December 5

Gillespie Gazette...December 5

Blog address: www.gillespiegazette.blogspot.com

email address: annagillespie@hotmail.com

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

Dear Parents,

Averee had a good time and opportunity to be the student of the week for a short week and then a regular week. Lucky girl. Thanks for the poster and the help. She is a fun student and had very fun ideas.

I had a wonderful time with my family in Texas, but I have been playing catch up every since. I apologize for it. Eventually it will be back to normal. I will be checking on students who have not turned in their SEP goals and will have to resort to 'no recess" until turned in. Please visit with your child and make sure they have turned this important document in. Every parent and child was given an SEP form at Parent/Teacher Conferences. I am hoping tomorrow at school, I will have an accounting of each one. Thanks to all that have taken care of this already.

Parent letter #12 due on Thursday. Parents, please take the time to check your student's work. I am glad for the signature, but every once in a while I am noticing that the assignment was not done properly because the parent is not helping the child with the instructions. Thank you for your support and help in your child learning spelling concepts.

Spelling List:
1. struck not stricked
2. strike
3. command
4. printer
5. turned
6. here
7. her
8. stick
9. article
10. molded
11. every
12. healthy
13. treats
14. sprained
15. ankle
16. painful
17. there
18. mechanical
19. outside

We worked hard to get the poems finished, typed, and mailed to the publisher. They usually send a letter around March or so to those students worthy of making it into the book. Please let me know if any of your students get published. I sent a stamp and your address of each student that completed a poem and that stamp will allow the publishing company to notify them. They will not notify unless their poem was worthy of publication.

I have attached a Book Order and encourage you to order books. There are three students that will be getting free books because they ordered on line last time. (Max, Brianna, Lindsay) Please take advantage of the online ordering. I will do better on my part. (I didn't know I had to complete the order....sorry about that.) Please give me another chance. I have been doing the 'old school" method for so long, it is hard to get used to the new ways. I will take orders either way and make sure they get completed in a timely way. Orders will be taken until December 22. Books will be here first thing in January. Please contact me by phone or email or blog if you need more information on how to online order.

Congratulations to Reflection Winners. All students that entered were winners! Our class had the most entries. Bailee and Rebecca earned 'Honorable Mention' in their categories. And Jason earned an "Excellent" and his entry will be sent on to the district competition.

We are having a major food drive and our class is determined to win! Please help you child help others by donating food to the Christmas Food Drive. Thanks. A can a day keeps hunger away!


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