Beginning of the Year Student Survey and Poster. Beginning of the Year or First Day of School print and go handout. Includes an 8 question student survey about classroom expectations from a student perspective, and a poster you can hang about new beginnings. This that will help you get to know your students and help them focus on what is important. Share results of the survey with your students and discuss how they fit in to classroom rules and procedures. - HappyEdugator

Halloween PowerPoint! A fun Halloween Mad-Lib activity! Use this Halloween Mad Lib to practice parts of speech...project it on your whiteboard. Students can number one through twelve on their own paper and come up with names, nouns, and other parts of speech as per the directions, and then volunteers read the following slide with their substitutions to make silly Halloween stories. Lots of fun, and students get to use their knowledge of parts of speech as well! Happy Halloween!- HappyEdugator

Earth Day Cooperative Learning Activity - Committee to Reduce Environmental Pollution. Works well as a post reading activity for The Lorax by Dr. Seuss or The Wump World by Bill Peet. Students will meet in groups (or committees) to analyze several different scenarios and to determine which type of polluter is the most destructive to the environment. Students will compare their individual results with their group results, and then the groups will compare their results with other groups in the class. The final activity is to see if the class can come to a consensus. Extension activity - discuss possible solutions.

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!

Lesson Closure Sheet - For Any Subject. Use this lesson summarizer sheet to have your students write about key points in your lesson, which can be used as a quick assessment of comprehension. You can use it as an exit slip, ticket out the door, or to summarize learning of a unit. Handy for any subject or unit of study. 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!

Thanksgiving Counting Turkeys math and literacy sheet. Numbers 11 - 20. Students have to count the turkeys, draw a line to match them to the number word, then write the number in the box provided. Use turkey or feather shaped candy and have your kids count them out as they complete the sheet. Fun math activity for Thanksgiving. Supports math, reading, and writing skills. Supports common core state standards! - HappyEdugator

Valentine's Day Pop-Up Valentine Card. Step by step directions on how to make a pop up Valentine card for Valentine's Day with just a plain piece paper! Includes instructions, template for cutting and folding, photos of what the card will look like when folded. After students make the cards, they can decorate them and add their own personal message with crayons, markers, glitter, stickers, etc. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Reading - Poetry Reading Process Handout. Comprehension strategy for reading poetry: a handy guide on how to read poetry. Promotes close reading. Reading poetry can be difficult for students, but these guidelines will give them a strategy to use when reading poems that will help their poetry comprehension. Supports common core state standards. - 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!

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

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

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

Thanksgiving Quiz - Test Your Thanksgiving Knowledge. The first Thanksgiving trivia quiz. Twenty questions. How many answers do you know? Some will surprise you! A fun Thanksgiving activity that can be used as a party game, but it could also be used as a student anticipation guide for a unit on Thanksgiving, a research or web quest sheet, or as an assessment after a Thanksgiving unit of study. Key included, of course! No prep. Print and go. - HappyEdugator

Christmas - Winter Holiday Wordsearch. A challenging Christmas word find or word search puzzle with holiday words hidden in the letters. Nearly 100 words are disguised in the puzzle. Words can be forwards and backwards, and either horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. Bonus drawing frame included. No prep. Print and go. Key included. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving: The First Thanksgiving. Teaching the history of Thanksgiving? The First Thanksgiving fill-in the blank story or cloze activity will add to your unit. Students can fill in the blanks of the story using the Word Bank. This is a fun vocabulary building activity and provides historical background for the holiday as well. 1 page worksheet and 1 page key. - HappyEdugator

Veterans Day Word Scramble and Veteran's Day Word Search. Fun word puzzles for Veterans Day. This word scramble has 16 words related to Veterans Day - such as heroes, honor, patriotic, military, veteran, etc. Like a jumble, students have to unscramble the letters to come up with the words. The Word Search has 24 words hidden in the puzzle. This is a fun activity that helps develop vocabulary, word recognition, and sorting and classification skills. Answer keys are provided. - Happy Edugator

Leaning Checklist - self evaluation sheets for daily learning for the classroom, homeschool, or summer school. Lots of uses. Can be used in cooperative groups, centers, or as exit ticket for whole group instruction. Great learning tool for interactive notebooks. Students can use the checklist to monitor their own progress. Includes a checklist for Monday - Saturday. Each checklist has a box for - I read, I wrote about, I investigated, I discovered , I created, I practiced, I completed, My favorite activity, and My overall effort. A large box at the bottom of each page allows for drawing, additional writing, notes, or comments. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator.

Christmas Alliterations Activity. A printable handout for Christmas explaining how alliterations and tongue twisters are formed, with an area for your students to come up with ten of their own. Have your students create their own Christmas alliterations on this handout. Wonderful winter work. December is definitely delicious! Includes cards with holiday related words for students to turn into alliterations and place on a wreath. - HappyEdugator

Christmas Puzzle - Christmas crossword puzzle. Fun! Black and white version and color version included. Key included. No prep. Print and go. Ink friendly. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator