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 Halloween Poetry 1. Dusk in Autumn Sara Teasdale The moon is like a scimitar, A little silver scimitar, A-drifting down the sky. And near beside it is a star, A timid twinkling golden star, That watches likes an eye. And thro' the nursery window-pane The witches have a fire again, Just like the ones we make,- And now I know they're having tea, I wish they'd give a cup to me, With witches' current cake. 2. Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lantern With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling. 3. Halloween Party Kenn Nesbitt We're having a Halloween party at school. I'm dressed up like Dracula. Man, I look cool! I dyed my hair black, and I cut off my bangs. I'm wearing a c...

 FUZZY MUD LOUIS SACHAR Louis Sachar is the author of the New York Times best seller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher award, as well as Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. Summary: Fifth grader Ramaya Dhilwadi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the deto...

 Rate Word Problems Math Rate: A rate is a special type of ratio that describes the comparison by division of two quantities with different units. Example: total miles per hours, total meters per seconds. Rate is the ratio between two quantities with different units. Rate tells how quickly one quantity changes in relation to another quantity. Rate is the ratio between two quantities with different units. A type of rate where the denominator or second quantity in the ratio is always 1 unit. A unit rate has a compound unit sample compound units for Unit Rates. The unit rate describes the amount per one, or the rate when the denominator is one. Ex. miles per hour meters per second liters per day Identify the ratios that are associated with conversions between feet, inches, and yards. 12 inches = _______ foot; the ratio of inches to feet is _______ 1 foot = ___________ inches; the ratio of feet to inches is ______ Ratio:  A comparison between two quantities. Equivalent ratio: Two ...

 Place Value   Math 1. What is place value? Ans: The position of a digit in a number that is used to determine the value of the digit. Example:  in 5,318 the 3 is in the hundreds place. So, the 3 has a value of 300. 2. What is digit? Ans: The symbols used to show numbers: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Whole numbers : The numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and so on. The exponent is the number that tells how many times a base number is used as a factor. Ex: Tom's new horse weighs about 1,000 pounds.  How can you show 1,000 as a power of 10 using an exponent? 1000 = 10 X 10 X 10  = 103   Expanded form:  A way to write a number that shows the place value of each digit Example: 3 X 1,000 + 5 X 100 + 6 X 10 + 2 X 1  Standard Form:  A common way of writing a number with commas is by separating groups of three digits starting from the right. Ex: 3,458,901 Value of a digit:  The number a digit represents, which is determined by the position of the digit; see al...