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Teaching Philosophy: To foster a classroom environment where each child feels safe and the needs of the student are met according to their individual learning style.
5th Year at Heritage
Education:Hastings College--BA in Physical Education K-12/Carthage College--BA in Elementary Education K-8/Lewis University--Endorsement in Special Education
Involvement: Mentoring Program
Favorite Quote: When you want something you have never had, you have to be willing to do something that you have never done.

Math: Topics that will be covered over the course of the year are: Sampling and classification, Strategies to help in the 4 basic operations, Place value, area and perimeter, fractions, shapes, and volume. Students will also be working with the online program Xtra math to help with their basic math facts, as well as being challenged weekly with 1 minute math testing.

Reading: Topics that will be covered will be the reading of 4 novels (How to Eat fried worms, The best Christmas Pageant Ever, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and Night of the Twisters. Along with these novels, students will be tested weekly on fluency and work online with the digital READWORKS program working on comprehension.

Language Arts: Topics to be covered will be Punctuation, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adjectives. Students will also be doing a weekly Daily language Assessment, as well as weekly spelling units. The students will also be working online with Spelling City to help them with their spelling units.

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