Multiplication Websites

Click on the links below for multiplication activities, games and practice! Learn those facts!

http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

http://www.gamequarium.com/multiplication.html

http://www.ixl.com/ (Click on "5th grade," then scroll down to the Multiplication section.)

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/multiplication.htm

http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html (Multiplication as well as division, adding and subtracting.)

Have fun exploring!
~ Mrs. Brandt

Grade 5 Math Website

Reading, Math & Language Arts Skills and Activities!
Click on the link below.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-5th-mathbuilders.htm

Create a Graph

Click on the link below to create your own graph!

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Descriptive Poems for Writing

The following poems are from 

Kenn Nesbitt's book, 

My Hippo Has the Hiccups 

and Other Poems I Totally Made Up

*Look for ways in which the author uses words to describe something. Make a movie or take a picture of each in your head and use your five senses to imagine the poem. (There aren't any illustrations below so you can imagine it on your own!)

Steve the Superhero

He's Steve the superhero,

and you simply won't believe

the powers he possesses

by merely being Steve.

His smile can crack a mirror

and his breath can make you faint.

And when he takes his socks off

it's been known to peel the paint.

The power in his underarms

can make a grown man cry.

A single burp can make you want

to crawl away and die.

The bad guys know it's hopeless,

so they all get up and leave

whenever they get wind of him-

the superhero Steve.

* Could you imagine (or even smell) Steve? Keep thinking of this poem as you imagine creepy, crawly things you're going to write about this week in writing class.

Willie's Wart

Willie had a stubborn wart

upon his middle toe.

Regardless, though, of what he tried,

the wart refused to go.

So Willie went and visited

his family foot physician,

who instantly agreed

it was a stubborn wart condition.

The doctor tried to squeeze the wart.

He tried to twist and turn it.

He tried to scrape and shave the wart.

He tried to boil and burn it.

He poked it with a pair of tongs.

He pulled it with his tweezers.

He held it under heat lamps

and he crammed it into freezers.

Regrettably these treatments

were of very little use.

He looked at it and sputtered,

"Ach! I cannot get it loose!

"I'll have to get some bigger tools

to help me dissect it. 

I'll need to pound and pummel it,

bombard it and inject it."

He whacked it with a hammer

and he yanked it with a wrench.

He seared it with a welding torch

despite the nasty stench.

He drilled it with a power drill.

He wrestled it with pliers.

He zapped it with a million volts

from large electric wires.

He blasted it with gamma rays,

besieged it with corrosives,

assaulted it with dynamite

and nuclear explosives.

He hit the wart with everything

but when the smoke had cleared,

poor Willie's stubborn wart remained,

and Willie'd disappeared.

 *Now, go back to Willie's Wart and find the creative and sometimes, unusual, words the author chose to describe everything the doctor did to that wart. Also this week in writing class, you'll have the opportunity to write about the topic, "Talk about being scared!" What frightens you?

Estimating/Rounding Website

Click on this link and scroll down to choose an estimating/rounding activity:

http://www.numbernut.com/advanced/activities/index.shtml

Electricity Unit

BrainPop Videos

Many videos, information and activities on Electricity (and other science topics) are found on:

http://www.brainpop.com/

Conductors and Insulators

A website for a Conductors and Insulators activity is listed below. Scroll down the page and click on the "Who Can Resist?" activity link. 

http://woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/electricity.htm

Electric Circuits
With a partner, go to the link below. You'll read about Electric Circuits, complete activities and take a quiz. Have fun exploring!

http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/guide.html

Stomach Ache Supreme

Stomach Ache Supreme
by Geraldine Nicholas

If Mother asks you to make supper,
Don't protest, pout or scream.
You can use my favourite recipe
Called "Stomach Ache Supreme."

Get ice cream from the freezer,
Put it in a baking dish,
Pour some chocolate syrup on it
With a can of tuna fish.

Sprinkle it with chocolate chips,
Some salt and pepper too.
Dump a blob of honey on the top,
Now there's a "treat" for you!

Spread peanut butter on it,
Add cinnamon to taste.
Garnish it with spinach
And a jar of almond paste.

Place it in the oven
And bake it for a while.
Then serve it to your family,
But don't forget a smile!

Give them heaping helpings,
Expect some stomach pain.
They'll never, never want you
To ever cook again!

DOL Websites

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1077235.html

Math Websites

www.funbrain.com

http://www.aaamath.com/grade5.html

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm