IXL Summer Adventures skill plan

IXL Summer Adventures skill plan - 4th grade

Get students exploring new topics this summer with these hand-picked skills, organized around fun daily themes!

Days
Day 1: Amazing animals		1. Read about animals 2. Construct animal life cycle diagrams 3. Benefits of group behavior: African wild dogs 4. Form compound words with pictures
Day 1: Amazing animals
1. Read about animals 2. Construct animal life cycle diagrams 3. Benefits of group behavior: African wild dogs 4. Form compound words with pictures

Day 2: Business and innovations		1. Purchases - do you have enough money - up to $10 2. Read about business and technology 3. Understand overall supply and demand 4. John Deere
Day 2: Business and innovations
1. Purchases - do you have enough money - up to $10 2. Read about business and technology 3. Understand overall supply and demand 4. John Deere

Day 3: Times time		1. Multiplication facts up to 10 2. Multiplication facts up to 10: sorting 3. Multiply to find the area of a rectangle made of unit squares 4. Create rectangles with a given area
Day 3: Times time
1. Multiplication facts up to 10 2. Multiplication facts up to 10: sorting 3. Multiply to find the area of a rectangle made of unit squares 4. Create rectangles with a given area

Day 4: Destination unknown		1. Correct errors with signs 2. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 3. Use a letter-number grid 4. Read a map: cardinal directions
Day 4: Destination unknown
1. Correct errors with signs 2. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 3. Use a letter-number grid 4. Read a map: cardinal directions

Day 5: Pictographs		1. Interpret pictographs 2. Create pictographs Activity: Make your own pictograph! Pick a topic, like favorite color or favorite pizza topping, and survey your friends and family members. Then graph the results.
Day 5: Pictographs
1. Interpret pictographs 2. Create pictographs Activity: Make your own pictograph! Pick a topic, like favorite color or favorite pizza topping, and survey your friends and family members. Then graph the results.

Day 6: Divide it up		1. Division facts up to 10 2. Division facts up to 10: sorting 3. Divisibility rules for 2, 5, and 10 4. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
Day 6: Divide it up
1. Division facts up to 10 2. Division facts up to 10: sorting 3. Divisibility rules for 2, 5, and 10 4. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review

Day 7: Show and tell		1. Read historical fiction with illustrations 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Create varied sentences based on models 4. Which picture shows more?
Day 7: Show and tell
1. Read historical fiction with illustrations 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Create varied sentences based on models 4. Which picture shows more?

Day 8: It's raining data		1. Use bar graphs to solve problems 2. Create bar graphs 3. Collect and graph temperature data 4. Use data to describe U.S. climates
Day 8: It's raining data
1. Use bar graphs to solve problems 2. Create bar graphs 3. Collect and graph temperature data 4. Use data to describe U.S. climates

Day 9: Food & holidays		1. Compare fractions in recipes 2. Read about food 3. Lunar New Year 4. Holi
Day 9: Food & holidays
1. Compare fractions in recipes 2. Read about food 3. Lunar New Year 4. Holi

Day 10: Famous places		1. Read about famous places 2. Mount Rushmore Activity: Write a paragraph about a famous place that you'd like to visit. Why did you pick this place? What would you do there?
Day 10: Famous places
1. Read about famous places 2. Mount Rushmore Activity: Write a paragraph about a famous place that you'd like to visit. Why did you pick this place? What would you do there?

Day 11: Engineering a solution		1. Evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent flooding 2. The Golden Gate Bridge 3. Measurement word problems 4. Draw quadrilaterals
Day 11: Engineering a solution
1. Evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent flooding 2. The Golden Gate Bridge 3. Measurement word problems 4. Draw quadrilaterals

Day 12: Fractions in action		1. Fractions of a whole: modeling word problems 2. Find equivalent fractions using area models: one model 3. Find equivalent fractions using number lines 4. Graph and compare fractions on number lines
Day 12: Fractions in action
1. Fractions of a whole: modeling word problems 2. Find equivalent fractions using area models: one model 3. Find equivalent fractions using number lines 4. Graph and compare fractions on number lines

Day 13: A picture is worth a thousand words		1. Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression 2. Multiply one-digit numbers by two-digit numbers using area models II 3. Identify American symbols 4. Compare ancient and modern organisms: use observations to support a hypothesis
Day 13: A picture is worth a thousand words
1. Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression 2. Multiply one-digit numbers by two-digit numbers using area models II 3. Identify American symbols 4. Compare ancient and modern organisms: use observations to support a hypothesis

Day 14: Poems & perimeter		1. Read poetry 2. Label the rhyme scheme 3. Perimeter of rectilinear shapes 4. Perimeter: word problems
Day 14: Poems & perimeter
1. Read poetry 2. Label the rhyme scheme 3. Perimeter of rectilinear shapes 4. Perimeter: word problems

Day 15: So predictable		1. Make predictions about a story 2. Certain, probable, unlikely, and impossible Activity: If you flip a coin 10 times, how many times do you think you'll get heads? Try it. How many did you get? Try it a few more times. Do you always get the same number?
Day 15: So predictable
1. Make predictions about a story 2. Certain, probable, unlikely, and impossible Activity: If you flip a coin 10 times, how many times do you think you'll get heads? Try it. How many did you get? Try it a few more times. Do you always get the same number?

Day 16: Sounds like…		1. Homophones with pictures 2. Use the correct homophone 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 4. Which sentence matches the definition?
Day 16: Sounds like…
1. Homophones with pictures 2. Use the correct homophone 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 4. Which sentence matches the definition?

Day 17: Problem solving		1. Two-step multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplication and division facts up to 10: true or false? 3. Match problems with their solutions 4. Solve problems using magnets
Day 17: Problem solving
1. Two-step multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplication and division facts up to 10: true or false? 3. Match problems with their solutions 4. Solve problems using magnets

Day 18: Time travel		1. Read about famous people 2. Elapsed time word problems: find the elapsed time 3. Jamestown: the early years 4. Introduction to fossils
Day 18: Time travel
1. Read about famous people 2. Elapsed time word problems: find the elapsed time 3. Jamestown: the early years 4. Introduction to fossils

Day 19: Fractions & fiction		1. Graph fractions on number lines 2. Identify equivalent fractions 3. Identify story elements 4. Read realistic fiction: set 1
Day 19: Fractions & fiction
1. Graph fractions on number lines 2. Identify equivalent fractions 3. Identify story elements 4. Read realistic fiction: set 1

Day 20: Space adventures		1. Read science fiction with illustrations 2. Identify phases of the Moon Activity: Write a science fiction story about a space adventure. Where will your characters go? What will they find there?
Day 20: Space adventures
1. Read science fiction with illustrations 2. Identify phases of the Moon Activity: Write a science fiction story about a space adventure. Where will your characters go? What will they find there?