My Teachers

I thought I would do a little reminiscing about the teachers that I've had through the years. Some were great, others were just plain weird, and some were crazy and taught me more than I thought possible.

Kindergarten- Mrs. Bauxbaum
She was a nice teacher. I remember singing songs about "Mr. M" and "Ms. A" and she would read stories to us. There are two particular instances that stand out in my mind. On my birthday I wore my favorite candy cane stripe dress. I even had candy cane tights that went along with the dress. I was so excited that it was my birthday. Mrs. Bauxbaum gave us papers to put in our backpacks and give to our parents. I got a paper cut putting them in my backpack. I raised my hand and asked to go to the nurse, but she told me I was being a baby and wouldn't let me go. The other instance happened at snack time. I hated milk, especially from the cartons so I wouldn't drink it. Mrs. Bauxbaum made me sit under the easel the rest of the day. She even let all the other kids leave after school. My sister came to find me because I wasn't with the rest of the Kindergartners, drank my milk and I got to go home. I thought those were weird punishments. At least my sister helped me :)

1st-2nd Grade- Mrs. Meinholz, Mrs. Lemorand, and Mrs Hemple
I loved Mrs. Meinholz. She really believed in my ability as a student and because of her I became a confident reader. Mrs. Lemorand had a great method for teaching addition and subtraction. Have a contest with the other students that involves getting an M&M if you were right. Mrs. Hemple was nice, but kind of boring, she was the science teacher and maybe that's why to this day, I don't like science.

3rd-4th Grade- Sister Margaret Anne, Sister Ruth Ann, and Mrs. Kopp
Oh the stories I have that involve Sister Margaret Anne. She would make us get up in class and randomly do the chicken dance. She had a rolling overhead of transparency to teach us everything from math to art. She taught us the Jesse Tree (the genealogy of Jesus). She made us have jump rope day on the playground that involved her big box of jump ropes and everyone no matter what jumping rope at recess. She even told us that she was married........to God. It scared the crap out of me, but now I understand. :) Sister Ruth Ann was great. She liked me and taught us spelling and grammar. Two things I am now pretty good at. Mrs. Kopp was nice. She made us write Mysteries and build log cabins. It was fun. She did start to notice that I wasn't applying myself because I wasn't handing in my homework. She talked to my sisters and then to my parents. It made me work harder, but I didn't think that she needed to get my sisters in on it.

5th Grade- Mrs. Gableman
This was the year that I transferred from St. Rita to Holy Apostles. Oh what a crazy year. I enjoyed it a lot. Mrs. Gableman played a huge Xylophone. She made us sing all 5 versus of the Star Spangled Banner and she would wheel it down to the church when we had mass. She also taught us about the Civil War and let me bring in my American Girl doll from the Civil War era (Addy) She read all the Addy books out loud to us in class. How fun that must have been for the boys :) She also didn't want to correct the work herself so we would have to switch tests or homework with someone else and she would call out all the answers. She also made us call out our scores on homework and tests so she could get them into her grade book right away. Quite embarrassing if you got a bad score.

6th-8th Grade- Mrs. Coxey, Mrs. Canning, Ms. Chause, Mrs. Tillison, Mrs. Fare, and Mrs. Chipman
Oh middle school at Holy Apostles......we learned a lot, but had crazy teachers. Mrs. Coxey taught Language Arts, and I learned everything about grammar and spelling that I needed to know for the rest of my school career from her. She liked to call people delinquents, and she had a Dead Word Cemetery, which were overused words that we couldn't use in papers. She also told Gosia that she was a bad influence, which is so not true, but still makes me laugh to this day. Mrs. Canning was weird. She loved Ancient Egypt. It's all we did in 6th grade. She taught Social Studies. She made us copy word for word notes from the board and then made us memorize the notes for tests. We also wasted time every Monday by getting a new seating chart for the week. Ms. Chause was awesome! She taught science and made us do Science Fair every year by ourselves. We had to do the projects and give speeches. It was so much work. She also thought she was hearing laughing in the class when no one was talking. She liked to threaten us with quizzes on chapters when we were being too loud, but we did fun things like Rocket Day. We made our own model rockets and got to blast them off. So much fun! Mrs. Tillison was cool. She taught us opp-opp to help us add and subtract negative numbers. Funny thing though, when I got to high school my algebra teacher made me stop doing it. :( Mrs. Fare was crazy! She made us memorize the family tree in the Bible from Adam and Eve to Jesus. She would give us a blank sheet with lines and we had to fill in all the names that came in between them. She also made us watch Jesus of Nazareth every year, which was crazy. She would give us tests that involved exact lines from the movie. On Monday mornings she would give us mass quizzes to see which of us had gone or paid attention to mass that weekend. Crazy! Mrs. Chipman was by far one of the worst teachers I have ever had. She not only pulled me out into the hallway and yelled at me, but she did it so everyone in the class could hear what was going on. She tried to hold me hostage at school because she found white-out in my assignment notebook. She also made us do these Book Reports that had to be so exactly done that you would only get a good grade if you followed the sample that she gave in class. :(

I will get to high school tomorrow. Hope you have enjoyed this tidbit into my life. The book this time is:
Digital Fortress (Dan Brown) It's so interesting. Kind of creepy that it foreshadows some things that are already happening.