4th Grade Activities
From cool card games that teach place value, to outdoor activities that introduce buoyancy, reading activities, writing, and more, we've got what you need to keep learning on the go. So, clear off the kitchen table and round up the family. Here's a stack of things to do with your fourth grader.
Take some butter, sugar, and a curious fourth grade chef, add some heat on the stove and some scientific principles about the different states of matter--and you can have a delicious batch of Toffee Science on your hands.
Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device that will produce a spark that you and your child can feel, see, and hear!
More activities for fourth grade:
Play Pantry Math!
Use what's stacked in your cupboard to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. Bust out that 3.3 lbs. bag of rice and that 3 1/3 lb. box of juice and go to town! Concrete objects bring math to life.
Go on a Kitchen Scavenger Hunt!
Toss those geometry worksheets! Kids learn about shapes best when they're in three-dimensional form.
Multiplication Math War
Play this fun card game with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.
How Big Is Your Bedroom? An Activity to Boost Measurement Skills
Kids love learning as it relates to the world around them, which is why this activity brings measurement skills home!
Guess What? A Writing Game
This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.
Be a Book Detective!
Even if your fourth grader can solve the mystery of the last missing cupcake, she probably still needs practice predicting story outcomes. This activity will teach her to use what she knows about a story in order to guess what's going to happen next!
Go on an Inch Hunt!
Kids these days, give them an inch...and they'll learn fourth grade math! This fun activity will help your child gain confidence in measurement by teaching her what's in an inch (answer: tons of stuff).
Make a Father Flipbook!
Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own father flip book! Take the letters of the word "father," and think of a great way to describe Dad with each letter.
Teach Decimals on a Budget
Not sure what to do with the catalogs piled high in your living room? Try this entertaining and educational math activity that will teach your fourth grader how to add and subtract decimals.
Send an Independence Day Post Card!
In school, fourth graders are taught about the historical developments in both their own communities and the United States, but many may fall short in understanding how this applies to their life today.
