About Mrs. K.
This is my ninth year here at Shelby Middle School, and my seventeenth year teaching 6th grade Reading and Language Arts! I taught in London, Ohio for 8 years before moving to Shelby. I grew up in Mansfield and graduated from Lexington High School. I went on to get my Middle Childhood teaching degree in Language Arts and Math (4-9) and Reading (K-12) from Capital University. I then received my Masters degree from Ashland University.
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In my free time I enjoy reading, drinking coffee (especially Starbucks!), spending time with my family (including my husband and five year old daughter, Ava), and playing with my two cats, Yoshi and Bella.
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I am very excited for the year we have ahead of us!
Reading
We have begun the year learning about story elements. We have studied plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting. We have also taken a deep dive into the plot structure that can be found in almost all fictional stories.
Writing
We will begin our first writing unit: Personal Narratives. More info coming soon!
Language
We have spent the first 6 weeks of school practicing identifying nouns, pronouns, and adjectives. We have done a ton of practice, and become experts at these three parts of speech. We will be adding verbs into our repertoire soon.