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Katie Admire, Teacher

Katie lives in Dorsey with her husband and daughter. She attended St. Kevin's grade school as a child and then continued onto Marquette Catholic High School.  She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education in 2010.  She spent three years at St. Mary's in Edwardsville covering teacher leaves (third grade, P.E. and preschool).  She has been at Our Lady Queen of Peace, teaching first grade since 2013.  She has a passion for teaching and feels lucky to have the opportunity to teach in the catholic school environment.

Overview

Religion

Through the Sadlier religion curriculum, We Believe, the children learn about God’s love, being followers of Jesus, belonging to the church, and how to celebrate and live in our faith. They will learn our daily prayers and attend Mass weekly.

Language Arts/ Reading

In First Grade, we implement  the HMH Journeys curriculum, which covers grammar (i.e. nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, sentences), phonics (i.e. short/long vowels, blends, digraphs), vocabulary, writing, reading fluency (i.e. accuracy, phrasing, stressing, expression) and reading comprehension. We also work with weekly spelling words and sight words.

Math

OLQP utilizes the Saxon curriculum for math, incorporating manipulatives and the interactive white board regularly. The students will be engaged with the topics of number sense, addition, subtraction, fractions, money, patterns, shapes, time and date, linear measurement, sorting, graphing, probability, and developing skills and strategies for problem solving.

Social Studies

In the classroom, the first graders will improve their map and globe skills, chart and graph skills, citizenship skills and learn more about the world around them through the Harcourt Horizons curriculum.

Science

The Science Fusion curriculum for first grade is broken up into nature of science, life science, earth science and physical science.  Throughout the year the children will explore and experiment while discovering various topics.  They will also participate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) activities.