April 28

Math Homework page 479 (1-21)

Please help your child if they missed a bunch on page 466 homework assignments. They can fix it to 100% and that will be a great review for the test tomorrow.

Thanks,

April 27

Math Homework is page 477 (4-18)

Parent letter and Story due tomorrow to play spelling game.

April 26

Math homework is page 466 (1-19)

Please check the score of your child's homework page 422 (1-11)

They are allowed to fix this score to 100%. Please encourage them to do that. They really need to fix it if they scored below 70%. That means they did not understand the concept.

Thanks.

April 20

It is true...I assigned page 422 (1-11) for homework. Remember it isn't Friday and they get homework every day but Friday! (A teacher has to do what a teacher has to do. LOL)

Please make sure your child knows their math facts and has fixed page 376 to 100% so we can be sure they know how to do perimeter and area. Thanks.
Happy Easter!

April 19

Math homework is page 391 (4-23)

Plus check with your child to see if they help in fixing page 376. They are allowed to improve their score to 100% if they take the time to fix it and prove understanding of how to solve for perimeter and area. Thanks.

April 18

Gillespie Gazette...April 18

Blog address: www.gillespiegazette.blogspot.com

Email: anna.gillespie@jordandistrict.ut.us

School: 446-3200

Cell: 623-7625

Home: 801-375-0024

Dear Parents,

Our student of the week, Braden, amazed me by moving up several levels in his instructional reading level. He followed "the plan" and it made a huge difference. He is an extremely bright young man and a leader in our math class. Thanks for your help last week and always. I want to also thank his mother for her many hours in our classroom and at our school as PTA President. Way to go Dara Williams!

Spelling List, Story, and Parent letter number 27 due on Thursday.

1. apartment

2. nurse

3. swallowed

4. taste

5. tomorrow

6. minnows

7. tennis

8. match

9. going to is better than "gonna"

10. hobbey

11. borrow

12. ladder

13. our

14. are

I sent home a book order list a couple of weeks ago and will appreciate any orders made. Thank you.

Your students are having a great review on Social Studies. We have studied the book thoroughly and now are playing a "game" for several days to see or re-teach what needs to be re-taught. Behavior Slips are awarded to students and they always love that.

Please continue to help your students with math concepts as they do homework. If they miss even one day, they can get way behind and will appreciate your support.

Math Homework tonight will be on page 376 (Problems 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 13) We do not have to learn about volume so I skipped those pages. Do not have students do 2, 10, 11, 12. Thanks.

Please sign on paper copy or comment on Blog.

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Student name______________________________

April 13

Math Homework: Page 353 (1-7)

Please help your child correct mistakes on page 334 (1-27)
Thanks,

April 12

Math Homework: page 334 (1-27) Please follow instructions carefully and do your best!

April 11

Major mistake in Gillespie Gazette blog: I wrote the wrong page number for math homework. In reality, math homework is on page 321 (1-6) I apologize for any tears that may have caused. I caught the mistake before sending the kids home Monday and asked them to change it on the paper copy. Hope that happened.

April 11

Gillespie Gazette...April 11

Blog address: www.gillespiegazette.blogspot.com
Email: anna.gillespie@jordandistrict.ut.us
School: 446-3200
Cell: 623-7625
Home: 801-375-0024

Dear Parents,

Bailee was our student of the week last week because of always doing outstanding work and trying to earn her Fantastic Falcon. She helped a lot by bringing a pioneer costume from home on Thursday so we could perform so well at the Renaissance Fair for the 6th grade. She also took the time to memorize the song "Oh Susanna" on her recorder so she could be in the performing group. All the kids had a wonderful day at school that day. We had such fun. Thanks to all the parents that helped their child with costumes...that sure helped me.

Spelling List...Practice these words with your child and pass them off!
1. climbed
2. purple
3. dare
4. bottom
5. community
6. having
7. hurt
8. scared
9. their
10. there
11. parents
12. Yellowstone National Park
13. between
14. hurry
15. you're
16. your
17. someone
18. education
19. bowl

Parent letter #26 and Spelling Sport Script will be due on Thursday.

The school is hosting a "Buy one Get one Free Book Fair" this week. The students are allowed to go shopping during lunch hour.

Parents, I need to enlist your help with your children doing math homework. They might need you to sit by their side to make sure they understand the math concepts. We are going at a very fast pace during the school day. So many of your kids do not have their math facts memorized. This is really complicating things as we try to teach them advanced math concepts. You must help them get these facts conquered. They were taught them in 3rd grade and so this is just a matter of constant practice.

Math Homework tonight is page 378. Do all problems. If your child seems to understand the concept, let them work on their own. Encourage them to follow the instructions very carefully.

Thanks.

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Student Name_____________________April 11

April 7

Math homework...page 313 (1-20)

April 6

Math homework page 301 (1-10) This might seem easy after the hard problems we did in class.

Spelling letter and Spelling sentences due tomorrow to play spelling game.

April 5

Math Homework...the students may need a lot of support on math homework page 297 (1-24)

I am thankful you will be there for them. I will resume the "long-division" concepts tomorrow. They will get it eventually, like we all did back in the day. :)

April 4

Please remember to read April 4 Gillespie Gazette on this blog and comment.

Homework tonight is page 223 (1-4)

Also every student has been asked to fix the mistakes made on page 282 (1-17). The class got very low scores, so they will need some "one on one" help by your side to correct them. Thank you. If they want to give up a recess, I can help them during the first recess tomorrow.

April 4

Monday, April 4, 2011

April 4

Gillespie Gazette...April 4

Blog address: www.gillespiegazette.blogspot.com
Email: anna.gillespie@jordandistrict.ut.us.
School: 446-3200
Cell: 623-7625
Home: 801-375-0024

Dear Parents,

Congratulations to Jason who served as Student of the Week and helped me so much! Jason is working on his Fantastic Falcon and I appreciate his fine example.

Here is the spelling list you will need to practice with your student:
1. arrived
2. too
3. to
4. bacon
5. a breakfast
6. usually
7. local
8. an egret
9. jewels
10. spiders
11. dew
12. lacy
13. wrapped
14. an airplane
15. pilot
16. solo
17. while

Please help your child do the spelling letter # 25 due on Thursday.

We have been invited to perform at the 6th grade Renaissance. ( I hoped I spelled that correctly) We will be playing the song "Oh Susanna" Please bring your recorders this week so we can practice all week and perform our best on Thursday.

I am sending home a Scholastic Book Form and hope you will try to order books from it. I do earn incentives (books) for our class library when books are ordered. If you are ordering on line, please let me know and I will call you and walk you through it. I get extra incentives when on line ordering is done.

We will be escalating the math for the month of April. I have tried my best to keep everyone together, but there are so many students that are ready to move on ahead, we can't wait for the others. Please help your child each night with math homework so that they will be able to keep up with the rest of the class. If they don't have their math facts readily memorized, you must spend some extra time with them to help them conquer these. It really will slow them down on understanding the concepts that we will be working on (long division, fractions, etc.) if they continue to use charts instead of memory with these facts. Thanks for helping them.

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