Summer Outdoor Fun Crossword Puzzle! Fun and free as a thank you to all my wonderful followers We all hate to see summer go, but hopefully it will last just a little bit longer. Enjoy this little piece of summer! - HappyEdugator

Christmas Trivia - twenty fun questions for your Christmas party. A fun Christmas Trivia quiz, with some surprising answers! Merry Christmas!

Valentine Quiz...a free Valentine's Day Activity for choosing the right word. Multiple choice questions about Valentine's Day. Help children with word choice. Students have to choose the best choice of three words to fill in the blank. Grammar usage that is often tested on standardized tests. Great for building an understanding of how words are used correctly. Especially good for ELL, ESL and ESOL students, who may need extra help in identifying subtle differences in word choice and easily confused words. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Acrostic Poem - Thankful. For Thanksgiving, students can use this festive template to write an acrostic poem using the letters in the word thankful. Lower grades can write one word answers, upper level students can write phrases or sentences. Adjustable for your grade level. Enjoy! Thank you for looking. While you are here, please check out my store. Happy Thanksgiving!

Organize for back to school with this free desk planner! Print on cardstock, laminate, and use dry erase markers (or wet erase) to write on and wipe off. Write in the month, dates, and days of the week. Calendar also has a place for Notes, Reminders, Daily To Do List,and Weekly To Do List. In color or ink friendly black and white. - HappyEdugator

Valentine Quiz. Valentine's Day Activity for choosing the right word. Multiple choice questions about Valentine's Day. Help children with word choice. Students have to choose the best choice of three words to fill in the blank. Grammar usage that is often tested on standardized tests. Great for building an understanding of how words are used correctly. Especially good for ELL, ESL and ESOL students, who may need extra help in identifying subtle differences in word choice and easily confused words.

Acrostic Poem - Thankful. Autumn Harvest themed, students can use this festive template to write an acrostic poem using the letters in the word thankful. Lower grades can write one word answers, upper level students can write phrases or sentences. Adjustable for your grade level. Enjoy! Thank you for looking. While you are here, please check out my store.

Back to School - Kindergarten Language Arts Practice FREEBIE. Students have to connect the alphabet letters in the right order to get the children to school and back home. Upper case and lower case letters. Good back to school quick assessment. Enjoy this free product and have a great year! - HappyEdugator CCSS K.RF.1d

Back to School - Roll and Color School Bus. Print and go. No prep. Fun beginning of the year activity for students to work with a partner. Helps strengthen number and color recognition. 
Directions: Use crayons or coloring pencils. Player one rolls and colors to match the number on the die. Then player two has a turn. Continue taking turns until the picture is filled in. Enjoy! Have a great year! HappyEdugator

FREE Months of the Year and Days of the Week Abbreviations. 2 Posters. Print these out and display or project them on your whiteboard. Includes a poster for the months of the year and their abbreviations, and a poster for the days of the week and their abbreviations. Great for student notebooks, too. Valentine Heart themed background. Good for test prep. Enjoy! HappyEdugator

FREE Poster for Successful Teachers. The “That Man is a Success” by Robert Louis Stevenson adapted for teachers… made into a poster or you can print out as a card for teacher inspiration, motivation, and appreciation. Great to use as a gift tag for new teachers or retiring teachers, or frame it and make it a gift in itself. 2017 HappyEdugator

Christmas Trivia - twenty fun questions for your Christmas party. A fun Christmas Trivia quiz, with some surprising answers! Merry Christmas!

Breast Cancer Awareness Bookmarks - Hope! Fight! Win! October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pass out these bookmarks to support the Race for the Cure or use them in May for Relay for Life! Made in memorial for my mother.

Christmas Gift Coupons and Bookmarks! A variety of gift coupons that you can give to your students as a Christmas gift, along with six different styles of bookmarks that you can use to give students, parents and other staff members this holiday season! Merry Christmas! - HappyEdugator

Martin Luther King Jr. Vs. Malcolm X Venn Diagram. Students must research and compare the two civil rights activists using the Venn diagram provided. Students research Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, and can use this Venn Diagram to report on their findings, or as a graphic organizer for writing a comparison contrast paper. Good for black history month, MLK day, or any time for a study of the two different leaders and how they were similar and different. For differentiation, one page is blank where students have to fill in both sides, and the other page has the MLK side completed so students just have to complete the information on Malcolm X. The last page is a key with both sides completed and the central question answered.

Icebreaker - Back to School People Search Handout. Use this at the beginning of the year as an icebreaker and getting to know you activity. Find someone who...Give this to the students, and give them time to find people on the grid and have them sign the box when they do. It's fun, and a good way for students to get to know each other. Afterwards, they will do a writing activity about the experience. You will end up not only getting to know your students, but you will have a work sample as well. Teacher directions included. - HappyEdugator

Christmas Playing Cards - 0 - 20. Fun Holiday Math Center. Play War, Memory, Go Fish...or use for practicing number order and comparing numbers. Also make great student gifts. - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator. Standards K.CC.B.4, K.CC.B.5, K.CC.C.6, K.CC.C.7

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Wordsearch Puzzle. A winter wordsearch based on the book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Thirty words related to the book in this word search, which is a fun Christmas filler activity. No prep. Print and go. Key included. - HappyEdugator

Figurative Language in A Christmas Carol Worksheet. Using quotes from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, students have to identify types of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and allusion. Also includes a handout on types of figurative language. No prep. Print and go. Key included. - HappyEdugator Standards RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, CCRA.L.5

Blank Headstone Template for Writing Character Epitaphs. Grave fun for Halloween or anytime. Make a graveyard of epitaphs. Use this headstone or gravestone template to have students write a character epitaph or summary of a book in which a main character dies. Students can focus on character traits and what makes a character memorable. For instance, it can be used with the Diary of Anne Frank, or The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Goes well with Where the Red Fern Grows and Maniac Magee, and great for a bulletin board on dead words. - HappyEdugator