Mrs. Gillespie's thoughts

Happy 4th of July!  I just love our country and all of the celebrations associated with the love of the good ole' USA- Souza music, spa...

Creating a sense of community is important in the classroom (and in our individual families).  During the year, I helped foster our classro...

I've been running through my first year teaching, sprinting to the end, and I am now pausing to catch my breath.  School was out 3 week...

I know I am a day late and a dollar short, but I had GREAT success with my Valentine's Day student gift.  You can use it next year, or ...

When I was in 4th grade, my teacher MADE us memorize the entire list of prepositions.  I thought she was so mean!  Well guess what?  I still...

Well, it's my last day off.  Not really, because I have the weekend, but on Monday, it's back to school.  I'm excited, but I do ...

My class was visited by some reporters and we are now online!  My students had great fun viewing themselves today!  Over a month ago, our c...

I added my Pinterest board to Rachel Lynette 's wonderful blog list.  It's a list of teachers who pin MOSTLY free and "full of...

Way before I began teaching, I combed through hundreds of books, magazines, and sites for teaching ideas.  One idea I loved from the start ...

I have been SOOOO busy lately. What teacher isn't? Especially teachers who have children of their own who are also incredibly social ...

I just love my classroom!  It's cozy and happy.  My school is a remedial school and we focus on phonics (reading) and math.  Because ...

I am thrilled to be teaching this fall at a lovely non-profit private school!  I am teaching grade 3 and 4 in the morning for language arts ...

Time to organize my library! I purchased some super cute teacher labels from Vista Print.  Their shipping is ridiculous, but each package o...

My diploma has arrived.  It looks wonderful!  Better yet, I received my Nebraska teaching certificate today.  Yippee!!!  I am now licensed ...

I created my own website as my "online portfolio".  It's so easy, anyone can do it! Here's my link:  http://amygillespie...

My first official job began:  summer school!  I was trained the end of May and began on June 4th.  I am teaching intensive phonics (the Spau...

We've been digging into poetry and have had loads of fun reading them.  After writing our own rhyming poems, we decided to give 2 other...

We've been learning about the Presidents and writing about them.  The kids learned a song and like to sing it rather loudly!  :)  You...

Here is our class singing the President's Song. The recording is not great, but it's the best we could do at this point! Voice Rec...

We've been studying the White House and our Presidents.  The kiddos are researching some of our Presidents and we are reading about the...