BATS Writing Paper - Lined Paper - Bats Theme. Eight different bat designs, two different sizes of lines for writing at different ability levels. Fun paper for Halloween or anytime. Students will have fun writing with some cute little bats to inspire them. - Enjoy!

Halloween Hundreds Charts - Halloween Theme. Halloween themed hundreds charts. 25 different Halloween styles and patterns. Each hundred chart has a blank one to match, so students can fill out for a variety of activities. Supports Common Core standards.

All About Me Book - Beginning of the Year Writing Unit. Writing center activities. Gives students a chance to build a book about themselves, with writing prompts to encourage students to think. The pages can be completed as a class project, or individually whenever a child has finished other work and has free time. Supports common core state standards. Some pages can be done several times, such as the journal page once a week. Can be printed with color or white background. Teachers of younger children can help them fill out the pages. Although students can keep their own sheets and watch their books grow, you may wish to collect all their completed pages and keep folders for each author until all the pages are done. Assure them their pages will be kept private. Classroom and school photos can be added to make them extra special as a keepsake. Can also be used with older children who have autism or special needs. Join with your students and make your own book, too. 2 versions, 32 pages each - color background or white background to save ink. Print and go. - HappyEdugator

EDITABLE Teacher Binder Covers - 63 Different Ready Made Binder Covers and Spines. Choose which ones you wish to use, print out and slip into your binder front and spine. Also includes an editable cover and an editable spine, so you can add your own words if you need to! These can also be used as dividers in a larger teacher binder (cover for that included) and the spines can double as page tabs. Just print out the pages you need and put in page protectors. Print out the tabs on card stock and attach with clear packing tape to protect and make durable. Safari Zebra background. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Classroom Rules Sign or Handout. Back to school - Rules and consequences to post in your classroom at the beginning of the year. Three different versions - chalkboard, stick figure, and owl theme. The owl themed rules are also separated one per page. Thank you for stopping by my store! This file is editable only for your own classroom use. Download the preview to get a free sample! Thanks!

Happy New Year Word Search Activity. Start the New Year with a wordsearch puzzle to get those minds thinking again. Good for first day back from break. Key included. - HappyEdugator

St. Patrick's Day Adjective Hunt - A St. Patrick's Day Literacy Activity. Fun center and critical thinking activity! Students match the adjectives on the gold coins to the four leaf clovers.Three nouns are listed on each clover. Adjectives are written on each gold coin. Object is to find an adjective that could be used to describe each of the three items on the shamrock and match the gold coin to the correct one. Print out, laminate, and use every year! Updated March 2015 - HappyEdugator

ICE The Freezing Water Experiment. Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Does temperature affect how quickly water freezes? Includes What Do I Know About Ice sheet, Problem/Hypothesis sheet, Temperature Recording Sheet, Experiment Procudure and Materials Handout, Results discussion sheet with informaton on the Mpemba Effect. Experiment can be done as a whole class activity, or sent home as a homework assignment. Fun homeschool activity! - HappyEdugator

Chinese New Year PowerPoint - Traditions and customs of the Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year 2016 is the year of the monkey. Includes informational text, fun test your knowledge questions, and activities and crafts to celebrate. 18 slides. Enjoy! Updated February 2015

The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem by Robert Service. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary game, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the poem and a video, and writing activities. Includes a final writing task that supports common core standards. Enjoy!

Christmas Luminaries Christmas Craft. Make Snoopy Dogs! Complete directions on how to make these adorable luminaries out of gallon milk jugs. Listen to Snoopy's Christmas and learn about the spontaneous Christmas truce in the middle of WWI in 1914. This goes well with my Christmas Truce Reader's Theater Enjoy! Happy Holidays!

Earth Day Vocabulary CARDS and Activities. Print these out on cardstock, and laminate if you desire for durability. Keep the sheets intact for this LEARNING ACTIVITY: Print out 2 sets of EARTH SHEETS. Divide class into groups. Give each group an EARTH activity sheet. Each group will work together and find three (or you decide how many) facts for each square. Give them adequate time to do this. (Try out my PowerPoint timer!) Have the groups report back to the class. You can also assign the rows on the cards to different groups. OR Cut cards out for these LEARNING ACTIVITIES: 1. Pull cards out of a hat (or other container) and assign to students for research activities. 2. Attach to Popsicle sticks and have students pull one when they are finished with other work. Require them to find out five facts about the word that relates it to Earth Day. 3. Put cards inside plastic Easter eggs and have students find them. When they return, have them earn a jelly bean for every word they can define or describe what it means to the planet. You can come up with other games to use with these, too! If you blow them up to poster size, you have Earth Day word wall words, too. Enjoy! -HappyEdugator

Christmas - Place Value. Math center Christmas activities for a week. →Place Value Center Games and Printables ~ 33 Pages Includes a black and white and a color version of each activity. What Number Am I? Teacher Directions 3 What Number Am I? Tens and ones (printable worksheet) 4-5 What Number Am I? Hundreds, tens, and ones (printable worksheet) 6-7 Center Signs –Word Form, Expanded Form, Standard Form 8-9 Build the Numeral Teacher Directions 10 Build the Numeral Sheet 11 Base Ten Blocks 12 Place Value Crossword Puzzle Teacher Directions 13 Place Value Crossword Puzzle 14-15 Place Value Crossword Puzzle Key 16-17 Fun with Digits Teacher Directions 18 1 –5 Digits 19-20 6 –10 Digits 21-22 Fun with Digits Practice Sheet 23-24 Making Numerals Activity Teacher Directions 25 Numeral Cards 26-27 Place Value Cards 28-30 Making Numerals Game Board 31-32 Card Container Labels 33

Word Pyramid PreWriting Activity. Back to school creative writing using their name! Fun anytime, but also a back to school or good beginning of the year writing activity. Handout will stimulate thinking and may have your students running for the dictionary! Students will have to think of words of various lengths to describe themselves, and then come up with a sentence using one of the words.Fold the flap up over the name and have other students read them and try to guess who wrote it. Later, students can write a personal memoir about themselves, and they have already had a jumpstart on their thinking and writing. - HappyEdugator

Parts of Speech. Students identify parts of speech in context in this quick print and go activity. Can be used for practice or assessment. Student identify the the part of speech of the 25 underlined words in the passages, and write the answers on their own paper. Key included. Enjoy! - 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)

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

Owl Bookmarks - Set of Six bookmarks: Inspiring and colorful bookmarks to give your students anytime to instill a love of reading. Fun way to tell them you love them. Cute sayings like "Owl Keep Your Place." Editable so you can personalize with student names. Print out on cardstock or tagboard and laminate for a bookmark that will last. Nice gift from teacher to student instead of a card. Three per page. Make good last minute Christmas or birthday presents!

Christmas - Letter To Santa Writing Activity. Writing a friendly letter, students must tell Santa Claus the one thing they want, why they deserve it, and how they will use it to better the world. Letters must include compound sentences, complex sentences with adjective and adverb clauses, vocabulary words, figurative language, and the parts of an informal letter. 100 points, easy to grade. No prep. Print and go. Enjoy!

Valentines Day Math - Counting Numbers 1 - 10. Hearts math and literacy sheet. Numbers 1 - 10. Students have to count the hearts, draw a line to match them to the number word, then write the number in the box provided. Use Valentine heart shaped candy; have your kids count them out as they complete the sheet. Fun math activity for Valentine's Day. Supports math, reading, and writing skills. Supports common core state standards! 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.