Welcome!
This year is going to be an exciting adventure for all of us in our learning community! Ms. Jess and Ms. Kirsten will be guiding the group together again this year. We will be working to expand knowledge as well as to work as a community of caring, supportive, and interesting members. We will be welcoming many new students into rooms 26 and 28 this year. While each of us have a set number of students on each of our rosters in an official capacity, we will treat our roughly 40 students as one classroom community. We will conduct our parent teacher conferences together so that we may better communicate your child’s needs and tendencies in each area.
*****Our main mode of communication will be our classroom blog, as well as email, and Remind App. Our Remind App class code is @foxandb. Please join as soon as possible by texting this code to 81010. We post a weekly newsletter with important news on our blog, generally on Fridays. Because we are functioning as a unit, we will send all emails with either teacher copied on the email. We ask that you do the same as well.
For those parents that do not know us, here are some brief bios on our teaching backgrounds:
My name is Kirsten Leske and I grew up in Wisconsin. I attended public schools as a child and furthered my education receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Upon graduation I moved to Georgia and began teaching Kindergarten. I completed my Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education at Kennesaw State University. I proceeded to teach Kindergarten in a traditional public school for twelve years. After the birth of my daughter my family decided to move to Savannah. Here in Savannah I found my love for Montessori. I received Montessori Primary training and began my Montessori experience at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School where I taught for four years. I have spent the past ten years teaching at Charles Ellis. During my time at Ellis I have completed my American Montessori Society certification for Lower and Upper Elementary as well as my gifted education certificate.
My name is Jessica Fry and I am from Pensacola, Florida. I moved to Savannah just over eight years ago with my husband and daughter and have enjoyed every minute of it. I love to cook, watch movies and read. I am a dog lover (Chewie is an australian shepherd, Mori is a shepherd/retriever mix) and a traveler. I received my degree from the University of West Florida in 2005 and began teaching in 2006 at a private Montessori school in Pensacola. Here, I received my Montessori training through the American Montessori Society (AMS) for the lower elementary program. In 2015, I began working at Ellis in the 4th and 5th grade classrooms. The following year, I was lucky enough to be back in a 1st-3rd grade classroom. I have received my Gifted certification and have enjoyed implementing all of my ideas. Please feel free to email me anytime with questions, comments, or concerns. Enjoy the rest of your summer! I look forward to meeting everyone.
My name is Jelena (Yellena) Pavlovic and I came to Savannah in 1992 after I graduated with a BFA degree in printmaking from ISU, Terre Haute In. I fell in love with the Montessori curriculum after my son became a kindergarten student at Charles Ellis. I went to Montessori training under the supervision of Sanford Jones, at the time, our Montessori “guru.” I worked at the Children’s House of Chandler hospital during my Montessori training and later became an assistant teacher at Charles Ellis. My path was long and interesting and after many years of being occupied by various other jobs, I returned to Charles Ellis as an assistant teacher to continue as a member of the Charles Ellis family. In my free time I like to do my art, read, watch movies, and play with my two cats. My husband and I also like going to my son’s gigs when he plays with different bands!
We look forward to getting to know all of our families. It is with great pleasure that we invite you to make your presence known in the classroom after the first several weeks of the normalization process. We welcome volunteers to come in and read, cook, and complete activities with the children. As the weeks progress, we will keep you posted on when the children will be ready to receive visitors to the classroom. Of course, we will wait until the SCCPSS has given us approval for visitors. At that time we encourage parents to come and enrich our classroom culture. (All volunteers must complete the Beacon screening process prior to spending time with the children.)
Sincerely, Kirsten Leske, Jessica Fry, and Jelena Pavlovic
Learning Supplies
Pencil Pouch (please no boxes due to space restrictions) to include:
colored pencils
markers
glue stick
Ticonderoga Pencils (12 pack at least)
pencil sharpener
scissors
Expo dry erase markers
Additional Materials Needed
notebook filler paper
3-3 prong plastic folders for keeping writing assignments
1 package of white or colored cardstock paper
2 composition books
graphing paper notebook Amazon Link
poster board (for research project displays, dioramas, etc.)
paper towels, tissue, sanitizer, handsoap (Choose 2 please.)
See you at Open House!
August 1, 2022, 4pm-6pm
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