Fourth grade projects

Fun with personification in my fourth grade classroom today! I read the children's book, The Little Red Pen, which is filled with examples of personification, and then the students wrote their own sentences bringing an object to life. They loved it!

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Book reports don't need to be painfully boring. In fact, they can be a ton of fun! Here are 10 creative book report ideas to use in your classroom.

I'm always trying to come up with fun new ways to have students do what are usually considered boring activities, like writing a summary of a book. In my latest novel unit on Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, I wanted to come up with an end-of-unit project that wo

This hands-on geometry activity is the perfect way to incorporate art into your elementary classroom! Stained glass creations are a fantastic art extension activity appropriate for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade! Students can use pattern blocks to complete the mini math geometry project and then turn their design into a masterpiece! Great closure activity for second, third, and fourth grade classes.

In an era of high stakes testing, art is sometimes the first thing to go but we as teachers need to find ways to continue providing art experiences for our students. Not only is art just plain fun, and let's face it, kids do need fun, but it's much more than that. Art is beneficial in so many ways! Find out ways to incorporate art in this post by The Teacher Next Door.

This Animal Report can be used for ANY animal. It is a great way to help elementary students research and write about animals. Students participate in

4th grade writing- Idioms describing emotions

Are you looking to elevate your Ecosystems and Biomes unit? This 4th or 5th grade project based learning unit for ecosystems incorporates science, nonfiction reading, research, writing, and the arts! Read to find out how I organized the research project, what our launch activity was, the driving que

Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.