grade 4
SEL: Anger Management
Your child will evaluate their style of anger and develop a plan for healthy anger management.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- 3 activities: what bothers your child, how do people around them and how do they show their anger, and how do they want to be angry?
Fun: Crest and Personal Motto
This lesson can be enormous.
I simplified it and within this lesson there are two ways you can go.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Special message to parent about ways to deepen activity.
- Step by step to help your child evaluate what they value to create a personalized motto.
- 5 activities: evaluation and choosing values, reflection of why those values, imagery of words to images, creating a motto, creating a crest
Grammar: Hyperboles and Prepositions
In this lesson I teach your child how to identify a preposition so that they only have to memorize 8 (of the 34)!
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Answer sheets.
- 4 activities: 3 of the activities are the exact same sheet, I just walk you through step by step: hyperboles, preposition, prepositional phrase, object of preposition, and subject and predicate of the sentence (after deleting the prepositional phrases)
Writing: Writing Prompts and Change the Ending
Writing prompts are the best way to have your child become comfortable with writing.
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- 11 writing prompts, this could be two weeks worth of activities.
- Change the ending writing activity.
- “The Possum’s Tale” while a seemingly simple children’s story, has heavy undertones of bullying. Change the ending allows your child to remedy a situation if they feel it needs to be done.
Comprehension: Cause and Effect and Inference
Cause and effect are important to understand, they were introduced in 2nd grade and we are expanding on them here.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- Answer sheets.
- 4 activities: cause and effect: choose from given sentences, cause and effect; nursery rhymes, inferences: jobs and inferences: animals.
digital possums
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON
- Lesson plan with learning objectives
- Answers vary, however, cause and effect answer sheet is given for ideas
- 3 activities: the who, what, and where, write 5 events that occurred in the story, and cause + emotion + effect