Shades of Meaning Verb Cards - WALK. Cut out and laminate these 16 different cards illustrating different synonyms of the verb "WALK." Helps students understand connotation. With guidance and support from adults, students acquire new vocabulary by defining word relationships and nuances in word meanings, sorting words into categories, choosing and acting out the different meanings. Aligns to Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.5d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.5b Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5c Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered). Additionally, words can be used for spelling practice, writing practice, and word walls. Includes definitions for the teacher. - HappyEdugator

OWL Writing Paper - Lined Paper - Owl Theme. Eight different owl designs, two different sizes of lines for writing at different ability levels. Students will have fun writing with some cute little owls to inspire them. - Enjoy! HappyEdugator

If you are using a shabby chic theme, then you will love these rustic distressed wood backgrounds for your projects. You get 12 photos, shot on iPhone 6, sized 12 x 12, 300 dpi. Weathered wood, worn pallel, interesting grains, patinas, and patterns...all will make great PowerPoint backgrounds, or use as backgrounds for signs and headers for your classroom bulletin boards or scrap book. Enjoy! For commercial use and personal use.- HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator.

The Hunger Games Survival Challenge Smartboard Game will engage your students! FUN! INTERACTIVE! 12 Different Smart board activities! Hunger Games Directions: This is a Smartboard game for up to twelve players or teams based on the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. A scorekeeper may be needed to keep track of team scores. BEWARE Only one player can survive! Will it be you? You may choose up to 12 teams or individual players. Click on the dice to find out your district and see how many points you will start with. There can be two players from each district. If a district has already been claimed, roll again. It is not necessary to have all Districts in play for the game to continue. There will be 12 Challenges. A District will be randomly selected to complete the Challenge. You may win or lose points depending on your performance on the Challenge. The INDIVIDUAL with the most points at the end wins. The password for editing purposes is hunger, in case you wish to change the game. I have the password set up so students can't change it. Some teachers may wish to vary the game and play the challenges as separate games instead of playing the game with all 12 challenges for a victor. You may adapt how you play it for your class. Just move through the slides and have loads of fun! 25 slides in all. This activity can also be used in math for the practice of adding and subtracting points. - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Context Clues. Thirty vocabulary in context warm-ups. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice that will help students build vocabulary and determine meaning of unknown words in text. Two slides with strategies for using context clues that students can apply to their daily warm-ups. Each slide has a passage that students must read and then figure out the meaning of the underlined word. They are given four multiple choice answers. Each slide has an answer slide so they can quickly check themselves. After they check, they are directed to write the word, their own definition of the word, and to create a sentence using the word. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Expository Writing Prompts. Thirty writing prompts based on famous quotations. There are five quotes for each theme of six themes: Success, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Happiness, and Relationships. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. Editable for your classroom needs. - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Conventions. ELA Test Prep. Thirty ways to practice spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice that will help students build writing skill using conventions. Some of the words on the spelling slides are deliberately spelled incorrectly for students to distinguish between correct and incorrect spelling. Includes a couple of slides with information on what conventions are and why they are important. Each slide has an activity and an answer slide so they can quickly check themselves. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers Bundle - Full Year - Common Core! This is a bundled set of my ELA Common Core Daily Warm Ups on Sentence Editing, Figurative Language, Sentence Structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences), Expository Writing Prompts, Context Clues, and Conventions. Engaging slides with colorful photographs will keep your students learning all year long! Each set has several slides which review the skill. These provide great mini lessons on core standards! Includes the following sets: Bell Ringers - Common Core - Context Clues Bell Ringers - Common Core - Figurative Language Bell Ringers - Common Core - Expository Writing Prompts Bell Ringers - Common Core - Conventions Bell Ringers - Common Core - Sentence Structure Bell Ringers - Common Core - Grammar and Usage These sets of thirty Language Arts skills practice activities are available in my store separately for $21.00, but if you buy the full year bundle you only pay $15! - HappyEdugator

Literary Terms Bundle - Grades 4 - 8. I have bundled several of my best selling literary terms products so you can save! This bundle includes: Literary Elements PowerPoint Literary Terms for Fiction Handout. LiteraryTerms for Fiction TEST Literature Terms - How Authors Engage the Reader PowerPoint Literary Terms Interactive PowerPoint Literary Terms 2 Interactive PowerPoint Blank Plot Diagram Story Plot Map Story Elements Think Tac Toe All of thes items are available separately for $15.25, but if you buy the bundle, you will save $3.25! It will also be half price for the first 48 hours! Buy the bundle for your best deal! - HappyEdugator

Christmas BUNDLE - Christmas activities for grades 4 - 8. Fun! Includes 26 of my best selling Christmas products in one bundle to save you money. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator Includes these products: Christmas Homophones Handout Christmas Activity - Teaching Vocabulary with Lyrics from Jingle Bells Christmas Analogies PowerPoint Christmas Adjective Clause Worksheet Christmas Coded Words Activity Sheet Christmas Alliterations Activity Christmas Similes Activity Christmas Adverb Clauses Christmas Holiday Sensory Writing Practice Christmas - Holiday Word Scramble Christmas Luminaries Christmas Craft Christmas Pictionary and Charades Game Christmas - Holiday Word Search Christmas Puzzle Christmas Story Starters Christmas Story Starters on Decorative Lined Paper Poinsettias - Christmas Symbol PowerPoint Christmas Writing Activity - Revising the Lyrics of Christmas Songs SMARTBOARD - Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity The Gift of the Magi PowerPoint The Gift of the Magi Vocabulary Matching TEST The Christmas Coin Reader's Theater The Velveteen Rabbit PowerPoint Christmas Activities Christmas Activity - Writing Letters From Santa Christmas Activity - Writing Letters to Santa The Twelve Days of Christmas Gift Coupon Sheet Christmas Gift Coupons and Bookmarks Christmas Trivia Sheet Christmas - Bookmarks All of these items are available separately in my TPT store. Just click on the links above, where you can see thumbnails and preview the items. Buy the bundle of my most popular Christmas resources and save! If you bought all of these items separately, you would pay more than $51.00. Buy the bundle and pay only $20.00. Save over half off! - HappyEdugator

