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!

Halloween - Clothespin Bats Craftivity and Bat Activities. Make these fun Halloween clothespin bats with your kiddos and then enjoy some batty activities and games that will get your kids bat crazy. Includes directions, clothespin bat template, what to do with your bats, and fun bat games. Happy Halloween! - HappyEdugator

Memorial Day Word Scramble. Fun Memorial Day activity for language, spelling, and vocabulary development. 2 puzzles! Print and go. In the one for upper grades, students have to unscramble 22 words that have to do with Memorial Day. In the other one, there are ten words for primary grades. Some of the words included: Veteran, Freedom, Poppy, Decoration, Military, United States. Keys included. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Owl Bookmarks - Owl Save Your Place! Cute owls will save the place for your lucky readers. Great for an owl theme! 4 different colors and 1 page in black and white that they can color themselves! These also make great gifts for a birthday, Christmas, or other events. - HappyEdugator

Earth Day Bookmarks! Three colorful bookmarks based on an earth or world theme that you can give to your students as a gift for special days! Nice for Earth Day, but can be used anytime. Great Spring gift. Print out, cut out, and laminate. - HappyEdugator

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

Penguins - Penguins Crossword Puzzle based on penguin facts. Penguins are cool! Word list for the clues included. Key included. Good winter activity or use when reading books on penguins like Tacky the Penguin, Penguin Pete, or Puffins Climb, Penguins Rhyme. - Happyedugator

Valentine's Day Writing Fun! Ten creative writing prompts to help students write from the heart notes for Valentine's Day! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Valentine's Day. Valentine Activity Fun Pack for Primary Grades. Valentine's Day activities for math and language arts, puzzles, bookmarks, bracelets, and a Valentine story with comprehension questions. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Christmas - Place Value - Smartboard games for your interactive whiteboard. Five different activities.

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

Voting and Political Process in Georgia PowerPoint. Good Election Day lesson. 24 slide presentation on the voting and political process in Georgia. Students will learn about the rights and responsibilities of citizens and the voting and election requirements in Georgia. This is a useful tool for Georgia History. - HappyEdugator

Christmas Activity - Christmas Coded Words Activity Sheet - Webdings. Fun! Use as a time filler or as a fun thing to do for a Christmas party. Figure out the coded Christmas words written with webdings by using the decoder. Winter fun! Like a puzzle, this exercises the brain and promotes visual discrimination. Keep kids occupied even on Christmas Eve. No prep. Print and go. Key included, of course. - HappyEdugator

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

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

Classroom Etiquette Handout for Middle School and High School. Classroom management tool. Rules to live by! Teach classroom behavior and classroom expectations. Students will have no excuses after they read this detailed set of rules for good manners in the classroom. "What your teacher really wants." What seems like common sense to the teacher is not always common sense for a student. They need direct instruction on expectations. Give to students to remind them of how you expect them to behave. Works well with a positive behavior intervention system. Additionally, this handout also could be given to students to copy if they have been given detention or ISS. - 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

End of the Year Activities - Ice Cream Writing PowerPoint. These end of the year activities are a fun jump into summer! Ten different writing activities that are related to ice cream. Use for whole group on the projector, or print out and laminate for centers or small groups. If you set up your printer first, you can print out on index cards. Varied levels for differentiation. Celebrate student writing accomplishments with presentations and a real ice cream social. Nice way to end the year or use as an activity for summer camp. Includes activities that incorporate creative writing, narrative writing and expository writing.

Poetry: Ways to Read Poetry PowerPoint. Presentation guides students in how to approach reading poetry with a plan so they can reach their goal of understanding what a poem means. Teaches close reading of poetry. Before, during and after reading strategies including paraphrasing, journaling, and "two per line" will help students become more active and responsive readers. Supports common core standards. 17 slide PowerPoint. - 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.