REMINDERS AND LESSON PLANS FOR WEEK OF JANUARY 26-31

REMINDERS 

1. Students should read every night between 15-30 minutes.

2. If your child has a classwork folder, make sure to empty it out and send it back so future work can be placed in there. 

3. Students only need to have one folder to carry around from home to school. 


HOMEWORK

Second grade:  copy the vocabulary words below-make sure to not copy the ones that you already have. 

Third grade:  copy the vocabulary words below-make sure to not copy the ones that you already have. 

Fourth grade: copy the reading words below and define the social studies words below using the textbook. 

VOCABULARY WORDS 

SECOND GRADE: These words were from last week and will be on the next quiz, but over half of the class did not copy them for homework last week as assigned. 

Social Studies 

Candidate: a person who wants to be selected.
Qualification:the things that are required to do something.
ballots: a slip of paper or machines that allows you to vote.
campaign: action taken to get a goal done.
election: the event where people vote (pick/choose) the person they want.

advertisement: way of persuading people to do something

Reading

adventure fiction: text where characters face a problem or hard situation while on a quest or journey.

galloped: riding a horse

screeched: a high pitch sound.

stranded: the act of being trapped or stuck.

island: a piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.

THIRD GRADE: Here are the definitions for last weeks words.

Social Studies 
biography: a non-fiction text about someones life written by someone else. 

Cesar Chavez: Mexican-American who fought for the rights of farm workers by using non-violent methods such as boycotts and strikes. 

 Boycott: the act of not buying products from someone as a form of protest. 

 Union: group of people who come together to have a voice in the conditions and treatment they receive at work. 

 Strike: the act of workers refusing to work and protesting to get better working conditions. 

Great Depression: a time from the 1930's to 1940's where the economy was not doing well. People lost jobs and many business closed. 


FOURTH GRADE: Here are the words for this week, define them using the textbook. 

Social Studies 
Time line, surrender, retreat, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, convention, representative, capital, constitution, ratify, John Jay, George Clinton, Albany, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Martha Washington. 

Reading 
comparatives: words that compare two things.

vibrations: to shake back and forth very quickly. 

Sumatran Tigers: the smallest surviving tiger subspecies and are distinguished by heavy black stripes on their orange coats.

historical fiction: a story that takes place in the past and the events or characters are real or both, but the dialogue is made up. 

delay: to hold up or make late.