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Faculty Fast Facts

Contact Information
716-435-4500
Bergman.sjsbatavia@gmail.com

Why a Catholic Education Matters
I have attended Catholic Schools from Kindergarten through college and have treasured all my experiences throughout the years. I am grateful to all of the role models I encountered and hope to "give back" and contribute as positively to help the children who are our future. To teach at St. Joseph  Schools provides me with the opportunity to share both my faith and my knowledge with each student. I am privileged to work with exceptional colleagues, parents and principal. Each are devoted to educating the "whole child."

Subject Area/Grade and Related Education
Spanish, K-8
B.A   Canisius College      
M.S  SUNY Buffalo State College  

St. Joseph School Advisor/Coordinator
Vacation Bible School Pre-K Teacher
Career Day Co-Chair
Academic Excellence Committee
Catholic Identity Committee

Local Community Involvement
St. Padre Pio Parish Children's Liturgy Planning Committee

HOLA~My goal for the school year is to make second language learning fun and useful for my students! With minds ripe for language learning, they quite naturally pick up on pronunciation of Spanish, from day one.

At the Kindergarten thru 2nd grade level: 
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spanish class has been singing about numbers, food, and family in kindergarten.We use familiar toys to make learning more concrete for the children. For instance, we used finger puppets/props to act out the Spanish version of  Goldilocks and theThree Bears. First graders have been practicing foods, weather phrases, and articles of clothing. They took home a practice card game for reinforcing weather vocabulary.  In second grade, the students have recently studied numbers, days of the week, and weather phrases. We created countdown "rip-off" calendars in Spanish that led up to New Year's Eve.  

At the 3rd thru 5th grade level:

Third graders  have delved into vocabulary for family members, professions, and places around the community. Fourth graders have explored lessons based on clothing, family, commuinity locations and workers. Fifth graders have worked hard  to learn vocabulary for clothing and meal-taking, plus have completed impressive poster projects based on the four seasons. It is exciting to see the "face-to-name" connections these intermediate students are making as they work more with written Spanish in addition to speaking it. They are eager to sing and  uninhibitedly volunteer to come up in front of the class to present their work or try speaking simulations.  

At the 6th thru 8th grade level:

Sixth graders have recently studied vocabulary for furniture and rooms of the house based on which they created interesting poster projects of their "dream houses".  They are growing better accustomed to using a Spanish textbook, and are currently learning to apply descriptive adjectives.  In Grade 7 Spanish,  the students have recently mastered time-telling, applying descriptive adjectives, and professions.  They have become quite adept at conjugating verbs and making sentences. Eighth grade Spanish students have branched out to conjugating irregular verbs,  translating, and writing about seasons, weather, and clothing. All of the junior high classes are assigned to make flashcards for their sets of vocabulary and would benefit from using them to review at home.