Activities for 5th Grade
Literature Response Pair Share
Submitted by: Joshua
June 20th, 2010
Categories: 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Language Arts | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: Every year, my students are instructed to bring in a pack of Post-it® notes as part of their school supplies. Throughout the year, we use the Post-its to respond to literature and our peers. The students record their thoughts while reading in their notebook. Then, the students trade notebooks with a peer who reads their thoughts and responds with a comment on a Post-it which is placed on the notebook page. The Post-its help energize the activity as the students enjoy sharing a variety of colors and styles. In addition, the more ideas they have, the more Post-its they can use!
Tierd Words
Submitted by: Roxanne
June 20th, 2010
Categories: 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: In Writing, each time we come across a word that is used all too often or is just not descriptive enough, I will post it on a bulletin board and students use sticky notes to write much lively words to use in its place. The children really challenge themsevles to come up better word choices.
Got MLA?
Submitted by: lisa
June 20th, 2010
Categories: 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | History | Language Arts | Science
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: This activity will help students easily understand how to cite sources using MLA format.
4 Square Vocabulary
Submitted by: Shannon
June 20th, 2010
Categories: 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | ESL | History | Language Arts | Math | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Estimated Time: 10-20 minutes
Description: Give each child 4 post it notes. Students write a vocabulary word on the outside of the post-it. When they flip up the post-it note, they write the definition or draw a picture of the vocabulary word. We did this for math and science vocabulary words and put it in student's journals.
End-of-Year Warm Fuzzies
Submitted by: Sophia
June 20th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | Classroom Management | Language Arts | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 60+ minutes
Description: At the end of the year we write warm fuzzies to each person in the class on post-it notes and I make them into a card for the students to take home on the last day of school.
