State Budgets: Categories of common major expenses: Medicaid, K-12 Education, Security/prisons, transportation, entitlements/welfare, and environment projects. Revenue sources for States.: Federal Aid, Corporate income taxes, sales tax on goods/services, personal income tax etc. Requirement for States' Balanced Budgets.

PJ read and discussed his new Spelling and Wordly Wise Words. He completed several activities using these words in context. He continued reading and exploring the character and
significance of Harriet Tubman.

Quiz on Lesson 2 People and the Environment.

9-4 Draw a Diagram - We learned that drawing a diagram often helps model relationships. Then we learned that diagrams can help us understand a situation more clearly. Next, we saw that a diagram can serve as a written record of our thought process. Then we saw that organizing data into a diagram can help us see patterns or algebraic equations to be used in solving a problem.
Assignment: Complete assigned problems

PJ is continuing to work on his character development with iconography (symbols). PJ has been enjoying reading my Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols by Henry Dreyfuss. I am exicted that he wanted to use heavy watercolor paper and will try some watercolor pencils and paints.

He took his test over chapters 7-9 of "Ender's Game." He learned how to take notes from a source and documenting it correctly.

He completed a reading comprehension activity using his Spelling and Wordly Wise words in context. He took his Spelling and Wordly Wise tests.

Lesson 2 People and the Environment – We learned that the Amazonian rain forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It is often called the “lungs of the world” because the trees in the forest absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Then we looked at ways we can try to preserve Earth’s resources. We learned that using both sides of a paper and recycling it can help preserve the rain forests. We learned that government should educate people about the benefits of sustainable resource use. They can also use financial incentives to encourage the use of alternative energy’s resources.

9-3 Classifying Polygons – We learned how to classify quadrilaterals by their sides and angles. Then we learned that the types of quadrilaterals that have both pairs of opposite sides parallel are parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, and squares. Next we learned that the types of quadrilaterals that have 4 right angles are rectangles and squares. Then we learned that a regular polygon has all sides congruent and all angles congruent. Some examples of regular polygons are a triangle, square, pentagon, and hexagon.
Assignment: Complete Problems from 9-3 in workbook

Introduction to State Budgets and Revenue: Video on State Budgets, Revenue from Federal Government.
State Taxes and Budget common budget allocations.