REMINDERS
1. ITBS for second grade on Tuesday and Wednesday.
2. NYSESLAT on Thursday
3. Mass on Thursday May 14, led by first grade.
4. On May 26, second grade will be going on a trip, More information will be given in the upcoming days.
3. Mass on Thursday May 14, led by first grade.
4. On May 26, second grade will be going on a trip, More information will be given in the upcoming days.
HOMEWORK FOR MAY 11 , 2015
SECOND GRADE:
- copy the vocabulary words into reading and social studies notebook.
- Quiz: Social studies on Jury System: hearing the case, reaching a verdict, after the verdict along with vocabulary words; unanimous, defendant, plaintiff, deliberation, jurors.
- Quiz: Social studies on Jury System: hearing the case, reaching a verdict, after the verdict along with vocabulary words; unanimous, defendant, plaintiff, deliberation, jurors.
THIRD GRADE:
-Copy vocabulary words into reading and social studies notebook
- Quiz: reading on vocabulary words (justice, union, tranquility, constitution, posterity, liberty, welfare, defense and Preamble) and reading comprehension.
- Quiz: reading on vocabulary words (justice, union, tranquility, constitution, posterity, liberty, welfare, defense and Preamble) and reading comprehension.
FOURTH GRADE:
-SS- page 194 #1-4 on looseleaf. Q/A
-Copy the reading and social studies words in the correct notebook
-Quiz on chapter 7, lesson 2 and 3.Including vocabulary words
-Copy the reading and social studies words in the correct notebook
-Quiz on chapter 7, lesson 2 and 3.Including vocabulary words
HOMEWORK FOR MAY 13, 2015
SECOND GRADE:
-Answer the following questions on looseleaf
1. What items are taxed?
2. What is income tax?
1. What items are taxed?
2. What is income tax?
THIRD GRADE:
-Read chapters 3-4 and answer questions on looseleaf.
FOURTH GRADE:
-SS- page 199 #1-4 on looseleaf. Q/A
VOCABULARY WORDS
-SECOND GRADE- .
READING
1. central message: lessons about life found in stories.
2. cloth: fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
3. gobbled:eat (something) hurriedly and noisily
4. theme: the central topic of a text.
1. central message: lessons about life found in stories.
2. cloth: fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
3. gobbled:eat (something) hurriedly and noisily
4. theme: the central topic of a text.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. tax: money paid to the government for a service.
2.federal: of or referring to the national government.
3.toll: a charge or tax paid for using a highway, bridge, or tunnel
4.luxury: of or referring to something expensive that is nice to have but not really needed.
5.imported: brought into a place or country from another pace or country.
6.exported: sent products to another country to sell them there.
7.deductions:amounts that are taken away.
8.poverty line: a stated level of income below which a person is considered to not afford basic necessities.
9.investments: things in which people have put their money, hoping to get more money back.
10. 16th amendment : a change to the law to be able to tax citizens income.11. income: money someone makes from working.
-THIRD GRADE
READING
1. jolt: push or shake someone or something abruptly
2. bifocals: eyeglasses with two different optic powers
3. Latin: language dating back to 6th century
4. minister: a person authorized though the church to perform functions such as teaching beliefs.
5.publish:to issue (printed or otherwise reproduce textual , graphic or computer software.
6.cobblestone: stones used in the making of early streets.
7.private: belonging to or use of one particular person.
8.Stamp Act: tax places on every printed paper colonist used.
9.parliament: responsible for making laws.
10.Continental Congress: convention of delegates that came together to form the government of the 13 colonies. SOCIAL STUDIES
1. paddies: a flooded field where rice is grown.
2. porridge: a soft food made by boiling oats, rice, or other grains in milk or water until the mixture is thick.
3.wok:a metal cooking pan with a rounded bottom.
4. hemp: a rough fabric woven from plant fibers.
5.characters:symbols used in a writing system.
6.dam:a wall built across a stream or river to hold back the water.
7. cocoons: the silky case a caterpillar spins to live in before it turns into a moth or butterfly
8. calligraphy: the art of fine handwriting.
9. bronze:a yellowish-brown metal made of copper and tin
10. terracotta: a hard, waterproof clay used in making pottery.
6.dam:a wall built across a stream or river to hold back the water.
7. cocoons: the silky case a caterpillar spins to live in before it turns into a moth or butterfly
8. calligraphy: the art of fine handwriting.
9. bronze:a yellowish-brown metal made of copper and tin
10. terracotta: a hard, waterproof clay used in making pottery.
-FOURTH GRADE
READING
1. beckoned:make gesture with hand arm, or head to encourage someone to come nearer or follow.
2. aisle: a pace for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seat on one side and the wall on the other.
3. concoction:a mixture of various ingredients.
4. dreary:dull, lifeless; depressing
5. beamed: transmit ( a radio signal or broadcast) in a specified location.
6.whisked:to take or move in a particular direction suddenly and quickly.
4. dreary:dull, lifeless; depressing
5. beamed: transmit ( a radio signal or broadcast) in a specified location.
6.whisked:to take or move in a particular direction suddenly and quickly.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. reform:change things for for the better.
2. suffrage: the right to vote.
3. citizen: person born in a country or who has earned the right to become a member of that country by law.
4. abolition: immediate end to slavery.
5. Underground railroad: a group of people who helped enslaved people escape freedom.
6. Susan B. Anthony: abolitionist and women's rights leader.
7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: abolitionist and women's rights leader.
8.secede:withdraw.
9. Confederacy: the government formed by 11 southern states that seceded from the United States.
10. Union: the states that remained in the United States after the Confederacy formed.
11. Civil War: the war in the United States between the Union States of the north and the confederate states of the South.
12. Emancipation Proclamation: the announcement by President Lincoln in 1863 that all enslaves people living in the Confederate states were free.
13. draft: a plan to select people to serve in the military.
8.secede:withdraw.
9. Confederacy: the government formed by 11 southern states that seceded from the United States.
10. Union: the states that remained in the United States after the Confederacy formed.
11. Civil War: the war in the United States between the Union States of the north and the confederate states of the South.
12. Emancipation Proclamation: the announcement by President Lincoln in 1863 that all enslaves people living in the Confederate states were free.
13. draft: a plan to select people to serve in the military.
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