Spelling

12/13 to 12/17
Week 13

mild
library
science
guide
idea
quite
awhile
ninth
pirate
polite
tried
decide
remind
revise
island
grind
knife
climb
invite
blind

Last Week in December!

As Winter Break gets closer, we are finishing up units of study. Today in class we voted when we'd like to take the Science test (in class review and test on Wednesday or take-home review and test on Tuesday). Here are the results/schedule:

Monday night your child should bring home a science test review as part of their homework.
Tuesday: Science Test
Wednesday: Math Test and Book Reports Due
Thursday: Class Party from 12:45-1:45
Friday: Singing Program in Gym from 10am-11am

Thanks,
Mrs. Dietz

Spelling

12/5 to 12/10
Week 12

Wyoming
Cheyenne
Colorado
Denver
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Texas
Austin
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Kansas
Topeka
Nebraska
Lincoln
South Dakota
Pierre
North Dakota
Bismarck
Minnesota
St. Paul

Don't forget, they're all proper nouns, so they must ALL be capitalized!!!

December Book Reports

I have had students and parents asking me about the books that their child is supposed to read for December. We purposefully did the November book report before Thanksgiving Break to give you a little extra time to read the book. This month your child is supposed to read a Great Illustrated Classic. If you haven't heard of these before, you can go to:
greatillustratedclassics.com. On the right hand side it will say: Great Illustrated Classics. Click on it to see examples of these books. PLEASE GO TO THE LEHI LIBRARY AND BORROW THEM THERE!! There is no need to actually purchase the book!

The book report is a Pop-Up Book. The front cover needs to be a scene from the story, just like a book cover would be. On the inside there needs to be 1-3 pop up tabs. On the back cover, the information needs to be filed out. Follow the following directions:


Steps to follow:
1. Fold the blank cardstock paper in half. Make the ground elements below the fold line and the upright elements above the fold line.

2. Decide how many items you want to pop up (Make one to three tabs). Long tabs will make items pop out farther than short tabs.
Cut tabs
Fold tabs down
Unfold tabs and push forward

3. Make a colored picture for each of your tabs. You mightmake people, ships, animals, houses, trees, etc. Cut the pictures out. Glue one to each tab. Put the glue on the tab, NOT on the picture.

4. Fold the cardstock paper with book information on it in half. Glue the pop-up form inside the folder.

The front cover needs to have the title of the book you read, the author of the book, and your name. It also needs to have a colored illustration of a scene from the book on it.
The inside will be a 3d, colored illustration and should be a different scene from the book you read.
The back cover has information about your book. The summary and critic’s corner need to be completed in complete sentences. The critic’s corner is your opinion of the book (was it a bad/good/excellent book? Why?).

Spelling

Week 11
Plural Words
11/29 to 12/3

stories
wives
benches
skis
calves
sandwiches
branches
athletes
parties
companies
neighbors
hobbies
exercises
penalties
degrees
vegetables
speeches
crashes
wishes
businesses

Pilgram's Thanksgiving

Another exciting thing that we did: we experienced what a real Pilgram's Thanksgiving was like, and we also got to play some real Pilgram games! Thank you again, to all the families who were able to help make this day so wonderful! It turned out amazing! Especially to our Room Mom and Assistant Room mom who organized all the help and food: Shelli Winward and Kiersten Beauchene!!

November Book Reports

These past few school days have been great! On Friday, November 19 and Monday, November 22 we got to see a lot of really cool book reports and learn about a lot of people!! Way to go class!

