Have a FANTASTIC summer break!!! Thanks for such a wonderful school year! And remember, YOU CAN GO THE DISTANCE!!!
Love,
Mrs. Dietz

Spelling

5/23 to 5/27
Week 32

nickel
whistle
general
simple
animal
final
pickles
trouble
double
puzzle
natural
tumble
barrel
tremble
musical
example
sample
wrinkle
couple
signal

Spelling

5/16 to 5/20
Week 31

season
ocean
qualify
memory
citrus
chorus
government
again
approve
cousin
dangerous
against
industry
perhaps
banana
surprise
beautiful
canoe
mosquito
comfort

May Book Report

Today the paper about May's Book Report is coming home. Your child got to choose this month what genre to read a book from, and now they have a choice as to what they do for their book report. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to attach a word document to my blog, but if your child looses the paper, let me know and I'll email you the paper. The book report will be due on June 1st.

Choose ONE of the following options to do as your book report:

Choice 1: A one-page hand written (or 1 page double space typed) on the book you read. Including title, author, plot, setting, characters and your thoughts and recommendations.

Choice 2: On a 9x12 piece of construction paper make a collage from pictures that you cut out of a magazine. You should have the title and author spelled out at the top. This collage should explain the plot and setting, be relevant to the characters and portray the overall message or idea from the book.

Choice 3: Write a one-page poem (12 lines, 3 sets of 4) on the book you read. This poem does need to rhyme, and should include information about the plot, setting and characters. It should also cover the problems and solutions that were in the book. Make sure to include the title of the book and author.

Choice 4: Make a 3-dimensional sculpture of the contents of the book. This sculpture should portray title, author, plot, setting and characters. You may do something like a hanger mobile. Be creative! Here are a couple of pictures that your child could chose as one of the options (the 3D option does NOT have to be a hanger mobile, but I just wanted to show a picture of it in case you're not framilar with it).

The first picture is for younger grades, but I just wanted to show that you could cut out the paper in shapes instead of just circles like the second one.

Spelling

5/9 to 5/13
Week 30

Maryland
Annapolis
New Jersey
Trenton
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
New York
Albany
Connecticut
Hartford
Rhode Island
Providence
Massachusetts
Boston
Vermont
Montpelier
New Hampshire
Concord
Maine
Augusta

Don't forget, they're all proper nouns which means they need to be capitalized!

Spelling

4/25 to 4/29
Week 29

shuttle
celestial
astronomy
revolution
comet
galaxy
axis
orbit
meteors
motion
universe
light-year
solar
rotation
telescope
asteroids
eclipse
satellite
constellation
lunar

Spelling

Week 28
4/18 to 4/22

thunderstorm
strawberry
birthday
sailboat
cheeseburger
hallway
nightmare
notebook
upset
cartwheel
flashlight
chalkboard
grasshopper
suitcase
sawdust
uproar
weekend
homework
blueberry
breakfast