Writing Paper - Lined Paper - Seasonal Packet with Drawing Boxes. Use for Back to School, Fall, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's, St. Patrick's, Spring, Easter, Birthday, and more. Handy to have at the beginning of the year or use at the end of the year. 40 different styles of writing paper for different times of the year. Illustration boxes to stimulate imaginations. Dashed lines help develop handwriting. Use for other occasions such as patriotic days, school events, or to go along with a story or unit. Students will love writing poems and stories on these decorative papers, and adding their own illustrations. - HappyEdugator

Parent Conference - 27 Tips for Good Communication. Communicating with parents is one of the most important things we do as teachers. When we can work together with a child's parents toward common goals, we improve the atmosphere for learning. Here are some tips to help make all your parent conferences productive and successful. - HappyEdugator

Computer Lab Rules Posters or Signs. Good for beginning of the year. 12 computer lab rules. Print out these posters and a header sign for your computer lab and have your room ready for back to school. You can choose which rules you wish to post. Includes rules for proper computer use, handling of the equipment, and procedures to follow when leaving. - HappyEdugator

Common Prefixes and Suffixes PowerPoint. Learn what are prefixes and suffixes, why they are important to know, and the most common prefixes and suffixes that are used in English. 25 slide PowerPoint presentation has animated graphics, common prefixes and suffixes, and interactive practice slides with answer keys.

Back to School - Welcome Back To School PowerPoint Template. Beginning of the year: Open House, Parent Night or Back to School Night or the first day of school with 12 slides ready to go...all you need to do is fill in a few blanks and edit the specifics. Designed for middle school but can be used at other levels as well. EDITABLE slide presentation welcomes them all back and identifies school and team members, identifies the team mission statement and beliefs, tells who's who, expectations and policies, grading, parent conferences, special projects, etc. You may use suggestions or add your own policies. -

Sentences. Sentences Practice Worksheets. Students need to understand complete sentences. Good practice for identifying and fixing fragments, and run-ons, and review of sentence types: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. Includes seven different practice sheets. Keys included. Revised June 2015 with additional content.

Back to School Study Skills Tips for Success PowerPoint. Great study tips for back to school! 13 slides with animation on basic study skills, such as setting up a study center, organizing papers, prioritizing assignments, and managing time...plus more! Use on the first day of school to get students off to a good start. The slides can be printed as posters as well. Last slide ends presentation with an inspirational quote from Bill Cosby.

Back to School Quotes PowerPoint. Beginning of the year inspirational quotes to motivate your students with success strategies for the new school year.Use at Back to School Night, Open House, Parent Night, or on the first day of school. Smooth Sailing through the Year Ahead - Beginning of the Year introduction. Slides have a sailing theme with a variety of photos of tugboats, barges, yachts, and ships on the Hudson River. I have added a music clip from Microsoft to play across all the slides, but you can change it to something different if you would like or if the link ever becomes broken. (Add your own music or use music from PowerPoint clip art) to start the beginning of the year off in the right spirit. Use it any time you wish to motivate your students to be successful. Slides can be printed out as posters or on cards for the classroom as well. Smooth Sailing Through the Year will put your students on the right course for success. Quotes from famous people such as Mark Twain, Norman Vincent Peale, Henry Thoreau, Dale Carnegie, Ben Franklin, Mark Spitz, and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few, promote character traits necessary for success. The inspirational quotes are accompanied by the photos of boats on the Hudson River, and can advance automatically with the music. Total playing time is about 4 minutes.

