5th grade activities

Halloween Project-Based Learning for math and reading for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades has never been more fun and engaging! Use the Design a Haunted House PBL unit to make October math more creative. Teachers and students love this Halloween activities unit! #pbl #projectbasedlearning #5thgrade #4thgrade #halloweenmath

Printable apple fill in puzzles for kids. These word puzzles focus on vocabulary used when apple picking, apple deserts, parts of apples & apple varieties. Fun fall spelling & vocabulary activities.

Little explorers take a mini-tour of the United States on this third grade geography and social studies worksheet. Kids use a map to answer geography questions.

Cool experiments to pique kids' interest in science.

First days of school can be stressful. There's an insane amount of pressure to make a great first impression. The administration wants you to go over the handbook of rules for the district. There's tons of forms that need to be filled out. You need to learn their names and it's hard because half the names don't match your class list. His name is Samuel but he goes by S.J. Her name on your roll says Mary, but she goes by Mary Beth. You want to start off the year on the right note regarding…

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

A free printable back to school crossword puzzle for kids in upper elementary. The puzzle is a fun spelling activity for 5th grade students as the answers are all grade 5 spelling words. The puzzle has 27 clues to solve. The PDF is free to download and includes an answer page.

Printable back to school word search for grade 5 students. 24 hidden words, most of them are 5th grade spelling words. Pdf includes answer page.

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Last year the cup stack was one of my FAVORITE team building activities (see post here). So, naturally, I wanted to give it another shot! The Cup Stack is a fun, yet challenging activity that promotes team work. The supplies are basic: cups, string, rubber bands. I go ahead and tie the string to the rubber bands so it is ready to go. I make a few for groups of 4 and a few for groups of 5, this way no matter what the numbers are in the classroom I can make it work. I start by asking students…