Hi, I'm so glad you will be in my class this year. I love reading and writing and helping students learn how to better communicate. You have ideas, feelings, thoughts and values that you want to share with the world. One way to share will often be written or verbal communication. In this class, we learn to dig deep into what an author is sharing with us and then we share our thoughts with others and grow with that new understanding.

The best thing you can do to learn and grow into the person you want to be is read and explore others ideas. By learning what others went through and how they feel, you can learn to listen, value and find significance in them as a person as well as yourself.

Note to parents: We used to learn language arts mainly through books, but now digital information is often the media used to find information, to learn how to, or to enjoy a story. We will be using videos, internet articles, PDFs, and books both paper and audio this year.