November 15

Gillespie Gazette...November 15

Blog Address: www.gillespiegazette.blogspot.com

Email: anna.gillespie@jordan.k12.ut.us

School: 446-3200
Cell: 623-7625
Home: 801-375-0024


Dear Parents,

Thank you to Tenney for bringing in an amazing poster for her Student of the Week. I could tell her mom spent a lot of time helping her put that together. Thank you Tenney for always setting a good example to the other students.

I appreciated all the parents that made the effort to attend Parent Teacher Conference and SEPs. It was great to visit with you all. Please know that if you haven't had a chance to spend time helping your child decide on a goal for 2nd Term, I need you to do that. Most of you have returned the SEP. I have made copies and will return them to your child for you to have a copy and periodically remind them of their goals they have set for themselves.

I would like to add and addendum to the last Gillespie Gazette. It was brought to my attention by our awesome principal, Mr. Griffith, that I might want to clarify that the study of counties does fit nicely under the study of Utah history. When the students study about their particular county, they will come across many facts about our Utah history. So it does reinforce the study of Utah history. For instance, we recently learned in our Utah text book about the word "cache" Mountain Men dug caches and put their goods, furs, etc. in the ground to be able to come back later and dig it up. We had a student realize that is how Cache County got its name. There were so many mountain men digging caches there that it started the name of the county when we became a state. I thought that was so interesting. So Mr. Griffith is right. There is a lot of history in each of the history of the 29 counties of Utah. Thanks for pointing that out.

Parent letter #10 and spelling list is being sent home on the 15th.

Please make sure you child knows how to spell the following words by Thursday of this week:

thank
knitting
beautiful
rarely
beaten
beet
would
wouldn't
softly
laughed
clouds
threatening
a totally awesome video game
an awesome video game

Please remember that tomorrow is Picture Make-Up Day.
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