The Wheel of Wealth Game Template. Great for review in any subject. Just add your own content. Enjoy! HappyEdugator

Christmas Analogies PowerPoint - a fun December Christmas activity for students to practice looking for relationships between word pairs. Students number their papers 1-10 and write the word that completes each analogy on their paper. They can then check their answers with the key on the last slide. Includes animated pictures that are entertaining and engaging. Two sets of ten Christmas analogies. All the analogies are Christmas related. Enjoy! Happy Holidays! - HappyEdugator

Awards Certificates - Twenty Unique Awards for All Occasions. Includes a cute Good Earth Day Award! End of the year awards! These end of the year award certificates (or use them anytime) are designed to help you show your students that you appreciate them in many ways. Rewards for Volunteers and Helpers, Outstanding work, Organization and Neatness, Earth Day, Birthday, etc. Reward good behavior or give rewards for academic success. From academic growth to the smallest act of kindness, you will have some positive reinforcement ready! Awards are useful to give to teachers, parents, and custodians, too. Great for the end of the school year! Includes a total of twenty different and unique awards.Suggestions for their use is included in the slide notes. Editable for your classroom use. Enjoy.

Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween writing motivator. Five different Halloween characters...vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. Students drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and in their journal show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose. Good Halloween Smartboard activity for the whole group or class, or use as enrichment for a center. You can choose to make one character a day for a whole week. Many character traits to choose from, some will build vocabulary by having to look up unknown words. Supports common core standards in writing. Happy Halloween!

Easter Activity Pack - Literacy and Math Fun. Print and go. Four different sheets of math word problems, (two addition and two subtraction), ten count the eggs and trace the number word sheets, make an Easter card sheet, an original Easter poem to read, a create a word activity, an Easter word scramble, a jelly bean sort and graphing activity, an Easter maze, a history of Easter (the resurrection) and a history of Easter (bunnies and eggs). Lots of fun for April!- HappyEdugator

Joe DiMaggio - The Yankee Clipper PowerPoint. A Baseball Legend. This is a short biography of the famous Joe DiMaggio. Students will learn about this American baseball hero, who set a major league record of a 56 game hitting streak in 1941 that still stands today. Use it with books such as Becoming Joe DiMaggio by Maria Testa or Joe DiMaggio by Herb Dunn. Goes well with a baseball unit or theme. - HappyEdugator

Irregular Plurals - Latin and Greek Plural Forms. Irregular plural nouns. PowerPoint reviews the rules for forming plural nouns in English, and exceptions to those rules. Explains the rules for words with Latin and Greek origins and gives examples. These terms are often used in science and medicine. Practice questions are interactive. Good addition to your parts of speech unit. 19 slides. - HappyEdugator

Mickey Mantle - Baseball Legend PowerPoint. This is a short biography of the famous Mickey Mantle, the switch hitter for the NY Yankees. Students will learn about this American baseball hero, who set a major league record of the longest home-run ever hit that still stands today. Goes well with a baseball unit or theme or with books like Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. - HappyEdugator

Test Taking Skills For Essay Tests PowerPoint. Test taking strategies for acing essay tests. Animated PowerPoint gives students strategies they can use to prepare for and take writing tests and essay exams. How to study and what to study to make a great grade when writing an essay test. 18 slides. - HappyEdugator

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!

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.

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

Incentive Charts - A Pack of Twenty Different Designs. Ready for back to school! A variety pack of incentive charts for you to print and use to reinforce behavior, assignments, reading, goals, homework, chores, etc. Great for progress monitoring. Different themes include snowman, cowboys, rock, stars, hearts, pawprints, rainbows, sun, stripes, etc. Different style grids! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Veterans Day Jumbled Words PowerPoint Game. Veterans Day Fun! Interactive word scramble game with words related to Veterans Day. Words will appear in scrambled form for students to try to puzzle out. Click for a clue, then click for the answer. Click on next question to go to the next slide. Fun activity to celebrate Veterans Day. 30 slides. Skill Level - Medium

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Short Story Unit. Includes Vocabulary, Plot Summary, Use Your Vocabulary sheet with key, About the Author- Mark Twain, Comprehension Quiz with key, and Essay Questions that require students to use evidence from the text in their answers to support common core. - HappyEdugator

Sentence Structure: 4 Kinds PowerPoint. PowerPoint about sentence structure. Explains independent and dependent clauses (subordinate clauses), sentence fragments and complete sentences. Defines simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Practice slide with 8 questions at the end for assessment where students have to identify the sentence structure of the sentences. Interactive...they can check their answers with the last slide. 15 slides. - HappyEdugator

Reading - Independent Novel Reading Assignment. Keep your students focused on learning with this weekly independent reading assignment. Students select the novel they wish to read, and then read during a silent reading time. This assignment will have them learning new vocabulary, summarizing, and analyzing what they read with response to character, setting, plot, theme and author's style. The first page is a handout detailing the assignment, and the other pages are the student work pages. Includes a partner sharing activity. Enjoy! -

Race to the Finish PowerPoint Game Template. Students have to answer a series of mutiple choice questions to move through the categories. Wrong answer...start over! Great for review in any subject. Just add your own content. Enjoy! HappyEdugator

Christmas Story Starters on Decorative Lined Paper! 30 different pages with writing prompts and cute graphics, just in time for the holidays. Quick and easy writing activity for December. Have fun with creative writing! Print and go. No prep. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Introduction to Research PowerPoint. Introduce a research project. Starts with an activating strategy where students have to guess and check. The next slides relate to where students can find information about their topic. Interactive activities such as a 2 Minute Brainstorm. General information on how to choose a topic and not plagiarize by citing sources. This is a PowerPoint used to introduce writing a research paper only. Details of writing one are not included. Summarizing strategy is a 3-2-1. Three things to know about research, 2 purposes of research, 1 possible topic to research. Last slide accelerates the idea of plagiarism and crediting your sources. 16 slides. - HappyEdugator