Classroom Jobs - Owl and Chevron. 36 different classroom jobs - job cards for classroom helpers. Print them out on cardstock and laminate. You can use these in a variety of ways. Hang them up to make a clip chart and use clothespins with numbers to move the kids around the jobs. Put the tags on lanyards, or put in pocket charts. You can adjust size before printing, or print several per page. Enjoy! Updated July 2015 - HappyEdugator Includes the following jobs. Choose the ones you wish to use. Paper passer Line Leader Pencil Sharpener Trash Collector Lunch Assistant Door Holder Recycle Aide Snack Helper Desk Cleaner Attendance Checker Time Keeper Pet Caretaker Librarian Weather Reporter Table Cleaner Chair Stacker Line Caboose Substitute Helper Computer Manager Plant Waterer Office Messanger LIghts Specialist Calendar Aide Board Cleaner Teacher Helper Class Secretary Classrooom Artist Floor Cleaner Score Keeper Mail Specialist Homework Checker Odd Job Handler Supplies Manager Chart Assistant Class Photographer Class Blogger

Reading - I Read Because Posters: 12 Great Reasons to Read a Book! Inspirational Reading Posters or project as slides on your SmartBoard. Important reasons for reading to make life better! Great for back to school or the beginning of the year. Can be used as inspiration for Reader's Workshop. Hang these twelve 8 1/2 by 11 posters (or blow up to a larger size) in your reading corner or in your classroom library. Inspire your students to read! Light blue color background or light yellow background to save ink. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

This is a quick print and go pack with fun vocabulary activities to use for Election Day. Includes: study guide with 21 words and definitions, a vocabulary matching sheet, a word search, a fill in the blank informational text, a persuasive writing sheet on issues, and election word scramble with and writing prompt. The vocabulary matching worksheet can also be used as a vocabulary test. These Election Day activities are a good supplement to your unit on the voting process. Keys included. Have a great Election Day! - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator.

These printable signs are great classroom decorations for any grade! Perfect for back to school. The posters work well with any shabby chic theme, with rustic distressed wood, chalkboard, and floral accents. Sized 81/2 x 11, but you can enlarge them if needed. - HappyEdugator ©2016HappyEdugator

Chalkboard and Burlap Alphabet Posters and Bunting. Decorate your classroom this school year with this classroom decor chalkboard and light linen burlap alphabet posters and bunting. With the blue trim, they will go with a nautical theme or shabby chic, too! You can also use the letters to make welcome signs, or create other messages with the pennants. Includes: 26 chalkboard and burlap alphabet posters 26 chalkboard and burlap alphabet bunting HappyEdugator

School Bus Safety Handouts. Back to School Safety Handouts. Great for back to school or school bus safety week. Beginning of the year informational handouts for parents and students about school bus safety at the bus stop, on board, and getting on and off. Good to give to parents of primary students, and useful to read over and discuss with students in upper grades. 11 pages. Goes well with my School Bus Safety PowerPoint. - HappyEdugator

First Day of School Activity - What if Poem. Read the poem by Judith Viorst "The First Day of School" and then have students write their own "What if..." poem. Includes a page of writing ideas and a rubric for poetry. Fairy Tale Homophones. Fun practice sheet identifying homophones in famous fairy tales. Sheet includes ten sentence that have incorrect homophones for students to find and fix. Supports national curriculum. Poetry Book Project. Students will create a poetry book by writing 11 different poems from a list of subjects, and each poem will require a different element of poetry including figurative language (metaphor, simile, idiom, personification, hyperbole) or sound device( onomatopoeia, alliteration). Students must also include one of each type of poetry given (limerick, ode, haiku, ballad, free verse, etc) Detailed rubric included. - HappyEdugator

. A great activity to do with this PowerPoint is to have the kids write their own dialogues. I cut out of magazines some interesting pictures of all kinds of different people interacting. I glued them on cardstock, with the words Who? What? Where? When? and Why? written on each card, and laminated them. I passed the cards out, and students had to imagine what the people were saying to each other in the pictures, and then write the dialogue, using correct punctuation. They also had to later incorporate the dialogue into a short story that answered the five W questions/ The kids enjoyed this activity and got very creative with their stories! Enjoy! :)

Ending Sounds Matching Game. Teach phonemic awareness and build vocabulary. This is a Literacy Center that is fun for your emergent readers! Students match the ending sound of the picture on their game card to one of 6 pictures on their game boards. Included materials: Game Sign for Center (Slide 1) Directions for Center (Slide 2) Game boards: 8 for variation of play (Slides 4-11) Game cards: 60 (Slides 12-21)

Author Studies: March Famous Author Birthdays PowerPoint. To engage your readers and inspire your writers, show them the slides on these famous authors who had birthdays in March: Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Leo and Diane Dillon Patricia MacLachlan Dav Pilkey Mem Fox Kenneth Grahame Ezra Jack Keats Virginia Hamilton Carl Hiassen Sid Fleischman Lois Lowery Louis Sachar Each slide tells a little about the classic author and their most famous works. This spring, engage them in reading and writing! Have them choose from three writing assignments about these authors and their works on the last slide. - HappyEdugator

Who Wants to Be Rich PowerPoint Game Template. Plays similar to the TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Great for review in any subject. Just add your own content. Enjoy! HappyEdugator

