be proud of their superpowers with this editable superhero award set for the end of the year. The set includes four different boys and four different girls for each award. There is an end of year award for each of the following:
Star Reader
Star Writer
Star Historian
Star Scientist
Star Athlete
Star Artist
Star Musician
Star Citizen
Just fill in by adding text boxes above the lines and typing in name, date, and teacher. This way you can use your own font and style for the lettering. There is also a blank award certificate for each style so you can put in your own words by just adding a textbox and typing in what you want. Your little superheroes will love these, and so will their parents.
All about hurricanes! Information on how these storms develop - hurricane structure, their effects, and how they are tracked, and more. Includes:
What is a hurricane?
What is the structure of a hurricane?
How does a hurricane form?
Where and when do hurricanes form?
What are the effects of hurricanes?
What are the differences between hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones?
What is the hurricane classification scale?
What is the hurricane strength scale?
Evacuation/ Preparation
Watches and Warnings, Warning Flags
How hurricanes are named
Forecasting and tracking
- HappyEdugator
The Great Kapok Tree Rainforest Unit and Resources. Rainforest activities go with the book The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. 24 pages includes features of the rainforest, useful websites, art projects, vocabulary, main idea and summarizing activity and graphic organizer, fun facts about the kapok tree, rainforest animals, how can I save the rainforest sheet, chocalate cocoa recipe, math activity, science activity making a terrarium, geography sheet, layers of the rainforest, why rainforests are important and why they are being destroyed, along with a rainforest word search puzzle. Good for Earth Day, too. Cover page includes a bookmark "Reading About the Rainforest."
- HappyEdugator
Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairytales PowerPoint. Teach folktales and traditional tales: myths, legends,tall tales, fables, and fairytales. The slides discuss differences between myths and legends, tall tales, fables, and fairy tales. Examples of some famous tales and famous authors are mentioned. Myths are explanations for how ancient people understood their worlds, like Thor and Zeus. Legends were stories passed along that had a basis in truth, but were not real, like King Arthur and Robin Hood. Fables were told to teach lessons, most famously by Aesop. And folk tales and fairy tales were both passed down as stories for the children. Fairy tales we now enjoy were collected from oral tradition and written down in the 1800's. For instance, Hans Christian Andersen is remembered especially for his tales of The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Ugly Duckling, while the Brothers Grimm are known for Cinderella, Snow White, and The Frog Prince. Everything is presented against a beautiful castle background and sound effects have been added for interest.
Harriet Tubman - PowerPoint explains the history behind the American Heroine, and how she led slaves to freedom, fought against slavery, served in the Civil War, worked for women's rights and suffrage, and served her community with humanitarian efforts to help the needy and the elderly. Slide topics include -
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Early Life
Suffered Cruelty as a Slave
Marriage
Determined to Be Free
Escape
The Fugitive Slave Act
Rescuing the Family
Rescue Missions
Close Calls
Tough Love
Religious Faith
Rescuing Her Parents
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Civil War
After the War
Harriet Remarries
Later Years
Queen Victoria
Final Years
Listening to Her Inner Voice
Honors - Statues, Stamps, and $20 bill
Legacy
Biomes of the World PowerPoint. An overview of the different biomes of the world. Includes rain forest, temperate grassland, savanna, tundra, taiga, temperate forest, mountain, desert, and three major aquatic biomes- freshwater, saltwater, and estuaries. Average temperatures, rainfall, and interesting facts about the diversity of life in each. 34 slides. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
State Capitals of the United States PowerPoint Game. A fun way to practice learning the state capitals of all 50 states in the U.S. Divide class into two teams, print out two game boards and game pieces for each team, and see which team can correctly identify all 50 state capitals first. Interactive fun! Project onto whiteboard or interactive Smartboard. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Presidents. Interesting facts about U.S. Presidents PowerPoint. Questions and answers you probably didn't know. Fun activity for Presidents' Day. 65 pages of fun facts!
