Wax Museum!!

In social studies we were studying famous N.H. people. I felt that it went really good I like the way my poster looked, I worked really hard on it. I also liked my speech a lot, I thought that it came out really nice. Amy Beach was who I was studying, she was a really fun person to study! One thing I defiantly will remember about Amy Beach was how she came from a talented little piano playing girl, top an extreme and legendary pianist! Also being a very famous music composer I think that one of the hardest parts of doing this project might have been making the topic and concluding sentences and picking out some of the biggest parts in this person’s life while also trying to make it sound good. I think I am most proud of my poster because it has a lot of my hard work on it and I thought it all just came out the way that I wanted it to come out. The whole thing together all looked so cool and nice and everyone did such a great job!!

Amy Beach's Life

Amy Beach’s Life By: Grace Booth Have you ever wondered where music composing started? Well, it all started with a girl named Amy Beach. Amy Beach was born Sept. 5 1867, in Henniker NH. Her mother’s name was Clara Imogene, she was a very famous pianist. She was the one who got Amy into piano! At the age of 6, Amy started studying piano, 1 year later she had a recital and she played pieces by Beethoven, and Chopin also some of her own pieces! Amy had child prodigy when she was little! An outstanding thing! She was writing simple symphonies at the age of 5! Even as she got older Amy’s love and passion for music stuck with her. Amy was now ready to start her own life. Also try to improve as much as she could on her music career. On Dec. 2 1885, Amy married Dr. Henry Beach, who was a physician, Harvard University Lecturer and an amateur singer. In 1910, sadly Dr. Henry Beach died. He died of old age, he was almost 20 years older than Amy! But it was a very hard time for Amy because now she didn’t have any one else alive in her family. After her husband’s death, Amy sailed to Europe, where once again her fame rose. Suddenly WWI workers sent her to New York, where she had to spend the rest of her life. On Dec. 27 1944, Amy died of chronic heart disease. Sadly most of her fame was forgotten, but she got a nice long life of 77 years, witch actually was a long life back then! It was a huge surprise to everyone when Amy passed, they all loved her and her music so much that some people said that it almost felt like one of their own family members died. Everyone remembered when Amy was young and when she was just starting to go into harder more complicated recitals. Amy was famous for her music composing and for incredible ability to play piano! Beach took after her mother, who was an extremely good pianist. Amy had her first symphony known as the “Gaelic Symphony” completed 1896, first symphony ever written by an American women! When her mother really started noticing Amy’s work she started putting her in more and more recitals. When people from all over the world started noticing her work, she got into once again harder more complicated recitals. Until finally she was put into a simple orchestra! But Amy didn’t just stop there, she wanted to keep going, keep writing more simple symphonies, she wanted to one day, write her own junior orchestra! So that’s what Amy was going for! She kept on writing, she kept on practicing and she never gave up! She wanted to be recognized! In 1883 Beach had a performance in Boston NH. In an orchestra, she was the pianist. It was conducted by Adolf Nuendorff. In 1885 Amy composed her first orchestra known as the “Cabildo.” When Amy sailed to Europe she had great reviews, in Germany too for her symphony! Amy is one of the legendary music composers of ALL TIME in the U.S. Beach wanted to win awards, be the best of the best! She loved recitals, orchestras, symphonies! All she really wanted, was music! And so she did, Amy won so many awards for her music, she also had some from her school! In 1928 Amy received her first honorary Master of Arts degree. She also received an award for being one of the world’s most famous women music composers! Amy also achieved her first American women to get a wide spread notice, for being a large scale music composer award! She also liked languages, such as French and German, she also loved science and she also ended up getting a Master of Science degree! She kept going and she kept on winning more and more awards! As Amy got older, she started winning more and more serious awards. In 1999 even after her death, she got a special place in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame! Amy finally earned a place on the Granite Wall, (more commonly known as the shell) for only the best music artists. The Shell has mostly men’s names on it, but Amy was so incredibly talented that she earned a place on that wall! Amy went from a little piano playing girl, to a legendary music composer! Amy was ambitious, curious, always positive, kind, brave and generous. Perfect for an extra ordinary special piano player and person.

Problems With Plastic Bags

Plastic bags

Most people don’t even think, when they throw away a plastic bag, where it will go, or what will happen to it. But plastic bags can make a huge impact all over the world.

Did you know that anywhere from .5% to 3% of all plastic bags wind up recycled? Only 1 in every 200 plastic bags are actually reused and do not end up in landfills. The U. S. throws away 17 billion plastic bags a year! Every square mile of ocean has about 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it. We need to all work together to help stop this problem.

 

I certainly don’t want to go on like this, I hope you don’t either because in landfills plastic bags can release toxins that can threaten our air and earth. A plastic bag can take anywhere from 15-1,000 years to degrade or breakdown. Thanks to the fatherly weight of a plastic bag, they are most likely to fly away from a landfill and cause litter on the side of the road, in trees, in oceans and many more places to. Plastic bags make up over 10% of washed up garbage polluting the U.S. coastline. It takes up 13% more energy to make 1 plastic bag than it does for 20 yogurt cups! Reusing plastic bags is great for the environment, but couldn’t we do a few more simple things to help?

 

Getting overwhelmed? Feeling ashamed? Well the answer is yes we can do more simple things to help, here are some ideas. Bring plastic bags back to the grocery store. Use plastic bags for more than 1 thing. When you are at the grocery store and only buying a few things don’t take a bag. You could try to reuse plastic bags so that it doesn’t affect our air and earth in the future. Use plastic bags for good things, only use a plastic bag if you really do need a plastic bag. Please give these a try they can work well, breaking these habits now can make a better cleaner place on earth.

 

Since I want people to get involved and help, I have decided to do some simple things to get other people aware of this problem. I have planned to tell all of my friends and family about this problem. I’ve planned to spread the word at school and at sports I play, to team members and coaches about this can actually cause. I’ve planned to set up posters around the school. Lastly I have planned to have people notice my work, to have them spread the word themselves. Do you think you could give some of these a try? If you could it would mean so much to us and it would help the earth greatly.

 

Now I want to know, what will you do? Will you make this personal?! Let people know, let them help spread the word themselves?! To help use reusable bags! If you have one or more at home keep them and reuse them, or if you don’t, use them take them back to the store! I want a better, healthier and cleaner planet, don’t you?! Now can we all work together to stop this? Can you spread the word yourself? Let other people know about this? I know you can, so give it a try!

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Grace's shadow box video

Enjoy my video about the State Song!

1st blog entry

           Hi I’m Grace.

I’m in 4^th grade, I’m nine years old, and we’re in classroom 8. My favorite hobby is horseback riding, I’m also interested in soccer. My favorite book is lost on a Mountain in Maine. My favorite subject is writing.

          This is to update you on school activities.

In writing we’ve been studying poetry, my favorite type of poetry so far has been diamond poetry. In math we’ve been studying decimals, long division, multiplication and fractions. In reading I’m in a group of 6 people, and we are going to be doing a reader’s theater of Patrick Hennery’s famous speech, “give me liberty or give me death”. In science we’ve been studying electricity.

My goal for this year is to read 35 books or more!

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