Pinedale’s Suggested Summer Reading List: Entering 4th Grade
(Don’t forget to record your time!)
Teachers at Pinedale will find it particularly helpful to see their incoming Fourth Graders able to identify the main parts of speech
(noun, verb, adjective, prepositions, pronouns), spell accurately at grade level, spell compound words using sight words, expound on
ideas using the three main parts of a paragraph, and write a logical sequence of events while using proper pencil grip and posture.
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Please spend a little time going over these reading fundamentals with your child so that they can get off to a good start in 4 Grade!
Atwater, Richard
Birney, Betty G.
Bryant, Jen
Catling, Patrick
Choldenko, Gennifer
Christopher, Matt
Cleary, Beverly
Creech, Sharon
Cummins, Julie
Davies, Jacqueline
DiCamillo, Kate
Gutman, Dan
Hahn, Mary Downing
Hill Carrick, Laban
Hobbs, Will
Jackson, Donna M
Jenkins, Steve
Jones, Charlotte
Keenan, Sheila
Klise, Kate
Levigne, Gail Carson
Martin, Ann
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
O’Brien, Robert C.
Rappaport, Doreen
Robinson, Sharon
Selden, George
Selznick, Brian
Sturm, James
Van Allsburg, Chris
Winkler, Henry
Winthrop, Elizabeth
Wright, Betty Ren
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
The World According to Humphrey
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
The Chocolate Touch
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
Numerous Titles (sports novels)
Henry and Ribsy
Ruby Holler
Women Daredevils: Thrills, Chills, and Frills
Lemonade Crime
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Tale of Despereaux
The Million Dollar Kick
Time for Andrew
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Jackie’s Wild Seattle
The Bug Scientists
Living Color
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Mistakes That Worked
Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People
Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks
Ella Enchanted
A Dog’s Life
Everything For a Dog
Doll People
Shiloh
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Abe’s Honest Words
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed the America
The Cricket in Times Square
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Adventures in Cartooning
Queen of the Falls
Hank Zipzer series
The Castle in the Attic
The Ghost in Room 11
Pinedale’s Suggested Summer Math Practice: Entering 4th Grade
(Don’t forget to record your time!)
Teachers at Pinedale will find it particularly helpful to see their incoming Fourth Graders mastering their multiplication facts with
quick recall, understanding place value through the millions place, adding and subtracting up to four-digit numbers correctly,
understanding basic division, fractions, and decimals, and solving problems involving geometric measurement. Please take a little
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time to go over these math fundamentals with your child so that they can get off to a good start in 4 Grade!
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Find the total amount of ounces in three items in the kitchen. How many pounds would this be?
Estimate how many pennies it would take to cover this page. How close were you?
Using a ruler or yardstick, find the area of a door in your house (in square inches).
Find three things around the house that have at least two lines of symmetry.
What item in your home would hold the greatest capacity of liquid? The least?
In inches, what is the combined height of all the people living in your house?
Make a list of at least three items in your house that have the shape of a cylinder.
How old are you in hours?
Find the difference of the perimeter of two windows in your home.
What food items do you eat that are measured in pounds?
In what year will you double your current age?
Find things in your house that show an obtuse angle.
Find the sum of all the ages of people living in your home.
Find the area in square feet of the largest room in your home.
If you watched TV for 1 ½ hours each day of the week for one week, how many minutes would that be?
How many days since you were last in school? How many hours does this equal?
Which weighs more, a pound of nails or 16 ounces of cotton balls? Why?
Name four fractions that are equivalent to 4/6.
What items in your home have a perimeter of about 50 inches?
List three items that are measured in metric units.
Without weighing, find a way to see which of two similarly sized books is heavier.
What is the “mode” of the age of five people that you know?
If you exercise 30 minutes a day (Mon.-Fri.), how many hours would you exercise this month?
Make a list of things outside that are longer than 20 feet. Find things in your home that hold more than 1 gallon.
What is the perimeter of one bath towel in inches? What is the area?
How many minutes have you slept in the last two days?
How many days until you become a teenager?
Would it take more dimes or pennies to cover up a dollar bill? Why?
Counting all of your fingers and toes, what fraction of that number would your thumbs be?
If 17 children each had a 25 piece puzzle, how many total puzzle pieces would that be?
If a 2-quart container of ice cream costs $3.75, how much would two gallons cost?
Write four fractions equivalent to ¾.
Vowels are worth $50 each, and consonants are worth $40 each. Can you make a word worth $200? $600?
Name five ways to make 30 cents. Draw a picture to show your thinking and write the number sentence.
What type of angle could an open door be an example of?
If something travels four yards in 10 seconds, how long would it take to travel 100 yards?
Which is more money? $10/week for four weeks or 25 cents the first day, doubled each day for four weeks?
Find five items around your kitchen that have perpendicular lines.
Find the perimeter of the smallest window in your house. What units could be used?
Who is older, someone who is 10 years old, or someone who is 600 weeks old? Why?
How many seconds can you hop on one foot? Is this more than two minutes?
How many $100 dollar bills would a millionaire have?
List the odd numbers greater than 11 and less than 67.
Buttons are worth $60 each, zippers are worth $90 each, pockets are worth $120. How much is the outfit you have on?
What fraction of the entire day did you spend sleeping yesterday?
How many different ways can you measure a shoebox? Think two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
If you swim 2/7 of the days each week, how many days would you swim in three months?
How much money do you have if you have 3 quarters, 2 dimes, 5 nickels and 7 pennies?