Newest Five Points Baby

Mrs. Hurley's baby boy!

Broderick (Brody) Isaiah Hurley arrived at 12:19, weighing 7lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Waldo

Mrs. Waldo has been teaching 5th grade for 17 years. She has never taught in any other grade except during her student teaching she was with 2nd graders. Her class is reading Rules and is learning about space in science. She doesn’t know if she is getting any more new students.

~by Allie

Featured Staff Member Miss Roode

Miss Roode is a fifth grade West teacher. Her favorite subject is Social Studies and she also teaches Social Studies. Miss Roode’s favorite book is Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Miss Roode likes many things about being a teacher. But her favorite thing is that she loves her job, so she gets to go to a job everyday that she is excited about and enjoys. Miss Roode also feels that she is blessed to help play a small role in shaping the minds of young people who will be are future leaders. Miss Roode’s favorite grade in elementary school was 7th grade. This was because she had really good teachers that year. Then her favorite grade in High School was her junior year. This was because she was not a freshman any more, but she also didn’t have the pressure of having to think about college being a senior yet. Even though Miss Roode loves being a teacher very much if she had to have any other job she would probably be a counselor. This is because Miss Roode thinks she could help people a lot in this career field.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Schmidt

This week I interviewed Sue Schmidt. She has been a classroom aide for 61/2 years. Her favorite movie is the Polar Express. When she decided to go back to work after 14 years of taking care of her children, she had to make a choice whether or not to go back into her prior career. Being a skilled profession, she knew she was out of the loop with the latest computer programming, that would be necessary for her re-employment as an executive or legal secretary. Still wanting to be able to be a part of her children's lives as much as possible, she decided to work for school so she could have her summers off. Her mother was an elementary school secretary and her father was a teacher, so she knew as a kid how that felt having those summers with her mom and dad around. She subbed as a librarian and also as a classroom aide. She kept getting called back to do classroom aide work, and she found that she really enjoyed working with special needs students. Mrs. Schmidt has always lived in Ohio and took 14 years off of her career to be a mom. Thank you Mrs. Schmidt for letting me interview you.

~by Morgan

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Aliaga

Mrs. Aliaga is a teacher who cares how her students feel and helps them to feel comfortable on what is happening in computer class. Mrs. Aliaga started out as a 3rd grade teacher, but the job for computer teacher became open so she decided to take the job. She first used a computer when she was in high school and started using it a lot in collage, although if computers were accessible when she was younger she would have used them more. She mostly learned about computers the same way a lot of us do, playing around on them! This is Mrs. Aliaga, our Computer Teacher.

~by Austin

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Panzeca

Mrs.Panzeca has been teaching for 15 years and 10 of those years have been spent teaching 5th graders. She has taught 6th grade English for some time and 8th grade social studies and English for 3 years all at Springboro Junior High. Mrs.Panzeca used to work at Kings Island for 10 years but other than that she has always been a teacher. She has always wanted to be a teacher because her mom used to be a teacher. Her favorite 5th grade book is Running Out Of Time.

~by Allie

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Haberstroh

Before Mrs.Haberstroh became a librarian, she was a Mail Carrier for the Post Office for 5 years, she was also an Occpational Therapist who specialized in hand rehabilitation and splints for 11years. She has been a librarian at Clearcreek Elementary and has been working at Five Points Elementary ever since the school opened in 2005. She has been a librarian for 7 years and got her Masters in Library and Information Science 3 years ago. If Mrs.Haberstroh could change anything in the library she would make a door to the outside and plant flowers.The thing she likes most about her job is that she gets to learn about great books and information sources and telling them to children. Mrs. Haberstroh is a great teacher and librarian.

~by Ethan

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Kellner

Mrs.Kellner began teaching physical education in Rio Hondo TX in Aug.1981. She taught there for 5 years. Upon moving back to Ohio, she taught high school health from Aug.1986-May 1995. She took 2 years parental leave & returned to teaching middle school physical education for 3.25 years. She is in her third year of teaching physical education at Five Points.
She subbed in Springboro for 3 years & taught mosly 3rd grade, although she subbed at every grade level in just about every subject from K-12. She long-term subbed in 3rd grade for 5 months.
She really enjoys teaching physical education here at Five Points. If she had her choice , she would she would stay here and teach only 3rd-5th grades.
She has two brothers-Brandt & Bruce; Brandt is older and lives in Florida. bruce is 5 years younger and lives close to Boston,MA.She has a sister who is older and lives in Ohio.
While she visiting her mom a few weeks ago, she came across her old report cards. She was pretty much an A&B student. Looking at her test scores, she saw she had some trouble on the standardized tests.

Relative to her grades, it seemed that when she was interested in a subject, she did very well. If her interest wasn't there, she is guessing she didn't apply myself. She has "smartness" in common sense which to her is more valuable than any grades she received over the years.

~by Dominique

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Rossell

Mrs. Rossell likes being a custodian even though sometimes you have to look at things you don't want to. Mrs. Rossell enjoys reading a lot. Mrs. Rossell says this is best staff she has ever worked with. She used to want to pursue a career in medicine. She says she likes to see kids smile.

~by Sean

Mrs. Rossell is currently at home recovering from surgery. Keep sending her positive thoughts and we look forward to having her back at Five Points soon!

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Baratko

Mrs. Baratko has a 6 year old Clavier King Charles named Kylie. She became a music teacher because from pre-k - High School she was always involved in music. She absolutely loves music. She has 8 siblings and almost all of them were involved in music.
They were involved in band, dance, cheerleading and piano lessons. She was the mascot from the age of 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.

~by Erin