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5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Make a Martin Luther King, Jr. Timeline 

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Write a List Poem

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Nobel Peace Prize for Kids

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Play Mood Charades!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Take Action Like Greta

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Apostrophe Poem

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Write an Art Project Proposal

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

"Bump!" A Spelling Game

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Write a Funny Limerick

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Make a City Guide For Kids!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Make a Sequence Sandwich!

As Mother&#39;s Day approaches, everyone&#39;s grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Make a Mother's Day Book

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Fishing for Headlines

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Fact or Inference? Learn the Difference

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Teal Pumpkin Project: Spread the Word!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Famous African-Americans in History

Have your child make a giant red poppy out of tissue paper in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served, especially those who died serving their countries.

Remembrance Poppy

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Skim First, Answer Later: A Textbook Study Strategy

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Albedo

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Color Bugs

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Resilience

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Write a Thanksgiving Proclamation!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Write Dad a Basketball Message

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Speak up for the Earth

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Make a Progress Portfolio

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Make an Apostrophe Collage

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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