2/20/25
Hey Fifth Graders and Families!
Happy Snow Day! Please take some time to enjoy this day with your families! Here are some activities to engage with to keep your brains warm today:
- Do you need to work on your reading journal, poetry slides, science questions, or explorer project? Now’s a great time!
- On the GoogleClassroom Writing page, there is a Slides document that walks you through writing a poem about what makes you YOU. Follow the instructions, then copy and paste it to the Docs document made for you on the assignment page.
- Read here about some of our U.S. presidents. Then, take this quiz to test your knowledge.
- Play with some equivalent fractions here.
- Remember our “Fifth Grade Favorites” books: Despereaux, The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and Hello Universe. Which will be our class’s favorite?!
Stay safe, stay warm, and have a great snow day!
Mrs. Verney
Ideas from previous snow days:
- Looking for more on electricity and magnetism? There is a Generation Genius video and a Nearpod activity posted on the GoogleClassroom Science page.
- How about a preview of our next math unit? There is a Generation Genius video about decimals on the GoogleClassroom Math page.
- Also on the GoogleClassroom Math page, there is a link to the Geogebra Tessellations website, where you can digitally make your own tessellation art. Think geometry meets art – colorful repeating patterns of geometric shapes.
- Play a Recycling Game on the City of Springfield’s Environmental Services page here. Test your knowledge of which materials can and cannot be recycled.
- National Geographic Kids has some simple, fun experiments you can try at home. Here is one of my favorites: Color Explosions
- Build a fort and read a book. Bonus points if you find some poetry to read! You will need to pick a favorite poem to share soon – feel free to start looking for it!
- Here is a link to the website for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C.. On this page, you will find a few videos, self-guided e-learning hubs, and (my favorite) bingo cards to use with the webcams on the various animals at the zoo!
- Write some poetry! There are plenty of good wintery weather themed words that make for good acrostic poems! Think: snow, slush, ice, sleet… Try your hand at other rhyming poems or poems with alliteration (snow, slush, ice, sleet – hear that repeated “s” sound?!). Remember the poem about galoshes? Try to make a similar one about snow boots. Or snow shoes… Or snowmobiles… Or ice skates…
- Play some games on the iCivics website. You don’t need to create a profile or account to play the games and the “Win the White House” game can be quite challenging! Good luck!
- National Geographic Kids also has some fun games. Try these MadLibs (Bonus: you get to practice with parts of speech!)
- Play the Homebase game on the Scholastic website
- Typing Club, Code.org, Xtramath, and IXL are always available. Remember that IXL has games- there are some part-of-speech games that you all could master now that we’ve covered all of them!
- Explore with this cool website about the ocean.
- Teach your family how to play “Part of Speech Scattagories”.
- Write a letter to the author or main character of the book you’re reading in our reading groups. We can submit these to the LAD Fair later in the year!
