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Tag: 5th grade
5th-grade books made into movies
I think 5th grade can often be a sweet spot for reading. The kids are old enough to start having great discussions, they are reading more or less independently, and the books are short enough that parents can easily read along with their kids and still read whatever books they want to read. It also…
How to make a compass
I was scrolling through my stockpiled post ideas looking for inspiration and saw this how to make a compass lesson we’d done years ago, like my kids were in middle school years ago. I somehow never wrote about this particular bit of Earth Science, and I’m realizing I have some truly random science lessons to…
Anatomy Unit
This coming year we’re going to be studying anatomy, and I am super excited about it. I’ve been pinning and storing ideas for our science lessons on my anatomy Pinterest board. As I wrote my anatomy lesson plans (all our lessons inspired by these anatomy lessons) I organized the ideas to do for the year,…
Beauty and the Beast book club
My absolute fairy tale ever is Beauty and the Beast. I personally own at least a dozen novel-length retellings of the story and another dozen picture books. There are about a zillion different movie variations of this fairy tale, but my absolute favorite is the Disney cartoon from my childhood. So, when The Artist a…
Alice Through the Looking Glass book club
In 6th grade, I was obsessed with Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. When my kids reached 5th grade (I think), for their book and a movie I assigned my favorite book and the kids were not as excited by it as I was. With that, I opted not to assign Alice…