Printable Workbook:

• 5th Grade: English and Spanish

Videos:

• How to Solve Order of Operations Problems. This Math Motor video explains the Order of Operations. (Reminder, we do not use exponents in the fifth grade.)

• Prime Numbers and Composite Numbers. This video by Math Is Fun explains the standard method of division broken into steps. This video mentions exponents which are not taught in 5^th grade.

Websites:

• Order of Operations Game. A game from Softschools that allows your child to practice following the correct Order of Operations.

• Thinking Blocks Multiplication. Your child can practice representing and solving multiplication word problems with models (strip diagrams).

• Prime Numbers. Number Ninja requires players to identify prime numbers.

Printable Resources:

• 5^th Grade enVisionMATH2.0 Multiplication Review Worksheet: English and Spanish

• 5^th Grade enVisionMATH2.0 Division Review Worksheet: English and Spanish

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 2 per week

• While doing physical activities (e.g. going up and down stairs, walking from one end of a room to another, hopping, jumping jacks, etc.), keep track by counting by different multiples (e.g. 10s, 100s, or 1,000s) both forwards and backwards. Lots of children find counting backwards challenging as they are used to a forward counting sequence, so this is a good time to get some practice in. You could also switch the count mid-way (e.g. starting counting by 10s, then switch to counting by 100s, then back to 10s).

• Make a multiplication chart on a spare sheet of paper. If you need a challenge mix up the numbers on the side before you start.

• Have your child estimate costs (Do you think we will have enough to get...?) and practice addition and subtraction (How much will these two items cost together?, How much change should you get?, How much more expensive is this than that?). Practice rounding the costs of items. Grab a handful of coins and figure out the total value, or explore the similarities and differences between any foreign currencies you have.

• Create collections of things around the home (e.g. pasta, paper clips, coins, Legos) and have your child make an initial estimate of the number of things in each collection. Then, have them refine their estimation using strategies like finding what ten or hundred looks like and comparing what you are estimating to the ten/hundred, clump counting, or scooping and count.

• Building with blocks, Lego, or other loose parts (e.g. coins, pebbles) all help develop spatial reasoning and can be an opportunity to explore ideas like symmetry. Mazes, jigsaw puzzles, origami, pentominoes and tangrams are also great. Finally, have your child read or draw some maps! Mapping helps children develop their spatial reasoning skills and make sense of their world.

TEXTBOOK

Activity Direction/Notes

STEMScopes:

Science Activities

Scholastic

• Science Videos

Other Free Web Resources:

• Biodiversity: Everything Counts

• Changes in Ecosystems

• iNaturalist

OFFLINE Activities- 1 per week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 2 plants and 2 animals. Write about: What does each organism need to survive? Sentence stem: "In order to survive, ______ needs..."

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook. Draw the appearance of the moon each night. Write down or draw out your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night. Write about: What kind of weather is your favorite? Why? Sentence stem: "My favorite weather is... because..."

• Work with a parent to find a recipe and follow the steps to make that recipe. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared food.

• Write about: What did you like about cooking this recipe? How would you change it to make it better? Sentence Stem: " I liked... To make it better, I would..."

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house. Make a list of what is magnetic and not magnetic. Write about: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right.

• Write about: Think about the items' mass. What did you notice about the about items that sink? Items that float?

• Go outside. Get a collection of 3-5 rocks. Draw them in your notebook. Describe their texture, color, shape and size. Sort the rocks in order based on a trait of your choice.

• Get your notebook. Go outside and draw 3 different shadows. What time of day is it? Morning, noon and night? What direction is the shadow facing? Where is the sun in the sky? (DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!) Write about: Why do you think shadow length changes during the day?

OFFLINE Activities - 1 per week

• Create a journal for you to record your daily activities, thoughts, and experiences during this historical period. Include illustrations, share your feelings about what is happening, and create your own primary source document that you can refer to in the future. You should write in your journal 5-15 minutes per day.

• Draw an outline map of the United States to the best of your ability. Put color-coded dots to show the areas you’d like to visit someday. Illustrate/draw one or two things around each dot that show what you’d like to see in that area. Create a legend that explains your map. Then on the other side of the paper, make a Top 10 list of those places you’d like to visit.

• Make a list of the helpers you see and/or hear about helping in your community and nation right now. Then rank what they do in terms of importance. Who do you think is the most valuable to your community and why? On a paper, show your list, your ranking, and the answer to the question.

• Talk to the oldest person in your home and ask them to share their history with you. Create an annotated timeline of their life so far.

• Watch or listen to the news with an adult in your household. Pick one story from the news that interests you and write a headline in your own words for that story. This should be its main idea in a shortened form.

• From memory, make a list of your Top 10 Americans you’ve studied. Next to their names, explain why each person should be remembered.

• Talk to the person in your household who does most of the shopping for your family. Ask that person to list five items that cost more now than they did before we had to stay at home. Write them down with their cost. Then explain why you think the price has gone up.

• Create a calendar that illustrates what you write in your journal each day about staying at home during this historical time period. Illustrate (make a drawing) for three of the days this week.

• Create an illustrated timeline of American history including: Colonization, Revolution, Writing the Constitution, Westward Expansion, Civil War, World War I and II, Modern USA. Choose three time periods to summarize.

• Create a mural of the US history you've studied so far. Be sure to use both pictures and word art.

• Create a survey that you can give your family asking them whether we should return to school at all this year. Plot your responses on a graph.

• Who is the President of the United States? What is his job? What is his job during the crisis we're having as a nation? How do you think he's doing? Draw a rectangle and break it into five parts. Assign a number between 1-5 to each part. Rank how the President is doing on the scale of 1 to 5. Then color each box to the number you decided. Show this to a family member, and explain your reasoning. Then do the same thing for the Governor of Texas.

• If you watch the news, you can see there is extreme concern about the nation's economy. Why is that? Talk to your parents, reflect, and write a half page describing why the economy is such a concern now.

• Think about the different types of businesses and public places you and your family support and/or visit usually - businesses like restaurants, grocery stores, doctors' offices, play areas, swimming pools, etc. Make a list of those you're are able or not able to visit now that we are under a "Shelter in Place" order. Draw a T-chart listing those. Then look at the list. Circle those that provide goods, and underline those that provide products. Talk to an adult in your household and tell them what you notice about the difference between those you can visit now and those you can't.

• Think about the different types of people we call First Responders: police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, etc. Do you know anyone who is a First Responder? If so, write them a thank you letter for what they're doing for us during this historical time.

• Using pictures and/or word art you draw or cut out from magazines, create a mural honoring your cultural background.

• At this time, elderly people in retirement homes are not allowed to have any kind of visitors. Do you have any elderly family members you can't visit right now? If so, choose one to write a letter and share what you've been doing. Be sure to tell them you miss them too.

• Watch Arthur on KLRU. What was the main lesson learned in the episode you watched? Describe that to a household member.

• Watch Liberty Kids if possible. Summarize each episode.

• Are you practicing good citizenship right now by staying six feet away (social distancing)from strangers and staying at home? Why is it important for you and others to practice these traits and follow the government's guidelines right now?

• Create a survey that you can give your family asking them whether we should return to school at all this year. Plot your responses on a graph.