5th Grade Vocabulary Activities

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.