Celebrate National Fourth Graders Day on January 8th because 4th Graders rock! 1. Let the kids decorate their desks! Students could pick a theme such as winter, stars, turtles, the color pink, sports, etc. They can bring in items to decorate from home. You could also provide some craft supplies and ask colleagues if they have any craft supplies they no longer need. 2. Dress alike. Ask the kids to wear jeans and a black (or whatever color you want) shirt. Just for fun add cheap sunglasses or bead necklaces. If you have time and resources, you could buy 4th Grade Rocks T-shirts. Remember to take pictures! 3. Create a hallway display. This rock star theme bulletin board would work well. The banner reads 4th Grade Rocks. Print the Meet the Star information sheets for students to complete. Hang them up in the hall under the banner. Take and print photos of each student to add to the display. 4. Conduct surveys and create graphs of Fourth Grade Favorites. Have the 4th graders in your school complete a survey about favorites. Survey favorite ice cream flavor, sport, food, beverage, color, animal, TV show, movie, season, etc. Pairs of students could then graph results. Display the completed projects! 5. Read or start to read a 4th Grade novel. Try Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. 6. Make a rock garden. Purchase some large rocks. You could ask for a donation of enough rocks for your class or ask for a teacher discount. Have students trace around their rock on paper and use the tracing to plan their design. Then break out the paints and let the creativity flow. Allow the paint to dry, and then have students place their rocks outside in the area you have designated. Complete this activity year after year with your students, and watch the rock garden grow! 7. Write a poem. A cinquain-type poem about 4th Grade would be fun! Cinquain goes like this: Line 1 - One noun Line 2 - Two adjectives Line 3 - Three ing words Line 4 - Four feeling words (or a 4-word feeling phrase) Line 5 - Another word for the noun Here's an example: Fourth-Grader Funny, smart Laughing, thinking, creating Happy to be here Student 8. Interview a 4th grader. Don't teach 4th grade? No problem! Have your students prepare questions and arrange to meet with a 4th-grade class. Pair students up and let the interviews begin! Afterward, students can share a newsroom-type report. For 4 More National 4th Graders Day Ideas, click HERE! Have fun celebrating amazing 4th Graders! Are you a subscriber yet? FREE Activity for new subscribers: Sign up for the Fourth Grade Frenzy newsletter! Click the star to follow my TpT store! ⭐
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©Depositphotos.com/@tomwang Multiplication is so important for third grade. It is imperative that students know the facts so that they can focus on higher level math tasks in fourth grade and beyond. We've already discussed some of the key ways to ensure that students understand how multiplication works (see the post and get a freebie HERE). Now the question is... how do we get them to memorize 8 x 7 = 56? See how I used the word memorize? Some educators will tell you that this is the wrong word. They like to use fluency instead, or maybe automaticity. Memorization connotes, to some, a type of rote learning that the Common Core State Standards are trying to move us away from. But here is what the standards say: Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. (3.OA.7) If the understanding comes first, as it should, then memorizing is what the students need to do, so that they can become fluent, and have automaticity. There. See how they can all come together? I particularly like this definition from the online psychology dictionary: ©Depositphotos/@BestPhotoStudio Think about riding a bike. It took work to learn how, and a lot of practice to do it well. You had to think about balance, and steering straight, and moving your feet on the pedals. Those training wheels really helped! And when you finally got everything working together, it took practice to get to the point where it no longer required conscious effort. (And it was wonderful!) This is what we want to do with multiplication facts. So what does this mean for the classroom? It means that students must be given time, in class, to practice their multiplication facts. In more than one way! They should also be practicing at home. And then we need a way to assess their _______________ (insert your favorite word here: fluency, automaticity, or memorization). But let's give them some training wheels (scaffolds) - like the "Secret Code" to begin with. Finally, let's give them an incentive, something that keeps them engaged and excited in the learning process. Click on the picture to download for FREE from TpT Step 1: Tell students about the "Secret Codes" that will help them learn their facts. Eight-year-olds love secrets! (Some of them will know that it's only skip-counting... but they'll still have fun with it.) Study them closely, decipher them, and look for patterns together. Then practice them! Write them down, say them together, get in a circle and have each person say a number in order (We play a game called "Sparkle" with them). Write them in a multiplication chart, so students can see how many they already know. You can even sing them... but that's another post. Step 2: Practice, Practice, Practice! Practice the multiplication facts in many different ways. We use regular flash cards, which they take home to practice every night. There are tons of computer games, iPad apps, card games, multiplication charts, dice games, free worksheet generators, etc. Find the ones you like. Here are a few of my favorites: These can be purchased on Amazon. These are fabulous cards for practicing and understanding fact families! Cover the top number for multiplication practice, and one of the bottom numbers for division. (I bought these from Amazon.com) Click the picture to try this computer game! Math Magician Games - put a link on your student computers. Click on multiplication or division to practice any set of facts from ones to tens. Students try to answer 20 questions in one minute. (My students love this one, and it's free!) They can print a certificate when they pass. Show a video! Here's a student explaining multiplication memorization, and why it's not so hard (3:49) Click on the picture to see this paid product on TpT The following pages are from my Multiplication Memorization Tool Kit. Click on any picture to see the kit in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. It has over 100 pages of multiplication memorization magic! (There is a cost for this product, since it took me eight years to make...) Ice Cream Cone Fluency Practice My students love to practice with dry erase markers. We put these ice cream cones into page protectors, and they use them at a math station. These can be differentiated by having students work with different factors in the middle. One version has the factors in order, the other has them mixed up. Secret Code Mazes My students love these! They have to follow the code (x1 to x10) four times in a row to get to the end. Partner Dice Games This is one of the games in my Multiplication kit. They use two dice and go up to 6x6. These make a great math center when placed inside a plastic page protector and played with dry