About Mrs. Durham

I am so excited for this year!  I hope your family is too!!

This will be my seventh year of teaching.  I started off my teaching career teaching 1st Grade, then went to Young Fives, and I am now in my favorite grade...Kindergarten!  I love teaching Kindergarten because every child is excited to learn and I love seeing all students learn to become readers (or better readers)!

I went to the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) for my undergraduate degree and Grand Valley for my Masters in Early Childhood.  I am currently back at Grand Valley working on a degree in Education Leadership.

I have been married for 2 years and my husband and I have 2 wonderful dogs, Vinny and Lou.  The students will get to hear lots of stories about my "boys" and Vinny might even get to stop in for a visit at some point!

Over the summer, my husband and I spent a lot of time traveling.  We visited Ireland and Scotland and a went to Maine and Boston.  We love to travel and visit new places!

I have also been busy training for the Chicago Marathon which is in October!  Here I am with my dad, brother, husband, and mom after the GR Half Marathon last October.

I also had the chance to run in the Grand Rapids Mud Run with some of the other great teachers from Knapp!  Here are Mrs. Jachim, Mrs. VanDyke before the run:

And here is my husband and I after the run:

I am always up for an adventure!  Luckily Kindergarten has a lot of adventures throughout the year!!

I am really looking forward to getting to know your child and your family this year!  We are going to have a great year!!