meet team connor

Dear Parents and Kiddos,

Welcome to First Grade!  I know that half of you were introduced to Mrs. Evans last spring as your first grade teacher.  As Mr. Schurger explained in his Homework Watcher, current enrollment figures have caused several reconfigurations, with first grade being one of those.

For those of you old and new to my room, I’d like to take a moment to tell you how excited I am about this year and introduce you to my wonderful “team”.

Mrs. Bethany Allspaw will be my full-time aide and right hand “man” this year.  Bethany and I did this two years ago with a class of 27.  We work together on preparation, group instruction and one-on-one follow-up and are a well-oiled machine!

Mr. Mike Van Vertloo is also a valued team member and through his generosity and the generosity of his company, is able to give an hour to an hour and a half of his day for group reading instruction, which we do in small groups.  This is Mike’s third year with me in this role. 

Rounding off the team will be Sarah Gillaspy (a former first grade student of mine) who will be my cadet teacher from Cardinal Ritter High School.  Sarah will be with us two to three days a week depending on the schedule she gets from Ritter and traditionally will be my” go to girl” for small group instruction, grading papers, making copies, etc….my very own Girl Friday!

Additionally, I use Mrs. Stefanciosa and Mrs. Betty Clements to listen to the kids read on a weekly basis (and am always looking for additional weekly volunteers). 

Please be assured that I am a very experienced teacher and your children will have the best educational experience possible…looking forward to August 17^th.

Sincerely,

Susan Connor

P.S. Almost forgot team member Malcolm…my black lop-eared “therapy” bunny!