1.) Know how to read decimal places on a number line (pg. 326)

2.) Place Value (pg. 328)

Q. What place is the 3 in? Then write its value. ( .4835)

A. Thousandths, .003

Q. What place is the 4 in? Then write its value.  (24.876)

A. Ones, 4

3.) Writing numbers in expanded form (pg. 328)

Q. Write the number .4928 in expanded form.

A. .4 + .09 + .002 + .0008

Q. Write the number 14.928 in expanded form.

A. 10 + 4 + .9 + .02 + .008

4.) Estimating by rounding and front end(pg. 332 and 338)

5.) Adding and Subtracting Decimals (pg. 330 and 336)

*Be sure to line up the decimals before adding or subtracting.

6.) Problem Solving (pg. 344)

1. Ch. 8 History test
2. Pink slip sheet (for those who received pink slips last week)
3. States/Capitals test
4. Vocabulary quiz
5. Priority spelling test

1.) People

• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benedict Arnold
• General Cornwallis

2.) Patriots

• wanted to be free from the king of England
• won the Battle of Saratoga which led to the French sending money, soldiers, and other aid to the Americans
• their stategy down South was to make the British chase them and wear them out
• offered African Americans freedom if they helped fight the British
• won their independence and gained more land by winning the war and signing the Treaty of Paris

3.) Patriot Advantages and Weaknesses

• Advantages: fighting on their home turf, didn’t have to ship supplies overseas, had better generals like G. Washington, fought for a cause (freedom)

• Weaknesses: had less soldiers, soldiers weren’t as well trained, didn’t have a navy

4.) British

• Native Americans helped them fight so that the British could win and the Americans would stop taking their land
• tried to help Cornwallis at Yorktown, but they couldn’t defeat the French Navy

5.) George Washington

• General of the Continental Army fighting for independence
• crossed the Deleware River and made a surprise attack at Trenton against German mercenaries, they also captured 1,000 prisoners there
• his troops suffered through Valley Forge

6.) Declaration of Independence

• said that people have the right to live, be free, and to seek happiness
• said that King George took the rights away from the colonists and forced taxes on them

7.) Definitions

• strategy- plan
• declaration- a statement
• Loyalist- someone who stayed true to Britain and supported the king

1.) Measuring Angles (pg. 268)

- be sure you know how to measure angles with a protractor

2.) Classifying Angles (pg. 270)

-right angle- an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees

-acute angle- an angle that measures less than 90 degrees

-obtuse angle- an angle that measures greater than 90 degrees

-straight angle- an angle that measures exactly 180 degrees

3.) Names of Polygons (pg. 273)

-pentagon- a figure with 5 sides

-hexagon- a figure with 6 sides

-heptagon- a figure with 7 sides

-octagon- a figure with 8 sides

-nonagon- a figure with 9 sides

-decagon- a figure with 10 sides

4.) Congruent and Similar (pg. 274)

-congruent figures have the exact same shape and size

-similar figures only have the shape and not necessarily the same size

5.) Triangles (pg. 276)

-right triangle- has one right angle in it

-acute triangle- has 3 acute angles in it

-obtuse triangle- has one obtuse angle in it

-triangles have 3 angles which add up to 180 degrees

6.) Quadrilaterals (pg. 278)

-know what the following shapes look like: trapezoid, parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus

7.) Finding the perimeter of a polygon and rectangle (pg. 280 & 282)

- to find the perimeter of a polygon or rectangle, just add up all the sides

8.) Circles (pg. 284)

-diameter- line that passes through the middle of a circle

-radius- line that starts from the center of a circle and goes to the end of the circle

-circumference- to find the circumference, multiply the diameter by 3

9.) Symmetry (pg. 288)

-a line of symmetry is a line that divides a figure evenly on both sides of the line

10.) Transformations (pg. 290)

-know what a flip, turn, and slide are

1. Pink Slip Sheets (for those who received pink slips last week)
2. Vocabulary quiz x 2
3. Reading quiz x 3
4. Priority spelling test
5. Handwriting verse
6. States/Capitals tests
7. February newsletter
8. Accelerated math reports
9. Riley’s Farm flyer
10. Reading Contract project
11. Book Reviews

1. Ch. 7 History test
2. Ch. 7 Math test
3. Pink Slip Reports (for those who received pink slips last week)
4. Parent Conference Schedule
5. Reading Contract Folder
6. Viewbinder Flyer
7. Accelerated Math Reports

1.) The French and Indian War

* Britain fought France for control over the Ohio River Valley
* Indians were allies with France
* Both sides signed the Treaty of Paris which ended the war

2.) Taxes

* King taxed the colonies to pay for The French and Indian War
* Stamp Act- taxed anything printed on paper (newspaper, calendars, playing cards), colonists formed the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act and they would beat up the British tax collectors, they also boycotted British goods and didn’t buy their cloth, Britain then repealed (canceled) the act
* Townshend Act- King then made this act which taxed tea, glass, lead, paints, again the colonists attacked the tax collectors so the King sent British soldiers for protection, colonists boycotted again and made their own clothes, women formed the Daughters of Liberty, British then repealed the act but kept the tax on tea because the King wanted to show that he still had the power to tax if he wanted to
* Intolerable Act- this was the King’s response for the Boston Tea Party, the King closed the port of Boston which stopped trade, they stopped town meetings, and they made the colonists house and feed the British soldiers, the colonists wrote a letter to the King to ask him to repeal this act because they thought it was too harsh

3.) Battle of Lexington

* British soldiers saw minutemen there and someone fired a shot and so both sides started shooting, 8 colonists were dead, 9 wounded, only 1 British soldier was wounded
* British were actually on there way to Concord to take out the minutemen’s ammunition

4.) Battle of Concord

* minutemen surprise attacked the British while they were on their way to Concord, they shot the British from behind trees, bushes, and walls, over 250 British were killed or wounded

5.) Other Stuff

* Boston Massacre- started because a crowd threw snowballs at British soldiers
* Committees of Correspondence- started to spread news to other colonies
* The Proclamation of 1763 separated the Indians and the colonists

6.) Vocabulary

* ally- someone on your side
* protest- to voice or act out against something
* massacre- a killing of a people
* militia- an army of ordinary people

1. January newsletter
2. Vocabulary quiz
3. Priority spelling test
4. Accelerated math reports

1. December newsletter
2. Reading quiz
3. Accelerated Math reports