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Hey Fifth Graders and Families!
Happy Cold Weather 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 or explorer project? Now’s a great time!
- National Geographic Kids has some simple, fun experiments you can try at home. Here is one of my favorites: Color Explosions
- 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. Mrs. Bowsher is helping students audit the Summit’s trash/recycling next week. Use the information you learned playing the game to create a poster we can hang in the school about Springfield recycling.
- Write a letter to the author or main character of the book you’re reading in our reading groups (make sure to share it with Mrs. V!). We can submit these to the LAD Fair later in the year!
- I’ve updated your Vocab Zone options with vocabulary from the last parts of your novels – give some new words a try!
- 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!
- Remember our “Fifth Grade Favorites” books: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, The Unteachables, Once Upon a Camel, and The Phantom Tollbooth. Which will be our class’s favorite?!
Stay safe, stay warm, and have a great snow day!
Mrs. Verney
Ideas from past snow days that are still available:
- 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.
- How about a preview of our next math unit? There is a Generation Genius video about decimals on the GoogleClassroom Math page.
- Play with some equivalent fractions here.
- I’ve posted one of my favorite recipes on the 5th Homeroom GoogleClassroom page. Give it a try!