Reminder: Next Monday (October 7th) is Picture Day.

Your homework for tonight is: 

1) Spelling: In your word study notebook, write the dictionary definition of 7 of your words (you choose which ones)

2) Vocabulary: In your word study notebook, write the definitions of our vocabulary words: decorative, divert, shriek, scatter

Thursday we will have a test on our decimal concepts unit.    I'll be available after school on Wednesday from 3:15 -4:00 if anyone has any questions they want clarified before the test on Thursday.

There are 23 total questions (some questions have multiple steps/pieces).  The following is a list of the concepts that will be included and an example problem for each.  This is not an exhaustive list, but should give you a fair understanding of what the problems will look like.

Written & Standard form:
Example Problem: Which number represents fifty four thousandths?
a) 0.54    b) 0.054     c) 0.00054    d) 54,000

Place Value:
Example Problem: Which digit is in the tenths place in the number 584.932?
a) 4    b) 2    c) 9    d) 3

Comparing Numbers:
Example Problem: 392.949 ______ 392.857

Ordering Numbers:
Example Problem: Place the following numbers in order form least to greatest
0.392                 0.843           0.300            0.003

Rounding with money:
Example Problem: A hot dog is $1.75, a juice is $2.20 and an apple is $0.99.  If you round the cost of each to the nearest dollar and want two hot dogs, one juice and one apple, what would your estimated total cost be?

Placing numbers on a number line:
Example Problem: Label the following numbers on the number line: 8, 9, 8.65, 8.3, 8.9

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Note: On Friday 15 of the words from each group will be on the test as well as four words that are not on their lists but have the same features we're looking at this week. 

Group 1 Ayanna Sakiyah Daje -o vs. oi vs. oy whole bowl stole loan cloak choke point join soil spoil coil foil moist boy soy joy toy oil broil noise choice

Group 2 Jacob            Ahreyeh Zoria             Martrell Destin book vs. light vs. down vs. head vs. snow bookmark cookbook scrapbook daylight flashlight sunlight downstairs downtown downpour countdown headfirst headphones snowflake snowstorm snowplow headlight

Group 3 Isabelle              Ta’Nae Kayla                  Mikayla Paige                  Anna in- vs. un- vs. dis- vs. mis- insincere informal infrequent inhuman inexpensive insane uneasy unaware unknown undress unfasten untidy dishonest disbelief disorder disconnect disease disrespect discourage misspell misfortune mistake misleading mischief