Goals

When students enter seventh grade, they will solidify the skills they have mastered in the previous year. Once this is accomplished, the students will move on to a higher level of learning where they will become prepared for eighth grade and high school.

Curriculum

Our curriculum includes Religion, Science, Mathematics, Geography, History and Literature in addition to Vocabulary, Spanish, Art, Physical Education, Music, Library and Computers - where the students utilize our technology partnership with the University of Richmond and Boston University as well as our School Technology Program, which makes it a fully integrated technology based curriculum. Within the classroom I am able to create PowerPoint presentations, web quests, and connect with educational internet sites, all of which can be projected to the television for students to observe. I also actively use the overhead projector, which makes me aware of every movement that the children make and allows for classroom discussions while writing or using pre-made projector sheets. All middle school teachers work together to help students progress and mature into young adults. We follow the Archdiocesan Curriculum Guidelines and use different manipulatives to enhance the students' learning and adhere to each student's learning style.

Significant Projects

In Geography the students do a number of small projects including brochures, models and country research.

In Literature the students spend the third quarter on a project called, "the Multi-Genre Literary Research Project." Here the students will choose a person, place or event that they would like to become more knowledgeable about. Every week the students will learn a different genre of writing and apply it to the chosen topic. The students will learn to write from different perspectives and include all of their creative senses. They will create a multi-genre presentation for the class and later for their parents. On "Parents' Night" the students will fully take on the personality and identity of their topic by dressing up! It's a big event!

Megan Pfeiffer

 Salve Regina University
B.S. Education, Minor:  Special Education
Rhode Island Certification in Elementary Education
Currently Pursuing Connecticut Certification

Megan feels blessed with the opportunity to teach at Saint Ann School.  This is her second year at Saint Ann’s. 

A graduate of Saint Mary School, also in Milford, Megan continued her Catholic education at Saint Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut.  Feeling called to become a teacher, she studied Elementary Education and Special Education at Salve Regina University, a Catholic university in Newport, Rhode Island.  While at SRU, Megan did her student teaching in a third grade classroom as well as building experience in grades one, four, five and six.  For the past six years she has worked with children from ages four to fourteen at The Hide Out Daycare, After School Program, and Summer Camp in Shelton. 

Megan loves to read, exercise and make up catchy songs for her math classes to sing! 

She believes that all children have the ability and the right to learn in a school and classroom full of respect, kindness, generosity and understanding.  Her philosophy of education includes a strong focus on communication between home and school. Students should have the opportunity to learn and practice their faith and to incorporate these values, morals, and ethics into the classroom and expand this way of life into the community.