5th Grade Math Preview Journal – End of Year 4th Grade Math Activity

The 5th Grade Math Preview Journal is a no-prep, print-and-go end of year math activity for 4th graders. Over 12 journal pages, students preview next year’s math skills, without busy work.

It is meant for the last few weeks of school, after testing is over, when students are done reviewing and you still want learning to happen.

What’s included

• 12 student-friendly journal pages
• Reflection prompts and metacognition activities
• “You’re the Teacher” creative final task
• No-prep PDF format

How it works

Each section has three parts:

• Explore introduces the concept.
• Try It gives guided practice.
• Reflect asks for deeper thinking.

The journal builds toward a final task where students create their own teaching resource to explain a new concept. That gives them ownership of their learning.

Skills covered

• Decimal place value (to the thousandths)
• Multi-digit multiplication (up to 3-digit x 3-digit)
• Decimal multiplication and division (including dividing by 0.1 and 0.01)
• Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
• Multiplying fractions by fractions
• Order of operations (PEMDAS)
• One-step algebraic equations
• Volume of rectangular prisms with unit cubes and formulas

When to use it

After testing, students are usually in one of three places:

• Checked out
• Over reviewing old content
• Asking if they are doing anything fun today

The journal gives you something other than more review. Students explore new concepts, prepare for next year and keep doing math.

Quick facts

• Topic: preview of 5th grade math skills for the end of 4th grade
• Grade: 4
• CCSS: 5.MD.C.3, 5.MD.C.4, 5.MD.C.5, 5.NBT.A.1, 5.NBT.B.5, 5.NBT.B.6, 5.NBT.B.7, 5.OA.A.1, 5.OA.A.2, 5.OA.B.3, 5.NF.A.1, 5.NF.A.2, 5.NF.B.4, 5.NF.B.5, 5.NF.B.6, 5.NF.B.7
• Answer key: included

Free resources

Get my free Warm Up Slides templates.

Terms of use

By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsay@beyondtheworksheet.com.

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