5th Grade in Room 23
Email: mwong@musd.org
Phone: 635-2674 ext. 1947 (please note that I check my email more often than voicemail, and all calls during school hours go directly to voicemail)
Excited about the First Day of School? Let's get ready for a great year !!!
Link to Back to School Night Slides in August 2025: BTSN 2025
To access Scope articles, videos, audio files, go to: https://scope.scholastic.com/
To access Junior Scholastic videos and articles, go to: https://junior.scholastic.com/
To access Storyworks videos and articles, go to https://storyworks.scholastic.com/
Student password is sinnott23 for both magazines
Additional READING resources for students:
Scholastic added more FUN articles by reading/grade level:
-5th grade level: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-3-5.html
-6th or higher grade level: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-12.html
- EPIC books online at kids.getepic.com/students
Password: xin2862
Newsela - each student in my class has an account. After reading each article, there is a short 4 question quiz to check for comprehension. Students may lookup words they do not know while they are reading the articles. Students may also 'adjust' the lexile level of each article so that they could learn more vocabulary.
CLASS CODE for Newsela is 7U57PS
Our online Math Book:
Login through the student's CLEVER portal, and select THINK CENTRAL.
-Go to the Library. Select the "Practice Book SE G5" book. That is the Homework book the students have. You may print this page, or if you don't have a printer, get a separate sheet of paper and write down the Problem Number and Answers.
On this website, there are also videos teaching 'how to' on the necessary skills and steps, and on-line manipulatives that you could play with to practice a skill.
Learn Higher Level Math:
Khan Academy - select the 5th grade or 6th grade math track and add mwong@musd.org as their 'coach'.
More Math Practice:
Freckles: http://www.freckle.com
code: WONGDD
Prodigy: Prodigy at www.prodigygame.com/play
Students log in through Clever or use the unique code I provided each student already.
Students will each take home a copy of the 5th grade Social Studies Book, in which they could highlight and write.
Quizzes could be accessed from Google Classroom or directly at the Pearson Easybridge site (click on Google icon, scroll to the very bottom to find the orange color bridge (Pearson Easybridge icon).
Students read at least 30 minutes every day Mon. - Fri. and write down the title of the book and the pages they read each of those days in their Planner.
Students must pass 2 book quizzes each month (any lexile book). Points are earned for each quiz passed and the points depend on the length and difficulty of the text determined by the reading quiz program.
Students earn Reading Prizes when they reach goals: 30 points, 65 points, 100 points, then 200, 300, etc...
Scholastic Book Orders are submitted at least once a month.
Please either order online or use the paper form your child brought home.
For online purchases, please go to www.scholastic.com/newparent
Then look for my account under Melissa Wong or enter Class code: J3DWB (the middle letter is a capital d as in 'dog')
Every order through Scholastic earns Rm. 23 new books, especially in the first month's order of the school year. Even if you usually do not order books via Scholastic, please consider making a purchase in August-September, when they give classrooms the most points. J3DWB is our classroom code that must be used with online orders in order for our classroom to receive points. Thank you!!
MYSTERY SCIENCE - super fun learning with short videos (by grade level): https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning (This is a CLASS Favorite!)
ART - free ART lessons/videos: https://www.artsonia.com/teachers/ideas/
Drawing - Youtube Art for Kids Hub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5BEoejrJw (they draw a Pusheen cat, a pig, a unicorn, and many more )
Ted ed for students and parents: https://ed.ted.com/
Virtual Field Trips - (ie panda cam, a farm, an aquarium) https://www.weareteachers.com/best-virtual-field-trips/
Webcam for our National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/search/?affiliate=nps&query=webcams
Live Camera at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams
How to paint Monet's waterlilies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmdlAi0IUY
How to Handletter - Youtube 10 tips from an expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUkSWxNJFc
How to Draw 3-D shapes (prisms, pyramids...) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUUDDv6S2Vg
Unexpected Math behind Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMerSm2ToFY
Tips on raising Happy Teens (and Teens helping themselves too) : Video - TedX - short : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35n_H7ObY-s&utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.QEXoJRBmEeWhsgqB1eduww.announcements~opencourse.QEXoJRBmEeWhsgqB1eduww.4rLcv3TrEemitxJuwvN-7A
How to be Happier Parents: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2018/08/07/happier-parents-these-things/zCDOlfHtfLxzDAbcIXLEDN/story.html?p1=Article_Recirc_InThisSection
Message to High School Grads in a Commencement Speech (humorous with grains of truth) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4
Please make sure you have space around you before you do #1 to #4. I don't want you to bonk your head or elbows... #5 will need to be done outdoors unless you have a treadmill (the exercise machine you can run on).
1. Curl Up: https://pftdata.org/video.aspx?v=Curl-Up
2. Trunk Lift: https://pftdata.org/video.aspx?v=Trunk%20Lift
3. Push Up: https://pftdata.org/video.aspx?v=Push-Up
4. Shoulder Stretch: https://pftdata.org/video.aspx?v=Shoulder%20Stretch
5. One Mile Run: https://pftdata.org/video.aspx?v=One-Mile%20Run
Indoor exercise videos for kids:
Go Noodle: https://family.gonoodle.com/
Yoga for Kids: on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X655B4ISakg
By Alexis Yeap and Family