Critical And Creative 4
From dragons to chores to sneaky codes, this workbook builds logic, creativity, and flexible thinking through 46 themed challenges your fourth grader will happily tackle head-on.
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Critical And Creative 4
Critical & Creative Thinking Activities: Grade 4, provides your child with regular opportunities to approach problems from multiple directions. Through 46 themed units, he'll solve puzzles, crack codes, complete mazes, analyze patterns, compare ideas, and tackle challenges that blend logical reasoning with creative thinking.
The themes cover a wide range of interests and experiences. One week, your child may be exploring mountains, storms, dolphins, whales, or wild cats. Another may focus on family trees, rules, chores, leadership, or caring for the environment. Fantasy favorites such as dragons, elves, fairies, superheroes, kings, queens, and mythical creatures encourage imaginative thinking. At the same time, units centered on libraries, supermarkets, bicycles, dictionaries, and beach trips connect thinking skills to everyday life.
As your child works through the activities, he'll practice observation, classification, pattern recognition, problem-solving, reasoning, originality, and flexible thinking. The challenges encourage him not only to find answers, but also to consider possibilities, make connections, and think beyond the obvious.
Helpful parent notes provide guidance, all student pages are reproducible for home use, and a complete answer key is included for easy review.
Published by a secular company, Critical & Creative Thinking Activities may include an occasional unit that does not align with every family's preferences and can be easily skipped if desired.
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- March 10, 2025
A little challenging for my daughter
Melissa H.
My boys had no problem with this book, but it seems to be a little challenging for my daughter. She really enjoys doing it, but struggles with filling in answers for many of the sections. I like these books because they are part right answer, part free thinking. We have used these many years, and I think they are valuable.
- August 15, 2024
Nice Book
Sheri
We have enjoyed this book series and used it for several years now. It is quick, easy, educational and allows the child the opportunity to further their critical thinking skills.
- November 1, 2020
Love this product
Mamabear3
This product is a fun way to encourage my so to think outside of the box. He usually works on this on his own while I am working with my other children.
- October 12, 2020
Excellent
Elizabeth B.
Lots of fun activities.
- October 10, 2020
Louise O.
My daughter who has learning disabilities finds this book challenging but I think it's really helping her. Some of the activities are written for a classroom, but we've been able to work around them. She's been doing about 2 pages a week.
- September 16, 2020
Wanted to Love - Replaced Midyear
Jessica
We wanted to love this - my daughter handpicked it over Building Thinking Skills for her homeschool curriculum this year based on the sample pages - but it just was not a fit for us. The major problem that plagued us is that some of the problems were simply too hard; as an adult I had difficulty puzzling out the answers without using algebra that was significantly beyond my fourth grader. Another issue was that a lot of the material required specific regional or cultural context to complete the work. For instance, the unit on trees had a word scramble of tree species that my Arizonan daughter would never have heard of. If you don't know what a beech tree is, no amount of critical thinking will help you unscramble that word. Likewise, the unit on fictional characters required knowledge of specific movie characters to complete the work. If you haven't watched Shrek, good luck with that. Finally, there is absolutely no guidance for the teacher save for an answer key. When I am only able to puzzle out difficult questions with algebra, I do so under the assumption that there must be another technique that is more accessible to my fourth grader. Without any guidance from the publisher, I am left entirely on my own to figure out what (if any) technique might be more appropriate. This was frustrating not only to me, trying to teach the material, but to my daughter, who was consequently not able to work through those sections of material on her own. After a full quarter of the year filled with tears and frustration, we finally jettisoned this book and have been sailing smooth with Building Thinking Skills 2 since.
- March 4, 2015
Too Easy or Too Hard?
MandyJHoffman
I'm not sure if the material is too hard, or if I'm just too easy. I know this is critical thinking skills, but some of the assignments were complicated. My hope was to find something the kids could do on their own as a supplement to our required subjects in order to offer a very robust homeschool schedule. However, my child needed more help than I anticipated which made me grow weary of it. We began to do one or two pages a week rather than 1 a day. I do love that the skills they are learning are very practical and apply to the students life now rather than abstract lessons. The book is designed for a classroom setting and is not as homeschool friendly as I wish it was.
- September 16, 2014
Pretty good, overall
Jim E.
At first, my son and I were not very excited about this book. The way it was laid out seemed a bit strange and disjointed. I don't think that part changed, but we did get used to the style and ended up mostly enjoying it. The book does do a very good job bringing a wide variety of elements and skills into play, but it still wasn't the best book we have ever worked with.
- September 24, 2012
A nice balance of skills
Home F.
My daughter loves this book, and spends an inordinate time discussing the activities while she is supposed to be doing lessons. Critical and Creative 4 is really fun, but it is more than that. It is chock full of head-scratching challenges, reviews of necessary basic skills, and introductions to new ideas. The only weirdness, which is the case with everything Evan-Moor, is that several sections assume your child is in school, and the activities just don't work in a home setting. But bravo! on choosing this book. It's worth the money and the time your child will spend using it.
- May 31, 2012
The title says it all!
Christine
We started these books a couple years ago and LOVE them! Our daughter enjoys the challenge each puzzle brings. The subjects are great. I would recommend this book at a grade lower for advanced kids.
