Homework for 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Grades 1/10 - 1/14
Dear Parents,
Please remember there is 12:00 dismissal this Friday. This week we will be reviewing for Mid Term exams which will begin next week. The first exam (on Jan. 18) will be the Spelling/Writing Exam which will include Spelling words, dictation of sentences, personal narrative writing, letter writing, and penmanship.
Script will be required for fourth grade for ALL areas of the exam. Script will only be required in the spelling portion of the exam for third grade. Neat penmanship will also be required for the second grade exam but no script! The second exam (on Jan. 19) will be in Religion. PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE REVIEW NOTES FOR EACH SUBJECT FOR EACH GRADE LISTED ON MY BLOG POSTED OVER THE HOLIDAY VACATION.
As you can see I have been adding pictures on the blog of different saints whose feast days occur this month. Since the Archdiocesean exam very often requires students to write about a saint of their choice, I am offering students an opportunity to get extra credit by writing a composition of two paragraphs about one of the saints. This should be done on looseleaf beginning with a full heading and a title (name of the saint). The first paragraph should describe the life of the saint and the second should tell how he or she could be like this saint in living a Christian life. These paragraphs should be written by the student (not copied or done by a anyone else).
Please check below under your child's grade for this week's homework assignment:
FOURTH GRADE
1/11 Rel - Study pp. 108 to 117. Answer all questions on pp.116 and 117 in the book.
1/13 LA - In LA notebook, answer LA Workbook pp. 61-62
THIRD GRADE
1/11 Rel - Study pp. 132 to 140. Answer all questions on pp.137 and 139 in the book.
1/13 LA - In LA notebook, answer LA Workbook pp. 78-79.
SECOND GRADE
1/11 Rel - Study pp. 120 to 129. Answer all questions on pp. 128-129 in the book.
1/13 LA - In LA notebook, answer LA Workbook pp. 122-123.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FRIDAY,jAN 14TH,ALL CLASSES WILL BE TAKING THE vOCABULARY MID TERM EXAM (also called Word Wall Test). Below is a list of fifty words taken from those listed in the Vocabulary notebooks from September to present. Students should study the definitions of these fifty words ONLY since twenty-five of these will be used on the Vocabulary Mid Term.
vanish,sequence,annual,Savior,Church,continent,sentence,peculiar,height, even number,purpose,minimum,faith,infinite, yearned, estimate, predicate,contraction, bewilder,exclamatory, fiction, hemisphere, sacrament, miracle,remainder, meadow, value,ancestor, parallel, grace, cubed number, biography, adjective,homonyn,predict, vertebrate,century,samaritan,temptation,observe,antonym,previously,classify, repel,manger,mode,precipitation,Advent,symbol
For Language Arts, besides the "Review notes for Mid Term Exams" which all parents should review thorougly with their children, students in 3rd and 4th grades should also study WHAT IS CIRCLED in the Grammar Handbook in the back of the Voyages textbook: 4th grade (pp. 506 to 525) ; 3rd grade (pp. 506 to 520).
Please review LETTER WRITING and PERSONAL NARRATIVE notes in LA notebook since the Spellling/Writing Exam scheduled for next Tuesday will be testing correct use of capital letters, punctuation, and sentence structure to see how students apply the rules of grammar they learned in class.