erase markers or game tokens. Multiplication Homework I have three different pages of practice that are easily differentiated. Perfect for students who need extra practice or have not quite mastered certain multiplication facts. Step 3: Assess with scaffolds. Make sure students have a strategy for the facts you are testing! Van de Walle states that a drill without an efficient strategy is a waste of time, but an effective drill strengthens memory and retrieval capabilities. Let them take a practice timed test, but have them write the "Secret Code" down the side. Set the timer to count up from zero, and have them write the time it took to finish. When they do it again the next day, they can try to beat their previous time. (I use the online timer HERE) Step 4: Finally, assess with a timed test. By this time the hope is that they will have memorized the set of facts you are working on. I use my own timed tests from my Multiplication Tool Kit, because they have a built in review section at the bottom of the page. (What good is remembering the fours if you have forgotten all of the threes?) There are also many that you can find for free, on TpT or using a Google search. I give my students a week to memorize each set of facts (we have already been working on understanding multiplication for at least a month by the time we start this process). I keep track of the class on a word document that shows when they have passed the test and the regular flash cards. Click on the picture to see my Ice Cream Incentive Program on TpT Step 5: Whew! If you've made it this far, thanks! Now comes the reward. When students pass the timed test and the flash cards, they earn a part of their ice cream sundae. I have the pieces copied onto colored construction paper, and they cut it out and glue it onto their sundae on the wall. They LOVE to glue each part on - and to show it to their parents at conference time! When the ten (or more) weeks of multiplication memorization are completed, we have a huge party. I invite parents to provide the goodies, and to help scoop ice cream, squirt syrup, sprinkle sprinkles, spray whipped cream, etc. I work in a high poverty district, but we have always had parents willing to help their children celebrate this milestone. My teaching partner and I have had considerable success with variations on this process for the last eight years. I'm sure there are many other (and maybe better) ways to lead students to multiplication fluency, automaticity, and memorization... but this has worked well for us. Plus, we get ice cream! p.s. 8x7 used to be difficult for me to remember, until I thought about the order of the digits: 56 = 7x8. Now it's my favorite fact to teach =) Happy Multiplication Fact Teaching,
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Use these 14 new summer writing prompts for 4th graders because keeping a summer journal is an excellent way to improve your child's writing skills.
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You’ve been working all year on prepping for the state test… but once it’s over, what do you do now? Whether you still have weeks or just days left of the school year, you’re going to want to keep your students engaged. Keep reading to learn about 3 end of year activities that my students
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Hello, 4th students! Have you ever wondered why certain words appear to be more difficult to read than others? Thats when sight words come in handy! Sight words are words that we can recognize merely by looking at them.
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Are you looking for a fun, creative back to school or first day of school activity? ALL ABOUT ME: SOCIAL STUDIES EDITION is a fantastic way to get to know your social studies students at the beginning of the year! This resource works fabulously with 4th graders - 8th graders, but can also be used at the high school level (big kids love it too...). This activity is not only a wonderful way for you to get to know your students, but for their classmates to get to know them as well! In addition, your students' creativity will shine and you will begin to build your classroom community around social studies with this ice-breaker! This activity can be done in stations (included), independently, and/or in partnerships. ✷ The best part...basically ZERO prep :) ✷ INCLUDED: ♥ Teacher Guide ♥ Student All About Me: Social Studies Edition printout ♥ Student Example ♥ 9 Station Signs A few reasons I LOVE this activity for the first week of school are: ♥ It gets the kids working as partners (and hopefully meeting new kids) ♥ Students are out of their seats, moving around the room. ♥ Students learn about their environment and classroom by finding each of the 8 stations ♥ Students get to know each other in a unique way (...beyond the 2 truths and a lie or "what is your favorite color") ♥ Teachers and paraprofessionals get to know students in a fun, interactive way. ♥ Students are able to showcase their creativity, use colors, and display their individuality. ♥ My #1 reason - This activity builds community! This is a great SEL activity for a social studies classroom or a general education classroom. If you LOVED this resource, check out: All About Me: Math Edition All About Me: Readers Edition All About me: Science Edition All About Me: Geography/Social Studies All About me: BUNDLE - Math, Science, & Reading
Math vocabulary is reinforced with these quick and fun activities designed to build fluency! My 4th graders are loving these activities! Your students will too! Fluency in multiplication is essential! I have designed this pack to help our students achieve the fluency necessary to be successful in math, and beyond! You will get: Tips for Teachers Illustrated vocabulary posters 20 activities 2 "create your own" activities 10 Timed Challenges CC Standards Poster Class Data Table- for your DATA WALL! Individual data table and some motivated students;) *Did you know? You can get TPT credit to use on future purchases. Go to your My Purchases page. You'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and give a quick rating and/or comment. Every time you give feedback, you earn TPT credits that you can use toward future purchases. Your feedback is so important and greatly appreciated! *Look for the green star next to my logo and click to FOLLOW ME! THANK YOU & HAPPY TEACHING! - Elena FIND ME pinterest
I’m here to share a fraction anchor chart freebie and a hands-on mini lesson idea I used with my math intervention students. When we started our unit on fractions and did our pre-assessments, I quickly learned that I have a small group of students who need quite a bit of intervention. Unfortunately, many of them...
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Double sided printable flashcards for multiplication with the answers on the back. Easy to print at home. Using for only a few minutes a day helps kids master the times tables and retain to memory.
This is a 20 question analogies worksheet. It is good for practice, review, or even as a quiz. Analogies range in difficulty. It was designed with 4th graders in mind, but can be used with lower grades or even upper grades. Answers may vary.•Answer key included !We appreciate your comments and ratin...
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