We have had a very busy week.
We started the week off with more recorder song pass offs in music. Many of the students are doing well but they all need to practice more so they can earn all their belts by the end of the year. Also, they will have a recorder concert on May 19th at 1:30 so they need to be ready for that.
Wednesday was a great day. The symphony was so much fun. They played some of my favorite songs. They played a really happy song, a sad song (Jupiter from The Planets), a scary song, a heroic song (Star Wars), and a silly song (Mambo from West Side Story). The conductor taught the kids about dynamics, tempo, and orchestration. Our students were the best audience. They remembered not to clap until the conductors hands dropped to his side. Lunch was also a highlight. We walked over to the Hotel Arizona to eat. They served us hot dogs, macaroni nuggets, watermelon, AND ice cream sundaes with chocolate syrup and sprinkles. They gave us a great deal and were so nice to all the kids. Thank you to Gail, Valerie, Kevin, Chef Todd and all the servers for taking such great care of us.
In reading this week we read different books from the Geronimo Stilton Series. We will continue reading these books next week.
We spent a lot of time this week working on our play. Students practiced their fluency skills during the songs. They also practiced using lots of expression in their lines AND in their facial expressions and reactions to the other actors. Everyone is very excited to perform the play next week.
In science we continued working on our environments projects. Student researched more consumers, producers and decomposers. They looked for adaptations that these producers and consumers had to have in order to live in their environment. Our water experiment plants are growing well. It seems that the dry soil has no plants in it and the very wet plants are growing... very well.
Now time for extra credit... Students, post a comment to this blog answering one of the questions to the side and telling me what you voted for in the poll AND why and you will get a prize from the prize basket.
Have a wonderful weekend. I am looking forward to Wednesday and the baseball game.
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About Me
This is my 9th year teaching in the Amphitheater School District and my 11th year teaching. I taught 3rd grade at Painted Sky for 7 years. Before teaching there I taught music for 2 years in TUSD at Henry. I am so happy to be a Walker Wolf this year!
I attended college at the University of Arizona and have my bachelors in Education. I am working on my master’s degree this year also at the University of Arizona. GO WILDCATS!!! I am a huge AZ basketball fan. I am an Amphitheater High School grad and I attended middle school at La Cima. In November 09 I achieved my National Board Teaching Certification. I have teaching endorsements in Early Childhood education and Second Language Learning.
I love living in Arizona and have since 1993. I was born in Phoenix but only lived there for 2 1/2 months. Before moving back to Arizona I lived in Nebraska for 9 years and attended Westridge Elementary and Elkhorn Middle School. My extended family lives on the east coast in The Washington DC area. As a kid my family visited there every summer and spent a week at the beach in North Carolina. I love the beach. I still get to go back and visit all the time.
I live in the middle of town, near the U of A. I live with my VERY cute puppy Oreo who is 4. My mom, dad and brother live here in Tucson also. My mom sometimes comes to school and helps in the classroom and my Dad and brother may come by too. My birthday is December 3!
I love monkeys, music and smiley faces. My favorite color is green. I enjoy listening to music on the radio and listening to live bands. Music is one of my favorite things to do. I love to sing songs and play the guitar, flute and keyboard. Many of you know that I play in a band on the weekends!
I attended college at the University of Arizona and have my bachelors in Education. I am working on my master’s degree this year also at the University of Arizona. GO WILDCATS!!! I am a huge AZ basketball fan. I am an Amphitheater High School grad and I attended middle school at La Cima. In November 09 I achieved my National Board Teaching Certification. I have teaching endorsements in Early Childhood education and Second Language Learning.
I love living in Arizona and have since 1993. I was born in Phoenix but only lived there for 2 1/2 months. Before moving back to Arizona I lived in Nebraska for 9 years and attended Westridge Elementary and Elkhorn Middle School. My extended family lives on the east coast in The Washington DC area. As a kid my family visited there every summer and spent a week at the beach in North Carolina. I love the beach. I still get to go back and visit all the time.
I live in the middle of town, near the U of A. I live with my VERY cute puppy Oreo who is 4. My mom, dad and brother live here in Tucson also. My mom sometimes comes to school and helps in the classroom and my Dad and brother may come by too. My birthday is December 3!
I love monkeys, music and smiley faces. My favorite color is green. I enjoy listening to music on the radio and listening to live bands. Music is one of my favorite things to do. I love to sing songs and play the guitar, flute and keyboard. Many of you know that I play in a band on the weekends!
my fav song was the STAR WARS SONG
ReplyDeleteMiss Tracy,
ReplyDeletemy favorite song was Star-Wars - it was awesome!
I voted for cageball kick over because you get to take your shoes off..
John
ps Mom wants to know if she can send a check for baseball tickets and who to make it out to
I am glad you like Star Wars. I also like the idea of a game in PE with no shoes. Tell you mom it is ok to send in a check and to make it out to me. I paid for all of our tickets. Have a great night!
ReplyDeleteHi miss.Tracy geronamo is going to a grass land. One of my producers is elphent grass. it survivs by heat.One of the consomers is koala it suervives by eating leavs which has water in it.My favorite song was star wars.
ReplyDeletehi Miss Tracy
ReplyDeleteMy favorite song was star wars.
When I was at my old table.Chase,
Emilee,and Makenzie said,"You can't
do that,your glasses are wierd,your
a flower,and your stupid.TRUE STORY
Hi Miss Tracy it's me Keeley I just wanted to tell you I did the thing on the side to earn an extra letter. I also wanted to tell you that Chace keeps on picking on me. I aperently I have a new nick name freckle face. See you on Monday.
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Tracy
ReplyDeletemy flat stanly went to
Winnipeg,Manitoba Canada
I was the first one to vote
Hey Tiana! Your Flat Hannah was too cool. I liked learning about Canada. Thanks for voting!
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Tracy it's Keeley. I was wondering when I could bring something in for my birthday. Because there's only one week left of school and my birthday is May 29th.
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Tracy!
ReplyDeleteI am here to answer the question about 3rd grade. What i thought about 3rd grade was to be with you and having a fun time with you and the class this year! Also i wanted to say thank you for being my teacher this year. Geuss what,YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER AND BEST FRIEND I COULD EVER HAVE!!! By the way... can i have Mr. Walling or Ms. Moss 4 4th grade???
Hey Miss Tracy,
ReplyDeleteThe three things I liked best were 1. the bse ball game and play. 2the Gem show. 3. Recess ( just KIDDING!) ALMOST of our schoolwork.
2 thigsI don`t like are,1.The enviorments projects in the refridgetor boxes. 2. us being able
to reserch our favorite dog.What I
did best was the social studies test,I got an A+ on it.75x100=7,500. got to go go!!! KYLE
Hi Miss Tracy,
ReplyDeleteThe 3 things i liked best was 1 the gem show 2 the base ball play and 3 the book fair. 2 things id like to cange are 1 monkey math and 2 math boxes. And the 1 theng i did the best was going on feild trips.
Love Sarah S:)