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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August 7th Final Pedagogy Session and Appreciation Meeting

Hi all,
It is my understanding you were each sent the following e-mail from the Miller /Zion Bank Seminar Board this past week.

“The Larry H. Miller Education Project at Weber State University and the Zion’s Bank History Seminars
July 22, 2010

Welcome home, participants of the Larry H. Miller and Zion’s Bank History Seminars! The post-travel seminar and celebration dinner will be held Saturday, August 7, 2010, at the Energy Solutions Arena.
We will conclude these seminars as we began them--meeting together to share what has been learned and spread the enthusiasm of how the strategies and content learned this summer will be implemented into curriculum. Our ultimate goal is to translate this learning experience into the classroom and make a difference in how Utah students learn history. We look forward to meeting with you on August 7th. You will receive a separate notification from your mentors, outlining materials that you need to bring that afternoon.
Place: Energy Solutions Arena
Time: 2:00pm-6:00pm: Plenary and Individual Sessions: Pedagogy Seminar
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm: Appreciation Dinner
Parking: Located at the Energy Solutions Arena in the “Park Place” parking lot.
Those travelling more than 100 miles will be reimbursed for gas.

RSVP: Email Libby Robertson if you are planning on attending the dinner portion of the evening. It is imperative that you respond by TUESDAY, JULY 27th, as the final count must be known by Wednesday, July 28th. nclibby@gmail.com
If you are not attending the Pedagogy Seminar, it is your responsibility to contact your seminar mentor.”

As promised here is the separate notification from me – the pedagogy specialist- indicating what you should bring to the pedagogy seminars.

The pedagogy seminars will run from 2:00-5:45 p.m. on August 7th. We will meet in grade level discussions for the first hour. From 3:00-5:45 we will work in collaborative groups to create a product using Marzano’s strategies. The lessons or strategies you create will be the final portion of your grade. With that in mind you should bring your reflective journals and learning logs to the pedagogy session; in addition, be sure to have your seminar blogs completed prior to the August 7th meeting. Jay and I will review your completed blogs, and assignments (including the lessons completed at the seminar) in order to complete your final grading rubrics and post grades at Weber State. Please check your rubric for further information on requirements and grades. Please bring your texts and strategies notebook to the pedagogy sessions.

As indicated in the previous letter be sure to e-mail Libby within the week and let her know you are planning on attending the appreciation dinner, conversely if you are not attending the pedagogy seminar let me know ASAP. If not attending you will have to find an alternate means of completing your final project and turning in your assignments to Jay and I. We look forward to seeing you in August.

Kind Regards

Cindy Ness
Master oarsmen and jester
Cindy_ness@byu.edu
(801-360-3885)

Post Seminar Blog

Whew! What a week! It was a joy to get to know each of you and learn together. In future posts I will review your assignments and our meeting in early August; however while my sunburn still burns I want to take a minute to tell each of you how impressed I was with your dedication to transferring your learning to your students. If all teachers were like each of you, what a world this would be! I look forward to seeing you in August.

Cindy

Use of the Lewis & Clark Travel Seminar Blog

This blog is for the use of those participating in the Larry H. Miller & Zions Bank Lewis & Clark Educational Seminar. The objective of the Lewis & Clark seminar is to merge on site content provided by Dr. Jay Buckley, author of William Clark: Indian Diplomat, and co-author of By His Own Hand: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis and pedagogy and practices presented by Cindy Ness, Professor of History and History Education at Brigham Young University. In addition it is our sincere hope that each of you will serve as a resource providing insights and ideas that will enrich the experience for all those who participate in the Lewis & Clark seminars.

As a grant recipient you will be expected to participate actively in all three stages of the seminar, i.e. the pre-travel seminar, the travel seminar, & the post-travel seminar.

Before the travel seminar you are expected to practice with your students at least one of the "Marzano" strategies presented in the pre-travel seminar. On completion of your practice lesson, please utilize the blog to present your ideas, reflect and evaluate the procedures. Within the open forum of the seminar blog, it is our hope that each of us will be able to share suggestions and experiences that can improve our collective teaching.

Lastly the blog will serve as an open forum to dialogue the content texts that are required for participation in the Lewis and Clark travel seminar i.e. Gary E Moulton, An American Epic of Discovery, Stephen E. Ambrose: Undaunted Courage, and our very own Dr. Buckley's, By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. PLEASE POST YOUR IDEAS, RESPONSES, AND/OR INSIGHTS WITHIN THE APPROPRIATE THREAD.

We look forward to reading your ideas and insights.

Professor Jay Buckley
Professor Cindy Ness

PLEASE REMEMBER TO POST YOUR COMMENTS IN THE CORRECT THREAD

PLEASE REMEMBER TO POST YOUR COMMENTS IN THE CORRECT THREAD

Questions and information on the travel seminar

If you have questions regarding preparation, expectations or requirements for the travel seminar please post them below. Either Jay or Cindy will be make an effort to respond as quickly as possible.

If you are unable to post on the blog, please send Cindy an email @ cindy_ness@byu.edu, and she will walk you through the process of posting a blog on the site.