Fourth Grade

What We're Using

{How I Teach} Subject-by-Subject

Planning
Jump Starting Our Day
Memory Work

Bible
Math - Saxon 54
History - History Odyssey Early Modern Level 1




Field Trips
Dallas Arboretum

Reading List
1. Count Down to Fall - F. Hawk
2. My Name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton - G. Stilton
3. My World of Geography: Oceans - A. Royston
4. Where is My Continent? - R. Nelson 
5. Toys Go Out - E. Jenkins 
6. Welcome to England
7. All Because of a Cup of Coffee - G. Stilton
8. The Mysterious Cheese Thief - G. Stilton
9. Black Beauty (abridged) 
10. The Statue of Liberty - M. Firestone 
11. The Lorax - Dr. Seuss 
12. Looking at the United States
13. Cappyboppy by B. Peet
14. Chanticleer and the Fox - B. Cooney
15. Along Came a Dog - M. DeJong 
16. A Perfect Time for Pandas - M. P. Osborne
17. The Wump World - B. Peet 
18. Stone Soup - M. Brown
19. Monet - M. Venezia
20. The Boy Who Painted Dragons - Demi 
21. Old Mother Bear - V. Miles 
22. Twenty and Ten - W. Du Bois 
23. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
24. Our National Anthem
25. Island of the Blue Dolphins
26. Delaware: The First State
27. Welcome to France
28. The Cat Who Walked Across France
29. As the Crow Flies
30. Inside Your Outside
31. Bones - Seymour Simon
32. The Stories Julian Tells 
33. The Battle for St. Michaels
34. The Story of Ruby Bridges
35. The King's Day: Louis XIV of France
36. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
37. The Witches - R. Dahl
38. Horrible Harry and the Green Slime - S. Kline
39. Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion - S. Kline
40. The Saturdays - E. Enright  
41. Fables for Children
42. Tuck Everlasting
43. Diary of a Drummer Boy
44. Angela and the Baby Jesus
45. Cinderella Smith: The More the Merrier
46. The Brain
47. The Circulatory System
48. After Happily Ever After 
49. Oceans
50. Junie B. Jones and the Sneaky Peeky Spying
51. The Dragon and the Unicorn
52. The Bobbin Girl
53. Little Wizard Stories of Oz
54. Watt Got You Started, Mr. Fulton?
55. From Cotton to T-Shirt
56. A River Ran Wild
57. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
58. Toy Dance Party 
59. Shiva the Puppy
60. Snakes! Strange and Wonderful
61. Much Ado About Puffins
62. To Root, To Toot, To Parachute
63. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
64. Meet Addy
65. Jack Russell Terriers
66. Welcome to Russia
67. Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
68. Peter the Great
69. The Indian in the Cupboard
70. Amazing Lizards
71. Count Your Way Through Russia
72. Dalmatians
73. Collies
74. Brittany Spaniels
75. Monsoon
76. Leif Eriksson
77. Some Place to Go
78. Leif Eriksson Viking Explorer
79. The Life of a Turtle
80. Count Your Way Through Brazil
81. Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
82. Leif the Lucky
83. Almost Forever
84. The Sad Night
85. The Flying Canoe
86. Amazing Octopus
87. About Mollusks
88. Clam-I-Am
89. Beachcombing
90. Alive! Airplane Crash in the Andes Mountains
91. The Lord is My Shepherd
92. Pocahontas
93. Because of Winn-Dixie
94. Pocahontas: Princess of the New World
95. Turn! Turn! Turn!
96. The Adventures of Laura and Jack
97. The Magic Schoolbus Takes a Dive
98. Secrets from the Sleeping Bag
99. THe Freshwater Alphabet
100. James Towne: Struggle for Survival
101. Who Was Walt Disney?
102. The Lightning Thief
103. Stone Fox
104. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
105. Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
106. There's No Place Like Space
107. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
108. Magic School Bus Out of This World
109. Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
110. I, Galileo
111. The Universe
112. The Salem Witch Trials
113. Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
114. Thanksgiving on Thursday
115. The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
116. If You Lived in Colonial Times
117. All About Deer
118. Frogs
119. Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse
120. The Pilgrims of Plymouth
121. Dragonbreath: No Such Thing as Ghosts
122. Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship
123. The Reunion
124. A Good Night for Freedom
125. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
126. Beryl: A Pigs Tale
127. Under the Quilt of Night
128. Mokie and Bik
129. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

 Books Mommy Read to Me This School Year:
1. My Side of the Mountain
2. Farewell to Shady Glade - B. Peet
3. Crab Moon - R. Horowitz
4. The Door in the Wall - M. de Angeli 
5. The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
6. Poppy - Avi
7. The Man in the Iron Mask (Great Illustrated Classic)
8. A Cry From Egypt  
9. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
10. Babushka Baba Yaga
11. One Riddle, One Answer
12 Picasso and the Girl with the Ponytail
13. Don Quixote and the Windmills
14. Farmer Boy
15. The Last of the Mohicans (Classic Starts)
16. Our Strange New Land (My America series)
17. Anne of Green Gables
18. Trouble at Fort La Pointe (American Girl History Mysteries)