Mrs. Janet M. Kuyoth

Bachelor of Science degree
University of WI-Stevens Point: Intermediate-Upper Elementary Education
Advanced Religious Certificate from the Diocese of La Crosse
Teacher at St. Paul School for 27 years

My first teaching job was in third grade at Madison Elementary School in Marshfield for two years. I also taught first, second, and third grade Math part time at St. Joseph School in Stratford for three years. I am in my twenty-seventh year teaching at St. Paul School, with most of the years being a third grade teacher.

I am a “hands on” teacher who likes to have the children experience learning through as much “active learning” as possible. In the third grade Social Studies book, From Sea to Shining Sea, we learn about Native Americans and make salt-flour dough dioramas of the villages. I also teach the students about the Ojibwe Native Americans at Lac du Flambeau and make porcupine bead necklaces. We take a field trip to Lac du Flambeau visiting a tribal fishery, the George W. Brown Museum, and Waswagoning, a recreated Ojibwe village. In studying the Westward Movement, we make covered wagons and learn frontier songs. Our Math class usually does practice problems on our dry marker boards with dry marker pens. Spring time finds our window sill a garden of bush bean plants, started out in clear plastic containers, paper toweling, water, and bean seeds. We stake up the stems and have seen the plants blossom and produce beans. This year the third graders are experiencing photography with a religious theme of “Here is God, God is Here.” The students share disposable cameras and take pictures of people, places, or things where they see God. The students may share their ideas as to a caption of how they see God in that picture. Each student has an album to keep their photos and will be taken home at the end of the school year for happy memories.

With all this experimentation in my classroom, my professional goal leans toward the sciences as I'm teaching fourth grade science to third and fourth graders. My goal is to improve my knowledge and skills in understanding and implementing the fourth grade science text and supportive materials in order to help meet the diverse learning needs of the third and fourth grade students in my class.