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!

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 - 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

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

Columbus Day Crossword Puzzle. 20 words related to Columbus Day in this fun cross word puzzle. Key included. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Writing Paper - Lined Paper - Thanksgiving Harvest Theme. Writing paper for your Harvest or Thanksgiving celebration in your classroom. Four different designs. Two sheets have illustration boxes for students to decorate. Clip art includes choice of turkeys, harvest pumpkins, and pilgrims. - HappyEdugator

Veterans Day Word Scramble and Veteran's Day Word Search. Fun word puzzles for Veterans Day. This word scramble has 16 words related to Veterans Day - such as heroes, honor, patriotic, military, veteran, etc. Like a jumble, students have to unscramble the letters to come up with the words. The Word Search has 24 words hidden in the puzzle. This is a fun activity that helps develop vocabulary, word recognition, and sorting and classification skills. Answer keys are provided. - Happy Edugator

Memorial Day and Flag Day Coloring Activity. This print and go sheet for Memorial Day and Flag Day explains why we celebrate and what the colors of the flag symbolize. Students then follow the color codes to color the flag. Have them cut out and attach to a craft stick or paint stirrer to wave. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving: A Thanksgiving Day Song. Get musical and teach your students this quick and easy Thanksgiving Day song. A fun song for all ages! Good Thanksgiving singing activity to fill some time around the holiday. You don't need a lot of musical talent for this Thanksgiving song. This fun little song about Thanksgiving is sung to the melody of "Santa Claus is coming to Town." It is easy to learn and to remember, and a great tune for all ages from preschool to adult. Includes score. Happy Thanksgiving! - HappyEdugator

India Travel Brochure Project. Student project with rubric. Students create a travel guide on India on a tri-fold construction paper. Students imagine they are travel guides leading a tour of India and must give their group an overview of India's history, geography, language, government, economy, religion, climate and attractions. Student instructions for the project to handout, teacher directions, brochure template, and a detailed rubric included. Rubric measures use of class time, writing conventions, attractiveness, organization, creativity, relevance of graphics, required elements including sources, and knowledge gained. - HappyEdugator

Shamrocks Clip Art. 21 different colored shamrocks for your creations. Commercial use and personal use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

These cute little giraffe name labels can be put on student file folders in a zoo, safari, or jungle themed classroom, but you can use them for anything you want, since they are editable! Includes 32 labels in both portrait and landscape orientation. You can type in what you want in the text box for the name, so these can double as supply labels, name tags, matching memory game cards, flashcards etc. They are numbered, but you can delete the numbers if you wish. © Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator. For classroom or homeschool use.

Award certificates for your classroom or school needs. A pack of 8 awards...type in the name of student, subject, dates or other information, print, sign, and award! Includes a most improved award, a certificate of achievement, student of the month, attendance award, essay contest award, certificate for excellence, award for excellence, and certificate of merit. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Your students will love this fun and interactive community helpers game. This is a PowerPoint game of Who Am I. Students get three clues to guess the job of the community helper. There are 14 different workers represented. Students have to figure out who it is from clues about where they work, what they wear, what vehicles they drive, and what tools they use. Fun for review or assessment. Project on your whiteboard or Smartboard, or use it at a computer center. No prep. Easy to use. This is a fun way to increase your students' vocabulary. To play: Put in slide show mode, and click on the slide to reveal the clues. Students make guesses after each clue. After the three clues have been revealed, click again for the answer to check. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Sometimes kids need to know how to control their feelings. It is okay to feel sad, but how do we feel better? This PowerPoint walks them through four strategies for coping with sadness. Great minilesson for a teacher to give at the beginning of the year or for a school counselor to give to a group of students who need strategies for dealing with crying and depression. - Happyedugator

Halloween Word Search. Your students will have fun finding the spooky Halloween words hidden in this word search puzzle. They can search up, down, backwards, and diagonally to find them. Includes answer key. - HappyEdugator

Leap Year. Facts and fun. Animated PowerPoint on Leap Year. Answers questions many kids have about leap year. Slides include: What is Leap Year? When does Leap Year Happen? When do we add the extra day? Why do we have Leap Year? When was the first Leap Year? What calendar do we use today? How is Leap Year determined? 2016 is Leap Year - what are the next 4 leap years? 2016 is Leap Year - what year was the last leap year? The last slide is a partner activity the kids can do that is related to leap year and February 29.

Try this fun Getting-to-Know-You activity for Back to School All. It's an All About Me Graphic Organizer. This is a great way to learn your students’ names at the beginning of the year, and your students will love making their special graphic organizer about themselves. Make enough copies for everyone in your class. Card Stock is best. Take photos of your students and attach them to the center of the graphic organizer. Your students can then fill it out with their best attributes, family, friends, interests, etc. There is a Character Traits list included so students can have a reference for their writing. These make a great display, but don’t stop there. You can have students present them to the class, create a writing assignment based on their graphic organizer, use them to create lessons based on their interests. You can do this activity as a whole group, giving an example to the class of your own personal graphic organizer to introduce your students to who you are. You can also have them complete them in groups or use them in centers. - HappyEdugator

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension Sheet. Students can read about the history of Veterans Day and why it is observed in the United States. Includes a short nonfiction reading and reading comprehension sheet. - HappyEdugator