Five Points Elementary

Newest Five Points Baby

2009-05-27T09:00:00.002-04:00

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

2009-05-27T09:00:00.001-04:00

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

2009-05-27T09:00:00.000-04:00

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

2009-05-25T09:00:00.002-04:00

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

2009-05-25T09:00:00.000-04:00

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

2009-05-22T09:00:00.001-04:00

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

2009-05-22T09:00:00.000-04:00

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

2009-05-21T09:00:00.003-04:00

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

2009-05-21T09:00:00.000-04:00

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

2009-05-20T09:00:00.001-04:00

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

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Page

2009-05-20T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Page enjoys teaching because there is never a dull moment.
She enjoys her job so much she never wishes for a different one.
Each of the kids she works with is a friend. The book that she thinks her students should read is Stellalluna by Jane Cannon. Her favorite part of teaching is watching the kids grow and change through the year

~Sean

Featured Staff Member Miss Stevens

2009-05-19T09:00:00.001-04:00

Miss Stevens says she loves working with students, although her least favorite thing to do is grade papers. She thinks it's easiest to teach math, one of the many subject she's always loved. She loves what she does and never gets tired of teaching.

~by Jacob

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Gerstner

2009-05-19T09:00:00.000-04:00

I interviewed Mrs. Gerstner, a special education teacher. She has been involved with special education for four years. She has many different pets. She has Sadie a rat terrier-beagle, Jasper, a cat, and lots of fish in her 55 gallon aquarium. Mrs. Gerstner had a job before she became involved in special education. She had a few jobs before she started teaching. She was a lifeguard in high school, and she worked as a tutor in college. She got a bachelors degree in psychology. After college, she worked in a residential facility with teens who suffered from emotional and psychiatric problems. She then went back to college and got a masters degree in education, and began teaching special education after that. Mrs. Gerstner’s favorite place is Lake Cumberland. Mrs. Gerstner became involved in special education because she really enjoys helping students who need a little extra help in school. "It can be frustrating when you struggle with something, and I like that I get to help relieve some of that frustration for my students by showing them different ways to learn."

~by Morgan

Featured Staff Member Mrs. O'Malley

2009-05-18T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mrs. O'Malley likes working with kids. In her spare time she likes to bike ride, bowl, hike, play sports or games with her own kids. Her favorite place to go is out to dinner. Her favorite part of teaching is helping others. If Mrs. O'Malley could not be a teacher she would be a respiratory therapist.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Clark

2009-05-18T09:00:00.000-04:00

Karin Clark is our current librarian aide. She has been teaching for 5 years. For the two years before she became a librarian, she was a classroom aide. Her hobbies include working in her flower garden and working out in her home and at the YMCA. Her favorite color is orange, and her favorite animals are cats and rabbits. She also has one pet who is a cat named Oliver. Oliver is eleven years old. A few things you probably don’t know about Mrs. Clark is that she grew up in Lebanon, Ohio. She has a husband named Paul, a daughter named Eliza, and a son named Connor.

~by Becca

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-05-12T09:27:00.002-04:00

4th Grade West

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Stacy

2009-05-12T09:00:00.002-04:00

Christine Stacy is a special Education teacher. She likes her job because there is something that is new everyday. Although she likes her job it is very challenging. Her students may get frustrated sometimes and have some behaviors. Christine has taught regular education in the past, but she just truly love working with students with special needs. Her whole room is set up with special education and she wouldn’t change anything about her job.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Shroyer

2009-05-12T09:00:00.001-04:00

This week I interviewed Mrs. Shroyer, a third grade teacher. She has a bunch of interesting opinions. Her favorite color is purple. She has been a teacher for three years but she has only been at Five Points for two years. Her favorite subject she teaches is math and when she was in elementary school she went to Wooster Christain School. I hope you enjoy these interesting facts.

~by Morgan

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Little

2009-05-11T09:00:00.002-04:00

Mrs. Little is a very nice lady. In her free time she likes to spend time with her family. Her favorite sport is basketball she says “GO DUKE”.
Her favorite subject is reading. She says teaching is very rewarding and she likes working with the kids. She has been teaching have been teaching for 18 years.
~by Jonathan

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-05-11T09:00:00.001-04:00

5th Grade West

Featured Staff Member Mr. Holt

2009-05-11T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mr. Holt's favorite subject is math because he likes to solve puzzles. He thinks every math problem is like its very own puzzle and he feels good when he solves these puzzles. Math is also very useful when you get older and you will use it every day at home and in every career that you may choose. He doesn’t have a least favorite subject and says the subjects tie together in a way. He became a teacher because he likes to help his students love school just like he did when he was a child. He thinks it’s much easier to learn when you love school. He teaches reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. He loves teaching second grade and has an awesome class this year. His kids are so smart and a lot of fun.

