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About The Teacher
During the summer of 2001 Mrs. FC traveled West Virginia to help rebuild and repair some mountain homes. She traveled with 56 teenagers to join 500 other teens from all around the nation to assist residents with home repairs. It was great fun and helpful. During the summer of 2002 Mrs. FC taught two enrichment math class at Darien High School. She also visited three interesting cities for several days each:Boston,NYC, and Quebec in Canada. This last summer 2003, she taught two math classes again and also initiated a new program with Mr. Scialo, the social studies 6th Silver team teacher, called "JUMP START". The program was designed to help incoming 6th graders become more comfortable with MMS. During a brief vacation she was awed by the landforms of Zion Canyon in Utah and the cliffs near the California beaches south of Los Angeles. During the summer of 2004, Mrs. FC enjoyed meeting more than 80 new students to MMS in "Jump Start" summer school. Though not a summer to travel, she was thrilled with the opportunity to row sometimes twice a day and learn to row in small boats. Up to this summer, her rowing was always in an 8 boat which has 8 rowers in it call "crew" or "sweep" rowing. Also, in the summer she visited her daughter in architecture school in Philadelphia walking in the city parks and visiting museums with her Jen. Another wonderful adventure in the summer was more time to read. She read the "Lord of the Ring" series again and other good fiction. Each Tuesday and Thursday morning during the fall and spring Mrs. FL rows on the Norwalk River at 5:15am. Mrs. FL has two daughters. Jen graduated from Amherst College as a Fine Arts major and also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School to become an architect. Jen has worked in NYC for one year as an architect. The other daughter, Erin, graduated Northeastern University in Boston majoring in Accounting.Last Spring, she completed her MASTERS in TEACHING at Pace University. Erin has worked in NYC with a diverse community as a Math teacher in her mother's footsteps. She has lots to learn to become a great teacher some day. Two nephews are physicists, one nephew is a radiologist doctor,one nephew is a computer engineer ,one brother is a chemist and her favorite brother-in-law is a mechanical engineer. Dinner conversations with family members are often about scientific amazing things. In September, 2007 my name changed to Mrs. Flaherty-Ludwig.

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Mission
The mission for the 6th grade class members is to develop curiosity about nature and technology, and to develop strategies to explore and experiment using the scientifc method to gain an understanding of nature and technology.