Printable Workbook:

• 4th Grade: English and Spanish

OFFLINE Activities - 2 per week

• While doing physical activities (e.g. going up and down stairs, walking from one end of a room to another, hopping, jumping jacks, etc.), keep track by counting by different multiples (e.g. 10s, 100s, or 1,000s) both forwards and backwards. Lots of children find counting backwards challenging as they are used to a forward counting sequence, so this is a good time to get some practice in. You could also switch the count mid-way (e.g. starting counting by 10s, then switch to counting by 100s, then back to 10s).

• Make a multiplication chart on a spare sheet of paper. If you need a challenge mix up the numbers on the side before you start.

• Have your child estimate costs (Do you think we will have enough to get...?) and practice addition and subtraction (How much will these two items cost together?, How much change should you get?, How much more expensive is this than that?). Practice rounding the costs of items. Grab a handful of coins and figure out the total value, or explore the similarities and differences between any foreign currencies you have.

• Create collections of things around the home (e.g. pasta, paper clips, coins, Legos) and have your child make an initial estimate of the number of things in each collection. Then, have them refine their estimation using strategies like finding what ten or hundred looks like and comparing what you are estimating to the ten/hundred, clump counting, or scooping and count.

• Building with blocks, Lego, or other loose parts (e.g. coins, pebbles) all help develop spatial reasoning and can be an opportunity to explore ideas like symmetry. Mazes, jigsaw puzzles, origami, pentominoes and tangrams are also great. Finally, have your child read or draw some maps! Mapping helps children develop their spatial reasoning skills and make sense of their world.

Videos:

• Perimeter & Area. This Khan Academy video explains how to find the area and perimeter of a square and rectangle.

Websites:

• Area and Perimeter. Math Playground has your child use rulers to measure rectangles and then find the area and perimeter.

Printable Resources:

• 4^th Grade Perimeter Worksheet: English and Spanish

• 4^th Grade Area Worksheet: English and Spanish

• 4^th Grade Area and Perimeter Worksheet: English and Spanish

Students are currently working on: Is it Living?

Activity Direction/Notes

STEMScopes:

Science Activities

Scholastic

• Science Videos

Other Free Web Resources:

• Life Cycle of Animals

• NatGeo Kids: The Butterfly Life Cycle

• Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

• iNaturalist and Seek by iNaturalist

OFFLINE Activities- 1 per week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 2 plants and 2 animals. Write about: What does each organism need to survive? Sentence stem: "In order to survive, ______ needs..."

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook. Draw the appearance of the moon each night. Write down or draw out your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night. Write about: What kind of weather is your favorite? Why? Sentence stem: "My favorite weather is... because..."

• Work with a parent to find a recipe and follow the steps to make that recipe. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared food.

• Write about: What did you like about cooking this recipe? How would you change it to make it better? Sentence Stem: " I liked... To make it better, I would..."

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house. Make a list of what is magnetic and not magnetic. Write about: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right.

• Write about: Think about the items' mass. What did you notice about the about items that sink? Items that float?

• Go outside. Get a collection of 3-5 rocks. Draw them in your notebook. Describe their texture, color, shape and size. Sort the rocks in order based on a trait of your choice.

• Get your notebook. Go outside and draw 3 different shadows. What time of day is it? Morning, noon and night? What direction is the shadow facing? Where is the sun in the sky? (DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!) Write about: Why do you think shadow length changes during the day?

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 1 per week

• Create a journal for you to record your daily activities, thoughts, and experiences during this historical period. Include illustrations, share your feelings about what is happening, and create your own primary source document that you can refer to in the future. You should write in your journal 5-15 minutes per day.

• Draw a map of Texas that shows the cities and/or counties that have the most cases of the Corona Virus. Illustrate your map. Be sure to create a legend that shows the numbers as accurately as possible. Use information from the news to help you create your map.

• Talk to the oldest person in your home and ask them to share their history with you. Create a timeline of their life so far. Be sure to include the major historical events that have occurred in their lifetime - as well as your birth.

• Write a short story about how Texas came to be - a story you can read to a younger sibling or someone else in your family. Illustrate your story, and then read it to your family.

• Talk to the person in your family who usually does the shopping. Ask that person to list five items that cost more now than they did before we had to stay at home. Write them down with their cost. Then explain why you think the price has gone up.

• Think about the challenges the state, nation, and world are having in combatting the Corona Virus especially in dealing with the shortages of medical equipment, tests, and a cure. Consider your family's greatest challenge during this time. If you were tasked with finding solutions to one, any, or all of these, where would you start? Write a plan to combat one of the challenges we’re facing today and offer your solution.

• Create a mural using your drawings and/or cut out pictures from magazines or newspapers that tell the story of what’s happening in our state right now with the shelter in place order(s). Be sure to include the helpers, government, those impacted by the virus – anyone that is involved. Title your piece of work.

• Talk to an adult in your household about what the Census is. How does it help us as citizens? What does the government do with the information? Has your family completed it yet Have a detailed conversation about it.

• Who are three people you've learned about so far in Texas history? Choose one, and using the first letter of their last name, write an acrostic poem that honors their contribution to our state's history.

• Think about all the trains and railroad tracks you see in your day to day travels. Write a paragraph about how trains changed the way people lived in Texas. Be sure to include what purpose they originally served and how they continue to provide essential services for our state. Also have you ever ridden on a train? If not, why do you think people don't ride on trains as much as they used to?

• Why are oil and gas important to the Texas economy? Talk to the driver(s) in your family and ask them how oil and gas influence your family's life. Create a T-chart that compares and contrasts how oil and gas help the State of Texas and how oil and gas help your family. Also include how oil and gas affect the environment.

• Who is the Governor of Texas? What is he doing to help our area fight the Corona Virus and to help people who may be getting sick? Talk your answer over with someone in your household before you write it down.

• Create an illustrated timeline of each day you're home from school. Add an event from the news plus events you do. Draw pictures to make the timeline come alive. Create a title for your timeline.

• At this time, elderly people in retirement homes are not allowed to have any kind of visitors. Do you have any elderly family members you can't visit right now? If so, choose one to write a letter and share what you've been doing. Be sure to tell them you miss them too.

• Create an illustrated timeline of Texas history that includes the following time periods: Texas Tribes Rule the Land, Exploration & Establishment of Missions, Texas Revolution, Texas Annexation, US Mexican War, Civil War, World War I, Great Depression, World War II, Modern Texas. Include as many dates as you can remember, and choose three time eras to summarize.

• Using pictures and/or word art you draw or cut out from magazines, create a mural honoring your cultural background.

• Watch Arthur on KLRU. What was the main lesson learned in the episode you watched? Describe that to a household member.

• Choose to watch Texas Parks and Wildlife or Day Tripper on KLRU. Then write a summary of what you learned.

• Are you practicing good citizenship right now by staying six feet away (social distancing)from strangers and staying at home? Why is it important for you and others to practice these traits and follow the government's guidelines right now?

• Create a survey that you can give your family asking them whether we should return to school at all this year. Plot your responses on a graph.