Spelling

11/15 to 11/19

business
system
package
skill
chicken
mystery
arithmetic
film
message
picnic
kitchen
damage
village
sixth
garbage
pitch
insect
cottage
insist
timid

Spelling

11/8 to 11/12
Can you believe it's already November!?! The year is flying by! Today we started our division unit. Tonights homework is about identifying the dividend (the number being divided Example 60 / 5 = 12), divisor (the number of groups it is being divided into Example 60 / 5 = 12) and quotient (the answer to a division problem 60 / 5 = 12). Here are the spelling words for the week :)

wrist
guitar
expect
chimney
riddle
bridge
guilt
enough
since
disease
except
equipment
built
quit
quickly
relax
review
different
discuss
divide

Hope you have a great week!
Mrs. Dietz

Math

Today we took a math test, which means no math homework tonight. Ask your child how they did on the math test! We reviewed a lot this week for it! The grade breakdown is as follows:
A 93-100%
A- 90-92%
B+ 87-89%
B 83-86%
B- 80-82%
C+ 75-79%
C 70-74 %
C- 65-69%
N 0-64%

Happy Thursday!
Mrs. Dietz

Our First Day of November!

No math homework tonight because with our Minimal Monday, we simply didn't have time to get to it! We did many other things today such as a reader's theater about Christopher Columbus (who we learned did NOT sail on the Mayflower, he sailed on the Santa Maria!), talked about persuasion (so we can learn how to write persuasive essays), and of course, literacy. We started working on a couple of songs for Hope of America as well (notes about that will be coming home soon).

11/1 to 11/5 Spelling Words
greet
pizza
weak
breathe
freeze
piano
speech
asleep
increase
peace
ski
defeat
reason
needle
steep
sheet
wheat
agree
degree
beneath

These words have been posted on SpellingCity.com already! Have fun!

Mrs. Dietz

We had a great day celebrating Halloween

Spelling for the week of:
10/18 to 10/22

Alaska
Juneau
Washington
Olympia
Oregon
Salem
Idaho
Boise
Nevada
Carson City
California
Sacramento
Hawaii
Honolulu
Montana
Helena
Utah
Salt Lake City
Arizona
Phoenix

Spelling

10/25 to 10/29

hobby
believe
compete
delivery
angry
evening
tardy
fancy
trapeze
athlete
merry
pretty
penalty
ugly
theme
liberty
empty
shady
busy
complete

Spelling

10/18 to 10/22

Alaska
Juneau
Washington
Olympia
Oregon
Salem
Idaho
Boise
Nevada
Carson City
California
Sacramento
Hawaii
Honolulu
Montana
Helena
Utah
Salt Lake City
Arizona
Phoenix

Don't forget they're all proper nouns, so they must ALL be capitalized!

Media Party

As a class we earned a party, the students decided they wanted a media party. After lunch on Tuesday, the students pulled out their media items and we got to relax for a bit and have some fun!

10/11 to 10/15

No spelling this week, happy Fall Break!!

Practicing Spelling

Hi Parents and Students!
I want to tell you about some ways to practice spelling words at home. The first one is new to me also, but I just learned about a website called spellingcity.com. It's really cool, you should take a look at it! It has many spelling games on it!

When you go to this website, click on the red and yellow 'STUDENTS' tab in the top right corner of the page. Next scroll down all the way to the bottom. On about the middle of the page will be the blue underlined words 'FIND A LIST'. After clicking on it, search by teacher by simply typing 'Dietz' and clicking search. I should be the top name that appears (Allison Dietz). Click on my name. Now you will have the option of 'Teach', 'Test' or 'Games'. You can use these three options to help you study spelling at home. There are tons of games, I hope you find them fun!

Here are some other ideas of how to study spelling words at home:
Write the words in alphabetical order
Write each word in a sentence
Write a story using all of the spelling words
Type the words on the computer (do NOT use copy and paste!!!)
Have a parent give you a home quiz on each word
Write each word 5 times

Don't forget that one of the most important things is to SPELL THE WORD CORRECTLY WHEN YOU ARE PRACTICING!!! Don't practice spelling the words incorrectly!

Spelling

10/4 to 10/8

October
Thursday
January
February
Monday
March
April
November
June
Wednesday
August
September
Tuesday
Sunday
July
Friday
December
May
Saturday
St.

Don't forget, these are all proper nouns which means that every word is capitalized!