Featured Staff Member Miss Oriani

2009-05-08T15:57:00.000-04:00

Miss Oriani is a 3rd grade teacher. She has been teaching for four years. Miss Oriani has taught 2nd grade for three years before moving to 3rd grade this year. Her favorite subject is math. She loves to read and her favorite book is If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
~by Kirsten

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-05-08T09:00:00.001-04:00

5th Grade East

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Roberts

2009-05-08T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Roberts likes to be a Clerical Aide because she gets to talk to people through the day. Mrs. Roberts works on both East and West. Mrs. Roberts is a Clerical Aide so she works with the whole school which is 869 students!!!! The thing that Mrs. Roberts likes the most about her job is seeing and working with students in the building. The thing that Mrs. Roberts likes the least is when she has to see kids in the office being punished. And that is what it is like for Mrs. Roberts to be a Clerical Aide.

~by Cassidy

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-05-07T09:00:00.003-04:00

2nd Grade West

Featured Staff Member Mr. Miller

2009-05-07T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mr. Miller thinks that he became a teacher because he is good at making information easy to understand and that he enjoys teaching math and science. He is teaching 4th grade because he thinks 4th graders are super cool and that was the grade Ms. Stritenberger told him to teach. This is his first year ever teaching and the first year at Five Points. His favorite dessert is ice cream. I hope you enjoyed these facts.

~by Erin

Featured Staff Member Mr. Johantges

2009-05-07T09:00:00.000-04:00

One of the questions I asked was: Do you like your job if so what about it He said that he has been a principal for 30 years so it is good that he likes to go to his job every day . Also he said that the most things he likes about being a principal is working with teachers to help students learn. Another question I asked was: What do you do as a principal? Mr. J answered: Being a principal has many responsibilities. They include making sure teachers have the material they need to teach. Another duty is working with teachers to help make sure that we are teaching the curriculum as adopted by the Board of Education. Making sure there is a schedule for teachers that include instruction time, specials time, lunch time, etc. is very important. Perhaps the most important part of the job is hiring good teachers to work with our students. The next question I asked is: Do you have any kids Mr. J: answered I have two grown children and four grandchildren. I also have two dogs. Also I asked: What is your favorite sport? Mr. J answered: My favorite sport is college football. I also think lacrosse is pretty neat. And the last question was: Where did you go to college? And Mr. J answered : I got my undergraduate degree for teaching at the University of Cincinnati and my master's degree to be a principal at the University of Dayton.

~by Bryce

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Bennett

2009-05-06T15:41:00.001-04:00

Mrs. Bennett is a second grade teacher. She enjoys being around students all day. Mrs. Bennett says “I love listening to their stories and getting their perspectives on different topics. I love the look on their faces when they learn something new.” Her favorite subject is reading and enjoys teaching it. Mrs. Bennett loves the activities in reading, and how much the students have improved as students. Mrs. Bennett try’s to live by this quote "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." By reading this paragraph I hope you too think Mrs. Bennett is an excellent teacher!
~Lily

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-05-05T09:00:00.004-04:00

Art

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Schmitt

2009-05-05T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mrs. Schmitt has been teaching 2nd grade for 3 years. She wishes that she could be a 2nd grader again. She would love to have few responsibilities and be able to play like a kid again. She absolutely loves working at 5pts!! Right now her class is working on a project in class. They are writing Flat Stanley books. Mrs. Schmitt loves her job very much and never wants to quit.

~by Tabitha

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Headley

2009-05-05T09:00:00.000-04:00

Pam Headley says teaching is not hard, but it takes a lot of time and energy. She has thaught multiple grades. Her class does not switch. She likes the people she works with.

