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Hi, my name is Susan Schwaner and I LOVE teaching!! This is my 17th year of teaching - ALL at Bonne Ecole. I taught First Grade for 5 years and then began teaching Transitional First. I've taught T-1 for 11 years. Now, this year (as BEE will not be having a T-1 class) I am fortunate to be given the assignment to teach 1st grade again! - I know where the students are coming from (the skills they know), where they are going (skills they need to know) and what to do if they are "in between!" It is a blessing to come full circle! And best of all...I am "looping" with my last year's T-1'ers! I get to teach my wonderful class from last year, with the addition of some new faces from Kdg., and we will work hard in 1st grade together. This will be such a wonderful year as we already have a fantastic community of friends who are very loving and kind and who will open their hearts to our new friends. I've lived in Slidell all of my life. I went to school at Florida Avenue Elementary, Slidell Jr. High and Slidell High School. I received my BA in Education from Southeastern Louisiana Univ. (I went back to school for education after working as a legal secretary in N.O. for 7 years.) I have been married to my high school sweetheart, Scott, for 23 years and together we have 3 children, all of whom went to Bonne Ecole, too! (K-5/6) Our oldest son, Nicholas (Nick), is 21 years old and just finished his junior year at the Univ. of New Orleans. He is majoring in business mgmt. He received an athletic scholarship and plays baseball for the UNO Privateers. He has been chosen to be a team captain again this coming year! (This is where my husband went to college and played baseball on a baseball scholarship, too.) This summer Nick was drafted to the Major Leagues by the San Francisco Giants. We are soooo excited that he reached his goal! (He has worked so hard and dreamed so BIG!) [Not sure yet if he will decide to finish out his senior year of college or sign in August to go straight into professional baseball.] - We are HUGE baseball fans!!! Tara, our middle child, is 18 years old and just graduated from Slidell High (She is ranked no. 22 out of 311 - top 6%! I'm so proud!!!). Yeah, Class of 2009! She completed gifted classes, talented art classes and the rigorous "regent core" college preparatory classes as well as played on the high school's soccer and tennis teams. She plans to attend the Univ. of Southern Mississippi where she received an academic scholarship and will study something in sports/sciences. Taylor, our youngest child, is 13 years old and is going into 8th grade at Slidell Jr. High. He, too, plays baseball and is on a summer traveling team, as well as SHS's summer Metro team. (This is a 9th grade team where he plays up an age level.) We have a dog named Toby (a Maltese) who is 5 years old. He is small, white, fluffy and cute! I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters and 2 sets of parents. (My parents divorced (and then remarried) when I was 6 years old.) I have a grandmother who is 102 years old living in Slidell! And, my mom, who lives in Pearlington, MS., finally moved out of her FEMA "cottage" this spring and into her rebuilt house. After 4 years, it is so good to see her spirits UP - she is "home" again! Along with working at our own businesses, SWIM TIME POOL SERVICE & SUPPLY and JUMPING BEAN (inflatables), my husband is a baseball coach. Our favorite things to do as a family are: going to baseball games (of course!), vacationing at the beach, hanging out/barbequing/boiling crawfish with family and friends at our house, and traveling in the summer - many tournaments/baseball games to attend!! We go to Gulf Shores, AL every summer with friends and recently we've been to Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for a family vacation. (We went to visit our son, Nick, who was at the time playing in the Cal Ripken, Jr./Orioles summer baseball league.) My favorite part of that trip was, of course, visiting Nick and spending time together as a family, but also touring Washington, D.C. I got to see all the historic places and the White House where President George Bush was living and working at the time:). We also went to Disney World (Taylor played in a baseball tournament at Disney's Wide World of Sports.) My favorite park was MGM Studios where I rode the "Tower of Terror!" - FUN!!) Last summer we moved into a new house, Tara went to Italy and Greece with a tour group (Her favorite part was touring Pompeii and the cruising on a ship around the Grecian Isles.), Nick went to play baseball in a collegiate league in McKinney, TX (His team won the championship title!!), and Taylor went to Pensacola, FL to play in a baseball tournament. And I don't want to forget that I and some teachers/family members took a cruise to Cozumel, Mexico this past April. I liked it a lot. Mrs. Cheryl Petty (BEE 1st grade teacher) was my "cabin mate." My favortie part of the trip was going into Cozumel and riding the Segways through town to get to the beach where we did some snorkeling. FUN, FUN, FUN! This summer was a lot more calm and relaxing - relatively speaking!!! (hot, too!) I got some "to-do" things checked off my list, hung out at our pool/BB- Q/boiled crawfish, shrimp and crabs, sent Nick off to play baseball in Chatam, MA (the elite Cape Cod league), had surgery, went to Taylor's baseball games (for 2 teams) and helped Tara get ready for college. There's always a bit of "MADDNESS" during the summers at the Schwaner household!!!!

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