Welcome to 2nd Grade!

When you see the speaker icon on each page, click on it to listen and learn about your teacher!

B.A. in Elementary Education

B.A. in Psychology

2012

M.A. in Urban Education

2015

M.A. in Educational Leadership

2020

Ms. Soike drinks coffee every day!

Yummy pizza!

i like healthy foods, too!

i love tacos!

my mom

my dad

my students...

chris

My roommates

Reem
Zainab
Eve
Juliana
Hafsa
Sara
Zunaira
Jagoda
Angelin
Muhaimin
Vihaan
AJay
Mia Kelsey
Al-Fathih
Aryan
Nathan

Sofia
Taisiya
Adrian
Shubham
Tengis
Dishant
Shrey
Jesus
Brielle
Valentina
Omar
Arisha
Kate
Rhianne

i can't wait to meet you!

Ketty

Taylor

Kirsten

reading

cooking

exercising

exploring chicago

teaching and learning

Room 115

This is what your classroom at Apollo normally looks like. It may look a bit different when we go back to learning in the classroom instead of online.

Do you have a special place at home to do your online learning?

Get ready for online learning...

Find or create a special place for online learning that is quiet and free from distractions so that you can focus.

Keep your materials in a safe place and have them ready to go for each lesson. For example, for math you might need a whiteboard and dry erase marker.

Be prepared to learn with a charged Chromebook. Headphones or earbuds might be helpful if there is a lot of background noise.

First days of school

During the first days of school, we will spend a lot of time getting to know each other and building our classroom community.

We will practice using different learning apps and talk about how to use our Bulldog Be's when we are learning together using Google Meets.

I can't wait for the school year to start. I look forward to meeting everyone soon!