Fond Memories of the Amphi School District

• Working with Kathy Esposito
• Coronado weekly staff meetings
• Having a performance review with Laura Herbine
• My talks with Brie Ronnie
• My talks with Ray Short
• My talks with Judy our librarian
• All the Candlelight Dinners
• All the play performances
• All the Variety Shows at Coronado and Copper Creek
• All the field trips
• The Author's Parade at Copper Creek
• Enjoying time over the years with Toni's first graders
• the MAI kids visiting the class
• last year's MAI kids
• camping
• Mr. Gee
• Jill Peddicord
• Northwestern Girl
• Nina and Dylan in Math Boosters
• Rachel and Leah, and Rachel H. who lives in Cal.
• the Kishi brother and sister
• Justin the class librarian
• Lorenzo and Dylan and Ethan
• Morgan and Shannon
• Kelsey's gang and Genna
• a boy munching on a chicken leg during Read Aloud
• the Potato Chips and the Doritos
• All the All About Me's
• All the ABC books
• All the Celebrate Excellences except this year's
• Diana Walker's summer kick-off meetings
• the Pizza Guy
• Mitchell, Kylie and Madi
• Sam and Yuri
• Mitchell and Zack
• Courtney and Bill and Bob
• Both Olivias
• Dale and her red shoes
• Beaver and the Raisin Lady
• the second grade teachers this year
• Mrs. Sorg
• the blogging classes at Wetmore 
• all the kids I had that I can't name cause I can't name them all
• Mrs. Salazar reading to the class
• the math moms over the years
• Sea World
• the kids' blog
• the teacher's blog
• AR
• Wet 'n Wild
• Cocoa
• Silent Ball
• "My Favorite Color Is Black"
• "Caulkity Caulk"
• Barb Hurley
• Tasha Stewart
• the Earthworm
• Paige and Jacob
• Audi and Noah and Luis and Parker
• Kayla and Sophia
• hanging Christmas lights on Saturday
• Adam Blumer and Kate Appleton and Mathew and Tyler
• pictures of the students
• Mr. Pottenger
• Michael's grandpa
• Felix, McCoy and Brandon 
• the story of the first grade boy chained to the garbage can
• Rosie and her egg salad
• Mrs. Kramer's whales
• the nine o'clock kids and the half hour kids
• the kids memorizing the poem "If" and reciting it verbatim to the class
• ALL the Variety Shows
• the kids reciting the following poem on the stage of a one room school house in Tubac:

Onomatopoeia
By: Eve Merriam

The rusty spigot
Sputters,
Utters
A splutter,
Spatters a smattering of drops,
Gashes wider;
Slash,
Splatters,
Scatters,
Spurts,
Finally stops sputtering
And plash!
Gushes rushes splashes
Clear water dashes.