Fun Veterans Day Printable Activities. Quick and easy! Print and go activities for kids to do on Veterans Day. Includes: ABC order Acrostic Poem Make a Star Banner Color the Flag Make a Card Addition Table HappyEdugator

Sometimes kids need to know how to control their feelings. It is okay to feel sad, but how do we feel better? This PowerPoint walks them through four strategies for coping with sadness. Great minilesson for a teacher to give at the beginning of the year or for a school counselor to give to a group of students who need strategies for dealing with crying and depression. - Happyedugator

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension Sheet. Students can read about the history of Veterans Day and why it is observed in the United States. Includes a short nonfiction reading and reading comprehension sheet. - HappyEdugator

Award certificates for your classroom or school needs. A pack of 8 awards...type in the name of student, subject, dates or other information, print, sign, and award! Includes a most improved award, a certificate of achievement, student of the month, attendance award, essay contest award, certificate for excellence, award for excellence, and certificate of merit. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

All about hurricanes! Information on how these storms develop - hurricane structure, their effects, and how they are tracked, and more. Includes: What is a hurricane? What is the structure of a hurricane? How does a hurricane form? Where and when do hurricanes form? What are the effects of hurricanes? What are the differences between hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones? What is the hurricane classification scale? What is the hurricane strength scale? Evacuation/ Preparation Watches and Warnings, Warning Flags How hurricanes are named Forecasting and tracking - HappyEdugator

Bald Eagles - Fun Facts About Eagles PowerPoint. Learn about bald eagles! This American Bald Eagle PowerPoint has interesting and fun facts about the life of an eagle. Students will learn about two subspecies of bald eagles, and engaging facts about eagle characteristics, abilities, and behavior. They will discover eagle habitat, eagle adaptations, and how they raise their young. Informational text can be used to introduce or supplement a forest theme unit or a unit about the zoo, eagles, or American symbols and animals. Engage students and grab their attention, or build background knowledge for reading books with eagles. Includes links to websites about eagle sounds, short videos all about eagles, and the DC Eagle Cam. Students will enjoy studying about bald eagles around patriotic holidays and events, since the bald eagle is the national bird of the U.S.A. Great summer activity as well, or use in a summer camp around the 4th of July. - HappyEdugator

These cute little giraffe name labels can be put on student file folders in a zoo, safari, or jungle themed classroom, but you can use them for anything you want, since they are editable! Includes 32 labels in both portrait and landscape orientation. You can type in what you want in the text box for the name, so these can double as supply labels, name tags, matching memory game cards, flashcards etc. They are numbered, but you can delete the numbers if you wish. © Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator. For classroom or homeschool use.

Thanksgiving Writing Paper - Lined Paper - Thanksgiving Harvest Theme. Writing paper for your Harvest or Thanksgiving celebration in your classroom. Four different designs. Two sheets have illustration boxes for students to decorate. Clip art includes choice of turkeys, harvest pumpkins, and pilgrims. - HappyEdugator

Mother's Day Activity Pack - Mother's Day activities. Print and go. Includes an original Mother's Day song to learn, an original poem, a card, slides to print out to make pictures, poems, and handprints for Mom, a slide picture frame, a recipe for a sweet treat, and suggestions for crafts and ideas for gifts and easy things to do for Mom on her special day. For example, make butterflies with clothespins, clip them on twigs and make her a butterfly tree. Happy Mother's Day! 18 pages. - HappyEdugator

Giraffes - Fun Facts About Giraffes PowerPoint. Learn about giraffes! This giraffe PowerPoint has interesting and fun facts about the life of a giraffe. Informational text can be used to introduce or supplement a jungle theme unit or a unit about the zoo, giraffes, or African animals. Engage students and grab their attention, or build background knowledge for reading books with giraffes, like "Giraffes Can't Dance." It can even be a fun supplement to the book "The White Giraffe." - Happyedugator

Valentine's Day. Valentine Activity Fun Pack for Primary Grades. Valentine's Day activities for math and language arts, puzzles, bookmarks, bracelets, and a Valentine story with comprehension questions. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Columbus Day Crossword Puzzle. 20 words related to Columbus Day in this fun cross word puzzle. Key included. - HappyEdugator

Leap Year. Facts and fun. Animated PowerPoint on Leap Year. Answers questions many kids have about leap year. Slides include: What is Leap Year? When does Leap Year Happen? When do we add the extra day? Why do we have Leap Year? When was the first Leap Year? What calendar do we use today? How is Leap Year determined? 2016 is Leap Year - what are the next 4 leap years? 2016 is Leap Year - what year was the last leap year? The last slide is a partner activity the kids can do that is related to leap year and February 29.

Need a big desk calendar to write notes on? A large calendar for each month of the year with beautiful photos for each season. - 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

Veterans Day Word Scramble and Veteran's Day Word Search. Fun word puzzles for Veterans Day. This word scramble has 16 words related to Veterans Day - such as heroes, honor, patriotic, military, veteran, etc. Like a jumble, students have to unscramble the letters to come up with the words. The Word Search has 24 words hidden in the puzzle. This is a fun activity that helps develop vocabulary, word recognition, and sorting and classification skills. Answer keys are provided. - Happy Edugator

Use this sheet on Veterans Day to reinforce your lessons on fact and opinion. Students have to read the eight sentences and then decide if they are facts or opinions. - HappyEdugator

Try this fun Getting-to-Know-You activity for Back to School All. It's an All About Me Graphic Organizer. This is a great way to learn your students’ names at the beginning of the year, and your students will love making their special graphic organizer about themselves. Make enough copies for everyone in your class. Card Stock is best. Take photos of your students and attach them to the center of the graphic organizer. Your students can then fill it out with their best attributes, family, friends, interests, etc. There is a Character Traits list included so students can have a reference for their writing. These make a great display, but don’t stop there. You can have students present them to the class, create a writing assignment based on their graphic organizer, use them to create lessons based on their interests. You can do this activity as a whole group, giving an example to the class of your own personal graphic organizer to introduce your students to who you are. You can also have them complete them in groups or use them in centers. - HappyEdugator

Christmas Gift Coupons and Bookmarks! A variety of gift coupons that you can give to your students as a Christmas gift, along with six different styles of bookmarks that you can use to give students, parents and other staff members this holiday season! Merry Christmas! - HappyEdugator

Acrostic Poem - Thankful. Autumn Harvest themed, students can use this festive template to write an acrostic poem using the letters in the word thankful. Lower grades can write one word answers, upper level students can write phrases or sentences. Adjustable for your grade level. Enjoy! Thank you for looking. While you are here, please check out my store.