Meet your teacher

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="042785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kindergarten is the best!!!     Room 40 Web Site     Mr. McManus</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kindergarten is the best!!! Room 40 "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Meet your teacher</B>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Schedule"><U>Schedule</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nothing, nothing, and more nothing"><U>Nothing, nothing, and more nothing</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Upcoming events"><U>Upcoming events</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favorite web links"><U>Favorite web links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sight Words"><U>Sight Words</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Schedule"><U>Special Schedule</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="055c5410.png" border=0 width="197" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Meet your teacher</I></div> <div>      The day I began teaching in New Fairfield was not yesterday, but it certainly feels that way.  My career here began in 1978 and I had the opportunity to teach music for 18 years.  I have been loving the life I live in kindergarten for the past 10  years and it has given me 40 children to teach a day instead of 700 in one week!!  </div> <div>      </div> <div> Here are some educational highlights.........</div> <bR> <div>      Bachelor's Degree in Music, Keene State College. </div> <div>      Kodaly Certification from Boston Conservatory.</div> <div>      Advanced degree work in music from Hartt College of Music at the University of                                 Hartford, Boston Conservatory, CCSU.</div> <div>      Master's Degree in Reading, WSCU.</div> <div>      Columbia Writer's Project, summer 2004</div> <div>              </div> <div>        </div> </td> </tr></table></body>