Jenny
Hodgen - 6th Grade
*Teaching Experience:
~Echo Lake Elementary: 2007-
current
~Sunset Elementary: 1999-2007 - 6th grade . I was
fortunate to work with Ruth Nielsen for six years, and Julie
Fredrickson and Debbie Hubbell for three years.
*Education:
~Seattle Pacific University-recieved teaching
certificate
~Central Washington University-BS in Nutrition and Family Studies.
Worked at the Unversity of
Washington for six years in Nutrition
Research.
I feel lucky to have realized
that teaching is something that I truly enjoy doing. My job
is a huge part of my life as my personal and professional often
cross paths. My family and I live in Shoreline. My husband
Brian and I have three children ~ Colby who is in 6th grade, Hayley
who is in 5th grade, and Brady who is three. Life is busy
with soccer, basketball, baseball, and swimming, as well as walks
with the dogs and keeping connected with old friends.
     
What is a sixth grader anyway?
They are like fireworks on the 4th of July ~ fun, expensive,
dangerous, breathtakingly beautiful, explosive! They make you
O-O-O-hh and A-A-A-hhh. They are neatly packaged into a small to
large, deceptively simple container. They come in all shapes and
sizes. Each one carries its own hidden beauty. Some are much more
powerful than others and go off with a deafening boom! Others start
off as if they really have potential and they fizzle
out.
The
most wonderful part about fireworks is that they come only once a
year. Sixth graders come only once in a lifetime. You often get a
true sense of their beauty only if you gaze at them from afar. When
you are too close, the smoke nearly chokes you away.
Sixth graders and fireworks are a challenge to
those who work with them. They are often held responsible for
making or breaking the show. But, if placed correctly and handled
with loving care, they provide the most delightful and moving
display of beauty and power you will ever see!
~Jill Smith,
Missouri
Contact Mrs.
Hodgen: jenny.hodgen@shorelineschools.org - or -
206.361.4338
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