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SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Directions: Select at least four (4) activities to complete today. Share/review your choices with an adult. Each activity is labeled with one or more content area icons; → complete activities from a variety of different content categories (see icons below). Check the box for each activity you complete. Note: Items in RED indicate an attachment contained in this booklet; items in BLUE indicate an online website or resource Write two lists: Map of Your Bedroom Think of your favorite book you 1. What makes you happy? Use the attached grid paper to map read this year. Write a short review 2. What are you good at your bedroom to scale. Then convincing someone else why they doing? calculate the area of two items you should read this book, too. mapped. (Length x Width = Area) Worksheet 1-2 Worksheet 1-1 Head outside and go for a walk When outside on your walk with with your family. Take pictures or draw signs of your family stop and do 10 jumping spring arriving. Create a jacks every minute. Did you notice slideshow out of them. the beating of your heart? How did you feel? “I think we should have school Place a Post-it or piece of paper 3-D Shapes Challenge: Look around uniforms.” Find one piece of your house. Can you find 5 every ten pages in your book. evidence to agree with that When you hit a Post-it or piece of rectangular prisms, 5 spheres, 5 opinion or go against that opinion. paper, jot down your thoughts and cylinders, & 5 cubes? ideas you are having at that time. You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Worksheet 1-1 Map of Your Bedroom Use the grid below to draw a map of your bedroom. Make sure to complete the key. (Does 1 square = 1 ft? Or maybe 1 square = ½ ft?) Then use the back of this paper to calculate the area of your room. = ____________ft. You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Worksheet 1-2 My Favorite Book from Fifth Grade Think back on all the reading you’ve done this year, at home and at school. Choose a favorite book. Write a paragraph as if you are a book critic. Select your words wisely so that you tell about the story elements (characters, setting, problem, plot, climax, & solution) and the author’s craft, all the while convincing other kids to read the book, too. My book choice:_______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Directions: Select at least four (4) activities to complete today. Share/review your choices with an adult. Each activity is labeled with one or more content area icons; → complete activities from a variety of different content categories (see icons below). Check the box for each activity you complete. Note: Items in RED indicate an attachment contained in this booklet; items in BLUE indicate an online website or resource Choose a favorite family Write a short letter to your favorite Find a cereal box, magazine or watch recipe. Practice your math and book character asking them to go to a commercial. Think “Is this an triple its ingredients. Then write a lunch with you. Explain where you arguement or trying to persuade me?” descriptive paragraph about how would go,what you would eat, and 3 How do you know? How are they yummy it is. See Worksheet 2-1 questions you have for him/her. trying to convince you of something? Who is the intended audience? Jot down your thinking. Either around your house, or on a Call or FaceTime a grandparent or walk outside, find at least 1 item Do a kind deed for each of your older relative who doesn’t live in your that starts with each letter of the other family members in your house. house. Ask them to describe what life alphabet. was like when they were 10 or 11. Use the attached paper for interview questions if you’re stuck. See Worksheet 2-2 Visit First in Math and get 100 Build a mini terrarium. Find a soda Read your independent book for 30 stickers. bottle (cut off the top) or other minutes. container, fill with dirt. Plant seeds or transfer a small bit of grass. Add rocks, twigs and other decorative items. You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Activity Worksheet 2-1 Favorite Recipe Choose a favorite recipe. Jot the ingredients with their measurements below. Then pretend you’re having a party & need to triple the ingredients. How much will you need of each item for your party? Show your math in the second column. The recipe I’ve chosen is______________________________________________________________ . It’s my favorite because________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ . Ingredient with Original Amount Ingredient Amount once Tripled You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Activity Worksheet 2-2 Interview a Relative These are just sample questions to interview an older relative who doesn’t live at your house. FaceTime or call them and ask them what life was like when they were 10 or 11. Feel free to come up with your own questions, too, or simply let the conversation feed your curiosity! ● Where did you live? ● What did you do in your free time? ● What was your immediate family like? ● Please tell me about some relatives who I never met. ● What were your birthdays or holidays like when you were growing up? ● What chores did you have to do around the house? ● Did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up? ● Did you have any pets? ● Can you tell me about your friends? ● What was a favorite food your family used to eat? ● What kind of things did you learn about in school? ● What do you remember most about your own parents? You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Directions: Select at least four (4) activities to complete today. Share/review your choices with an adult. Each activity is labeled with one or more content area icons; → complete activities from a variety of different content categories (see icons below). Check the box for each activity you complete. Note: Items in RED indicate an attachment contained in this booklet; items in BLUE indicate an online website or resource Create a game involving math skills “I think we should get rid of zoos.” Read a book or watch a short film. Create you learned this year. Write clear Find one piece of evidence to agree a SAY/MEAN/MATTER chart to analyze directions. Play it with your family. with that opinion or go against it. the text. Write down important words or actions in SAY. In your own words, describe what it means in the MEANS (This means..). Lastly, think about why this matters and think BIG ideas and life lessons for the MATTERS (This matters because…) Practice your Fraction Skills using Make rock candy. Follow these Paper Airplane Experiment: Worksheet 3-1 instructions. Fold up two different styles of paper (Find common denominators to add Worksheet 3-2 airplanes. Test them to see which goes and subtract) farther. Can you make improvements and beat your record throw? Visit First in Math and get 100 Write a poem about your favorite Mindfulness: Find a quiet spot to sit on stickers. season. the floor. Set a timer for 3 minutes. Concentrate on breathing slowly and steadily with your eyes closed. You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Activity Worksheet 3-1 You may use a calculator to help or check your work. SASD Activity Menu 5th GRADE Activity Worksheet 3-2 Making Rock Candy *parent supervision required! What you will need: ● A narrow glass jar ● 2-3 cups of white sugar ● 1 cup water ● A wooden skewer/chopstick and a clothespin OR string and a pencil ● Food coloring (optional) ● Stove or microwave 1. Bring the water to a boil, and slowly add the sugar while stirring. Make sure the sugar is dissolving. Stop adding sugar once no more will dissolve (saturation!). Add food coloring and stir if desired. 2. Set aside the saturated sugar solution to cool for at least 20 minutes. During this time, take your skewer (or string) and dip into the saturated solution, then dredge in a bit of sugar. Set aside to dry. 3. Before pouring the solution, clip a clothespin to the top of the skewer/chopstick