[LM_NET] TAR: Help with 4th & 5th Grade lessons - please!

[Melissa Small <msmall@LENOIR.K12.NC.US>]

Hi everyone!  I am in desperate need of some fun and engaging lessons that I can do 
with my 4th and 5th grade students.  I have recently had to move to a smaller room 
because we are starting construction.  I had to do a major weed to my library and 
put a ton of stuff in storage (I'm getting a new library!!!).  My reference section 
right now only has 2 old sets of encyclopedias and some dictionaries.  I've also 
got a class set of almanacs and atlases.  Right now, I only have one working 
computer, but will hopefully have 3 more soon.  I think my biggest problem is that 
the 4th and 5th grade classes at our school are very large and I am in a very small 
room with limited materials.  Does anyone have any suggestions for games, 
activities, stories I can do with my students?  I've been using a powerpoint game 
of Dictionary Balderdash that someone here sent me last year and my students have 
loved it!  I've thought about file folder activities that I can use as centers, but 
cannot come up with anything that I think the older students will enjoy.  Please 
help!  My 5th grade students are starting to be a discipline problem so I want to 
get them back under control before its too late.

Thanks for your help!

Missy Small, Media Coordinator
Moss Hill School
Kinston, NC
msmall@lenoir.k12.nc.us



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