4th Grade

On this page, you will find low and high tech resources for 4th Grade students.

• Have your child read a book aloud or independently. Make this a consistent routine every day--choose a time and a special place in your home.

• Ask the child: “What is this book mostly about? (Think main idea.) What did you learn in this book? (If fiction, think about the text’s lesson; if nonfiction, think about the topic.)” Have your child share their thoughts with someone or write their ideas down on paper.

• For stories: Ask your child to think about the characters, setting, problem, solution and events in the text. Who was in the story? When and where did it happen? What was the problem and how was it solved? What happened in the story?

• Ask: “Think about what you already know related to the book or what the book reminds you of.” Have your child share their thoughts with someone or write their ideas down on paper.

• Ask: “What were the author’s feelings about this character or topic? How do you know?” Have your child share their thoughts with someone or write their ideas down on paper.

• Have your child talk about, draw pictures, and/or write a response to the book read or heard. What was the text about? What did you like or think was interesting about the text?

• To refine your phonics or reading comprehension skills, watch a BrainPOP Jr. video daily and complete the associated video tasks.

  • CLICK | BrainPOP Jr. - Offers free access during school closures. Click on the banner at the top of the page and set up a family account to access many Reading and Writing videos and activities.

• In order to learn about a grade level appropriate topic through reading, choose an activity from Scholastic Learn at Home or ReadWorks.com and complete the tasks associated with the texts.

  • CLICK | Scholastic Learn at Home - 20 days of cross-curricular learning experiences based on stories, videos, and learning challenges.

  • CLICK | ReadWorks.com - Create a free account and choose texts according to grade level and topic

• Have your child keep a journal about what is happening each day and what they think and feel each day.

  • CLICK | NewsELA - Sign up for a free account. Use this site to find articles about current events that your child is interested in for them to read and answer questions. Adjust texts to match your student’s grade level.

• Practice addition and subtraction within 20 with your child to develop automaticity. This can be done on paper, with flashcards, or other games your child may have learned in school.

• Have your child practice multiplying by 0 through 12 within 144 with automaticity. This can be done on paper, with flashcards, or other games your child may have learned in school.

• Practice dividing by 1 through 12 within 144 with automaticity. This can be done on paper, with flashcards, or other games your child may have learned in school.

  • Have your child work on addition and subtraction with decimals to the hundredth place by:

  • Ask your child to add up the cost of grocery items

  • Give your child different household items to add up the total weight of in ounces (e.g. a gallon of milk, a bag of rice, and 4 cans of green beans)

  • Ask your child to find the difference in weight or price of items purchased (e.g. yogurt - oatmeal, 9.87 -2.06 = ?)

• Your child can practice multiplying a 1-digit number by up to a 4-digit and 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication by creating word problems, or finding area (e.g. If there is a book that has side measurements of 24 cm and 32 cm)

• Ask your child to solve division problems of up to a 4-digit number divided by a 1-digit number, as well as interpret remainders. Students could find out how many servings, or the size of each serving of food products (e.g. if we have 132 ounces of rice, how many 4 ounce serving will we have?), or creating word problems.

• With your guardian watch the PBS Matter and Changes video. Document in your journal changes of state that you observe around the house. For example, water boiling (shows evaporation, water changing state from liquid to gas) [physical properties of matter: states of matter, temperature]

  • CLICK |PBS: matter and changes of state video - Video presenting the changes of state

• With your guardian answer these questions about renewable energy: what is it and how can we use it if we don’t have electricity? Make sure to write down your responses in your journal.

  • CLICK |Video: can you make S'mores without electricity or fire? - Watch the video and think about how you can create a sun oven with the materials you have at home. Don’t have the materials? Design/ draw a sun oven describing the function of each part of the oven.

• In your journal describe what do animals in your neighborhood need to survive in their ecosystem? Share with your guardian your response.

  • CLICK | Central Texas animals - Use this guide to identify more animals and food they eat. Use it to compare the food you see some of your animals eat in your neighborhood.

• With your guardian, complete a coderZ challenge

  • CLICK | Stechchallenges - All challenges are due by 3/30 midnight

• After watching a video, reading an article, or taking a virtual field trip, have students process/synthesize their learning using any of the following strategies:

  • Sensory figure for one or more of the characters/people involved

  • Write a letter (ex. to a family member or friend) from the perspective of one of the characters/people involved

  • Illustrated timeline and/or summary (illustrations are an excellent way to process & show understanding in social studies!)

  • CLICK | Liberty’s Kids - Animated series that tells a narrative account of the American Revolution. Includes 40 episodes at 23 minutes each.

• Read a grade-level current events article (ex. From NewsELA) together. Prior to reading, have students fill out the “Know” and “Want to Know” columns of a KWL chart. After reading, discuss using any of the following prompts:

  • What is the main idea of this article?

  • What details does the author use to support this main idea?

  • What else does the article make you think of?

  • What questions do you have about this topic? (Encourage the student to look up answers to 1-2 of their questions.

• Have students complete the “Learned” column of their KWL chart.

• After watching a video, reading an article, or taking a virtual field trip, have students process/synthesize their learning using any of the following strategies:

  • Sensory figure for one or more of the characters/people involved

  • Write a letter (ex. to a family member or friend) from the perspective of one of the characters/people involved

  • Illustrated timeline and/or summary (illustrations are an excellent way to process & show understanding in social studies!)

• Interview a relative, family friend, or neighbor (virtually!) to write a 1-page oral history narrative. Students can come up with their own interview questions or use these as a starting point:

  • When and where were you born?

  • Where did you grow up?

  • What was life like for you as a kid?

  • What cultural traditions does your family keep up with?