GRADES 4 - 6

All students in Grades 4-6 can participate in the following activities to strengthen their skills in both Literacy and Numeracy.

READ AT LEAST 10-15 MINUTES EVERY DAY.

The more you read, the better reader you become! Read what you love.

Choose different things to read so you will grow as a reader and writer.

You can read all types of text (fiction, non-fiction, poetry), recipes, newspapers, magazines, food packaging (especially for directions), manuals, maps, etc.

You can read your own writing as well as that of others.

There are times when reading silently is best and times when reading aloud or even together with a partner is a better choice.

The most important thing about reading is doing it!

Remember to use the reading strategies you have been taught:

Make Connections:

Text to text, text to self, text to the world (consider how this reminds you of your life, the things you do, other books, shows and games you have read or seen, and things you know or information you have heard on the news);

Visualize — create pictures in your mind;

Infer — consider the meaning of words, expressions and events in the text;

Question — ask questions as you read;

Predict- think about what will happen next;

Summarize — retell/ find the main ideas.

We also “read” when we watch movies, shows, webpages, etc.

Reading strategies help us make sense of what we are reading/viewing.

Remember to talk about your thinking and what you are doing.

WRITE EVERY DAY

It’s important that you write every day. Reading improves writing and writing improves reading. Choose one writing activity each day. For example, you can:

• Complete one of the writing/creating tasks from the Literacy choice activities in the grade level lists.

• Write, draw or talk to someone about what you read/viewed during the day. This response can be a retelling or summarizing of what was read /viewed, a connection to the text, a picture of the text, a prediction/guess about what will happen next, or a list of questions that were thought about during the reading/ viewing.

• Write, draw or talk to someone about the answers to one or two of the following questions: What did you do to become a better reader today? How did that reading make you more knowledgeable? What did you learn? What new ideas do you have?

• Write/draw about something in math — for example, you can find ten rectangles from where you are sitting and write about how they are the same and how they are different or how to solve a problem or the steps used to attempt the problem.

• Some people like to keep a diary or journal and choose to write /draw/ doodle about what happened to them or what they are thinking, feeling or wondering. Start your own diary. You may want to keep a writing journal. Journals can be a notebook, a pad of paper or paper sheets grouped together. Be creative and create a cover for your journal! A journal is a suggestion and is not something that you have to have.

It’s not important what you write about as long as you write/create every day. If you don’t have things to write with or write on, talk about your ideas instead.

CREATING MATH MATERIALS FOR GR 4-6 ACTIVITIES

Save materials to use each week! Digit Cards: Use a package of playing cards (if available): Ace represents 1 and cards 2- 9. Playing card decks have four sets of 1 -9 cards. Some activities require multiple sets of cards. If you do not have playing cards you can get creative and make your own digit cards. Cut out pieces of paper or cardboard

(IDEAS: use cardboard cereal box; use rocks and markers/paint/ colors to put numbers on them). Print one digit on each card or rock: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Make four sets (1-9) cards.

Fraction Cards:

Use your digit cards to create fractions. One number card will be the numerator (top) and one will be the denominator (bottom).

Multiplication Table:

There is a multiplication table in the Grade 5 section of this package. Cut it out and save this table!

DAILY MENTAL MATH WARM-UP IDEAS:

Choose from the listed activities and do about 5 minutes of mental math before, during or after your math time. Use your created digit cards or deck of cards.

Multiplication: flip two cards and multiply the numbers.

Addition: flip 2 sets of 4 cards and add the two numbers.

Subtraction: flip 2 numbers to subtract.

Division: flip 2 sets of cards to divide.