Fourth and Fifth Grade: Tips and Activities
Looking for ways to help your child learn important skills? Try some of these tips and activities.
How to Keep Reading With Your Child
Support your child's reading skills by reading aloud, listening to your child read and discussing vocabulary.
Help With Writing at Home
Use these strategies to help your child with his writing.
Connect Food and Literature
In this activity your child chooses a recipe to make that goes along with a book she has read.
Write a Menu
Next time you go out to eat, try this fun exercise to help build language skills.
How to Help With Math Homework
Use these helpful tips to guide your child with his math homework.
Tips to Integrate Technology at Home
Help your child learn to use technology by integrating it into her daily life.
The History of Food
In this social studies activity your child researches the origins of a particular food.
Math Tips for Home
Help your child have a positive outlook on math with these strategies.
Recipe Ratios
Teach your child about proportion and ratio by increasing and decreasing the amounts for a recipe.
Promote Science at Home
Here are tips for helping your child engage in scientific thinking.
Be A Travel Agent
Have your child plan a real or virtual trip.
Make a Movie
In this activity your child has a chance to be a writer, director and actor.
Make Social Studies Come Alive
Here are tips for helping your child learn to love social studies.
Art Tips for Home
Try these strategies to develop your child's arts savvy.
Encourage the Arts for Fourth-Graders
Here are some easy ways you can encourage the artist in your fourth-grader.
Encourage the Arts for Fifth-Graders
Try these easy suggestions for encouraging the budding artist in your fifth-grader.
Encourage Physical Activity at Home
These tips will help you find the right physical activity for your child to keep him fit.
Design a Book Jacket
In this activity your child designs a book jacket to summarize the main ideas of a story he has read.
Write a Diamante Poem
Have your child write a line poem in the shape of a diamond.
Bedroom to Scale
Have your child explore measurement by drawing his bedroom to scale.
Sock Probabilty
In this activity your child explores prediction and probability using different colored socks.
Cause and Effect Game
In this activity your child learns about cause and effect.
Make a Bread Mold Garden!
Your child can practice skills of observation with this science experiment.
Needs and Wants
Help your child learn to manage money by teaching her the difference between what one needs and what one wants.
Exploration of Emotions
Help your fourth- or fifth-grader learn to express his emotions.
