Snow Day Activities!

2/12/25

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!
  • Remember that we have a math assessment on volume and area tomorrow – we will review, then take the assessment.
  • 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 is quite challenging!  Good luck!
  • National Geographic Kids also has some fun games.  Try these MadLibs (Bonus: you get to practice with parts of speech!)
  • Curl up with a warm blanket and a good book or audiobook. 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:

  • Play the Homebase game on the Scholastic website 
  • Typing Club, coding websites, 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!