Dear Parents,
I will be giving the NYSELAT Speaking Test individually to second graders in the mornings this week. Test folders will be sent home this week to all classes. Please review and sign only those on the right side and return folder NO LATER than this Friday with all the same tests inside. (Please do not put in any test from other teachers or leave any out!)
The vocabulary definitions for this week are in Language Arts:
*fable - story that teaches a lesson (moral). It is a fictional story in which the characters are usually animals (in their natural habitat) who speak and act like people.
*skit - story acted out in front of an audience. A skit has characters, a plot (what happens), and dialog (what characters say).
*haiku - Japanese form of poetry that describes one idea or feeling, usually an image of nature. It is three lines long and contains 17 syllables, divided as 5-7-5.
*journal - a day-to-day record of things that happen in sequence; a diary
*biography - a written history of a person's life. An autobiography is a history of a life written by the person himself.
Please check below your child's grade for this week's homework:
FOURTH GRADE
5/17 On looseleaf (no school heading) write a business letter of request
following the sample sheet or sample shown on LA textbook p. 46. Choose an idea from Activity C on p. 52 or use your own idea.
The body of the letter must have two paragraphs of five sentences each and MUST HAVE all parts as shown in the sample.
If folktale sheet is not completed in class, it must be completed for homework, both the sheet and the rewritten work in script on looseleaf.
5/19 Religion test Friday on Chapter 26 and naming and describing the Joyful Mysteries.
THIRD GRADE
5/17 On looseleaf write a heading. Write a title. Write a journal of two paragraphs on a special event in your life. Use time sequence words (first,...second,..., next,...then,...last,...). It could be about a trip, visit to a relative, vacation time, hospital stay, etc. Follow the outline given in class. Both outline and journal should be handed in together.
5/17 The autobiography on looseleaf started in class based on the time line of five events in the child's life is also due tomorrow. Both the time line and the autobiography should be handed in together.
***BOTH WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE BY WED. MAY 18TH.
5/19 Religion test Friday on Chapter 25 and 27
SECOND GRADE
5/17 On looseleaf write a heading. Write a title. Write a journal of one paragraph on a special event in your life. Use time sequence words (first, next, then, last). It could be about a trip, visit to a relative,
vacation time, hospital stay, etc. Follow the outline shown in class.
5/19 Religion test Friday on Chapter 25 and 27
5/19 Vocabulary Test Friday on 15 weekly definitions.
