Summer Reinforcement Packet Students Entering 4th Grade

Summer Reinforcement Packet Students Entering 4th Grade

Our third graders had a busy year learning new math skills. Mastery of all these skills is extremely important in order to develop a solid math foundation. The fourth grade math program will add onto these third grade skills, so any time spent learning or reinforcing these concepts will be very beneficial for your child. Each year builds upon the previous year's skills in math. Any areas your child had difficulty, you may want to give them additional practice. Student mastery of the basic math skills is as important to success in future mathematical procedures and reasoning as learning the alphabet is to reading and writing.

Have your child complete one page (one side) two-three times a week of the math packet. Please return this completed packet to your fourth grade teacher. The grade level that receives the largest percentage of summer packets returned will win a Free Dress Pass!

After your child has completed the math problems and you feel your child is still struggling on a certain concept and needs further practice, you can visit some of the websites listed on the next page. You can also make up problems of your own for additional practice.

Reminder: Practicing multiplication facts (up to 12) is very important!

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Excellent websites for fun learning and reinforcement of math skills:

Select "Play the game". Select addition or subtraction and grade. You can race to beat your time.

Click the red box, select math, select HSPMath, select Michigan, click on the ' l " ball or "2" ball for a challenge. Select a game. Addition Surprise, Addition Bricks, E-lab Number Patterns are very good.

go under "Flashcards" or "Game Room" on the left side of the screen. They can practice adding and subtracting.

Select Money then select Money Master, click on the US flag, select simple. Or you can select numbers then Math Trainer for adding and subtracting. Back at home screen select games and pick a game to play.

Select your state -- "Michigan" press submit. Select the student tab then click on the "mathematics" rectangle. Click in the center book "Houghton Mifflin Math 2007". Click on "Grade 1 ". Select any games. Extra Help and Extra Practice is good, also eGames.

illuminations. Select activities then select grade level. Click on Search.

At the top pick "First" or "Second" for a challenge. Choose any of the activities like adding or subtracting then select "play" option toward the top of the screen. 20 Questions and countdown games are good ones.

Lots of fun games to choose from.

Other games and activities you can play:

? Take a deck of cards and remove the face cards (kings, queens, jacks). Aces are one. Divide the cards evenly among 2 players. Each player flips over a card. The first one to add the 2 numbers correctly wins the cards. After going through the pile of cards, the player with the most cards wins. You can do a multiplication version also.

The math packet and reading project will be due on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, the first day of school.

4th Grade Summer Reading Book List

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

4th Grade Summer Reading Book Project

Choose a book from your grade selection. After reading your book for the summer, choose 1 of the project ideas below to complete. You will be expected to present your project to the class the first week of school. 1. Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. However you choose to present your interview is up to you. 2. Write a diary that one of the story's main characters might have kept before, during, or after the book's events. Remember that the character's thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary. 3. Create a newspaper for your book. Summarize the plot in one article, cover the weather in another, do a feature story on one of the more interesting characters in another. Include an editorial and a collection of ads that would be pertinent to the story.

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Entering Fourth Grade Summer Math Packet

First Name: _____________________________ Last Name: ____________________________

Fourth Grade Teacher: _____________________________________

I have checked the completed work: ______________________________ Parent Signature

DO NOT use a calculator when completing this packet.

1. Write the products: Practice any you do not know quickly.

X7

X8

X9

X11

X12

X6

X7

X8

X9

X11

X12

2. Mrs. Count was born in the year one thousand, nine hundred forty-two. In what year was she born? A. 1429 B. 1492

c. 1924

D. 1942

3. Which correctly completes the number sentences? 53,277 <

A. 49,999 B. 50,400 c. 52,388 D. 61,003

4. Which number is fifty-two thousand, three hundred nine? A. 5,239 B. 52,039 c. 52,309 D. 52,390

5. What is the digit in the ten-thousands place of the number 68,173?

6. What is the place value of the 8 in the number 5,280? A. ones B. tens C. hundreds D. thousands

7. Which number is equal to 5,912? A. 5 hundreds, 9 tens, and 12 ones B. 5 thousands, 91 hundreds, and 12 ones C. 5 thousands, 9 hundreds, and 12 ones D. 5 thousands, 9 hundreds, 1 ten, and 2 ones

8. The number 9,036 is equal to which of the following? A. 900 + 30 +6 B. 90+30+6 C. 9000+30 +6

9. Which number means 7 thousands, 4 tens and 5 ones? A. 745 B. 7,045 c. 7,450

10. Which number goes in the blank to make the statement below true? 5,642 ................
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