Playlist: Fourth Grade Reading
Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season
Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
Bobbing for Apples
What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?
A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong
Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?
Word Pyramids
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?
Word Ladders Introduction
You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.
Writing A Thanksgiving Letter
What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?
Remixing A Holiday Poem
Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!
Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)
Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.
Paragraphs: Systems of Sentences
Blow up a paragraph into individual sentences. Now reassemble it. The clues hiding in each sentence will surprise you.
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Investigating Christmas Trees
Start with facts about Christmas trees. Group them. Label them. Can you boil it all down to one big idea?
Greekymon
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.