MIDTERM GUIDE

Dear parents,

Midyear exams  will be given the week of January 22 , these test will cover the material covered in school from September till January ( Unit 1 and 2). Below you find a study guide of what students need to study.This guide has some minor updates from the guide posted in December.  Students should have reviewed notes and vocabulary words during the Christmas Vacation as they were instructed to take their notebooks home. If you have any questions, please ask this week as, next week it will be too late.
Mrs.Bagley

SECOND GRADE
READING
- All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- recognizing consonants, vowels and consonant clusters
- recognizing characters, setting, plot
- sequence of events
- using text evidence to answer questions.
- identify homophones

SOCIAL STUDIES
- All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- reading a map
- 3 types of communities
- methods of transportation
- 5 urban zones/areas
- Difference between goods and services
- use of a flow chart
- products going from farm or factory to people


THIRD GRADE
READING
- All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- analyzing a character
- determining main idea and supporting details ( text evidence)
- problem and solution
- using test details to answer questions
- compare and contrast

SOCIAL STUDIES
-All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- information on Columbia, Greece, Israel,
- using latitude and longitude to find places
- types of communities
- Geographical features
- natural resources
- Hawaii's way of obtaining resources


FOURTH GRADE
READING
-All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- characters analyzes
- main idea and supporting details
- compare and contrast
- the effects of settings
- using 2 test based evidence to support answers with an introductory sentence

SOCIAL STUDIES
-All vocabulary words ( they are in their vocabulary notebooks, if not check past post on the blog for words)
- different types of landforms
- geographical skills
- using latitude and longitude to find places
- Native Americans
- European explorers- who they are, what they did, their impact on our lives.
- Dutch inhabiting New Netherlands and New Amsterdam
- British take over
- Colonist fight for Freedom
*reasons why they wanted their freedom
* reasons the tax was placed
*was it fair
- Continental Congress
- Declaration of Independence
- what is needed to vote
- how voting is a democracy- people choose who they want and the leader takes the other people in consideration when making decisions.