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Biography
Hello Families!
My name is Kevin Roper. This will be my ninth year of teaching and my fifth year at Decatur. Through those nine years, I have taught first, third, fourth, and fifth grade. I am originally from Northwest Indiana. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia. I am happy to be apart of our SEED team here at Decatur and trained through the GUST foundation. I am currently pursuing my ESL endorsement. When I am not teaching you can find me walking with my dog, reading, playing volleyball or near the lake. I am excited to be teaching 3rd grade this year. I look forward to another great year!
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Our third grade students have been analyzing maps of Chicago, Illinois, The United States and the World. They have been tasked with using a compass to locate different neighborhoods, states, and countries.
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5th Grade word analysis
Using Hello Universe, fifth grade created cards of unknown words
The groups were to find their designated word in the text, use context clues to discover it's meaning and then create a skit for the word.
3rd grade teamed up to research tectonic plates and the explore the research scientists have collected to create the Tectonic Plate Theory.
5th grade working on analyzing conflict in "Hello Universe"
Students annotated each chapter, then created a conflict comic with illustrations and labels.
3rd grade built and explored simple machines to close out our inventors unit.
3rd grade creating inventionsStudents had to move a ping pong ball around the table. Each classmate needed to move it but could not touch the ball with their hands.
Dolphin Dash with our third grade Toads!
Students in grade five, worked together to analyze experiments and their outcomes
Fifth grade has been working on writing about character traits, today they analyzed and defended pieces of writing to build knowledge of essay structure.
Third Grade began our inventors unit in ELA, students were tasked with collaboration to invent a device to move a ping pong ball and then create it.
Fifth Grade taking the time to read with Principal Negron about 9/11
- Name
- Kevin Roper
- Position
- 3rd|ELA and Social Studies