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