Letter's Home July 2009

Student Letter:
Welcome to Miss Tracy’s third grade Monkey Class! My name is Miss Tracy and I am your 3rd grade teacher. You can probably tell from the name of our class that I love monkeys.

I hope you all have had a wonderful summer break. Mine has been very busy. I taught summer school for the whole month of June. The 4th of July was the start of my break. I had a nice bar-b-que at my parents house and spent the day swimming in the pool. Break didn’t last long because the next week I spent a week at Technology Camp learning how to do lots of cool computer programs with kids. I hope we can try some this year.

Finally I got to go on a vacation. I traveled to Pensacola, FL and spend 3 days camping on the beach. I got to ride in a boat and go deep sea fishing. We rode over 8 miles out into the ocean and I caught 3 fish. It was so much fun. I also visited New Orleans and was able to see how the city was rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans 4 years ago. My favorite part of New Orleans was listening to all the music. I love to listen to music and live band and I also play music myself. When I am not teaching this is one of my favorite things to do.

I have a very exciting year planned for us and can’t wait to meet you. We will begin our 3rd grade journey together on Thursday by getting to know each other. We will also begin learning about plants and desert. This unit is guaranteed to be filled with tons of fun and learning.

I would love to hear from you and get to know you before the 1st day of school. You can leave me a message on our class blog. Just visit our class website at www.amphi.com/teachers/ctracy and click on the blog. I will even write back to you if you leave a comment! Be sure to only use your first name and last initial when signing the blog. We want to use proper internet safety, which we will be learning more about this year. You don't have to have a google account. Just click on the bubble next to the "Name/URL" and type your first name only and last initial.

I will see you very soon.

Click on the word comment below to leave me a message!!!

UPDATE

Letters will be arriving soon! Class lists will be posted at 4pm on the office window. You can also look around campus on this day. Tuesday from 4:30-5:30 I will be in the classroom to meet all of you. Bring your school supplies with you and you can put everything away.

Supplies:
(No trapper keepers please.)
1 backpack- no wheels
Pencil Box (5x8x2, no larger please)
1 pair of scissors (labeled with child’s name)
1 box of crayons (48 or smaller)
2 spiral notebooks (wide ruled, single subject)
*1,000 sheets of wide ruled paper
*10 glue sticks
*24 #2 pencils (wooden and sharpened)
*2 EXPO dry erase markers (thick)
*2 boxes of tissue
**1 box of thin markers for Art (washable)

I can't wait to meet you all very soon!

Miss Tracy