Welcome to Kindergarten

     Hello! My name is Ms. Allen and I am the KA teacher at St. Ignatius for the 2021-2022 school year. I am a proud 2021 graduate of West Chester University, where I got my Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and Theater Arts. During my studies, I was a part-time PreK-3 teacher for 4 years. I taught PreK full time from Spring 2020-Fall 2020 at The Learning Experience Doylestown. Right after I graduated, I accepted a long term Kindergarten substitute at Brookwood elementary School in Bristol, PA until the end of their school year. I have already spent a lot of my time in a classroom but I am so excited to spend my first full year teaching experience at St. Ignatius!

                                       

My philosophy is to involve as much positive open communication with my students as I can. This is beneficial because it changes attitudes and behaviors, improves self-esteem, and delivers key messages efficiently.  I also believe giving consistent positive feedback is important. When giving positive feedback it encourages students to do their best because it is noticed by myself when they do. Our class will be a community. Classroom community is important because it helps define the teacher-student relationship. Having a caring and open enviroment helps open up communication between the students and the teacher. Also, since I love music and dance, I plan on incorporating both of those in any way I can within the classroom! This includes playing music while they work and creating songs/dances for various projects.

Monday- Art
Tuesday- STEM
Wednesday- Spanish
Thursday- Spanish
Friday- PE & Music