• Sarah’s Class, 2023-2024

     

    Dear first and second grade families,

     

    欢迎, or welcome back, to a new school year in my class! 我叫Sarah Kairis and I am so excited to get to know your families better this year. This will be my seventh year at Ann Arbor Open!  I am also lucky to have a student teacher from Eastern Michigan University working with my classroom this year- Emma Bentley.  Our class will begin at 8:15 every day.  I look forward to welcoming students in through my classroom door at that time!

     

    Outside of school, I am a mom to a nearly 3-year old girl, Lily, and a fur baby, Jax.  I am finishing up a second master’s in administration at Concordia University.  I am active in professional development, including completing a 2-year program in phonics and 科学 of reading based instruction this fall, “让.  

     

    My  first priority as I begin my  year will be, 一如既往地, to create a community where students feel welcome, 安全, ,听到. We, 作为一个国家, have been through a lot recently, and our kids are feeling the 重量 of it, perhaps even more than we realize. As educators we aim to nurture our students’ whole selves, both as complex individuals and as members of a justice-minded community.  朝着这个方向, much of the first few weeks of school will be dedicated to community building, 期望创造, and the learning of procedures and routines to allow the rest of the year to run smoothly.

     

    Curriculum night will be on Thursday, September 14th this year.  I imagine this will be in person, so I will see you in the classroom then!  Most of your questions will hopefully be answered that night, but if you have any questions before then, please feel free to email me!

     

    As I’m setting up the classroom, we are looking pretty good on supplies to start up the year!  We could use some more hand soap for handwashing before we eat.  I also never turn down donations of Kleenex, 干擦记号笔, 胶棒, or popsicle sticks for crafting!

     

    I am looking forward to the beginning of our year together.  Throughout the year the first and second grade team will be working together closely to best meet the needs of all our students.  We look forward to team teaching, 合作的经验, and allowing students to meet and interact with all our teachers in a variety of different settings and lesson formats.  More information to come on this, but I’m excited for the year ahead!



    See you all next Monday,

     

    Sarah Kairis (she/her/hers)- kairiss@aaps.k12.mi.us
  • 我叫Sarah Kairis.  I've been teaching at Ann Arbor Open since 2017.  Before teaching first and second grade here, I taught Kindergarten at UPA in Detroit and Spanish to K-5 students in a variety of AAPS schools.  In November of 2020 I had my first daughter, Lily!  I also have a black pit bull, Jax, who is full of love and energy.  I enjoy teaching, jogging, watching my daughter learn and grow, and (pre-Covid) traveling!
     
    In my classroom, we follow the Responsive Classroom man年龄ment method.  I draw from a variety of curriculum for my math and literacy learning, 包括露西·考尔金斯, Fountas和Pinnell, 关注数学, 和桥梁.  写作, 科学, and social studies tend to be closely connected in my room, and draw from current events and student interest as often as possible! 
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