001My name is Haylee Hunter. I teach third grade at Green Mountain Elementary When I started in kindergarten, I went here at Green Mountain. And then I graduated from Klahowya, then went to O.C., and then I went to Western and got my degree at Western. Before I was a teacher, I was working in pain management. One of the doctors that I used to work with was telling me how good I was with the little kids that we had that would come in. I've always kind of had that urge to be a teacher. I started back at O.C., you know, in my mid 20s and basically started all over, and I fell in love with it. It's so it was so much fun and from there and didn't stop In my almost nine years of teaching, I
002have only been here. My current teaching partner is Suzanne Smith. I have worked alongside her for a little over ten years. She was my mentor teacher when I was going through Western, and I did my student teaching with her. Without Mrs. Smith, I know I wouldn't have the routines I have. The passion that I have, the drive that I have, and just the overall desire to do well. And she has been hugely instrumental in that. Ms. Bower my first and second grade teacher, my third and fourth grade teacher was Miss Langhoff If there was a crowd of people, I feel like I would hear them the loudest cheering for me. They're part of the core of who I am as a teacher, and what practices I use as a teacher, because I know that they
003served me well as a child. And now I want to pass that on to this next generation of kids. And what's really awesome is this was my third grade classroom. It's really full circle here, where I was in third grade here, how I used to think the school was so big, and now just as an adult, it's just so different, but in a really special way. What an honor it is to just get to be in this room. At the school I taught at, in the classroom I was in, and be able to work alongside my former teachers and have my students have them as teachers, and my own children have them as teachers. You can't get much more full circle than that.