Tag: 5th grade
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Candlemaking lesson
I love to watch historical movies. And depending on the quality of the movie, my family enjoys watching them with me. I may object loudly to bad history, costumes, and well I may not be the best person to go watch it with. One thing my husband and I often joke about are the sheer…
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Get ready for the election with the US election lapbook!
In case your quarantine has been so severe that you’ve missed the last three years here in the United States (because that’s how long it feels like this election has been going on), there’s a presidential election going on here in the United States. This is the perfect time to teach your kids about government…
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Old Yeller book club
I was assigned to read Old Yeller in 6th grade. For whatever reason, 6th grade was full of the tragedy books. I read about a childhood best friend dying, a dog dying, and watching someone you love grow old and die. Now that I think about it, that is a traumatizing year of assigned reading.…
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Age of Exploration Unit
Hey, this is Future Ticia of 2019. I originally wrote this post in 2016, a few years after the last time we studied the Age of Exploration and went through our Age of Exploration Unit for Elementary School (or middle school, since this was designed for my 5th-grade kids). Now my kids are in high…
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Sign of the Beaver book club
In 5th grade, I read The Sign of the Beaver and loved the story. A few years ago, I was reminded of the story and on a whim, looked it up to see if there was a movie for our book and a movie night, and found one. We listened to the book, and the…