Spelling

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend! Here's this week's spelling:
1/18 to 1/21
Week 16

oak
hotel
coach
notice
dough
yolk
boast
poem
groan
echo
float
control
tornado
hero
coast
though
throat
clothing
scold

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Week 15
1/10 to 1/14

vote
zone
known
follow
alone
microscope
arrow
grown
orrow
swallow
tomorrow
telephone
code
suppose
chose
sew
throw
bowl
owe
elbow

Spelling

Welcome back from Winter Break! I hope you had a great vacation and are ready to come back to school rejuvenated and ready to learn more! Here is this weeks spelling words:

1/3/11 to 1/7/11
Week 14
dollar
honor
collar
closet
common
lobster
quantity
hospital
solid
copper
wander
problem
object
comma
watch
bother
bottom
shock
honest
promise

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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?).