Welcome back! We missed everyone during the break! We hope your holiday was terrific.

As we start back this week, we'll be starting a new unit on decimals. Today we'll learn about the basics: place value, different ways to express decimals, and ordering and comparing decimals. Regular math classes will do Lesson 3-1 (1-9) in the workbook, while advanced math should do page 94 (1-16) in the textbook.

Remember that we will offer after school tutoring tomorrow, Tuesday, to students needing extra help. See Mrs. Woodward for a permission form to stay. We need some advanced math students to help tutor during these help sessions, if anyone is interested. Thanks. (Be sure to bring a snack; you'll get hungry by this time in the afternoon!)

All students will have a test on fractions and mixed numbers on Thursday. We will review concepts on this test all week during warm-ups to help any students who are struggling. This test covers all the skills we have practiced over the past 3-4 weeks, on comparing and ordering fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing mixed numbers.

Remember that Friday is an early release day. Students will be released at 12:30 that day. During the morning, we will have our school spelling bee, and do some special activities in social studies to get ready for our Renaissance Fair next Friday. Therefore, we will not have math classes on Friday.