NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — January’s Allen Samuels CDJR Teacher of the Month is Diana Harmony. She is a first grade teacher at Union Valley Elementary School.
Harmony has spent the last 10 years at Union Valley.
"When they are young, they still have this love for learning," Harmony said. "They love finding out new things. Even the smallest new thing that they find out is super exciting to them."
Harmony has been in lower elementary her entire time in the Buhler district, doing kindergarten and intensive reading teaching at different times before ending up in first grade in recent years. Harmony said there is a little bit of difference between kindergarten and first grade teaching.
"By first grade, there's more curriculum stuff academically that they need to learn," Harmony said. "They have the social skills a little bit better in place, but we still have to teach that part."
They got a chance to work on some of those social skills as Harmony's class received pizza from Pizza Hut and ice cream from Braums as part of her award.
"The rest of the stuff, the reading and the writing and the math, that, we can get to them, if they have those other social skills and those soft skills already in place," Harmony said.
Harmony was nominated by Gayla Stallknecht, “Diana is very caring and always wants the best for each and everyone of her students!”
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