TEST PREP Get a High Score on the Test! ELA PowerPoint. Test prep interactive presentation with practice questions and feedback on superlative adjectives, verb and pronoun usage, troublesome areas for students in middle grades, especially 7th grade. Also, these slides can be used to study and prepare for any state test in Language Arts, and 6th and 8th graders can use it, too. Help students get ready to take a standardized test! Supports common core standards. Updated January 2015 - HappyEdugator

The Cay - Multiple Meaning Vocabulary Game. Play this game before, during, or after reading the novel The Cay, by Theodore Taylor. Using multiple meaning vocabulary words from the novel The Cay, students play a fun card game that makes them read and practice vocabulary words with multiple meanings. - HappyEdugator Directions: 1. Cut out the Blue Vocabulary Cards and print out on cardstock. Laminate. 2. Cut out the individual sentence strips for each vocabulary word. Print out on cardstock and laminate. 3. Game play: 2-4 players. Shuffle cards. Turn over Blue Vocabulary cards so they are upside down in the center of the table. Deal out the sentence strips. The youngest person turns over one of the Blue vocabulary cards. The player who first realizes he has the sentence strip for that card must call out the word and then read the sentence strip out loud. He may then discard his sentence strip, and turn over the next card. Play continues until all the vocabulary cards have been played. The player with the fewest sentence strips left in his hand wins! - HappyEdugator

Labels - Space Theme. Stars and Space Kids or Aliens. Blank classroom labels with editable textboxes so you can just type in what you need. Created as ink friendly as possible. Includes: 8 large decorative frame 8 large rectangular blank labels (2 per page = total 16) 8 decorative nameplates with writing lines (2 per page = total 16) 8 smaller rectangular blank labels(2 per page = total 16) 8 smaller rectangular labels with writing lines(2 per page = total 16) 3 large square blank labels (2 per page = total 6) 3 smaller square blank labels (4 per page = total 12) 4 small circular labels (4 per page = total 12) 4 large circular labels ( 2 per page - total 8) Just print and copy how many of each style or size you need and laminate for durability.

Found by Margaret Haddix Supporting Materialks. This resource goes with the first book in The Missing series. Another book series by the author of Among the Hidden - The Shadow Children series. Included are vocabulary lists for Chapters 1-6, 7-17, and 18-32, a crossword puzzle activity for chapter 1-6, a word search for chapters 7 - 11, a word scramble for chapters 12 - 17, a crossword puzzle for chapters 18 - 25, and a book jacket project for the final project with rubric. - HappyEdugator

Research and Expository Writing Formative Assessment. Multiple choice practice questions for state tests. Focused on the research process, expository and persuasive writing. Prepares students for standardized test questions. Questions are GPS standards based, but support common core standards as well. Standards are identified and correct answers are marked. Teacher and student copy included. Prepared for grade six, will work as review for 7th and 8th. - HappyEdugator

100 Most Common Words in the English Language.Sight words. Hearts theme is fun for Valentine's Day. These sight words are essential to reading. Compiled by the Oxford English Corpus, these are great for English language learners, too. The 100 (+1 bonus word) most common words in the English language. Altogether they make up about 50% of all written language. Therefore, it is important that your students learn to recognize all the words in this list, and eventually learn how to read, write, and define them. Use on a projector, or print out on index cards and make flash cards with them! P.S. If you have never printed slides onto index cards, here is how: Go to file, print, click on properties, select postcard printing, paper size index card 4 x 6, then Okay. Then before you print, select print slides, check the box scale to fit paper. I always use print preview to make sure it is set up the way I want. Load index cards in your printer, and print them out and laminate for durability.

TEST PREP Top Ten Writing Tips for State Writing Test Success PowerPoint. Give your students the top ten list like they may have seen on the David Letterman Show, but for writing tips! Count down to what is the most important tip for being successful on a standardized writing test. Prepare for the new constructed response assessments for common core standards. A fun way to prepare your students to write better on assessments, from conventions to creativity. - HappyEdugator

Antonyms Task Cards - 50 Multiple Choice Cards - Grades 4 - 6. Students can work on finding antonyms and using a dictionary or a thesaurus with these task cards that develop higher level vocabulary. Will also work with middle grades. Print out slides. You can set up your printer to print different sizes. 4 x 6 index cards work well. Print out the Task Card Recording Sheet. Copy as many as you need for students. Laminate cards if you desire. Store in plastic zip close bag. You may use in centers, small groups, or as a whole class game. You can also project from your computer on a whiteboard if you don’t wish to print. Will work with older students as well. Emoticons give clues to the meanings. - HappyEdugator

Halloween Treat BINGO. A fun Halloween Bingo game played with candy corn as chips. Players cover colorful Halloween pictures and letters from the word Halloween on game cards. 30 different Halloween game boards that you can print out and laminate. 27 call cards can be put in a pocket chart or on a magnetic board as you play.Fun Halloween party activity. Teacher may use variations, such as extra candy for a BINGO that has a picture of a treat in it. Have fun! Happy Halloween! - HappyEdugator

Beginning Sounds Matching Game. Teach phonemic awareness and build vocabulary. This is a Literacy Center that is fun for your emergent readers! Students match the beginning sound of the picture on their game card to one of 6 pictures on their game boards. Included materials: Game Sign for Center (Slide 1) Directions for Center (Slide 2) Game boards: 8 for variation of play (Slides 4-11) Game cards: 60 (Slides 12-21)