Fourth+Grade

**Fourth Grade﻿** Your child is in fourth grade, and you're wondering what you can do to help him or her be more successful in school! Here are a few videos with activities that you can do with your child at home. Check out the third grade and fifth grade pages for even more ideas of things to do at home.

**__Reading__ ** Click on the videos below to see how to do simple reading interventions with your child at home.Doing these activities regularly will help your child improve his or her reading abilities!Feel free to email the fourth grade teachers if you have any questions!

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Have your child choose two __books at his or her reading level__ ! Then, for each book, have your child complete one of the following activities. Children who complete two activities over the summer and bring them to school in the fall will get to participate in a celebration event!


 * ** Talk about books with your child. Ask questions such as W ho is in the story, W hat is happening or What is the problem (solution), W hen is the story taking place, W here is the story taking place, W hy are the characters acting this way? W hy did they …?, and sometimes H ow is this happening? H ow are the characters going to solve this problem? **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**__Websites:__** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|**http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/**]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|**http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/5Ws.pdf**]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Summarize a story:__**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/storymap1_eng.pdf**]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Make a project out of what is remembered from the story:__**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**http://web.bsu.edu/00smtancock/EDRDG430/430comp_acts.html**]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**http://teachnet.com/lessonplans/language-arts/more-ideas-than-ever-book-reports/**]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**http://www.rochester3a.sangamon.k12.il.us/webpage/buyze/index/book_report_alternatives.htm**]

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Sight Words ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Practice these sight words: <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">[|**http://it.pinellas.k12.fl.us/schools/clearview-es/files/FAE3DA5041CB471DA99103A6B485A8AA.pdf**]

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Writing Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Plan and Write a story about a vacation you went on and twist it by adding a “What if…” to your story.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Have a sibling or parent partner write a fun story with you. You write a line your family member writes a line and put it all together to laugh at your crazy summer story.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Lay on the ground look up at the clouds and create a story about the shapes and write it later.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Prompt: “I walked into the gym for lunch and found my classmates floating and there was a big red button on the other side of the room…”**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Prompt: “The ant on my corner…”**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Prompt: “YIKES! I looked up in the sky and saw falling.”**
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Websites: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|**http://www.brucevanpatter.com/funstuff.html**]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm**]

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Math Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Fractions:__** **Practice using and talking about “benchmark fractions” such as 1/3, ¼, ½, ¾ and a whole by baking together and have your child do the measuring**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Website__:** [|www.**game**quarium.com/**fractions**.html]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Elapsed Time__****: talk with your child about how long it takes to do something from start to finish for example: time it takes from home to Grandma’s.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Website:__** [|**http://www.onlinemathlearning.com**]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Multiplication__****: Practice skip counting all the facts in the car or a memory game with the answers on one half and the math problem on the other.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Website__****:** [|**http://www.multiplication.com**]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Estimating:__** **Have your child estimate the cost of one or two items at the store to see if there is enough money.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Website:__** [|www.gamequarium.com/**estimation**.html] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|www.mathisfun.com/numbers/estimation-game.php]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Dividing:__** **practice diving up a pizza and have your child tell you the fractional amount that is left over or the fractional amount they are going to eat** **J**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **__Website:__** [|www.aaamath.com/est.htm]

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