K5 Learning Blog

Mental math helps students improve their number sense and their ability to understand the relationships between quantities. We have some tips for helping them perfect their mental math skills.

An interrogative sentence asks a direct question and is punctuated with a question mark. We have some worksheets for your kids to practice interrogative sentences.

In our grade 4 order of operations section students practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing up to 6 terms, with and without parentheses.

Phonics is one of the main building blocks in learning to read. Let’s look at some creative ways to engage you kids in phonics.

When you see something like 4 + 3 x (4 + 10) = what part do you calculate first? We use Order of Operations, a set of rules, to solve this kind of expression with multiple operations.

For students working at the grade 1 writing level, we have published new writing prompts worksheets to encourage them to write sentences and paragraphs.

Grade 1 students work on writing paragraphs. These new worksheets will help them with expository, opinion and narrative writing, as well as with editing paragraphs.

We have added four new stories for kids who read at the grade 4 level. Questions and answers are also provided.

For students who read at the grade 3 level, we have added a selection of fiction and non-fiction stories to our reading comprehension section.

In grade 3 science students connect common materials to the natural resources they come from, as well as renewable resources. We have some worksheets for them to practice these topics.