~by Andrew

Featured Staff Member Mr. Prater

2009-05-04T15:01:00.001-04:00

Mr. Prater is one of our most humorous teachers here at Five Points Elementary! He always makes jokes and is hilarious! But he can be very serious too. He loves working here, and he loved school as a kid. His favorite subject was science because he loves doing experiments and working with space and the Earth! Besides loving science he teaches it too! He doesn’t teach only science he teaches Math, Reading, Social Studies, and English and like I said before science! With all this teaching in his hands he must have it hard, nope, to him teaching is just something that comes naturally to him so he thinks it is easy, he spends lots of time preparing for lessons which must make it easy for him, he has fun while doing this. Another thing that makes it easy for him is how long he has been teaching! He has been teaching for 5 years and that is a lot, now he teaches the 3rd grade which he has been teaching for most of his career as a teacher! Since I said he was funny you must be wondering why he is teaching instead of some other job, well he got inspired to teach because he has tried a lot of fun activities in his life and he wanted to try something new that he’s never done before! Also his wife teaches second grade and he worked with her students which was fun to him! Well, as you can see Mr. Prater is a very fun guy to be around!

~by Kyle

Featured Staff Member Miss Ockerman

2009-05-01T09:00:00.000-04:00

I asked Miss Ockerman five questions she said her favorite thing to do over the summer was to read books and go walking with friends. I asked her what her favorite subject was and she said history. She also said she had a yorkie named Gabby. Miss Ockerman also said her favorite book was the bible and her favorite food is a burrito from Chipotle.

Featured Staff Member Mr. Schmitt

2009-04-30T09:00:00.001-04:00

Shawn Schmitt is a fourth grade west teacher at Five Points Elementary. This is his 7th year of teaching. He really likes to teach. His favorite subjects to teach are math and science. But he likes math a little bit more. He has students that are doing their best… most of the time. He loves sports and his favorite sport has got to be baseball.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Woodby

2009-04-30T09:00:00.000-04:00

Shelly Woodby's favorite place she has ever visited was the Grand Canyon. She would love to visit Hawaii. The best memories she ever had were the times she went on a cross county trip out West to California with her mom and dad, sister and two brothers. They camped all the way, without one hotel stop! That was even before DVD's in our vehicles! Congrats!
She has a fourteen year old and a 12 year old.
Her favorite things to see at school is the light in a child's eyes when they have that "I get it!" moment.

~by Daniel

What's Happening in Our Halls? 3rd Grade West

2009-04-29T09:12:00.002-04:00

Featured Staff Member- Mrs. Abrams

2009-04-29T09:00:00.002-04:00

Mrs. Abrams' favorite childhood memories were the ones from Crane's beach. This beach is located in Ipswhich, Massachusetts. She grew up in MA, and she still loves to visit now as an adult. She lived a few miles away from the beach. She would always ride her bike with her friends and would stay all day. Nearby, there were lighthouses, rocks to climb on, swimming and a big castle at the beach owned by the Crane family. Sometimes she would go out on the boat, too. She remembers deciding to take her dog, Shannon out on the boat, too. Shannon loved sticking her head out the window. She like Crane's Beach because of the amazing scenery and the ocean's waves, even with her share of sunburns.
Mrs. Abrams enjoys teaching because she believes it is a time to be creative. Her students can play, sing, and dance. She loves it when students come up with their own songs and dances, because inventing is fun!
She has two children. Zachary is 5 years old and goes to Clearcreek Elementary. He plays the violin and takes gymnastics at the Y. His teacher told her that he is very shy in class but when it comes to singing the calendar song, he sings louder than anyone in the room. She also has a three year old named Dustin. He was born right before Christmas. His birthday is December 21st. His favorite activity is riding his bike. He loves his Spiderman bike and Spiderman helmet and asks to ride it the minute he wakes up.
Her favorite color is green/blue. (Which is also called aqua.)
Mrs. Abrams favorite junk food is chocolate. Dark chocolate. She loves Italian food!

Featured Staff Member- Mrs. Hurley

2009-04-29T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mrs. Hurley has enjoyed her eight years of work in the Springboro school district with other teachers that are always working to ensure that all students get the best education possible. She feels as a teacher that she must consider students come from various backgrounds and each have their own unique personality. She enjoys hearing students’ life stories, helping them cope with things inside and outside of school. “I come I come from a family of educators and wanted to be part of something that effects a person for life...education is one of the most valuable assets and person can hold. Educating a child can establish a passion for life long learning and the accomplishment of any hope, dream or goal.” This is what she says about teaching. She is motivated by love, passion, and dedication to the idea that each student deserves equal chance to learn. One of her favorite quotes is “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”-William Butler Yeats

~by Elina

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Miller

2009-04-28T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mrs. Miller has been teaching for 20 years. She likes working with 3rd graders. She loves being a teacher. If she had the choice of having a different job she would be a counselor. She enjoys working with children to affect the future of tomorrow, and seeing kids excited when they learn something new. Although she has to do a lot of work outside of school she loves being a 3rd grade teacher.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Dreyer

