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This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 37
Vocabulary Review
Vocabulary Review
Make vocabulary review fun! Introduce your child to unusual words or let them play vocabulary games, like crossword puzzles, memory, or bingo. As the end of the year approaches, try to go back to words your child learned early in the year.
Make vocabulary review fun! Introduce your students to unusual words or let them play vocabulary games, like crossword puzzles, memory, or bingo. As the end of the year approaches, try to spiral back to words your students learned early in the year.
Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle
Worksheet
Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle
Crossword puzzles help build brain power and bolster reasoning skills. Your child will find making his own crossword puzzle challenging, but so fun!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Build Vocabulary 13
Worksheet
Build Vocabulary 13
Words like "antagonist" and "transient" are confusing for adults and kids. Fifth graders will learn these words and more in this vocabulary worksheet.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Meaning of Compound Words 2
Exercise
Meaning of Compound Words 2
After students complete this simple exercise they will better understand how to put compound words together.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Exercise
Expressions with Parentheses and Math Review
Expressions with Parentheses and Math Review
Your child will continue to rely on the order of operations as they move on to middle school math, so make sure to review PEMDAS (or GEMDAS) as they approach the end of fifth grade. Turn it into a game by presenting your child with a puzzle or a challenge. Reward each correct answer with a ticket and allow them to choose a prize when they've earned five tickets!
Your students will continue to rely on the order of operations as they move on to middle school math, so make sure to review PEMDAS (or GEMDAS) as they approach the end of fifth grade. Turn it into a game by presenting your students with a puzzle. Write an expression on the board and offer three answer choices, each with a letter associated with it. Repeat with several expressions so that, by the end, your students can spell a phrase with the letters they chose for each answer. For example, 8+2x5 equals 18 (R) and after solving all expressions, students spell RECESS!
Order of Operations Puzzle
Worksheet
Order of Operations Puzzle
Use the rules for the order of operations to write in the missing parenthesis that make each equation true.
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Order Up!
Lesson plan
Order Up!
It’s time to get measuring! In this lesson students determine the lengths of different towers and then put them in order from shortest to longest.
1st grade
Math
Lesson plan
Order of Operations Sequencing
Lesson plan
Order of Operations Sequencing
Challenge students to listen to instructions to create expressions with parentheses. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson PEMDAS: Order Up.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Nonfiction Texts: Memorial Day
Nonfiction Texts: Memorial Day
Some kids may view Memorial Day as a vacation from school or the start of summer weather. Be sure to keep your child informed of the real reasons why and how we celebrate Memorial Day. Remind your child that this is a time to honor and pay our respects to those who have given their lives to keep us safe. Use informational texts to build a sense of civic responsibility this week.
Some students may view Memorial Day as a vacation from school or the start of summer weather. Be sure to keep your fifth graders informed of the real reasons why and how we celebrate Memorial Day. Remind your class that this is a time to honor and pay our respects to those who have given their lives to keep us safe. Use informational texts to build a sense of civic responsibility throughout the week.
Buffalo Soldiers
Worksheet
Buffalo Soldiers
Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
A Living Timeline: The American Revolution
Lesson plan
A Living Timeline: The American Revolution
Make history come alive with this interactive lesson! Students will have a blast presenting a "living timeline" to help their classmates understand the events of the Revolutionary War.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Revolutionary War Vocabulary
Lesson plan
Revolutionary War Vocabulary
Use this lesson to help your ELs learn key vocabulary terms that they will see in future lessons about the American Revolution. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson A Living Timeline: The American Revolution.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Poetry
Poetry
Try writing poetry with your child! It is a fun and quick way to write about any topic, whether it is a narrative or informational poem. Remind your child that there are different types of poems, and encourage them to write several different poems to commemorate recent holidays or in memory of someone special. They can also write poems to remember factual information.
As the end of the school year approcahes, make sure to give your students opportunities for lots of different types of writing. If your writing time is limited, introduce short assignments, like poetry. Teach mini-lessons on various forms of poetry, like Renga, cinquain, or diamente poems. Remind your students that, when revising poetry, they should focus on the content and spelling as opposed to writing conventions like punctuation.
Poetry Guide
Worksheet
Poetry Guide
This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Poetry Themes
Lesson plan
Poetry Themes
Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Diamante Poems
Worksheet
Diamante Poems
Got a budding poet under your wing? Help her practice parts of speech by writing a diamante poem, or a diamond poem.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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