Super
Summer
Packet
2015
To rescue your summer!
For Students entering 4th Grade
THE RHODES SCHOOL
June 2015
Dear Parents,
Our students have had a busy year learning new Reading and Math skills. Mastery of all these skills is extremely important in order to develop a solid foundation. The Rhodes School is dedicated to assisting in this developmental process. We believe time spent learning and reinforcing these concepts will be very beneficial for your child. As you prepare for your summer schedule, please take a few minutes to schedule time for reading and math activities. Research is clear, students can experience “summer loss” that can be equivalent to three months of learning if they don’t practice learned skills throughout the summer.
Please see below for the specific instructions on how your child should complete their Summer Packet and what components they will be responsible to return on the first week of school.
Math
Þ Choose 3 activities each week to complete.
Þ Provide a quiet, organized work space to help your student stay focused.
Þ It’s ok if you or other adults provide assistance.
We expect your student to create something to reflect an activity from their Summer Math Packets to turn in to their math teacher the first week of school.
Reading
* In this packet, we are providing a story or novel to “jump start” your child’s summer reading activities.
Þ Read 60 minutes a week (Pre-K4 through 2nd grade); 120 minutes a week (3rd – 6th grade)
Þ Select four books from the suggested reading list.
Þ Pick a different activity to go with each book.
Þ In addition to reading, complete three leisure activities each week.
We expect your student to create something to reflect their book selection, to turn in to their reading teacher the first week of school.
Thank you for encouraging your student to grow as a Rhodes School Scholar over the summer!
If you have any questions, you may contact:
Rhodes School Staff
281-459-9797
Grade 4 Mathematics Choice Board
Directions: Choose 3 learning activities from the menu to complete, each week.
1. Find at least three examples of fractional pictures in magazines. Cut and paste the pictures onto your paper. Write a description under each picture. / 2. Create and illustrate a couple of pages of a book to demonstrate examples of eating equivalent fractions.½ pizza = 2/4 pizza / 3. Use graham crackers to create a model to show an example of equivalent fractions. Label the equivalent fractions. Prepare a speech to tell the class about your model.
4. Survey twelve or more students about their favorite item: (i.e. color, food, sports team, etc.) Compare two of the fractions to describe which is largest or smallest. / 5. Choose a recipe from a cookbook (online). Look for fractions (ie: ½ ) and draw a picture model of the fractions in the recipe. Rewrite the entire recipe with picture models for fractions. / 6. Use a hundreds chart. Color the even numbers one color. Color the odd numbers a different color. Use at least 3 sentences to explain the patterns that you see. Then, explain the difference between even and odd numbers
7. Roll two dice and create a fraction. Roll again and create another fraction. Draw a number line to show both fractions and compare them. This game can be played against a family member. / 8. Create a math rap or
rhyme that will help
someone remember
the difference between odd and even numbers. / 9. Survey your family (What’s your favorite TV show? Favorite song?) Create a tally chart and dot plot to match your data.
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Grades 4 Mathematics Choice Board
Directions: Choose 3 learning activities from the menu to complete, each week.
1.) Design a book that displays a set of multiplication facts. On each page, illustrate that fact with an animal picture representation. For example: show five poison dart frogs with eight spots each. This could represent 5X8=40.)*Don’t go beyond 10 x 10 / 2.) Observe a food box or food label. Identify the fat grams. Create a table that explains how many grams of fat there would be for one, two, three servings. Can you identify a multiplication pattern? Repeat with another product. / 3.) Write a letter to students coming to 3rd grade, explaining to them why it’s important to know their multiplication facts. In your letter, persuade them using real life of examples of when multiplication is used and what it means.
4.) Use a deck of cards. With a partner flip over one card at a time. The first person to tell the product of the two cards (facts), wins that set of cards. Continue playing until one person has the most cards. / 5.) Design your own city using grid paper as the blueprint of your city. Calculate and explain the total area of your city using multiplication arrays. / 6.) Write this number:
-There is a 1 in the hundred thousand place.
-The digit in the ten thousands place is 3 times greater than the digit in the thousands place.
-The digit in the thousands place is a hand without a thumb.
-All other place values have a zero.
*Make your own riddle
7.) Make a list of events you participate in (brushing your teeth, little league football, dance practice).
Add the time intervals for two events (15 minute + 30 minute) / 8.) Identify the meanings for factor, product, divisor, dividend, and quotient. Create a crossword puzzle that gives a definition for each of these math terms that students can solve! / 9.) Count a collection of coins and bills to find the value.
Grades 4 Reading Choice Board
Write a postcard to the author. How did you like the book? What would you ask? / Write a short skit about a major event in a book you are reading making sure to show the voice of each character. / Create a character from a book you read this summer. Draw and/or use materials to make the character from the book.Think of three explaining questions and three inferring questions for the text. Write them on the squares of the question cube template. Cut around the edges, fold, and tape together. / Use your imagination! Create your own craft to show the characters, setting, rising action, problem or conflict, falling action and resolution of the book you read. (Create a plot line!) / Father’s Day is in June. Design a Father’s Day card from the point of view of a character in the book for that character’s father.
Write a short skit about a major event in a book you are reading making sure to show the voice of each character. / Good readers always visualize the events in a story as they read.
Illustrate your favorite part you read today. Include details in your illustration. * Explain why you like it! / Cut strips of construction paper. Write one main idea or event from the book on each strip. Link them together (in order) to form a paper chain.