Kim Orbeck
Fifth Grade Teacher
Topics students learn in your class:
• Colonization of America, American government, map skills
• Ecosystems and the food web, stars and the solar system, earth's systems, chemical reactions and properties of matter
• Multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimals, fractions, graphing and data
• The writing process / novel studies
• God as our Father, Redeemer and Sanctifier
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Special projects or activities students do in your class:
• Kindergarten buddies
• Serving at Mass
• President reports
• Saints Alive
• Readers Theatres
• Easter Candles
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Hobbies:
• Volleyball
• Spending time with family
• Gardening
• Farm life
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Family:
Husband Kevin, children: Katherine, Jack and Samuel. We live on a dairy farm west of St. Martin.
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Employment History:
I taught for four years at Sacred Heart School in Freeport and 28 years at Holy Family School in Albany.
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