Skip the Summer Slide!

IT'S SUMMER!!! I hope everyone's summer is filled with lots of lounging, pigging out and family time. Of course, don't forget to practice your math skills every so often, as well. Skills that are not reinforced over the summer and often be forgotten. This is called the summer slide. While this is most often used for reading, the same is true for math.

The beginning of 4th grade will move quickly, just like it did in 3rd grade! At the end of this 3rd grade year, we looked ahead at some of the 4th grade skills that would be taught within the 1st cycle. Those skills are:

• Review of Place Value and Place Value Relationships with Whole Numbers
• Introducing Place Value and Place Value Relationships with Decimals
• Adding and Subtracting Decimals (with and without equal decimal values)
• Multiplying a 2 Digit Number by Another 2 Digit Number

Listed below are different websites, online games and practice pages that can be used over the summer to keep up those math skills you worked so hard on throughout the school year!

*Practice your multiplication skills and celebrate 4th of July with this patriotic multiplication worksheet from Education.com! These problems are written in standard algorithm. Remember to check your math using one of our other methods of multiplication. For more fun games, activities, and worksheets, check out these multiplication resources on Education.com's website!

*In this blog post from Math Geek Mama, she talks about different ways to practice math skills using ... LEGOS! She even has topics split up so it is easier to find what you are needing practice or reinforcement on! Click here to check out different links and see ideas on who to use legos to practice key math skills.

* Be sure to use websites like Education Galaxy and Istation Math to continue practicing your math skills. 

*Remember to use the links on our Step Up to 4th Grade Symbaloo! You can click here to access our Step Up to 4th Grade Symbaloo.