Our poster for the graduates!
Ms. Manon's Bio
About Me
The 2025-2026 school year will be my 11th year teaching. I received a Bachelors Degree in Theater from Illinois State University. After working at Universal Studios Creative and EMI Music in Los Angeles, I returned to Chicago where I received my Masters in Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
After graduating, I worked at Pritzker Elementary teaching the gifted first grade class for 9 years. I also worked as the Gifted Coordinator for the school. I love teaching novels and writers' workshop as part of a balanced literacy program. This will be my second year teaching at Decatur Classical.
When I am not at work I love competing in trivia nights, watching any Chicago sports team, reading, attending comedy shows and hanging out with my handsome cat, Jake.
Posts
Pajama Day!
A series of photos of room 105 reading outside on a gorgeous Friday!
Backstage Bees!
Providing complements to their classmates' writing projects.
When the PA system in your room keeps beeping, you get to do Writers' Workshop in the library! (it's fixed now)
Coloring a picture of Persephone to celebrate spring!
We had a Friday Mystery Reader who brought activity sheets to go along with a book about Greek Mythology. Thank You, Mina!
Don't forget to order a Yearbook by April 20th!
Thank you so much for buying books for the classroom from our book fair wish list! The students shared ideas for books they like and you helped restock our library. Now when we Drop Everything And Read...we have more to choose from!
The days before Spring Break were fun. We got to have a little fun and did an escape room where students had to solve math puzzles to find secret code words.
- Name
- Elizabeth Manon
- Position
- 2nd Grade