I have a total of 27 years teaching experience . After I received my M.Ed. from the University of Florida (hence the name "HappyEdugator"), I began teaching in elementary school, where I taught pull-out remedial classes for grades 2-5 and a section of K-1. Then I taught Pre-K for 5 years, before I went up to Middle School, where I have been in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Last year, I went back to 1st grade in a private setting. I have traveled worldwide and am also fluent in Spanish.
I have a total of 27 years teaching experience . After I received my M.Ed. from the University of Florida (hence the name "HappyEdugator"), I began teaching in elementary school, where I taught pull-out remedial classes for grades 2-5 and a section of K-1. Then I taught Pre-K for 5 years, before I went up to Middle School, where I have been in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Last year, I went back to 1st grade in a private setting. I have traveled worldwide and am also fluent in Spanish.
Digital Paper - Background Dots. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of dot backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Digital Paper - Back to School. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of Fall leaves backgrounds. Great for autumn or back to school. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Digital Paper - Fall Leaves. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of Fall leaves backgrounds. Great for autumn or back to school. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Digital Paper - Paw prints. 12 different styles. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. High quality digital papers for your creations. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Digital Paper - Background Watercolors. 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
Stars and Stripes Digital Paper - Stars and Stripes - Patriotic Colors. 24 different styles of stripes and stars. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. High quality digital papers for your creations. Personal or commercial use. Use for 4th of July, September 11, Veterans Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and more! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Chevron Digital Paper - Fall Colors. 23 different styles. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. High quality digital papers for your creations. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Non-fiction Text Structure PowerPoint. Describes non-fiction organisational patterns or informational text structure in easy to understand terms. 6 different text structures, including cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and sequence, question and answer, problem and solution, and description. The slides discuss each structure separately and offer what signal words to look for in each type of text. A concept map or graphic organiser accompanies each type of structure as well. Selections for practice included. Animated graphics and animations to engage your pupils. Helps students recognise different text structure when reading and provides a foundation for expository writing. 20 slides.- HappyEdugator
Paraphrasing - Steps to Great Paraphrasing PowerPoint presentation, including what is paraphrasing and why it is important. Stimulate students to think. Strategies to turn what they are reading into written summaries. Helpful when teaching how to research and write notecards and source cards. Students need to know how to paraphrase to avoid plagiarism by putting their research into their own words. Happy writing! - HappyEdugator
Parts of Speech PowerPoint. Parts of speech instruction, review, and practise.
Great for the beginning of the year or back to school! 58 animated slides explain the eight parts of speech! Lots of animations and sounds to keep your students engaged and interested, in addition to helping them understand English grammar! The key to writing good sentences is to know how words are put together and how they function in a sentence. Describes nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections and how words can function as different parts of speech. Lots of slides and information. Best to break into chunks to supplement your lessons.
Slides on Parts of speech including-
Nouns - definition
Concrete nouns and abstract nouns
Common nouns and proper nouns
Action verbs and linking verbs
"To be" verbs - forms of be
Personal pronouns Demonstrative pronouns
Interrogative pronouns Indefinate pronouns
Pronouns and Antecedents
Degrees of comparison - adjectives
Positive Comparative Superlative adjectives
Irregular Comparative adjectives
Coordinate adjectives - punctuation of
Order of Cumulative adjectives
Degrees of comparison - adverbs
Irregular Comparative adverbs
Prepostions and objects
Prepositional phrases
Coordinating Conjunctions and compound sentences
Subordinating Conjunctions and complex sentences
Interjections
A slide to practise with questions over the main points included after each part of speech section, followed by a slide with the answer key. Now also includes some links to videos and web content. - HappyEdugator
The Dying Detective Support Materials with Vocabulary and Test. Contains study guides, a vocabulary worksheet with key, a stage directions hand-out, and a TEST with a key to go along with the PLAY adaptation of The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Sherlock Holmes appears to be dying, quite grumpy with Watson, and surprises everyone by his sudden comeback to catch a killer. - HappyEdugator
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber Short Story Support Materials. Includes vocabulary word splash with synonym search, vocabulary review, vocabulary test, multiple choice comprehension test, and character graphic organizer. 9 pages. - HappyEdugator
Flowers for Algernon Vocabulary Activities. Includes vocabulary list, study guide, a 30 question multiple choice vocabulary test for the short story Flowers for Algernon, and a crossword puzzle. Includes answer keys. - HappyEdugator
The Cay Novel Study. Includes resources for teaching The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Word wall words, nautical vocabulary, and reading dialect...important background knowledge for students to understand this novel. Included are activities and projects, chapter guides, rubrics, anticipation guide, quizzes, and tests. Keys included. - HappyEdugator
Latitude and Longitude Worksheet. This worksheet is to help students understand how latitude and longitude work and learn the terminology associated with the grid system we use to locate places on earth. Key is included.
Valentines Day - Number Posters. Glitter heart frames. Includes Number Posters 0 - 10 which represent the number as a word, a numeral, a ten frame, and as tally marks. Also has a blank candy heart ten frame you can use for various activities. Great classroom visuals for math literacy in early childhood.
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Shapes - Guess the Shape PowerPoint. Read the clues, then guess the shape. 8 basic shapes: triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, heart, star, circle, and pentagon. Interactive PowerPoint for early learning, Enjoy! - HappyEdugator
Martin Luther King Jr. Word Search Puzzle. Wordsearch 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. Solution included, of course. Helps develop spelling and vocabulary. NO PREP. Print and go. Enjoy!
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Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint. Don't Let Them Confuse You! Animated and interactive. Defines prepositions and prepositional phrases, gives examples of prepositional phrases with nouns, pronouns, gerunds, and noun clauses, discusses problems with subject-verb agreement and intervening prepositional phrases, has a short quiz on identifying prepositional phrases in sentences and not confusing them with infinitives, and finally, presents five questions on common usage problems with typical prepositional phrases. 18 slides.
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