Weekly Update

This week we worked hard to round numbers to any place, use details to determine the theme of a story or text and learned a lot about the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. Be sure to visit www.lenapelifeways.org to learn more about these amazing native people of New Jersey. We read the Power of W.O.W. and learned how working together can help people accomplish great things.


We voted for our Student Council fifth grade officers and voted for classroom representatives. Congratulations to all the winners!


Next week we will practice our Unit 1 math standards, continue writing our fictional narratives and practice more geography and landforms. Don't forget Pretzel Day on Friday, October 10th!

Night Sky Activities

Warm summer nights are great for sitting outside and looking up! Here are some links to help you discover what you're looking at:
The full moon for this month is today/tomorrow. June's Full Moon is the called the Full Strawberry Moon.
Moon Phases Calendar - Draw what the moon looks like each night. If it's cloudy one night, don't worry! You'll probably be able to fill it in after you see the other nights around it.

Moon Phases Almanac - This can help you to know what phases we are in, even if it's cloudy.

Space Station - Find out who is on the Space Station right now and what they're doing. There's a link to video so that you can see them in action.

Space Station Spotter - Want to see the station for yourself? Type in the location where you are (or where you'll be) and find the times and directions for when and where you should look. It looks almost like a plane, but moves faster and doesn't have any blinking lights on it.

Newseum

Want to know what's going on around the world? Traveling somewhere this summer and want to see what's happening there? Newseum has an amazing collection of today's front pages from around the United States and the world. Pick a new place each day and learn a little bit about it!

Geography Practice

World Map practice

United States Practice

Map Quizzes

Puzzle Map

National Geographic GoBee Challenge




NJ Landform and Water links
Landforms and water examples
Wikipedia landform index
Wikipedia water index

Math Games

Card Sharks probability game

Multiplication.com

Kakooma

Factorization Forest





Geometry Practice:
Sorts and games
Review transformations
Challenge transformations




It's in the Numbers information
Precipitation link