In PE, EC students have been working on throwing and catching in addition to strengthening their balance and core with body puzzles and yoga positions. Elementary students have been working on volleyball skills, acceleration through sprints, and honing in on their overhand and underhand throwing. Ed Whelen and Cheyenne Kibblewhite, P.E. Teachers...
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of Gillispie parent, Justin Nadi, we have more cooking spices and baking decorations than we could have ever imagined! And they are beautifully branded with the Gillispie logo. Gillispie students are now cooking and baking out of The Sandbox Kitchen, (and loving it!), and how wonderful that we have so many herbs, spices, and spinkles to choose from. It's smelling good in here...
Sixth graders have been learning about forensics through a simulated crime scene investigation in which gold was stolen from a train. So far, they’ve worked with several different types of forensic evidence, including fingerprints, documents, and soil. While analyzing each others', as well as our fictitious suspects’ fingerprints, they learned to identify general and sub-types of fingerprint categories, as well as how to notice and compare unique identifiers such as “islands”, “type lines”, and “deltas." To analyze a...
Gillispie families love to eat pizza! Especially delicious pizza, like the take-n-bakes made by American Pizza Manufacturing. Thanks to the scores of Gillispie families and faculty/staff that participated, APM told us this was BY FAR the biggest fundraiser they have ever had, and we helped more than triple their revenues for a typical Wednesday evening. Owner/Manager, Andrew, was thrilled by the response, and old wished he could have provided shorter lines. We received terrific feedback and photos from families....
For your convenience, Gillsipie is planning a vaccination clinic through Costco Pharmacy on December 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Gillispie gym. In order to do so, at least 40 participants must sign up on this Costco secured site by Friday, December 10. In addition to the pediatric Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years old, Costco medical personnel will also be administering adult vaccines of Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson,...
Veteran's Day activities last week included Grade 6 students sharing stories of friends and family members who are/were veterans during morning meeting, Grade 5 students writing heartfelt Veteran's Day Poems, and special opportunities like Mrs. Law bringing in her husband's REAL military jacket for Early Childhood students to see. Gillispie parent and VA Hospital Employee, AnneMarie Sachs, helped coordinate the production of student-made cards and reported back to us with this message: "Thanks to the great work of Gillispie students, more...
Willow Room students turned their classroom into a Makerspace of their own! Using the basics of the Design Thinking Model, students brainstormed ideas for gadgets they could make, discussed the materials they could use, sketched out their ideas, and then got to building! They created some amazing contraptions using recycled, everyday materials and loved the process from start to finish. We can't wait to see what these Early Childhood students create one day in our Elementary Makerspace—they are already displaying...
Join us for the 3rd Annual Hi Sweetheart shopping event to support Gillispie School on Thursday, December 2 and Friday, December 3, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Kick-off your holiday shopping the week after Thanksgiving break by stopping in the store or shopping online! 20% of all sales mentioning "Gillispie" December 2 and 3 will be donated back to the school. On Thursday, LoveJames will be at the shop hosting a Jewelry Pop-Up, and local designer Krissy Patterson will also be...
Season's Greetings, Gillipie Families! Our students are hard at work preparing for our Winter Program! We can't wait to present the culmination of their preparation and we are looking forward to seeing family members of students in Prek through Grade 6 on December 17. Pictured is Ms. Collin's and Ms. Young's class practicing, "Hot Cup of Cocoa". Ian Lewis, Music Teacher...
Robin Preiss Glasser Presenting at the LJ Riford Library Dec. 4 in Partnership with Warwick's Books Robin Preiss Glasser of Fancy Nancy fame with be speaking on her latest book, Grand Jete and Me, a collaboration with New York City Ballet prima ballerina Allegra Kent. Robin will be live, zooming from her east coast studio onto the screen in the Library's community room for an in-person audience, who will also enjoy a video of Allegra Kent reading the...