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Summer Learning with Mr. B

Free, school-safe places to read, practice, build, and explore all summer long. New resources added all season!

📚 Mr. B's Grade 5 ELA Summer Worksheets

Twelve original stories, articles, and a poem — each with a skill lesson, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a writing prompt. Built by Mr. B. Every page is a separate one-page PDF: tap Read for the passage, Questions for the worksheet, and Answers for the grown-up key.

☀️ Start Here — Cover & How-To Guide (PDF)
1The Lighthouse Keeper's LanternSkill: Theme
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2How Octopuses Solve ProblemsSkill: Main Idea & Key Details
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3The Last Game of the Block PartySkill: Making Inferences
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4The Girl Who Mapped the Ocean FloorSkill: Author's Purpose
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5Abuela's KitchenSkill: Context Clues & Figurative Language
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6Rufus King: A Founder Who Fought SlaverySkill: Summarizing & Sequence
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7The Cougar of Cedar RidgeSkill: Character Traits
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8Why Volcanoes EruptSkill: Cause & Effect
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9The Bodega CatSkill: Point of View
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10Bees and Ants: Tiny TeamsSkill: Compare & Contrast
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11The Garden on the RoofSkill: Problem & Solution
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12City Summer (a poem)Skill: Reading Poetry
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🔢 Mr. B's Grades 5–6 Math Worksheets

Ten focused math worksheets — multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, order of operations, ratios, percents, geometry, and integers. Each has a skill reminder, a worked example, practice problems, and a grown-up answer key. Every page is a one-page PDF.

☀️ Start Here — Math Cover & How-To Guide (PDF)
1Multi-Digit MultiplicationGrade 5
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2Long Division (with remainders)Grade 5
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
3Adding & Subtracting FractionsGrade 5
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
4Multiplying & Dividing FractionsGrades 5–6
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
5Decimals: Add, Subtract, MultiplyGrades 5–6
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
6Order of Operations (PEMDAS)Grades 5–6
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
7Ratios & Unit RatesGrade 6
🔢 Practice✓ Answers
8Percents of a NumberGrade 6
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9Area, Perimeter & VolumeGrades 5–6
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10Integers & the Coordinate PlaneGrade 6
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🎨 Summer Fun Pack — Colorful Printables

Bright, bubbly activity sheets to print and enjoy: an All-About-Me page, a reading log, a backyard scavenger hunt, Would-You-Rather, Kindness Bingo, a bucket list, story starters, and a feelings page. Pure summer fun!