2009-04-28T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Dreyer loves her job and actually has 2 jobs. Not only does she teach 3rd here at Five Points but she also teaches online college courses for the University of Cincinnati. She teaches all subjects and her classroom is self-contained. She has a class of 22 students. For her UC job she teaches the students about early childhood education. Her students are learning how to be teachers.
Mrs. Dreyer doesn't have a lot of free time in school at all. During the day she is very busy with her students. She has 2 1/2 year old girl named Rylie and a 4 month old son named Paxton.
Her favorite foods are pizza, cheese, crab legs, key lime pie and killer brownies. Her favorite pet is a dog and she has a border collie named Brady at home. Her favorite color is lavender. Her favorite season is summer. Her favorite sports are soccer and skiing to play and college basketball to watch. Her favorite places to vacation are Deer Vally, Utah and Key West, Florida.
~by Kayla

What's Happening in Our Halls- 3rd Grade East

2009-04-27T09:00:00.004-04:00

What's Happening in Our Halls- 3rd Grade West

2009-04-27T09:00:00.002-04:00

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Roark

2009-04-27T09:00:00.001-04:00

When I did my interview I interviewed Mrs. Roark. The questions I asked her were “1.What is your favorite part of teaching? 2.How long have you been teaching? 3.Why did you choose to be a teacher? 4.What is your least favorite part of teaching? 5.And When did you decide you wanted to be a teacher? Mrs.Roark’s response to my questions Were 1.My favorite part of teaching is engaging my students in activities that are meaningful, fun, or interesting. 2. I've been a teacher for 26 years. 3. I chose to be a teacher because I genuinely love children and making a positive difference in their lives. 4. My least favorite part of teaching is having to convince parents and the community that we need our school levies to pass. 5. I decided I wanted to be a teacher when I was in high school. I always taught swimming lessons in the summer and worked at camps with children. I knew that teaching would be a fulfilling job for me.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Cohen

2009-04-27T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Cohen was asked, “Do you have any children? If you do, what are their names?” She responded, “Yes, I have one child. His name is Graham.” Mrs. Cohen was asked, “What is your favorite book?” She responded, “The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.” Mrs. Cohen was asked, “What is your favorite ice cream flavor?” She responded, “Strawberry.” Mrs. Cohen was asked, “Why did you become a Special Ed. Teacher?” She responded, “I felt that I was good at looking at things differently than most people would see them. I knew this would help me teach things in a different way that some kids were not able to understand the traditional way.” Mrs. Cohen was asked, “Have you worked at other schools? If you have, what schools have you worked at?” She responded, “Yes, I taught at Lebanon Road Elementary in Charlotte, NC and also at Clearcreek Elementary in Springboro before Five Points opened.

~by Kyle

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-24T09:00:00.005-04:00

Art

Featured Staff Member Mrs. McCue

2009-04-24T09:00:00.004-04:00

Mrs. McCue has a very interesting character. She loves many things about each grade she teaches. Her favorite color is baby blue. She likes any food with tomatoes. Her favorite subject to teach is math, but her favorite subject is reading because she loves books. She likes to spend time with her husband. She loves her job!

Featured Staff Member Miss Cargill

2009-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

Miss Cargill likes to be a special education teacher because she is always busy and doing fun things with kids all day long. Ms. Cargill works on the west side. She is currently working with 13 students. The thing she likes the most is working with students that need more help than others. The thing she likes the least is giving grades and doing paper work.

~by Cassidy

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-23T09:00:00.004-04:00

5th Grade West

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Phillips

2009-04-23T09:00:00.003-04:00

Mrs. Phillips teaches math and science here at Five Points Elementary. This is her second year of teaching here. She has taught many grades including High School Algebra, fourth grade, seventh grade and now fifth grade. Her favorite thing about teaching is how vibrant the children are. She also likes the fact that she is able to teach. Her least favorite thing about teaching is that she doesn’t like how late we get out of school. Mrs. Phillips is a fantastic teacher!
~by Emily

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-23T09:00:00.001-04:00

5th Grade East

Featured Staff Member Miss Calahan

2009-04-23T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Calahan is very unique. Her favorite color is red. Her favorite subject is math. Her favorite book is The Bubble Factory by dePaola. She always wanted to be a teacher, especially in third grade. Her favorite food is pizza. She loves her job!