PowerPoint Game Templates BUNDLE. Make your own PowerPoint games kids will love! All six of my PowerPoint Game Templates! Buy the bundle and save! Includes: Danger PowerPoint Game Template 59 pages Wheel of Wealth PowerPoint Game Template 24 pages Race to the Finish PowerPoint Game Template 35 pages The Strongest Link PowerPoint Game Template 24 pages Squares PowerPoint Game Template 22 pages Who Wants to Be Rich PowerPoint Game Template 35 pages ©2014 HappyEdugator.

Thanksgiving Activities. Thanksgiving activities bundle of my most popular Thanksgiving activities. Best for grades 4 - 6, but these Thanksgiiving activities can also be adapted and used for 3 - 8. 126 pages. Includes: Thanksgiving ABC Word Wall List Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems Thanksgiving Bookmarks Set of 6 Thanksgiving Food Word Scramble Thanksgiving Maze Thanksgiving Hunting Homophones Thanksgiving Quiz Thanksgiving Reader's Theater - Gobble it Up Thanksgiving Day Song Thanksgiving - First Thanksgiving Fill-in Thanksgiving Word Scramble Thanksgiving Word Search Thanksgiving Word Wall Cards Thanksgiving Writing Thanksgiving Writing Fun - Pilgrim Comics Thanksgiving Writing - I am Thankful Sheets Thanksgiving Skit - A Joyful Harvest These activities are all available separately in my store for $28.25, but purchase the bundle and save $! :) - HappyEdugator

Phonics PowerPoint Bundle. Includes 8 PowerPoints to help students with decoding and sounding out words: Letter Sounds PowerPoint. Short a Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short e Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short i Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short o Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short u Sounding Out words PowerPoint. Word Families PowerPoint. Word Families. - HappyEdugator

Parts of Speech Bundle – Parts of Speech Teaching Resources Grades 4 - 8. This 303 page mega unit is a super resource for teaching the eight parts of speech...nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Preview by clicking on the links below of my parts of speech resources that are included: Adjective Poem – 1 page PDF Adverbs Fun Worksheet and Word Search – 2 pages PDF Adverbs Hunt Worksheet – 2 pages PDF Collective Nouns of Animal Groups PowerPoint – 20 pages PowerPoint Confusing Parts of Speech Worksheet – 2 pages PDF Coordinate Adjectives and Cumulative Adjectives Worksheet - 8 pages PDF Coordinate Adjectives Handout and Practice Worksheet - 3 pages PDF Correlative Conjunctions Practice Sheet - 2 pages PDF Correlative Conjunctions Study Guide - 4 pages PDF Finding Adverbs in a Sentence Interactive PowerPoint – 59 pages PowerPoint Interjections Study Guide - 1 page PDF Irregular Plurals - Unusual Latin and Greek Plural Forms – 18 pages PowerPoint Parts of Speech Beat the Clock – 20 pages PowerPoint Parts of Speech Scavenger Hunt - 1 page PDF Prepositional Phrases – Don’t Let Them Confuse You PowerPoint – 18 pages PowerPoint Present Perfect Verb Tenses PowerPoint – 13 pages PowerPoint SmartBoard Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions – 10 pages Notebook St Patrick’s Day Adjective Hunt - 25 pages PDF Strong Verb List - 3 pages PDF Suffixes for Parts of Speech Posters - 5 pages PDF Suffixes for Parts of Speech PowerPoint – 13 pages PowerPoint Suffixes for Parts of Speech Practice Sheet - 2 pages PDF Parts of Speech - The Eight Parts of Speech PowerPoint a comprehensive introduction to Parts of Speech - 58 pages PowerPoint Parts of Speech: The Eight Parts of Speech Quiz which can be used for a quick assessment. - 5 pages PDF Using the Correct Verb Form Worksheet which can be used for a quick assessment. - 2 pages PDF Verb Suffixes Vocabulary and Spelling Worksheet - 3 pages PDF Verb Suffixes Word Search - 2 pages PDF - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Figurative Language. Thirty ways to practice idioms, similes, personification, hyperbole, and metaphors. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice that will help students build vocabulary and apply figurative language to their own writing. Four slides with information on what is figurative language and types of figurative language. Each slide has an activity and an answer slide so they can quickly check themselves. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. - HappyEdugator

This is a high quality photo of a zinnia flower in bloom with a bee inside it. My husband and I take all our own photos. These flowers are in our yard. The image is 300 dpi, fit to 4 x 6 inches.

This is a high quality photo of White Azalea flowers in bloom. My husband and I take all our own photos. These flowers are in our yard. The image is 300 dpi, fit to 4 x 6 inches.

This is a high quality photo of a Bradford Pear tree in bloom. My husband and I take all our own photos. This tree is in our front yard. The image is 300 dpi, fit to 4 x 6 inches.

This is a high quality photo of a yellow rose 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 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.