WIN TIME - Friday Choice Board

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January Choice Board Math

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Scholastic Contests

Do you like PRIZES!

Here are some of the Scholastic Contests you can work on as part of your ELA choice board. Click on each to read the rules and submission deadlines. If you want to submit an entry, turn your BEST work into your teacher 5 days before the deadline so that we can get them mailed into scholastic.

DOG MAN- CLICK HERE

GOOSEBUMPS- CLICK HERE

HARRY POTTER- CLICK HERE

INVENTION CONTEST-CLICK HERE

NAME THE BOOK BUDDY- CLICK HERE

RICK RIORDAN- CLICK HERE

STAR WARS ART-CLICK HERE

August 27th, Learning Choice Board

  Choice Board

Jim Crow Laws- Learning Choice Menu (Choice Board)

For this square you will create a Google Slides presentation.

Your presentation will be completed and mailed to your homeroom teacher.

Questions to answer:

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

Why are they important?

Do they still exist? If not, why?

Requirements

Minimum 5 slides Maximum 10 slides

Title Page

Answer all of the above questions

Source Cited page

At least 2 images

Websites to use for research:

Kiddle.Com- Jim Crow Laws

KidsConnect- Jim Crow

Brain Pop- Jim Crow

Big Universe- The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights

Please log into your Big Universe account and read, "The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights".


Write a brief summary and then take an AR quiz. Record your AR score on the bottom of your summary.

LABEL THIS CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY

Click HERE to go to Big Universe.

Steve Jobs- Biography

You are going to head on over to TrueFlix and learn about Steve Jobs. Please watch the video, read the book, and take the quiz. When you have finished, complete the project idea and label it
CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY.

When you have read and understand the directions go HERE ask your teacher for the login information.

The Outer Planets

Head over to StudyJams and watch the video and complete the quiz about our outer planets.


Label a piece of notebook paper: CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY and write the names of each of the outer planets and two things that make them unique.

CLICK HERE AFTER YOU HAVE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE.

The Inner Planets

Head over to StudyJams and watch the video and complete the quiz about our inner planets.


Label a piece of notebook paper: CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY and write the names of each of the inner planets and two things that make them unique.


Click HERE to go after you read the directions above.

The Water Cycle

Watch this video and complete the activity over at StudyJams!

Click HERE after you are finished reading directions.

Write a brief sequential paper to explain the water cycle after watching the video and taking the quiz.

Attach the work to your other choice board activities and label this one: CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY

The Real Story of Paul Revere

Longfellow penned an amazing rendition of the story but click HERE to find out how it really happened.

After you have read the true story of Paul Revere, please write a short summary of the article and attach it to this week's learning stations.

Tall Tales with Paul Bunyan

Students will visit this website: American Folklore

They will choose one of the tales from the website and make a 4 square small poster with notebook paper.

In one square they will write the title of the story they chose and their name, in the other square they will draw an illustration of the tale, in one square they will list the main characters of the tale, and in the last tale they will write a summary that is between 15-25 words long. It has to be at least 15 words and CAN NOT be longer than 25.

Grading for this center will be as follows, each category is ALL or NOTHING.

Neatness- 25%
Following Directions- 25%
Following NO EXCUSES rules: 25%
All Four Squares Complete- 25%

LABEL THIS CHOICE BOARD ACTIVITY AND KEEP IT WITH YOUR CHOICE BOARD ASSIGNMENTS.

Research

Hey FIFTH GRADERS! We are going to be starting a research project very soon, and we want to make sure you know more about writing a research paper.

You will use the websites below to learn more about citing sources.

Website for all types of CITATIONS click HERE 

Citations for kids, great website for planning a paper HERE

Then copy these questions onto a piece of paper and answer them, you may have to search the above websites to find the answers:

What is a citation?

What are three items that should be included in a citation from a book?

What would four reliable sources be for a research paper?

Do you have to add the page numbers in a citation when using a magazine?

Verb Tenses

This is a great site to look at the different types of verb tenses.

In fifth grade we have studied past, present, past participle, present participle, and now even
past perfect tense and present perfect tense. If you read this write the word banana on your choice board in the square you are working on, and don't tell anyone else.

Look through the explanation for these verb tenses at the website below:

Verb Tense Tutorial


Then take this quiz:

U3W4 Choice Board Quiz

Verbs Galore

Please click on the links below and play the verb games.


Grammar Blast

Soft Schools Verbs


When you are finished, please take the quiz below.

Click here to take the quiz

A Look at Poetry

You will go to the website below and read through the children's poems. Once you have found one that you like, copy it in your journal. Then explain why you enjoyed that one. If you can't find one that you like, find one you hate. Copy it in your journal, be sure to explain why you hate it.


Try it.
You might like it.
Poetry, full of words and implied meanings.

Try it.
You might like it.
Poetry, with hidden themes, invoking feelings.

Try it.
You might like it.
Poetry, allowing writers to share their hearts.

Try it.

Click here:   Poetry

Compound and Complex Sentences

Below, you will find some links to help you review compound and complex sentences. After clicking through the links and making sure you understand what compound and complex sentences are, please write 10 compound sentences and 10 complex sentences on a sheet of paper.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/complex_sentence/index.html

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/simple-compound-complex-sentences

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz125805e69020.html