Nice to Meet You!
Hi! Welcome to 5th grade! My name is Kristen Elbe and I get to spend
the next year with your darling.
Very soon, I will get to hear more about your family than you probably want me to know. So, to be fair, here’s a little bit about mine…I live with my husband, two boys, collie and basset hound just outside of the Grange Hall area. I am an animal-lover to the core and have dreams of starting a little hobby farm of my own sometime soon. My oldest son, Gus, is 3 ½ and Oscar just turned 2. They are polar opposites in every way possible, which I love! This summer, we’ve been very busy with our vegetable garden. Oscar’s belly was full of berries at any given moment; and, Gus was especially helpful, when he picked every last one of my green tomatoes one day. When I have time, I also enjoy baking, taking the boys four-wheeling through the woods, fishing, crafting from Pinterest ideas, and snowmobiling in the winter.
For the past seven years, I taught 3rd grade in Prescott, WI. Doesn’t the saying go, “Sometimes the best opportunities come at times you aren’t looking for them” ? That is exactly what happened for me. Saying good-bye to Prescott was very bittersweet, but I feel beyond lucky to be teaching at “home” now, within the walls that I once practiced my multiplication and cursive!
My teaching style is hands-on and interactive, I like to think. Rarely, are my lessons the same year to year. Students are good at coming up with new ideas and ways to learn things, and I am usually “game.” My favorite thing to teach is writing; and, perhaps my favorite part is getting those boys that “can’t think of anything to write about” develop a love for it! It is a professional goal of mine to make every student in my class a ‘writer’, by the end of the school-year. And, I have to say that I have a decent track record! As a student, myself, my least favorite subject in school was Math. The phrase “timed test” still gives me sweaty palms. For this reason, I make a strong effort to not allow my students to leave my class with bad tastes in their mouths when it comes to Math(, especially facts!
Your kids will quickly find out that I am a terrible artist, don’t know as much about history as a teacher should, and have a memory worse than my 91-year old grandma. It is my hope that just as quickly, they, too, will realize that I will do anything to help them this year. I’ll give them a tug when they reach a speed-bump and will party with them once they reach the other side.
Please do not hesitate to call with any questions, or concerns. It can be hard to be a kid these days and I want nothing more than your child to always remember 5th grade as one of the happiest of years!
Very soon, I will get to hear more about your family than you probably want me to know. So, to be fair, here’s a little bit about mine…I live with my husband, two boys, collie and basset hound just outside of the Grange Hall area. I am an animal-lover to the core and have dreams of starting a little hobby farm of my own sometime soon. My oldest son, Gus, is 3 ½ and Oscar just turned 2. They are polar opposites in every way possible, which I love! This summer, we’ve been very busy with our vegetable garden. Oscar’s belly was full of berries at any given moment; and, Gus was especially helpful, when he picked every last one of my green tomatoes one day. When I have time, I also enjoy baking, taking the boys four-wheeling through the woods, fishing, crafting from Pinterest ideas, and snowmobiling in the winter.
For the past seven years, I taught 3rd grade in Prescott, WI. Doesn’t the saying go, “Sometimes the best opportunities come at times you aren’t looking for them” ? That is exactly what happened for me. Saying good-bye to Prescott was very bittersweet, but I feel beyond lucky to be teaching at “home” now, within the walls that I once practiced my multiplication and cursive!
My teaching style is hands-on and interactive, I like to think. Rarely, are my lessons the same year to year. Students are good at coming up with new ideas and ways to learn things, and I am usually “game.” My favorite thing to teach is writing; and, perhaps my favorite part is getting those boys that “can’t think of anything to write about” develop a love for it! It is a professional goal of mine to make every student in my class a ‘writer’, by the end of the school-year. And, I have to say that I have a decent track record! As a student, myself, my least favorite subject in school was Math. The phrase “timed test” still gives me sweaty palms. For this reason, I make a strong effort to not allow my students to leave my class with bad tastes in their mouths when it comes to Math(, especially facts!
Your kids will quickly find out that I am a terrible artist, don’t know as much about history as a teacher should, and have a memory worse than my 91-year old grandma. It is my hope that just as quickly, they, too, will realize that I will do anything to help them this year. I’ll give them a tug when they reach a speed-bump and will party with them once they reach the other side.
Please do not hesitate to call with any questions, or concerns. It can be hard to be a kid these days and I want nothing more than your child to always remember 5th grade as one of the happiest of years!