Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Welcome Back!  I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Christmas Break because we are hitting the ground running this week.  I am just going to bullet the main events of this week and try not to get to wordy.

1. Second quarter ends on Friday, January 17th.  Report cards will go home on Friday, January 31st.
2. Wednesday pizza orders are always due paid in full on Tuesday.
3. Field Trip to see the Boise Philharmonics is this Friday!  Permission slips go home today and must be returned no later than Thursday, January 9th.  The cost is $2.00.  I am also in need of 3 parent chaperons. It is on a first come, first serve basis.
4. Friday there is a make-up math test and the new spelling vocab test.  The words are listed down below.  
5. Please be asking your student about homework.  They should be reading 20 minutes a night, studying spelling and vocab, as well as finishing any unfinished classwork.  You can check their purple home school folders and their agendas to see what is due.  If you have questions, I check my email several times a night and my door is always open.  

Vocab List #11

Find the definition in the Thesaurus/Dictionary along with a synonym and an antonym.

1.     Savory :

Antonym –

Synonym –

2.     Bland:

Antonym –

Synonym –

3.     Honest:

Antonym –

Synonym –

4.     Integrity

5.     :

Antonym –

Synonym –

Spelling List #11

1.     broke

2.     break

3.     cocoa

4.     collar

5.     compare

6.     comparison

7.     control

8.     controlled

9.     debts

10.  disaster

Bonus:  Dichotomy 

Christmas Auction

image, a photo by kevans123 on Flickr.

I have been shopping all autumn long and the students have been saving their class cash for the Christmas Auction. Over the next two days they will bid on these prizes. We will have another auction in the spring.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Class News, Word De Jour, Spelling List and Sample Decimal Test

Hello all!
We are coming to the middle of the second quarter already!   Midterm reports are being sent home this week.  If you have questions, comments or concerns please email me.  We are also fast approaching the end of everything decimals.  Our big decimal test is on Monday, December 16th.  A study guide will be sent home on Friday.

Vocab List #9

Find the definition in the Thesaurus/Dictionary along with a synonym and an antonym.

1.     Colleague :

Antonym –

Synonym –

2.     Competitor:

Antonym –

Synonym –

3.     Vacant:

Antonym –

Synonym –

4.     Void:

Antonym –

Synonym –

Spelling List #9

1.     attention

2.     education

3.     director

4.     direct

5.     purpose

6.     common

7.     diamond

8.     together

9.     convention

10.             increase

Bonus Word   Ennui   (on-wee)

WORD DE JOUR

Deja vu - having the distinct feeling of having lived that moment before

MATH STUDY GUIDE

Decimals test

Name _____________________                                        Date:_____________________

Solve the following problems


1. In the number 4.143289, which digit is in the thousandths place? ____________



2. In the number 4.1546, what is the value of the digit 5? ____________



3. Which number represents one hundred and twenty five ten thousandths? ____________



A. 100.0025      B. 100.025      C. 100.00025     D. 100.02005     



4. Write the following number in numerals: six and fourty three hundredths_____________________



5. Write the following numerals with words: 36.017 _____________________



6. 0.025 rounded to the nearest tenths is ___________







7. Round 2.458974374 to the nearest millionths ___________







8. Add 0.48 + 9 + 1.5 + 0.7 ___________



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10. After Subtracting 38.45 from 64.12 and rounding to the nearest tenths, the answer is ___________







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12. What is the product of 21.014 and 101? ___________



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14. What is the product of 0.01 and 1000? ___________



15. How many times 0.02 goes into 16.2 (Hint: divide 16.2 by 0.02)

16. Use Partial Quotient and Standard Algorithm to Solve

8/9.84                                      41/2.05



17. Joseph sells hot dogs for a living on Monday through Friday. This week, he sold for 340.25, 180.41, 210.789, 74.13, and 150 dollars. Mark spent 541.23 dollars to make those ice cream What is Mark's profit? ___________



18. Peter received 73.96 dollars for 8 hours of work. What is Peter's pay per hour? ___________



19. A large commercial air plane traveled 750 miles in 5 hours. How many miles did the plane travel in 15 hours? Use a ratio table to solve___________

20. Which division gives the biggest quotient? A division of 0.02 by 10 or a division of 0.01 by 5? ___________