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Posted: April 19, 2020

Grade 5 Week 3 Literacy & Art Home Learning

Hello Grade 5 Students & Parents/Guardians,

I hope you are all keeping well. This is week 3 of our Home Learning experience. Keep trying your best and have fun with it.

Remember you can visit Mrs. Mutch’s teacher page for Math, Miss Downey’s for Wellness Activities and Miss Mountain’s for First Nations Learning.

Keep reading! Our Reading Goal is 30 minutes a day.

Many students I spoke with were interested in the Titanic so I found some more Literacy Activities to help you learn more about this infamous ship. Go ahead and choose what you would like to do to keep learning!

Creative Writing Ideas:

1) Imagine you were one of the passengers on the Titanic. You only have one small suitcase to pack all of your possessions to start a new life on the other side of the world. What things would you pack in your suitcase?

2) You are on board the Titanic and you realize it is sinking. People are scurrying around everywhere and there are no lifeboats left. As you take the plunge into the icy waters what are you thinking? Do you have a plan to try to survive?

3) Imagine you are one of the survivors of the Titanic. A reporter has come to ask you questions. Write down what your answers would be to the following questions:

1) Who are you? Who were you travelling with?

2) Where were you going? Why?

3) Can you describe the ship? Or draw a picture of it?

4) What happened to the ship?

5) How did you react when you knew the ship was sinking? What were other people doing all around you?

6) What happened in the end? How did you survive?

7) How do you feel now? Why?

Word Work Activity:

How many words can you make using the letters in the word Titanic?

Set a 10 minute timer. You can even ask someone to take on this challenge with you. Read and compare your list of words to each other. Did you find any of the same words? What different words did you find?

Online Learning Sites:

National Geographic Kids has 20 Top Titanic Facts. What did you already know about this infamous ship?

https://www.natgeokids.com/nz/discover/history/general-history/would-you-have-survived-the-titanic/

Titanic Art Ideas/Projects:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/387028161709312638/

If you have any questions or concerns I can be reached by e-mail at luticha.taylor@nbed.nb.ca

If you would like to share pictures of your artwork or projects for classmates to see you could put them on our NSEE Grade 5 Facebook Page.

Happy Learning! Have a great week!

Mrs. Taylor

Posted: April 13, 2020

Grade 5 Week 2 Literacy Home Learning

Hello again Grade 5!

I’m hoping all of you had a nice Easter weekend!

Please go to Mrs. Mutch’s teacher page for Math, Miss Downey’s has Wellness Activities, Miss Mountain’s has First Nations Learning and Mrs. Esty has more Literacy links.

Were you able to choose something that interested you for Home Learning last week? Here are some more Literacy Ideas for this week. Go ahead and choose what you would like to do to keep learning. Grade 5 Reading Goal - 30 minutes a day!

Creative Writing Prompts:

1) On a day that started like any other, your friends and family have started to treat you a bit strangely and you suspect that something is up. On a whim, you stay out a bit later than curfew. When you return, your house is surrounded by police cars. What do you do?

2) You are out camping in the forest with friends and you wake to find your lucky hat missing. You and your friends must track down the perpetrator, whether man or animal. Use the clues of the forest (tracking, etc.) to find this favorite hat.

(More Creative Writing Prompts like these can be found on: http://www.build-creative-writing-ideas.com/free-creative-writing-prompts-mystery.html)

Word work Activities:

Choose some words from the Mystery Word List below and see how many different sentences can you write? Read them out loud in a mysterious voice!

Just for fun, try writing a “silly sentence” and draw an illustration to represent your sentence. If you are not sure what a word means, look it up in a dictionary/using a computer or ask someone to explain the meaning.

Mystery Word List: clue, evidence, suspect, perpetrator, sleuth, crime

exciting, frightening, investigating, screeching

Online Learning Activities:

I have put the “Spy Kids” site on here again this week as there is lots to do on the site. I added another interesting site about the Titanic for you to explore as well.

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page

Spy Kids - Central Intelligence Agency

Lots of information, Stories, Games & find out about their ‘Spy Dogs’!

Titanic's Hidden Mystery-Video Games for Kids

Read to learn about the Titanic and find hidden objects

http://games.kidzsearch.com/computer/title/titanic-hidden-mystery-576742227280292265

It was great to get to talk with many of you last week! It was nice to hear your voices and know that you are doing well!

If you have any questions I can be reached by e-mail at luticha.taylor@nbed.nb.ca

Stay positive and stay safe!

Mrs. Taylor

Posted: April 6, 2020

Week 1 Grade 5 Literacy

Hello Grade 5! I hope you are all doing well. I miss seeing all your faces and hearing your voices, stories and laughs! Every Monday, I will put some ideas on here to help you to continue on with your learning.

Grade 5 Reading Goal - 30 minutes a day!Find something you like to read- a book, a magazine, a How-To Manual or do some online reading about something that interests you.

*Please see Mrs. Mutch’s Teacher Page for Math.A drawing activity is on there too so be sure to check it out!

* Miss Downey’s Teacher Page has some Wellness Activities!

* Miss Mountain’s Teacher Page has First Nations Learning. Enjoy!

Here are some Literacy Ideas for the week to continue with our Mystery Unit. Go ahead and choose what you would like to do!

Some Creative Writing Prompts:

1. You wake up to find a sticky or post-it note stuck to your forehead. This note has a clue that leads you to another clue somewhere in your house. Your family claim they know nothing about it but they decide they will help you solve the mystery. One clue leads to another. Where will it all end?

2. Someone has been stealing away the puppies from your town at night. You and a team of investigators (concerned people from the neighborhood and your friends) have decided to figure out the crime when the police couldn't. What do you do and how do you solve it?

Word-Work Activities:

1. Using the letters in the word ‘investigate’, challenge yourself to see how many other words can you make? You could set a timer of 10 minutes. Is there someone at home that can take on this challenge with you? (All words need at least 2 letters).

2. What does the word ‘investigate’ mean? Write a meaning or draw a picture to show the meaning of the word. Write 2 sentences using the word ‘investigate’. Reread your definition and sentences. Ask yourself “Do they make sense?” Read them to someone at home or a pet!

Online Activities:

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page

Spy Kids - Central Intelligence Agency

Lots of information, Stories, Games & find out about their ‘Spy Dogs’!

https://teachables.scholastic.com/teachables/genre/mystery.html -Lots of Mystery Reading!

Have fun learning! Take care! Adorably cute animals hugging Mrs. Taylor