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Mrs. Peer, Ed Fenn Elementary

Mrs. Peer, Ed Fenn Elementary

by TeacherLove on Tuesday Dec. 6th in Browse by State/City, Ed Fenn Elementary, Gorham, New Hampshire

Mrs. Peer was my fifth grade teacher in a very small public school in northern New Hampshire. Everyone knew everyone else, and my grade was infamously well known.

Mrs. Peer treated us with respect. She challenged us. She pushed us to be better students. Most importantly, she read aloud to us.

One of the books she read aloud, Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian, is the first chapter book I remember re-reading over and over again. I had struggled with reading as a young child, and Mrs. Peer helped me learn to love stories. I read more, and my reading improved.

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Mr. Hocker, Dublin Elementary School

Mr. Hocker, Dublin Elementary School

by TeacherLove on Friday Nov. 4th in Browse by State/City, Dublin, Dublin Elementary School, Virginia

Mr. Hocker was the fifth-grade teacher everybody wanted. He was the coolest man to walk the planet. He was excited to be there each day and made us excited, too.

I am currently 4 feet 10 inches tall, so I am, and always have been, really short. We got new desks that year in his class. I recall my feet dangling and feeling totally engulf by this desk. He took me around the whole school searching for a desk to fit me personally. We found it on the kindergarten hallway. It was old and wooden, but it was just for me.

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Mrs. Flouders, Oakmont Elementary School

Mrs. Flouders, Oakmont Elementary School

by TeacherLove on Wednesday Nov. 2nd in Browse by State/City, Havertown, Oakmont Elementary School, Pennsylvania

When I was in fifth grade, preparing to enter middle school, Mrs. Flounders pulled me aside. She said she was putting me in ”track one” next year. But that I made it ”by the skin of my teeth.” She told me she would be watching me all year and making sure that I was working up to my potential. Mrs. Flounders taught me the importance of student-teacher connections and the value of high expectations. I bring her lessons with me each day to work!

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Mrs. Holland, Pinar Elementary

Mrs. Holland, Pinar Elementary

by TeacherLove on Friday Oct. 7th in Florida, Orlando, Pinar Elementary

I had her in fifth grade. She made each of us feel like we were grown-up and past all of the silliness of childhood. She gave us big projects that required us to think beyond what we had been pushed to do before.

It was an election year that year, and I remember one of the projects was to learn about the issues of the election. It seems like we studied it for weeks before we had our own election on the official election day. We felt like we were so grown up.

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Mrs. Crowley, Blasdell Elementary

Mrs. Crowley, Blasdell Elementary

by TeacherLove on Friday Oct. 7th in Blasdell, Blasdell Elementary, Browse by State/City, New Yok

There is one teacher during my schools years that really stands out above the rest. My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Crowley, taught me a lot of things. I believe it was the year that really made me begin to respect, admire, and enjoy school. Mrs. Crowley taught me the love of writing. She made me love writing, to this day. I remember that she made it so interesting, so much fun, and made me WANT to write for the enjoyment of it, not because it was required. Now, it makes me wonder if it was her favorite subject to teach, and if she wrote for fun. I get some of my ideas to teach from what I remember learning from her.

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Sister Joan, St. Stephen’s School

Sister Joan, St. Stephen’s School

by TeacherLove on Thursday Oct. 6th in California, Monterey Park, St. Stephen’s School

When I was growing up in the Los Angeles area in the mid to late 70s, I was a big fan of all the local sports teams. I was surprised to find out that my fifth grade teacher was also a sports fan. What made it surprising was that my teacher was a nun. I didn’t think that nuns could be sports fans.

I found out that Sister Joan was a sports fan on the first day of school. She asked the class if anyone had a subscription to Sports Illustrated. Being the sports geek that I was, I responded that I had my own SI subscription. Looking back, that was probably a little strange for a ten year old. Sister Joan was asking because she wanted to borrow the weekly issues.

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Mrs. Kennington, Dixieland Elementary

Mrs. Kennington, Dixieland Elementary

by TeacherLove on Tuesday Sep. 27th in Dixieland Elementary, Madera

My favorite teacher was Mrs.Kennington. She taught fifth grade at a little country school near Madera,California — Dixieland Elementary. I remember she asked our class if we had ever eaten tapioca pudding and only two children raised their hands. The next day she brought boxes of tapioca pudding and enough milk to make tapioca pudding for our entire class. She was a wonderful teacher and I will never forget her.

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