Poetry - Writing a Parody Poem Activity - How Doth the Little Crocodile. What is Parody? Students will read the parody poem How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll (from the book Alice and Wonderland) and compare it to the original poem Against Idleness and Mischief by Isaac Watts. Includes guided questions comparing and contrasting the two poems, and a writing activity where students are challenged to write their own parody of a poem. They can then use the Parody Poem Writing Checklist to evaluate their writing. - HappyEdugator

Poetry - Writing Poetry is EASY Smartboard fun and interactive activities. EASY stands for Emotional Appeals; Alliteration and Sound Devices; Similes, Metaphors and Figurative Language; and You Make the Rules. Students will love playing with words on the Smartboard and writing their own poems! - HappyEdugator

Christmas Number Comparing Activities PowerPoint. Math fun! Comparing fewer or more objects in a group or chart - number activities in a 30 slide interactive PowerPoint with a Christmas theme. Encourages counting skills and number concepts. Supports common core state standards! - HappyEdugator CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects. CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.C.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1 CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.C.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

December Holidays PowerPoint - Guess the Word. Students guess the correct words to fill in the blanks about the winter holidays. Students will learn that Christmas, Hanukkah, and kwaanza are all celebrated in December, and that although there are different traditions, there are similarities as well. Happy Holidays! - HappyEdugator

Halloween Quiz. This simple and fun quiz about Halloween will test your students knowledge of some basic Halloween vocabulary and traditions. Students can fill in the blanks from the word bank. Pair and share, write a story with the words from the word bank, and color the Jack O Lantern afterwards. You can also cut out the word bank if you wish, and make a game for kids to "win" it! Included are word bank cards, a monster for early finishers to color, a key and a reward cut out for completing it correctly! - HappyEdugator

Thomas Jefferson - PowerPoint Presentation. A biography Thomas Jefferson, our nation's 3rd President and author of the Declaration of Independence. From his early years to his passing, follow the impressive accomplishments and achievements of a great founding father. Learn about his influence in American history and his relationships with other founding fathers, his role in the Revolutionary War and the Louisiana Purchase, and examine some of his inventions. Great for building background for President's Day activities. Updated February 2015 - HappyEdugator

Beginning of the Year School Bus Safety PowerPoint. Back to school safety! 15 slide PowerPoint with animation on school bus safety. Use for back to school or anytime for review. Basic safety tips about how to get on and off a bus, cross in front of a bus, and behave on a bus in motion. - HappyEdugator

George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz PowerPoint Activities. Use this PowerPoint to go along with the book. Great for President's Day, or when introducing research. The book is about a boy who is on a quest to find out what his namesake had for breakfast. Includes information and links about the author, vocabulary, comprehension questions, photos from the Smithsonian and Mt. Vernon, and activities, including a recipe for hoecakes. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Back to School Behavior Management - Behavior Signs. Use these cute signs to save your voice and your sanity. Use for classroom management. Simply print out, laminate, trim, and if you desire, attach to a paint stirrer or wooden craft stick with a staple or two or mount in apropriate places in your room. Signs for Stop, Quiet, Please Line Up Quietly, Raise Your Hand, Listen, Look Carefully, Bring Your Books, Who's Got It?, Time to Clean Up, Look and Listen, The Teacher is IN, The Teacher is OUT (great to let kids know when to approach you) and a variety of Welcome Signs. Also includes a Girl's Bathroom Pass, a Boy's Bathroom Pass, an Office Pass, a Media Center Pass, a Nurse Pass, a Locker Pass, and a sign for your door We Are in the Computer Lab. 25 signs with directions for use. A variety of choices. You may choose to use only a few at a time or make some into signs or posters. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Mother's Day Activity Pack - Mother's Day activities. Print and go. Includes an original Mother's Day song to learn, an original poem, a card, slides to print out to make pictures, poems, and handprints for Mom, a slide picture frame, a recipe for a sweet treat, and suggestions for crafts and ideas for gifts and easy things to do for Mom on her special day. For example, make butterflies with clothespins, clip them on twigs and make her a butterfly tree. Happy Mother's Day! 18 pages. - HappyEdugator

Mother's Day Proverbs - What Did Your Mother Tell You? Mother's Day PowerPoint. Wise Old Sayings or Proverbs from A - Z. Advice you probably heard from your mother, your mom, or your mum! Fun to share and advance and develop cultural literacy. Animated butterflies walk you through an alphabetical list of different proverbs and their meanings or origins, written like Mom wrote it on stationary! Share with your students, or at a Mother's Day event to remember and honor Mom and her wisdom. Slides can be printed out to make a booklet as well. Students can also be challenged to write their own proverbs using the first letter of their mother's name, or make acrostic poems with the proverbs using their mother's names (great center activity), which can be given to mom as a gift. Enjoy! Added sounds and animations.

