April 18, 2017 Good Morning Alexa!

Today Alexa talks to us about income tax.

She uses many tax and financial terms.   Can you find them all?  I count seven.  How about you?


What does the government do with all the money it collects?  It does change from year to year, but in 2013, this was the breakdown:


A worksheet for this lesson:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RFbwcJNzaEAk1mjwVhXzu-UrbQDnKyeqDtdIL2MlvbA/edit?usp=sharing


I made labels to put on my students' work so that parents may check on my blog and share with my students:


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