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

Spelling

Week 27
4/4 to 4/8

share
charge
discharge
aware
harvest
prepare
fare
alarm
farther
stare
carefully
starve
margin
depart
declare
compare
square
marbles
apartment
bare

Spelling

Week 26
3/28 to 4/1

skirt
purpose
earn
certain
dirty
service
furnish
early
thirteen
perfect
permit
firm
hurt
furniture
learning
heard
perfume
third
pearl
personal

Spelling

Week 25
3/21 to 3/25

score
quarrel
court
adore
roar
shore
before
reward
course
board
wore
warn
tore
export
toward
perform
fortunate
orchard
import
important

Spelling

Week 24
3/15 to 3/18

Kentucky
Frankfort
Tennessee

Nashville
Alabama
Montgomery
Florida
Tallahassee
Georgia
Atlanta
South Carolina
Columbia
North Carolina
Raleigh
Virginia
Richmond
West Virginia
Charleston
Delaware
Dover

Don't forget, they are ALL proper nouns, meaning they need to be capitalized!

Interesting News!

Two Spaces After a Period--The Old Way
Here's the deal: Most typewriter fonts are what are called monospaced fonts. That means every character takes up the same amount of space. An "i" takes up as much space as an "m," for example. When using a monospaced font, where everything is the same width, it makes sense to type two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence to create a visual break. For that reason, people who learned to type on a typewriter were taught to put two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence.

One Space After a Period--The New Way
But when you're typing on a computer, most fonts are proportional fonts, which means that characters are different widths. An "i" is more narrow than an "m," for example, and putting extra space between sentences doesn't do anything to improve readability.
Notice how in this example, the "i's" and "t" take up much less space in the proportional font than they do in the monospaced font.

Although how many spaces you use is ultimately a style choice, using one space is by far the most widely accepted and logical style.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spaces-period-end-of-sentence.aspx


With the introduction of proportional fonts in computers, double sentence spacing became obsolete. These proportional fonts now assign appropriate horizontal space to each character (including punctuation marks), and can modify kerning values to adjust spaces following terminal punctuation, so there is less need to manually increase spacing between sentences. From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines and newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

Hope this helps when you are typing your persuasive essays at home!

Parent Note

Hi Parents,
I have attached the note I sent home on Tuesday, March 8th. It has the signature paper for the persuasive paper. If your child looses it, please print off a new signature slip!
Thanks,
Mrs. Dietz

Spelling

Week 23
3/7 to 3/11

cycling
track
soccer
football
professional
basketball
skin diving
skiing
Olympics
champion
volleyball
bowling
skating
golf
baseball
amateur
swimming
tennis
hockey
competition

Don't forget, Olympics is the name of a world wide sports competition so it is capitalized!

Spelling

Week 22
2/28 to 3/4

noise
destroy
annoy
enjoy
choice
appoint
moisture
employment
boiler
oyster
coin
loyal
avoid
loyalty
voice
voyage
royal
broil
employ
appointment

Spelling

Week 21
2/22 to 2/25

choose
loose
lose
rooster
balloon
shampoo
improve
clue
kangaroo
fruit
proof
prove
truth
foolish
shoe
whom
juice
whose
raccoon
glue

Math Test

Congratulations Students! So many of you did such a fantastic job on the math test today! I am so proud of you for working hard, studying and doing your homework! It paid off! Your final test scores are posted on Skyward, make sure to get on and show your parents your score!

Spelling

Week 20
2/14 to 2/18

dawn
raw
autumn
crawl
thought
fault
lawn
automobile
fought
straw
daughter
all right
caught
already
bought
brought
wrong
taught
often
awful

Spelling

Week 19
2/7 to 2/11

crush
judge
rough
husband
tongue
pumpkin
monkey
onion
touch
hundred
jungle
compass
blood
among
knuckle
flood
instruct
country
dozen
wonderful

Minute To Win It

The students are able to win class parties for good behavior. Our last class party was on Friday, February 4th. We had a great time playing Minute to Win It! I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Spelling

1/31 to 2/4
Week 18

Iowa
Des Moines
Missouri
Jefferson City
Arkansas
Little Rock
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Mississippi
Jackson
Illinois
Springfield
Wisconsin
Madison
Michigan
Lansing
Indiana
Indianapolis
Ohio
Columbus

Spelling

Week 17
1/25 to 1/29

graphics
animation
columnist
byline
studio
earphones
producer
commercial
recorder
video
network
camera
newspaper
director
television
editorial
headline
musician
masthead
broadcast

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

Spelling

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