Parts of a Book PowerPoint. Basic parts of a book from the cover, spine and pages to what is inside. Distinguishes between fiction and nonfiction books, and explains how a book is organized, from the title page, table of contents, to the index and bibliography. Animated graphics make it engaging. Supports common core standards. Revised with more content in June 2014 - HappyEdugator CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

Figurative Language Color Idioms. Idioms with color words. One sheet is a multiple-choice sheet and the other students have fun coloring the matching idioms and their meanings. Includes a chart of colors and their moods.Supports common core. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Brain Teaser Sheet - Critical Thinking. Fun Brain Workout. Letter equations. May be challenging, but students will love trying to figure them out! A letter equation is a common combination of letters and numbers that are abbreviated. The trick is to figure out what the abbreviation means. For example, 7 d. in a w. is 7 days in a week. 22 brain teaser equations and key included. Good activity to get minds working for test prep. Exercise for the brain. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Halloween Smartboard Games - 4 Different Activities K - 3. Four Interactive Halloween Activities for the Smart board. The first game, Halloween Consonant-Vowel Sort, is really an easy game for the little ones. They have to decide if the Halloween word begins with a consonant or a vowel, and place it in the vortex. The second game is a Halloween Word Guess, a game similar to Hangman. The third game is A Halloween Sequence, where they have to put the events of Halloween in chronological order. The last game is a Multiple choice Halloween Fun Fact Quiz. Games are made with SMART Notebook software. -HappyEdugator

Simple Subjects and Complete Subjects Worksheet. Finding subjects and predicates is made easier with practice. Students will identify simple subjects and complete subjects. This will help them identify complete sentences. Simple and easy to understand directions. Ten sentences for simple subject, and ten for complete subject. Answer key included. - HappyEdugator

100 Points Research Paper Rubric. Writing a research paper? Use this detailed rubric for a research paper that is easy to grade! Specific standards based requirements for a research paper and will promote a high degree of performance. Based on a 100 points, It is easy to grade and students can self evaluate their work. Performance elements include: Purpose and Focus, Organization and Development of Ideas, References and Documentation, Formatting, and Conventions. Promotes independent reading, critical thinking, organizational skills, writing style, and citing sources without plagiarism. - HappyEdugator

Chromebooks Keyboard Shortcuts - Essential guide for using Chromebooks in the classroom. If your school is using Google Chromebooks in the classroom, you can use these quick keyboard shortcuts for using notebooks in the classroom to help your kids and yourself navigate on a Chromebook. Keep them handy...share this file with your students to keep as a handy reference tool, or project them on your SMARTBOARD or whiteboard and go over them with your kids before you begin. Useful for any subject, and especially helpful in computing classes. Hope you find it helpful! - HappyEdugator

Martin Luther King Jr. MLK Coded Words fun activity sheet. Use as a time filler that is a vocabulary or spelling builder and a fun thing to do for a Martin Luther King Jr. activity. Figure out the coded words written with webdings by using the decoder. Key included. NO PREP. Print and go.

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

Greatest Common Factor PowerPoint (GCF) and Task Cards. Animated PowerPoint slides explain two methods of finding the Greatest Common Factor. Teacher directions, and two leveled sets of 10 task cards for practice in centers with answer keys included. -

Halloween Spooky Synonyms PowerPoint and Writing Activity. Halloween themed PowerPoint about synonyms. Supports common core. First slides explain synonyms, give examples of synonyms, and why choosing the right words and using a thesaurus is useful when writing. Several colorful and animated slides then provide synonyms for common Halloween words such as candy, costume, scary, etc. The last slide is a writing activity where students use their new found vocabulary to write a Halloween story. A fun autumn activity to get your students writing. We had fun making this a listening and speaking activity. When a synonym slide came up, we would say the synonyms, and then I would ring a bell. They had 30 seconds to turn to their neighbor and answer the question at the bottom of the slide. After 30 seconds, I rang the bell again and they had to stop talking! Then we would repeat on the next slide. When we got to the activity slide, I let them tell their story to each other first before they had to write it. - HappyEdugator Standards: W.4.3, W.5.3d, W.6.3d, W.7.3d, W.8.3d

TEST PREP Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint. Taking a state writing test or preparing for the writing portion of a state test? PowerPoint presentation helps students prepare for state tests by learning how to understand what type of essay they are expected to write. Students need to understand how to answer constructed response questions, and make their argument with support from a text. Learn the differences between what is expected for a persuasive and expository writing prompt, like the ones provided on standardized tests and state assessments. Slides focus on key words and how to plan using a simple graphic organizer.