Miss Boldt Home - 5th Grade Home - Educator Resources
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Theme 1: Look Inside
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The Hot and Cold Summer
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Flashcards
(with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with Pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: The Hot and Cold Summer - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Sees Behind Trees
Vocabulary:
Word
Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Sees Behind Trees - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family
Vocabulary:
Word
Wall Cards 1 (with pictures)
Word Wall
Cards 2 (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Yang the Third - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Dear Mrs. Parks
Vocabulary:
Word
Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Dear Mrs. Parks - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Mick Harte was Here
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
"I Have, Who Has?"
Game (printable teacher resource)
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Mick Harte was Here - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
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Theme 2: Teamwork
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We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
Vocabulary:
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Weblinks:
Spelling City: The Boonsville Bombers - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Spelling City:
Iditarod Dream - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Iditarod: Race Across Alaska - Fun learning website from Scholastic
(Cool pictures, too!)
Toughest Race on Earth - Video from the Discovery Channel
Vocabulary:
Words
with Definitions - from the Harcourt website
Matching Exercise - Practice your vocabulary words online
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Woodsong - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Gary Paulsen's Official Website
Iditarod: Race Across Alaska - Fun learning website from Scholastic (Cool pictures, too!)
Vocabulary:
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Island of the Blue Dolphins - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
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Theme 3: A Changing Planet
 Earthquake Terror |
 Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988 |
 Oceans |
 Seeing Earth From Space |
Vocab Review |
Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
eWord Game: Earthquake Terror - Practice your vocabulary words with
this interactive online game
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Earthquake Terror - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Meet
the Author: Peg Kehret - From Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988
Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988 - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Oceans - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Meet the
Author: Seymour Simon
Seymour Science
(resource blog)
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
The Case of the Shining Blue Planet
Vocabulary:
Word
Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: The Case of the Shining Blue Planet - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Building Background - NASA pictures
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Seeing Earth from Space - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
eWord Game - extra vocabulary fun (Space/Scientist words)
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Take a Theme 3 Survey from SurveyMonkey.com (Just for Fun!)
Theme 3 Vocabulary
- printable resource of vocab and definitions
Theme 3 Vocabulary
- vocabulary organized by story AND alphabetically with definitions
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Theme 4: Express Yourself
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Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Hattie's Birthday Box - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Pam Conrad - Author of Hattie's Birthday Box
Reading Skills Rocket - Word Relationships
Test Tutor - Word Relationships
Go for Grammar Gold - More about Pronouns
Grammar
Practice Park - Exploring the Pronoun Reef
Quia Quiz/Game -
Guess the words from the story
More fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION:
Homestead Act of
1862
SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION:
Nebraska State Facts
SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION:
Conestoga Wagon
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Weblinks:
Spelling City: The Empty Box - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
The World of William Joyce Scrapbook
Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
The World of William Joyce Scrapbook - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
William Joyce - Author of "The World of William Joyce Scrapbook" or
The World of
William Joyce (his own website)
Building Background: Page by Page - Learn how a book gets published
Reading Skills Rocket - Word Relationships
Test Tutor - Word Relationships
Test Tutor - Classify/Categorize
Go for Grammar Gold - Adjectives and Adverbs
REAL LIFE CONNECTIONS: Art Careers - Find out what exactly they do, what kind of training they need, how much they make, etc.
More fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Quia
- Quiz to practice the vocabulary for "Satchmo's Blues"
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Satchmo's Blues - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Alan Schroeder - Author of "Satchmo's Blues"
Building Background - The American Symphony Orchestra
Reading Skills Rocket - Fact and Opinion
Go for Grammar Gold - More About Adjectives and Adverbs
Test Tutor - Fact and Opinion
FINE ARTS (MUSIC) CONNECTION:
Louis Armstrong by
PBS Kids
FINE ARTS (MUSIC) CONNECTION:
PBS Jazz Kids
More fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
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Theme 5: School Rules
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Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Off and Running - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Gary Soto's Website
Reading Skills Rocket - Compare and contrast
Test Tutor - Compare and contrast
Test Tutor - Characterization
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall
Cards (with pictures)
Mini
Flashcards (with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Little By Little - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Building Background - Tips about Teasing
SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE CONNECTION:
History of Polio
SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION:
Braille Website for Kids
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
The World
of Beverly Cleary
SCIENCE CONNECTION:
Inventors and
Inventions
SCIENCE CONNECTION:
Make your own lunchbox alarm
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: The Hundred Dresses - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards
(with pictures)
Mini Flashcards
(with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City:
Frindle - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words,
or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Quia - Quiz on
"Frindle"
The Official Frindle
Website or Author Andrew Clements
website
Frindle Jeopardy
Game
Word Central - Create your
own words, build your own dictionary, and much more!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary
(listed alphabetically AND by story)
Fill-In-The-Blanks Review (Includes all 30 words) -
Answer Key
Some of the students used PuzzleMaker (by Discovery School) to create the crosswords and word finds.
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Theme 6: An American Adventure
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Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Across the Wide Dark Sea - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words
with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Black Frontiers - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Cowboys of the Wild West - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
eWord Game - from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
Vocabulary:
Word Wall Cards (with pictures)
Mini Flashcards (with pictures)
Words with Definitions
Weblinks:
Spelling City: Name this American - Take a practice test, teach yourself how to spell your words, or play SUPER fun games with your spelling words!
Fun games and activities for practicing your theme skills!
Theme 6 Vocabulary - Vocabulary words organized by story
