Character Education Word of the Month - PowerPoint for Character Education includes a slide defining the character word of the month. Each month has a Character Education Activity and an Award certificate. Each word has a suggested month, but the slides have been left editable so you can rearrange them and edit as needed for your classroom needs. Character Education Words included and suggested months are: Respect - August Responsibility - September Trustworthiness - October Compassion - November Friendship - December Perseverance - January Cooperation - February Patience - March Honesty - April Citizenship - May

Sight Words Bingo - Beginning of the Year Sight Word Review Game. Good beginning of the year assessment that is fun for back to school! Pre-Primer and Primer level. 26 cards with high frequency words with a back to school theme for Kindergarten review. You can choose to use the pictures of school supplies as free spaces, or call out the school supplies list as an alternative way to play. Print out on cardstock, laminate, and save pieces in snack baggies. Put everything all together in a page protectore and place in a binder for easy storage. - HappyEdugator

Awards - Printable Rewards - 30 Bookmarks or Wristbands. Print out and give to students as fun rewards! Fun to use at end of year. A variety for holidays, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day! Includes rewards for being honest, respectful, trustworthy, and caring. Also includes celebrations such as star student, 100th day, happy birthday, and more. Great for all seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter! Print out at the beginning of the year and have them on hand. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Bookmarks - A Set of 6 Thanksgiving bookmarks. Wish your students a happy Thanksgiving and remind them to read while they are on holiday. Includes 2 bookmarks with Thanksgiving jokes, 2 bookmarks about being thankful for books, a bookmark to encourage reading, and one to fill in with personal thanksgivings. Print out on cardstock or on regular paper and laminate. Enjoy! Happy Thanksgiving!

Math Journal Prompts and Writing Activities - Write On! Students can write in math class, too! 21 math journal prompts. Each slide is a different writing activity that will spark creativity and imagination, as well as hone those skills. You can choose to display on your whiteboard or print out the slides on index cards and use in a math center. These writing prompts can also be used to add to interactive notebooks. However you use them, you will be giving your students the opportunity to write about math. The new common core standards require more writing in content areas. Here are some ideas that will help you get started.

Standards based persuasive writing rubric: use to measure students ability to write an argument persuasively by engaging the reader, stating a clear position, supporting details, excluding irrelevant information or arguments, creating an organizing structure, anticipating counter-arguments, providing closure, and following writing conventions. - Happyedugator Supports common core standards for writing an argument.

This handout teaches your students how to make funny puns using book titles and author names that should make you laugh. A fun word play for almost any age.

Reading Standards Goal Sheet. In order to meet standards, students are expected to do more independent reading. This 2 page hand-out is very specific about what students must do daily in order to meet state standards in reading. Research suggests middle schoolers should read 25 books or a million words per year. Based on that standard, your students will have a place to monitor weekly goals, as well as making sure that different genres are being read. Useful tool for getting started on your reading program.

Genre: Types of Genre PowerPoint. Explains the main forms of literature, types of genres and common genres, the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and descriptions and examples of many common genres, including biography, autobiography, realistic fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, high fantasy, mystery, folktales, fables, legends, myths, and classics. Now also includes Types of Genre Quiz. Thanks!

Science Journal Prompts and Writing Activities. Discovery learning and inquiry. A variety of writing ideas to involve kids in writing, researching, and investigating. Writing prompts and activities that inspire students to find out more! You can give these as assignments, use for differentiated instruction, make journal notebooks, add to interactive notebooks, or use in learning centers, etc. Enjoy!

PowerPoint Timer! Classroom Management PowerPoint Timer. Set for any time up to 1 hour. Keep students on task with this countdown clock. The PowerPoint slides count down from 60 minutes all the way to "None." Set it for any time up to 60 minutes. It has a 2 minute warning (with a sound effect) as well to give students advance notice that time will be up soon. It can be used for timing students for many different activities including cooperative learning time, group work, independent work, timed tests, etc. A great visual aid for teaching students how to pace themselves for state tests. Just project it up on the Smartboard for all students to see. It doesn't have to be set always at 60 minutes: it can be set at any interval between 1 and 60 minutes and transitions slides each minute. Good classroom management technique to keep students on task.

Common Core Standards for ELA Posters - BUNDLE. Common core standards for ELA grades 6, 7, and 8 summarized. Use as WE CAN posters or as a slide show. You can go over the standards with your students, and afterwards you can print out the slides and laminate them to use as a poster in your classroom. Kid friendly language with colorful graphics. Includes all 5 sets - Language, Writing, Reading Informational Text, Reading Literature, and Speaking and Listening. Sold separately for $10. SAVE money and buy the bundle! The CCSS ( common core state standards ) are the same for 6th and 8th grade, only the level of complexity changes, so feel free to use them for all three levels.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Tic-Tac-Think Activity. Includes a copy of the poem for the students to read, and a menu choice activity with items requiring making connections: text to self, text to text, and text to world.

Imagery with Weather Poems! Have your students create weather poems using descriptive adjectives and imagery. Three different poem formats support differentiated instruction. After reading a story or novel in which weather plays a major role in developing the plot (such as the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury or the novel The Cay by Theodore Taylor), have your students write weather poems. Discuss how to create imagery using words that appeal to the senses. They will enjoy coming up with vivid adjectives and descriptive language. Ask your students to think of words that will create the best images, or they can look up adjective lists online if they have access to technology. The first format has the most scaffolding for the kids who have trouble putting words on paper. The second format is a little more challenging, and the third one is great for your high achievers. If you prefer, you can also use these in sequence and build up to the higher level thinking format. After your students complete the format, ask them to share, edit and revise, and then type up the poems to publish and make a great display.

Reading - 100 Words Every Third Grader Should Know. Vocabulary words for third graders. Includes self test sheet and a Friday test for mastery. Great to use the week of 100th day of school. 103 slides in all to print out as flash cards for literacy centers. Good word wall words, too.

What’s in the Sack" by Shel Silverstein PowerPoint Beginning of the Year. Goes well with Beginning of the Year “Me” Bag Activity. Animated graphics will make this poem fun to read and engage your students. 12 slides. Revised July 2014

Happy New Year! New Year Coded Words Activity Sheet. Ring in New Years with something fun. Use this fun New Year's activity to stimulate critical thinking, and get your students thinking again after a long break. Good for first day back from break.Key included.

2015 Calendar - Free! Enjoy!

Halloween Vocabulary PowerPoint. This Halloween PowerPoint presentation has fifteen spooky vocabulary words, including their part of speech and pronunciation. Challenging and unique words; some have etymologies and interesting facts, along with animations and sounds that make things interesting! When you start the slide show, the words will fly in around the pumpkin. You could play spooky music with this is you want. The last 2 slides set up a writing assignment for students, with additional familiar words to use as story starters for a Halloween story! 18 slides of educational fun.

Informational Text: Organizing Paragraphs PowerPoint. How to write informational paragraphs. Explains 4 different methods students can use to organize expository paragraphs...accordian style, abbreviations plan, two column notes, or traffic signal. Each method is explained, and the procedure for including reasons, details, facts,explanations and elaborations. Two of these models are perfect for foldable graphic organizers. -