Welcome to 2nd grade! I just wanted to send you all an email to introduce myself and welcome you to our classroom family.
I grew up in the Bay Area and I am 1 of 7 kids in my family. I have 16 nieces and nephews and 7 great nieces and nephews! As you can imagine, I love kids! My husband and I have been happily married for 16 years and we have 7 pets at home in Grass Valley. We make the long drive to Tahoe every day so that I can teach at this amazing school! My husband, Jim, teaches Science at Truckee High.
This will be my 6th year teaching 2nd grade at Creekside and I love it! I have experience teaching pre-K, K, and 6th grade over the last 10 years or so. I also ran a Bed and Breakfast Inn for 8 years and have a strong musical background. I was an Opera major my first time through college and I also took 17 years or so of private voice lessons. My husband and I both sang in musical theater and opera productions prior to getting our teaching credentials, so your children can expect some fun music and art projects as we progress through our core standards throughout the year. We learn a lot and have a great time in our classroom!
I invite you to check out our school website at http://creeksidesquaw.org/ and our class website at http://jennysclass.weebly.com/. On our class website you can view photos of past classes and some of our fun activities, weekly memos highlighting our weekly goals and lessons, and SAWRs that list our standards and lessons for each learning period. This is a good spot for you to get a chance to view the sort of things coming up in 2nd grade. You can also find our class supply list at the bottom of the welcome page.
I am very much looking forward to this coming year and getting to know you and your children better as we build our classroom family. This year I have 7 siblings of former students in my class, how fun is that?! Many of the students and I are already familiar with one another from our shared 1st and 2nd grade events and from time spent together at recess. They are great kids and I know that this year will be wonderful!
I'm looking forward to seeing you all soon! I will contact you all the week before school starts when I will have some important upcoming dates and information that you will need for the first week or so of school.
Thank you!
Jenny