1🌞 All About My Summer
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2📚 My Summer Reading Log
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3🔍 Backyard & Park Scavenger Hunt
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4🤔 Would You Rather?
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5💛 Kindness Bingo
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6🪣 My Summer Bucket List
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7✏️ Story Starters
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8🌈 Gratitude & Good Feelings
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📚Read & Discover
📰ReadWorks Thousands of free reading passages with questions, for every grade.↗ 📑CommonLit Free stories and articles with reading questions and vocabulary.↗ 📖Storyline Online Famous actors read picture books out loud — great for read-alongs.↗ 📕Epic Books A huge library of books to read on any device — free for school.↗ 📚Sora (on TeachHub) NYC's free digital library — borrow e-books and audiobooks with your school login.↗ 🏛️Library Summer Reading Free summer reading challenges and lists from the public library.↗ 📰DOGOnews Kid-friendly news stories about science, world events, and nature.↗ 💡Wonderopolis A new fascinating question answered every day — great nonfiction reading.↗ 🌍Nat Geo Kids Amazing animal facts, photos, and science articles for curious readers.↗ 🎧Storynory Free audio stories read aloud — fairy tales, myths, and originals.↗ 📜Project Gutenberg Tens of thousands of free classic books to read online.↗ 🗞️TIME for Kids Real news articles written just for young readers.↗
🔢Math & Brain
🎓Khan Academy Free lessons and practice on every math topic, at your own pace.↗ 🐤Khan Academy Kids Free games and lessons for younger learners.↗ 🐉Prodigy Math Battle monsters by answering math questions — the free version is plenty.↗ 🧮Math Playground Logic puzzles, number games, and word problems.↗ 🌙Bedtime Math A fun, quick math story to do together every day.↗ ★ Mr. B👾Math Muncher Munch the right answers in Mr. B's own arcade math game.▶ 🧊Coolmath4Kids Math games, lessons, and brain teasers that make practice fun.↗ ➗Math is Fun Clear explanations of every math topic, with puzzles and worksheets.↗ ⚡XtraMath Quick daily practice to master addition, subtraction, × and ÷ facts.↗ 🍀Greg Tang Math Number-sense games and brain teasers from a famous math teacher.↗ 🧠NRICH Rich math puzzles and challenges from the University of Cambridge.↗ 🔷Polypad A digital math playground — fraction bars, blocks, and number tools.↗ 🤔Which One Doesn't Belong? Quick visual puzzles that get you thinking and talking about math.↗
💻Create & Code
💡Code.org Free beginner coding courses and the famous Hour of Code.↗ 🐱Scratch Build your own games and animations by snapping blocks together (from MIT).↗ 🧩Tynker — Hour of Code Free beginner coding puzzles and projects.↗ ★ Mr. B🤖Robo Maze Program the robot through the maze — Mr. B's block-coding puzzle game.▶ ★ Mr. B🐞Bug Hunt Find and fix the broken code block — think like a real programmer.▶ ★ Mr. B⌨️Key Quest Catch falling words — a fun way to build typing speed all summer.▶ 🧩Blockly Games Learn coding step by step with fun block puzzles (from Google).↗ ⚔️CodeCombat Learn real code by playing an adventure game — free levels.↗ 📱MIT App Inventor Build your own phone apps by snapping blocks together.↗ 🎨Toy Theater Free art, music, and creativity tools for making things online.↗ 🖌️Sketchpad A free online drawing canvas — paint, doodle, and design.↗
🤖Robotics & Engineering
🔬Science Buddies Hundreds of free hands-on science and engineering projects to try at home.↗ 🚀NASA JPL Education Build, code, and explore space with NASA's free activities.↗ 🛠️Tinkercad Design 3D models and simple circuits right in your browser — free.↗ ★ Mr. B⚡Circuit Lab Wire up lights and switches in Mr. B's hands-on circuit sandbox.▶ 🛠️PBS Design Squad Free hands-on building and engineering challenges for kids.↗ 🔭Mystery Science Fun science mini-lessons and activities you can do at home.↗ 🧪Exploratorium Science Snacks Hundreds of free hands-on science experiments.↗ 🛰️NASA Kids' Club Space games, activities, and missions from NASA.↗ 🤖Wonderville STEM games, videos, and activities about how things work.↗
🧠Quiz & Class
★ Mr. B🔎ResearchLab A safe, kid-friendly research library — look up any topic for a project.▶ ★ Mr. B🧙Fact Wizard Ask a question and get a kid-safe answer to learn something new.▶ ★ Mr. B🗺️MapLabs Explore the world — animals, countries, and places on an interactive map.▶ 📺PBS Kids Trusted learning games and shows for younger kids.↗ 🦆Ducksters Kid-friendly facts on history, science, geography, and more.↗ 🗺️World Geography Games Fun, free map quizzes — countries, states, capitals, flags, and rivers.↗ ⌨️TypingClub Free, friendly typing lessons that build real keyboard skills.↗ 🏛️Smithsonian Learning Lab Explore real museum objects, art, and history collections.↗ 🧩Funbrain Free educational games, books, and videos for every grade — math, reading, and more.↗
🎮Mr. B's Arcade
★ Mr. B🕹️All of Mr. B's Games Chess, Snake, basketball, puzzles, and dozens more — all free, all school-safe.▶ ★ Mr. B🐉Dragon Grove Find an egg, raise your dragon, and fly — a calm summer adventure.▶ ★ Mr. B🔢2048 Slide and combine the tiles — a brain-teasing number puzzle.▶ ★ Mr. B♟️Chess Play against the computer and sharpen your strategy this summer.▶
👋 For grown-ups: every link here is free and chosen to be safe for kids. There are no logins to buy and no ads aimed at children on Mr. B's own pages. Pair about 20 minutes of reading with 20 minutes of math a few days a week, and let your child pick what sounds fun. Questions? Reach Mr. B from the home page.