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NAME:
Mrs. Barbara Kurdziel
SCHOOL:
Joseph D'Aquanni West Road Intermediate School
CLASS:
Fabulous 5th grade, all subjects & then some, Room 211
SCHOOL PHONE:
635-4310
This is the 6th year Mrs. Kurdziel has been teaching @ West Road School.
Her favorite subjects to teach are all of them!
Getting kids excited about reading and comfortable as writers are top
priority. As a kid, she was a mathaphobe, but now she loves to teach the
stuff.
Don't get her started about kids' literature. Some of her favorite books
include The Whipping Boy, Al Capone Does My Shirts, A Year Down Yonder, The
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, all of the Harry Potters and
Maniac Magee. Gary Paulsen's Dogsong is also a goodie since she's a dog
lover. She usually weeps uncontrollably at the end of any Newbery Medal
Winner.
She considers herself one of the luckiest people on the planet.
--as reported to one of her 5th grade students
Our classroom goals include:
*learning to research effortlessly
*writing reports with a scintillating introduction, a multitude of
supporting details and a fascinating conclusion
*developing a true love of reading with books that excite, amuse, inform and
entertain
*gaining an appreciation for math in a non-threatening and supportive
atmosphere
*preparing ourselves for every standardized test known to student-kind by
challenging ourselves as students in doing the very best work we can every
ding dong day
*having a hoot and a holler every so often with music, drama and multi-media
*developing our minds and work habits to enable us to be better prepared for
the rigors of middle school and beyond
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