Valentine's Day - Coded Words activity sheet. A fun Valentine activity for students to do to fill in time or at your Valentine's Day party. Decode the Valentine related words using the decoder at the bottom of the page. Key included. - HappyEdugator

Martin Luther King Jr. Crossword Puzzle. Cross word based on Dr. Martin Luther King's life. Medium difficulty for your students to solve. Useful as an extension or reinforcement activity for when you study MLK or to support Black History month. Now includes a copy with a word bank for scaffolding and differentiation. Solution included, of course. Updated: January 2015 Enjoy!

Christmas Activity - Writing Letters from Santa. Christmas Writing Center from a different point of view. Students pretend to be Santa Claus and write persuasive letters on various topics. Fun December activity. Includes teacher directions, Student directions, Santa's Wish List (student requirements) and eight different writing topics on decorative lined paper. Also includes an optional extra credit assignment where students write a postscript for their letter

Easter Activity Pack - Literacy and Math Fun. Spring into spring with a 27 page packet. Includes an Easter writing prompt and coloring sheet, Easter writing paper, an Easter crossword, an Easter word search, an Easter acrostic poem sheet, an Easter poem writing sheet, Easter Syllables, Easter shopping math activities, Easter Fractions and Easter Decimals sheets, a Bunny Hop Search for Numbers divisible by 4, an Easter math puzzle, an Easter puppet template, an Easter bookmark, and Easter ABC order. Answer Keys included. Lots of fun for April!- HappyEdugator

Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween writing motivator. Five different Halloween characters...vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. Students drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and in their journal show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose. Good Halloween Smartboard activity for the whole group or class, or use as enrichment for a center. You can choose to make one character a day for a whole week. Many character traits to choose from, some will build vocabulary by having to look up unknown words. Supports common core standards in writing. Happy Halloween!

Strategies for Teaching Different Learning Styles PowerPoint. Useful strategies and activities for different learning styles. Animated and colorful slides. There are several theories related to learning styles and multiple intelligences. Effective teachers consider their students' learning styles and use strategies adapted to their students' individual needs. Here are many different strategies to use for the different learning styles and multiple intelligences. For example, includes specific strategies and a list of activities for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.

Use this Daily Behavior sheet for communicating with your parents. This behavior log or behavior report that can be sent home each night with the children. Use for pre-K, Kindergarten, or early elementary grades, or even Special Ed classes. Just put a check mark in the column for the day of the week, on the row for the behavior indicated. You can add comments at the bottom if needed. Parents can initial nightly if you wish. Good way to start back to school classroom management. - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator. All of the activities included in this product are the intellectual properties of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator. This resource is for classroom or homeschool use and is intended for the purchaser. Duplication for other classes, for other teachers or for use in wide distribution is not allowed, but you may purchase extra licenses at a 50% discount! :) This material is protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. U.S. spelling. If you wish for me to convert to U.K. spelling, I will be happy to do that for you. Just send me an email, and let me know what needs to be changed. - HappyEdugator

Halloween Spooky Grammar PowerPoint. Halloween PowerPoint with a spooky Halloween twist to learning about misplaced and dangling modifiers. Beware of these sentence errors! Thirteen slides with Halloween themed animations define, give examples and tips to fix these troubling errors. Assignment at the end has seven spooky sentences to correct. Last slide is the key. Happy Halloween! - HappyEdugator

St. Patrick's Day Learning Fun! Map of Ireland Geography Activity. Using an atlas or the internet as a resource, students must label the blank map of Ireland with key places from the word bank and color according to directions. Includes a worksheet with questions about their map. An interesting educational activity that can be used for St. Patrick's Day, in the month of March, or anytime. Works great to build background knowledge when reading poetry and books set in Ireland or by authors from Ireland. Keys included. Updated February 2015.- HappyEdugator