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

Grade 5 Supply List

**Please make sure that you have read your summer reading assignment for students entering grade 5 using the hand-out that was sent home with your report card.

Please have your child bring in the following supplies on the first day of school.

4        1 inch 3-ring binder

10  two-pocket folders

1        package of loose leaf paper

1    package of ring binder reinforcers

20-25  binder dividers

1    calculator

1    soft-sided, zippered pencil pouch (no plastic boxes- they cannot fit in the desks)

1    box of colored pencils

1    package of markers

1    package of colored post-it notes

1    pair of child scissors

2   different colored highlighters

Ample supply of sharpened pencils (at least two packages- no mechanical pencils please)

2    packages of eraser tops

1  bottle of glass cleaner (optional)

      1  box of tissues

      1 bottle of Purell

      1 container of disinfectant wipes

Please keep a supply of pencils and loose leaf paper at home for homework completion.

Many of the above items will need to be replenished throughout the school year.

When the trimester progress report comes home, ask your child what supplies s/he needs to replenish.

Thank you for assisting your child in being ready for a successful fifth grade year,

Mrs. Bailey

Mrs. Cohen

Ms. Wells