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Dice

2009-04-22T09:00:00.005-04:00

Mrs. Dice is our computer lab teacher along with Mrs. Aliaga. She enjoys being a computer lab teacher more than a classroom teacher because it is very different. She has taught 10 years now. What a long time! During her free time, she likes to spend time with her family and friends, read, swim, and travel. She has two children, Jacob who is 4, and Lucas who is 1.She teaches 7-8 classes in one day! Mrs. Dice is an awesome teacher to her students!
~by Grace

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Eshbaugh

2009-04-22T09:00:00.003-04:00

There are many interesting things about Mrs. Eshbaugh. One of these things includes that she’s taught 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. Another interesting thing is that she has a 14 year old black and tan hound dog/beagle named Forest. Mrs. Eshbaugh has been teaching for 11 years. Something else you probably don’t know is that her favorite project she’s assigned is the market day because she loves to see what foods her students can create. Lastly she would love to meet George Washington because she’s fascinated by that time period. There are many things you need to know about Mrs. Eshbaugh.

~by Kara

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-22T09:00:00.001-04:00

4th Grade East

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Harwood

2009-04-21T09:00:00.002-04:00

Mrs. Harwood likes her job because she enjoys working with children. When teachers come to her sick she does the same as if they were children. One time a student passed out and hit his chin. Sometimes in winter the cots get filled up and children either lay in chairs or stand and wait. She has support for when she can’t be at her job by the secretaries or even nurses from other schools. Mrs. Harwood is an awesome nurse!
~by Kennedy

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-21T09:00:00.001-04:00

3rd Grade East

Featured Staff Member Mr. Knightstep

2009-04-21T09:00:00.000-04:00

I asked Mr. Knightstep five questions and he said his favorite color is green, his favorite food is pizza, and his favorite sports team is the Buckeyes. He also said he has been to Germany, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Mexico, Honduras, and Canada. Mr. Knightstep’s favorite thing to do on a snow day is sit by a warm fireplace and have family time.

~by Cayla

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Jenkins

2009-04-20T09:00:00.008-04:00

Mrs. Jenkins favorite subject to teach is math and she wishes that she could teach it several times a day. Mrs. Jenkins doesn’t have a favorite student, but she does have a favorite grade to teach, 3rd grade. She is currently teaching 3rd grade, but has formerly taught other grades in her life. Also, she has two children, Thomas, age 8, and Christopher, age 12. Thomas loves to play sports and is currently playing select baseball. Christopher likes academic activities, as well as playing the clarinet and piano. He also plays soccer. Mrs. Jenkins has many pets, including saltwater fish that live in a 150 gallon tank. She also owns starfish, shrimp, crabs, and about 10 fish that are similar to the ones in “Finding Nemo”. Mrs. Jenkins decided to teach because she is the 4th generation to teach in her mother’s side of the family. Also, she wants to make a difference in other people’s lives and enjoys working with children and helping them learn new skills.

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-20T09:00:00.007-04:00

2nd Grade West

What's Happening in Our Halls?

2009-04-20T09:00:00.006-04:00

2nd Grade East

Featured Staff Member Miss Gerstle

2009-04-20T09:00:00.004-04:00

Mrs. Gerstle was a special education teacher by going to University of Dayton. She always knew she wanted to become a teacher. She grew up in Wyoming, Ohio which is a small town North of Cincinnati. Two of her favorite hobbies are running and cooking. She even ran a marathon. She has an older sister who lives in London and her name is Frances. Teaching is the only job that she has ever wanted since she graduated from college. When she was younger she baby-sat her neighbors. Also during college she tutored, worked at a day camp and taught aerobic classes at our rec center. This is Mrs. Gerstle’s back round
~by Dominque

Featured Staff Member Mr. Boyer

2009-04-17T09:00:00.001-04:00

I asked Mr. Boyer five questions and these were his responses. He said this was his third year teaching and if he wasn’t a teacher he would be a full time coach. Mr. Boyer also said his favorite part about being a teacher was being around all of the students. When I asked Mr. Boyer if he could go on vacation anywhere for a week where would he go. He said he would try to go to outer space and spend a week on the space shuttle! If on Earth he would go to Hawaii again. He also said his favorite football team would be Ohio State at college level, either the Browns or the Bengals at pro level and at high school level Springboro.
~by Cayla

Featured Staff Member Miss Zilgalvis

2009-04-17T09:00:00.000-04:00

Miss Zilgalvis is a wonderful teacher who teaches 2nd grade. Miss Z. loves her job, but if she had to choose another job, she would be a nurse because she likes to help people. Miss Z. is considerate, and definitely helps her students to the best of her knowledge. When Miss Z. isn’t teaching, she loves to go to the beach because she loves the sound of waves and her feet in the sand. Also, she loves to sit down and read a book that takes you on a new adventure every time. When Miss Z. was young, she was a great student. Miss Z. never copied because she didn’t want to face the consequences, and Miss Z. knew that it was wrong. “Good students should positive, have enthusiasm for learning, participation in learning experiences, and working well with others” says Miss Z. If you are looking for a great teacher in second grade, Miss Z. would be a great choice!

