Welcome to 4th Grade!  We, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Esposito and Miss Werth, are very excited to be your teachers for the 2011-2012 school year.  Mrs. Ellis is the MathTeacher, Mrs. Esposito is the Language Arts Teacher, and Miss Werth is the Science & Social Studies Teacher.  We look forward to incorporating writing into our core subjects.  We are committed to keeping children first as stated by Ambrose Brazelton:

Keeping Children First

My concern is not what's best for me,
Nor what is in fashion or style.
We pledge to do with conscience free
what's best for every child.
Even though problems, programs or
people distract with eyes on the money prize,
We commit ourselves and every action 
in keeping children first. 

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford

You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are endless. ~Mother Theresa

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~Patricia Clafford