Welcome to Third Grade!

I am excited for the chance to work with your children as they grow and learn this year! Third grade is full of new experiences and challenges, and I look forward to helping the students in my classroom as they strive for success in every area.

Our classroom theme this year is adventure, specifically adventures we have through reading books and traveling. Reading and traveling are two things that I am very passionate about. If your child was in my class in first grade, they probably remember hearing some of my travel stories. My hope is that through the books we read this year, and the stories we tell about our own adventures, students will be inspired to learn more about new things, different cultures, and what it looks like to be a lifelong adventurer.

In the spirit of adventure, I thought I would share some of my summer adventures with you. I look forward to hearing about the adventures your children have had this summer!

This summer I had the opportunity to spend five weeks at an orphanage in Romania. I played with the seventeen children that live there and taught a couple of English classes.

Casa Dorca is in Prilipet, Romania. Prilipet is a village in rural Romania.

After I left Romania, I went to Switzerland for a week. Andrina was a student in my class last year and I was able to visit her family while I was there.