Staff Survey - Getting to Know Mrs. Hupe and Mrs. Manahan

1.        Chris Hupe:  High school: North Central                 College undergrad:  Bowling Green                         Masters:  Toledo

Nicole Manahan  High school:  Bryan                       College undergrad:  Defiance                                     Masters:  Toledo

     

2.        We co-teach math and language arts for 3^rd grade.  Mrs. Hupe also teaches Social Studies.  Mrs. Manahan also co-teaches with Mrs. MC (4^th grade language arts) and Mrs. Turner (4^thgrade math).

3.       We try to get the kids up and moving as much as possible.  We differentiate our instruction daily.  We incorporate activities that allow us to teach the skills such as using a flyswatter game to review vocabulary.  The  students take turns coming up to the whiteboard in pairs to show their understanding of the weekly words by swatting the word with a fly swatter.  We use a game called Move-It to formatively assess a variety of 3^rd grade skills, such as synonym/antonym, fact/opinion, common/ proper nouns and many more.  We also play a ball game in which the students toss a ball while answering skill questions.  We pair them up to have them share answers and read several times during the week.  We also will play music to allow them get up out of their seats. When the music stops, they know that they need to stop and answer questions.   We use technology such as the smartboard, document camera, and computers as well.   

4.       Mrs. Hupe volunteers at church related functions.  Mrs. Manahan helps with her youth group at St. Peters Lutheran Church in Edon.  She has taught summer school for the past 3 summers at Montpelier.

5.       The kids are number one.  We enjoy spending our day with them.  3^rd grade is the first year that the students experience the Ohio Achievement Test.  Even though the expectations are high and state achievement standards are difficult, they work hard every day.  It’s neat to watch them grow from the beginning to the end of a school year.  Another thing we really like about Montpelier Schools is our co-workers.  We really have a sense of family.  We support each other in and out of the classroom.  We also enjoy and appreciate our school.  We have many things to be very thankful for such as wonderful technology and comfortable classrooms.  It makes learning and teaching a little easier.

6.       Many items we use in our classroom  to differentiate instruction we purchase with our own money.  We also purchase items as incentives to encourage and reward our children with our own money.  We save paper by putting multiple copies on one sheet of paper.  We take weekly selection tests on the computer so that we do not have to print each child an individual test.  We also use the document camera and smartboard.  This allows us to do activities with the students without each student needing an individual copy of the paper. Any time we can, we reuse items from year to year so that additional supplies do not have to be purchased.