Valentines Day Math Activities. A 40 page resource for counting, sorting, number recognition, simple addition, subtraction, numerical order and more. Activities for graphing candy hearts, coloring, matching, etc. Enjoy the fun activities your kids will love! - HappyEdugator
Includes:
Count the Candy Hearts page - numbers 1 -20
Count the Candy Hearts page - Sort and count
Candy Heart Sorting by Color - in black and white
Candy Heart Sorting by Color - in color
Candy Heart Sorting by Color (without words) - in color
Candy Heart Graphing - in color
Candy Heart Graphing - in black and white
Color the Hearts Activity sheet
Match numbers to number words 1 - 5
Match numbers to number words 6 - 10
How Many? Activity sheet - circle number that matches the objects
Comparing Size Activity sheet
Dot to Dot - Smallest and Largest Number
Make a Candy Heart Pattern - pattern given
Make a Candy Heart Pattern - create pattern and name it
Numerical Order Cut and Paste
Numerical Order Cut and Paste Answer Recording Sheet
Even or Odd Activity Sheet
Color the Stripes and Count Activity Sheet
Color by Code Addition sheet
Color by Code Addition Key
Color by Code Subtraction sheet
Color by Code Subtraction Key
Add it Up! Find the answers to decode the riddle
Take it Away! Find the answers to decode the riddle
Cut and Match the Hearts to the Base Ten Blocks
Cut and Match Answer Recording Sheet
Valentine Themed Number Posters - 0 - 10
(Each poster represents the number with the word, the numeral, the ten frame, and with tally marks)
Candy Heart Ten Frames - blank for activities of your choice
Candy Heart Ten Frames - Match the number sentence
Dolch Sight Words Activities - BUNDLE Weeks 1 - 10. 100 pages - Ten weeks of Dolch sight word activities for the first one hundred words from the Dolch sight words list. Activities include: flash cards/ memory game, color the words, trace the words, match the words, cut and paste the words in alphabetical order, and write the words in letterboxes. Enjoy! Weeks 1 - 10 covers the first 100 Dolch Sight Words. Be ready for the beginning of the year or use for test prep. Good for summer school or homeschool practice, too. - HappyEdugator
End of Year Candy Awards - Editable. 40 award certificates based on candy bar names. These are superlative awards for the end of school. The awards are editable! You are able to edit the NAME field, the date field, and the signature field. If you prefer, you can delete the signature text box and hand-write your signature. Enjoy!
Includes:
Snickers - great sense of humor
Kiss - loving and sweet
Milky Way - imagination that's out of this world
Smarties - smart ideas
Almond Joy - always a joy to be around
Bit - O - Honey - hard worker and super sweet
Nutrageous - fun and outgoing classmate
Skor - winning personality
Mr. Goodbar - good friend and helper
Whoppers - great storyteller
Dove - great peacemaker
Baby Ruth - sports lover
Symphony - exceptional talent in music
Skittles- rainbow of creative and artistic ideas
M & M's - magnificent and marvelous writer
Peanut M & M's - great handwriting
Starburst - classroom rock star
Laffy Taffy - making us laugh
Jolly Rancher - telling some great jokes
Twizzler - dancing into our hearts
Reece's Pieces - picking up the pieces and cleaning up our mess
Mentos - being a great mentor and role model
Special Treasures - a treasure to all of us
Good and Plenty - having good and plenty of ideas
Lifesavers - so helpful to others
Kit - Kat - great attitude and giving us all a break
Mounds - making mounds of memories
100 Grand - excellence in math
Payday - great volunteer
Kudos - great acheivement (for social studies, but good for any subject)
Carmello - sweet and soothing
Crunch - being there in a crunch
Krackel - always cracking open a good book
Twix - double checking work
Butterfinger - accident prone
SweeTarts (official spelling) - sweet heart
Three Musketeers - working well with others
Extra - going the extra mile
Zero - no zeros...turning in all work on time
Mars - out of this world work (for science, but good for any subject)
EDITABLE Labels and Binder Covers - BUNDLE - Owls and Chevron. Includes
Editable Labels - Owls and Chevron
Supply Labels
EDITABLE Teacher Binder Covers
Save $ and buy the Bundle!
- HappyEdugator
Reading Club or Book Club Activities for the Entire School Year. When you go back to school, are you planning to have a reading club or a book club start at the beginning of the year? Either in your classroom, or school-wide? This 34 page packet is what you need to start a successful reading club. This is a year's worth of activities for a Reading Club. The topics are planned for September through June. Everyone starts with a membership card, and to stay an active member, each student reads books on the theme of the month. The printables included here are: a student letter with membership card, a parent letter explaining the requirements, letters home with signature lines for books read for each theme, badges for monthly bulletin boards, and certificates of achievement for each month. There is also a super student award for the end of the year and a tic-tac-toe board for students to complete that will encourage them to read books from a variety of genres. Start your club anytime and enjoy the reading! 34 pages. - HappyEdugator