Grade 5

Activities for 5th Grade:

Maintain a reading log of all the books that have been read (at least 20 minutes a day)

Read a book with your child and engage in a “book club”

Use resource and reference materials with your child as questions arise.  Do a search for information with encyclopedias and the Internet

Read and summarize magazines, newspapers, and other appropriate non-fiction text.  Discuss articles and other current events

Discuss story messages with your child

Read recipes and cooking instructions

Design an advertisement encouraging others to read a book or purchase a product

Keep a journal at home and encourage your child to write for a variety of different purposes; write reports and essays with five paragraphs

Write a play and act it out with family and friends

Write a business letter to a local agency in cursive looking for summer information

Talk fractions when dividing food or preparing a recipe

Use rulers, protractors, and compasses to create maps

When traveling, discuss elapsed time

Take pictures of buildings and look for specific angles and lines