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Category: Yearly Events
Prom Night 2009 – Hollywood Fusion
The glitz and glamour of Hollywood was in full display at Prom this year. Warriors lined up on the red carpet anxiously waiting to start jamming to their favorite tunes. The dance floor was packed the entire night!
Prom Royalty was announced at around 10:45 and the King and Queen were: Xavier Jacobo-Garza and Marbella Lopez
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Leave a comment on your impressions at Prom.
Earth Day 2010
Pueblo celebrates Earth Day by taking action:
- Mrs. Jennie Elrod decided to make an “Earth Day resolution” every year. This year, starting today, I am going to bike to school one day a week to help reduce my impact on climate change. Wish me luck!
- PE classes running the mile fun-run outdoors
- Mr. Lorin Labardee not using lights all day
- Mrs. Jennifer Sprung doing the following:
- Classroom lights off all day long to save energy-wear my Be Green Shirt and do activities with students.
- Bell work/writing activity -students think about and write- 1. What are problems for Earth now and in the future? 2. What can people do to help? 3. List 5 or more simple things you WILL personally commit to try and do to make a difference for the Earth.
- Play music and video from youtube to celebrate Earth day as students think and write- EARTH DAY song, Climate Change song, “where are we going to go”, others
- All students share after bellwork activity as a whole group-new responses added to student notes
- Show video segment titled GLOBAL WARMING cartoon -talk briefly about video “An Inconvenient Truth”-discuss importance, purpose, impact
- Introduce importance of RECYCLING in Tucson-poll students-how many really use their Blue bin-show Tucson Recycles video-BlueBin101-to educate all on how and what to recycle! Students write down 5 new concepts/ points of learning from video-questions and answers
- Show realia (examples) of various recycleables ( steel, aluminum, cardboard, plastic bottles, containers, lids)-pass around room- review Plastic codes 1,2,4 to recycle-3,5,6,7-not recycleable now-why…review the universal recycle symbol-3 arrows and 3 R’s-what do they stand for?
- Pass along flyers and magnets from City of Tucson on Recycling
- Talk about most polluted populous cities and why… What about Tucson in the future? Compare LA, Mexico City, Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix…then show brief video-“Clear the Air “about Chicagoland in the summer and ground level ozone… students record 1. effects of groundlevel ozone, 2. how to reduce problem?
- Quick quiz at end of class- prizes given for correct answers-reusable shopping bags, magnets, keychains, pencils, 5 minute shower timer, super water saver fans, Earth Day bubbles, etc.
- “Earth Day Every Day” and “Everyone can do their part” points to get across to all students in classes today!
- The Environmental Biology classes have planted 21 Mesquite Trees and 21 Octopus Agave at the North end of the ESC (Environmental Study Center). We also are maintaining a beautiful Science Garden with several unusual plants and trees, by the Chemistry Wing. The view of the garden from the Chemistry Wing window is quite nice and can relieve symptoms of Pueblo Stress.
- Thanks to Mr. De Weerdt’s help, we have been able to save the Spadefoot Pond by the Tennis Courts from being buried by the Groundskeepers. We need to think of the least of the Pueblo denizens too.
- Teachers & Staff wear Earth Day Shirts
- Pueblo Student Portal goes green
- Canon Copy Machine will not be used for the day
Do your part today!
Volunteer Appreciation Dinner
Pueblo recognized all the volunteers that generously give their time and energy to different activities on campus. A dinner prepared by the Parent Association started the festivities followed by a photo slide show.
Principal Patricia Dienz handed out colorful certificates of appreciation to all 108 volunteers that served this year and thanked them for their continued support to Pueblo students.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent Teacher Conferences were held on Tuesday night. About 200 parents showed up to meet with teachers and discuss their child’s academic progress. Third quarter progress grades were recently mailed home.
Visit our Parent Conferences webpage for more information.
Academic Decathlon Regional Competition 2009
It was an amazing weekend for our Scholar Warriors, full of high hopes and heartbreak… Unfortunately we did not make the cut for state competition (we missed it by only 704 points, which translates roughly into getting just 2 more questions right per student) this year but we did make some tremendous progress. This is a very young team (1 senior, 2 juniors, and 6 sophomores) so I am expecting great things for them next year. Please congratulate the following team members for their admirable performance this weekend:
- Michael Dedrick – Scholastic scored 6069
- Samantha VanCamp – Scholastic scored 5168
- Abigail Cota – Varsity scored 5136
- Melissa Shaw – Varsity scored 4607
- Derek Gunnels – Honors scored 4587
- Gabriel Garcia – Scholastic scored 4528
- Rafael Garcia – Honors scored 4307
- Jerrilynn Kincade – Honors scored 4238
- Patricia Rojo – Varsity scored 3952
- Jasmine Magdaleno – Alternate
As you can see Michael Dedrick did an amazing job this weekend! He scored a bronze medal in the Social Science event and placed 8th overall in the Scholastic category. In addition he was in the top ten for all ten events in his category. He placed 5th in Economics, 6th in Art, 7th in Super Quiz (the topic this year was Evolutionary Biology), and 8th in Essay.
Abigail Cota, our only senior this year, also did very well. She placed 7th in her category in Language and Literature, Social Science, and Mathematics. In addition she placed 12th overall in the Varsity category. She also raised her score from last year by over a thousand points.
Some other notable mentions include Melissa Shaw and Patricia Rojo. Melissa placed 9th in her category in both Economics and Mathematics. Patricia placed 8th in her category in Mathematics.
As a team we placed 13th this year in our region. Last year we placed 20th out of 27 schools. Our team score in 2008 was 26,504. This year we scored 29,871, an increase of 3,367 points. In terms of our overall state ranking, last year we were 73rd out of 94 schools in Arizona. This year we ranked 48th out of 90 schools.
This is an amazing group of students who have put in countless hours studying and working with some very difficult material. If you see them roaming the campus, babbling on about Darwin or Fridha Kahlo or opportunity costs or the Spanish conquest, take a moment to congratulate them. They really deserve it!
Thank you for all of your support this year,
Kathryn Gunnels