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As you are aware, gains are made by practicing.  As the saying goes, “Practice makes progress.”  Research shows that practice is necessary to master strategies critical for success in language arts and mathematics.  We encourage your child to work on some/all of the following activities during the summer to ensure continued growth.

 

  

 

Recommended Optional Summer Work 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some additional resources for the summer:

 

 

 

MATH

 

 

 

4th Grade Games by Standard.pdf

 

These games are printable and can be played at home.

 

 

 

 

 

Prodigy

 

Prodigy is a free, video game-style math game that has been proven to improve student scores and confidence.  

 

 

 

 

 

Multiplication Squares

 

This game uses strategy to practice multiplication facts.  You can find directions and the printable board at the site.

 

 

 

 

 

The Math Page
This page contains links to several lessons, examples, and practice problems.

 

 

 


Arcademic Skill Builiders
Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more!

 

 

 


Kids Math
Various math games

 

 

 

 

 

Math Chimp
Math Chimp was created by educators and is ideal for children, parents and teachers. MathChimp.com is the home to the highest quality math games, videos & worksheets online. All of our activities are aligned to the Common Core Standards. Our mission is to provide engaging and helpful Common Core activities for 1st through 8th grade. 

 

 

Sheppard Software 

 

Hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes, articles, and more!

 

 

 


READING

 

 

 

Into the Book

 

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't know what to read, take a look at these:

 

 

 

 

 

 - Geronimo Stilton Series (https://geronimostilton.com/US-en/home/)

 

  

 

 

 

- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book Series (https://rickriordan.com/series/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians/#)

 

- Holes

 

(Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

 


It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.)

 

 

 

 

 

- Wonder 

 

( August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.  )

 

 

 

- Maniac Magee

 

( A homeless orphan becomes a legend in a town divided by racism in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always exciting story. Jeffrey Magee’s exploits may have made him famous, but reconciling a town filled with hate and finding a decent life for himself may be more than even he can manage. )

 

 

 


- The Phantom Tollbooth

 

(For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!)

 

 

 

 

 

- A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

 

(In the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, and they must time travel to Camazotz to save him. Now a major motion picture!

 


In A Wind in the Door, Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (their grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. and battle to save Charles's life—as well as the balance of the universe.

And in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Meg's brother Charles Wallace has twenty-four hours to stop the tragedy of nuclear war from occurring. Read the iconic novels that continue to inspire millions of fans around the world.)