This is a high quality photo of a blue morning glory flower in bloom. My husband and I take all our own photos. This flower we grew in our garden, The image is 300 dpi, fit to 4 x 6 inches.

This is a high quality photo of an amaryllis flower in bloom. My husband and I take all our own photos. The image is 300 dpi, fit to 4 x 6 inches.

The Pearl Word Search. If you read The Pearl by John Steinbeck, add this fun word search puzzle to your unit. Look for characters, events, and other significant terms that go with the novel. 30 terms hidden in this word search puzzle. Key included. Fun review! - HappyEdugator

Writing - Writing for the Real World PowerPoint. Writing PowerPoint can be used one slide at a time to engage students in meaningful writing experiences. Ten different real world writing activities students can use to write in their journals, source books, or writing folders. Each slide is a different writing prompt about a real world writing situation, and each writing prompt comes with a word list to help students develop vocabulary and spelling. Students should use five words from each list in their writing assignment. These ten writing activities can be done daily over the course of two weeks, or you can spread them out over a longer period of time.

If you are using a shabby chic theme, then you will love these rustic distressed whitewashed wood backgrounds and shiplap for your projects. You get 12 photos, shot on iPhone 6, sized 12 x 12. Will make great PowerPoint backgrounds, or use as backgrounds for signs and headers for your classroom bulletin boards. Enjoy! For commercial use and personal use.- HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator.

Digital Paper - Paw prints. 36 different styles. Includes large green pawprints on assorted colors, large red pawprints on assorted colors, and small gray pawprints on a variety of colored backgrounds. Useful if you have a mascot with paw prints! High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Christmas Similes Activity. A fun printable Christmas activity handout to help your students create some simple Christmas similes. Your students, after reading the example, should be able to fill in the blanks with their own Christmas similes, and even make up a few of their own. Great winter fun. Also fun to do after watching the scene in the movie "A Christmas Carol" when the party-goers play the game "Similes." Also includes simile cards. Print out on cardstock, and cut out. Give to students to fill out and draw a representation of their simile. Punch a hole in the corner of each, tie with a ribbon, and hang on your "Simile Tree." - HappyEdugator

Digital Paper - Background Textures 1. FREE. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of textured backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator.

Following Directions TEST - A Tricky Following Directions Lesson. FREE Fun for April Fool's Day, too! Give this following directions test to your students, and try not to laugh too much when they are taking it. If they don't read the directions first and do what the directions say, they will be shocked at the end to find out they only had to do number one...write their name! Great test preparation activity to get kids ready for exams too! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Drama Warm Ups - Fun role playing activities to get students moving, thinking and creating. Whether you are teaching drama in literature, a drama course, or sponsoring a drama club after school, these activities will be engaging and fun, and will lead to higher level thinking and creativity! 15 pages of different activities with examples and suggestions to get started. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

PowerPoint on supporting the main idea with details helps students understand the importance of providing evidence in writing. Explains main idea, supporting details, and the use of transition words to link ideas together. Includes examples of major and minor supporting details, lists of transition words for various types of organization, and a paragraph writing graphic organizer that you can use digitally, along with a printer friendly version for students for pre-writing to make hard copy rough drafts. © HappyEdugator.

Use these Just Right Book Posters to decorate your classroom library and help students choose the books that are not too challenging and not too easy for independent reading. Includes the Five Finger Rule and I Can statements. Chalkboard and distressed wood shiplap design will go with your rustic classroom decor or shabby chic. 8 1/2 by 11 inches. May be resized. Includes teacher directions for a lesson on how to select appropriate books. These may also be shown as slides on your whiteboard as you teach students how to select books independently. ©2024,2016 HappyEdugator.