Nine out of 12 months in the year, teachers at LHS have to work five days a week, doing everything they can to teach their students all they need to know. They spend the majority of their time in the classroom preparing, grading and giving lectures. But this job does not last the full year like most jobs do. Teachers get a break of almost three months every summer when they can forget about their job and spend time with family and doing activities they enjoy.
Questions:
1. Where did you travel to?
2. What are your favorite activities
to do?
3. Did you do anything unique?
Teacher’s summers
Oskar- Groen visited Greece over the summer. (Used with permission by Kristi Oskar-Groen)
Kristi Oskar-Groen
1. “Greece, Colorado and Oregon.”
2. “Travel, motorcycle and swim.”
3. “Greek island tour.”
Emily Anderson, Math teacher, was married over the summer. (Used with permission by Emily Anderson)
Emily Anderson
1. “Grand Marais, Minnesota and Playa del Carmen, Mexico.”
2. “Anything with my daughter Annie, [including] Catfish Bay water ski shows, Canaries games, plays at McKennan Park, reading, visiting the library and traveling to Minnesota to visit family.”
3. “I got married!!!!”
Bjerke visited Yellowstone with her family. (Used with permission by Tanya Bjerke)
Tanya Bjerke
1. “Grand Tetons and Yellowstone [for the first time]! It was SUCH a long drive, but so worth it! I also got to take my daughter to Omaha for her first concert as well.”
2. “Garden and read outside with a good cup of coffee in the mornings.”
3. “Nothing terribly unique.”
Sara Klawonn visited Oregon with family over the summer. (Used with permission by Sara Klawonn)
Sara Klawonn
1. “I spent a week in San Diego at an AP conference and nine days in Oregon on a family vacation.”
2. “Golf, travel, read and hang out with friends.”
3. “This summer, I went crabbing on the coast of Oregon. We caught, cleaned and ate several Dungeness crab. We also visited the smallest park in the world, [which is] Mill End Park in Portland, Oregon.”
French teacher, Heather Coombs brought LHS French students to France. (Used with permission by Heather Coombs)
Heather Coombs
1. “France, the Black Hills and Colorado.”
2. “I like traveling and taking students to France, camping and spending time with family.”
3. “I had front-row access to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and met the best baguette baker of Paris, who made bread for the French president.”
Art teacher Sarah Winterscheidt visited Arizona, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Cabo, Mexico. (Used with permission by Sarah Winterscheidt)
Sarah Winterscheidt
1. “Arizona, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Cabo, Mexico.”
2. “I love playing with the grands, biking, [going to] any live music venue, more biking and watching the garden grow.”
3. “I went snorkeling in the Gulf of California.”