5th grade activities

Throughout the school year, I know I would often find myself scrambling for ways to keep my students engaged in their learning and jazz up our classroom

A fun and engaging way to practice comparing and contrasting with upper elementary students - let them have an indoor snowball fight!

Tons of free printable 4th grade worksheets, games and educational activites to make learning fun for grade 4 students.

If you are new to teaching 5th grade, you have come to the right place. This is a collection of blog posts and resources for 5th grade teachers.

Students will LOVE these end of the school year ideas and activities! Read about how I engage my students through an end of the year memory book, a geography project, and fun daily questions!

This entire blog is full of my 5th grade teacher advice. I thought you might want to hear from some of the amazing veteran teachers who were eager to share their wisdom with new 5th

Printable water cycle word search. Ideal for students 5th grade and older. 40 hidden water cycle themed words to find and circle. The remaining letters spell a mystery message about the water cycle.

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Download this free 5th grade math project that will engage your students and provide meaning around standards-based math skills. This Math City project includes activities for place value, operations and algebraic thinking, fractions, measurement, and geometry skills. Use this real world math project to teach students how math is used in the real world and to build problem solving skills. This activity includes a differentiation option and an activity for early finishers. Grab your free…

8 ideas to keep students engaged and having fun with a simple worksheet

Printable back to school word search for grade 5 students. 24 hidden words, most of them are 5th grade spelling words. Pdf includes answer page.

Looking for a fun and simple science activity that’s sure to entertain the kids?! In this quick, five minute experiment, little chemists mix up their own homemade bouncy balls.

Jeopardy is a grade game to play in a third grade class in order to review important info amd assess students.

This 5th grade reading list will help you choose books for your child. Also, there's a FREE lesson or novel study for each book on the list!

One of my favorite science units to teach is Matter. It's challenging enough to not be too watered down, the students make a bunch of meaningful connections, and there are so many fun activities for the students to do to enhance their understanding of various topics. I really like starting off my unit on Matter sitting on the rug with an anchor chart. There are so many super cute anchor charts out there, but I'm definitely not the most artistic person, and I really like to create them with…

Last year the cup stack was one of my FAVORITE team building activities (see post here). So, naturally, I wanted to give it another shot! The Cup Stack is a fun, yet challenging activity that promotes team work. The supplies are basic: cups, string, rubber bands. I go ahead and tie the string to the rubber bands so it is ready to go. I make a few for groups of 4 and a few for groups of 5, this way no matter what the numbers are in the classroom I can make it work. I start by asking students…

Looking for some Last Week of School Activities for upper elementary students? Here are some ideas for your end of year celebration.

Nearly 400 teachers weighed in on their favorite back-to-school activities and ice breakers - and here are their top picks! The most popular, practical, and unique back-to-school activities loved by teachers around the world!