~by Peyton

Featured Staff Member Mr. Gorski

2009-04-16T09:00:00.001-04:00

Mr. Gorski became a special Ed teacher because he had an Uncle with Downs Syndrome, so he has been around special needs people all of life. He loves to run in the woods or on the basketball court coaching his team. His favorite part of his job is getting kids to read who have never read before. He would be a basketball coach or assistant coach at the college level if he could not teach.

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Blommel

2009-04-16T09:00:00.000-04:00

Mrs. Blommel is a classroom aide at 5 points Elementary. She has been an aide for 17 years and taught in Ohio and Kentucky. Her favorite part of her job is getting to help children everyday. Even though she teaches the same children everyday, the routines may be different hour to hour. Mrs. Blommel has two kids of her own. Both of them are girls, one is in 6th grade and one is in 2nd grade here at Five Points. Since she's been at the Springboro School System, she has taught 7-10 kids. The most kids she has taught in one year, out of all of her years of teaching, is 7 in one year. All in all, Mrs. Blommel is a very good aide and is very flexible
~by Jessica

Featured Staff Member Mr. Ray

2009-04-15T10:45:00.002-04:00

Mr. Ray's teaching methods are 1.small groups for reading and projects 2. big groups with mostly reading groups 3. one on one lessons for projects. Mr. Ray has read 1 book to his class, A Ballad to the Civil War, and the class has read 3 books ,The Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Frindle, and Landry News , and they will be reading Because of Winn-Dixie. Now Mr. Ray is one of the few switch teachers. Mr. Ray's favorite subject is Social Studies. Mr. Ray teaches two subjects which are Social Studies and Language Arts and he does enjoy both of these subjects because they relate to his favorite things. This is something that Mr.Ray thinks is the goal for education,"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of a true education."

~by Joey

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Griffen

2009-04-15T10:45:00.000-04:00

Traci Griffen has been teaching for an astonishing 15 years. She was inspired by her grandmother to choose teaching as her career. She loves hearing stories from her grandmother’s teaching career. Mrs. Griffen really likes each and everyday of her teaching career because it is an opportunity to learn something new. She really enjoys trying to find what works best for her students. Mrs. Griffen chose to teach fourth grade because it is really where she began. She also started teaching here right in Springboro. Mrs. Griffen really enjoys meeting new faces and meeting the challenges ahead. The new year is something she really looks forward to, it allows her the chance with a new group to play a small part in her students learning journey.
~by Evan

Featured Staff Member Mrs. Leonard

2009-04-14T15:54:00.000-04:00

Carla Leonard first worked as a secretary at Jonathan Wright Elementary school. If she could have another job, she said she would want to be a special education teacher. She said being a secretary could be challenging at times, but it was worth it because every day was different, and every day she got to spend time with kids.

Featured Staff Member Miss Bahner

2009-04-14T15:16:00.000-04:00

Miss Bahner is a 5th grade reading and science teacher on the west side. She wanted to become a teacher because she has always liked working with children and she couldn’t imagine having a job where she would do the same exact thing every day. She likes the fact that there are always new things to do and discover each year. She thinks the hardest part of her job is making sure that everyone learns everything in the time that we have each year! Her favorite part of being a teacher is all the fun we have here at school and being able to teach things that she loves. In the summer when she’s not teaching she works part-time at a bank, tutors students, travels, scrapbooks, and enjoys the sun!!!! If she had any other job, she would do something with nature, like working at a park or a zoo or a camp.

~by Haley

Welcome!

2009-03-23T20:05:00.000-04:00

Welcome to our Five Points Elementary Blog! We have two 5th grade classes currently working on this blog as a pilot to see how our blogging goes. If everything goes smoothly and people are visiting our blog, we hope to have all of the 5th graders working on our blog next year. The two classrooms that are currently working on the blog are Miss Baker's homeroom and Mrs. Waldo's homeroom. We have just begun so stay tuned!!!