Welcome Students and significant others

         to Mrs. S's Homepage.

My Family
  First of all, I live here in Connecticut with my husband and two of my three daughters.  They are all grown up now and two of them are at a local university.  I also live with my cat, Mischief.  His nickname is Misch and as you can tell by his name, he can find trouble anywhere!  Here's a picture of Misch:

    Misch is a persian.  For those cat lovers (like me) or those who simply want to learn more about Persian cats, click onto the following site:

http://www.cfainc.org/caring.html

What I did on my summer vacation
    Now that my daughters are grown, my husband and I have begun to travel a bit.  This summer we flew to Minnesota.  It was my first plane trip! What a beautiful state!  It has over 15,000 lakes!
We spent a couple of days here in Duluth with an old friend.

Duluth is on Lake Superior, which is one of the Great Lakes.

    Then we drove to the Minneapolis.  We had a great time at the Mall of America.
To experience Minnesota by way of your "mouse", check out these sites!

http://www.exploreminnesota.com/

http://www.mnhs.org/

    Next we drove to the Minneapolis.  We had a great time at the Mall of America.  Check out these Mall of America sites:

http://www.bloomingtonmn.org/mallofamerica.html

http://www.mallofamerica.com/moa/servlet/SMTMall?mid=369&pn=HOME&rs=0

    For those fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder, like me, point and click on these sites.  (Laura lived in Walnut Grove, MN.)

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/walnutgrove.html

http://www.walnutgrove.org/

My Early Years
  My first 18 or so years were spent growing up in a small town in the Pine Tree State. Maine lies claim to a big part of my heart.  I visit family there several times a year.  To learn more about this beautiful state, peruse these interesting sites:

http://www.visitmaine.com/

http://www.maineattraction.com/

My Life....... Today
  Besides my family, school is a very big part of my life.  I am a graduate student, so I have homework just like you!  I love learning!  I hope you do too.

    I really love teaching.  It's a great deal more work than I thought it would be, but it's far more rewarding than I had ever imagined.
    I've been involved in something called looping over the past four years.  I just finished working with the same class for their third and fourth grades.

My Hobbies
  My hobbies include reading, gardening, bird watching, and being with my family.  Science and history are my favorite subjects.
    This summer I have been reading from the Harry Potter series.  Check out the interview with J. K. Rowling about the Harry Potter collection.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandboost.htks/authors/fritz/booklim

My favorite type of reading is historical fiction.  Jean Fritz is one of my favorite children's authors.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/fritz/bio.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/fritz/booklist.htm

    Each year my students participate in learning about gardening and actually work in our class colonial herb garden.  It's a work in progress.  Here are some sites that you may enjoy.

http://www.kidsgardening.org/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/fritz/booklist.htm

http://www.strawberybanke.org/museum/herb/herb.html

  The following are some of my favorite sites on the World Wide Web:

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

http://www.tia.org/discover/getallstos.asp

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/va/199.htm

http://spacescience.nasa.gov/

http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/welcome/welcome.htm

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

I'll see you at school!
Sincerely,
Mrs. S