jolmstead | Noble Academy // Minnesota Hmong Charter School in Minneapolis, Minnesota

My Recent Blogs

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 7:47am

Its testing season!! We have some assessments coming up in April and May. The dates will be listed on the Noble Website but they are listed below as well: MCA Reading - April 23-25 MCA Math - April 29- May 10 MCA Science - May 13 - 17 NWEA Reading, Math, Science, Language - May 10 - June 6 Our students need to have Study Island completed before they take their respective MCA tests! Many of our students are very close to reaching that goal! May 17th will also be an important...

Important Dates Coming Up!

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 7:47am

Notice About Report Cards (ILP's)

Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 8:57am

Completed Trimester 1 Individual Learning Plans (ILP's) will be sent home on December 19th in your student's Yellow Wedenesday Folders.

Trimester 1 is coming to an end

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 9:04am

With Thanksgiving Break and the end of Tri-I, it has been a very busy couple of weeks. We have finished up our ELA unit on Summarizing and Main Ideas and are moving on to Questioning. We are continuing our study of European Explorers and the 13 Original Colonies in Social Studies. All 5th graders will get a chance to show how much they've learned this Trimester in both Math and Reading through their first benchmark assessment. I am so confident in them! As Tri-I comes to an end, parents...

This week

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 7:11am

It was so nice to see everyone at conferences! Thank you to those of you who stopped by! Our new classes are in full swing! The Smarites and the Siamangs are busy learning about Summarizing and Paraphrasing in Literacy. In Social Studies we are wrapping up our Election Unit. Less than two weeks to go! On election day, we will be holding our own classroom election, voting as the electoral college, to see which presidential candidate would win in our classroom. It will really be an...

Johanna Olmstead

Grade or Subject Teaching: 5th Grade

Number of Years in Teaching: 1

Why I am Teaching as a Profession/Career:

I have always been a learner, someone who loves to discover new things. This has been a driving factor in many parts of my life and it is also why I chose to become a teacher. I hope to instill that desire in my students, to help them discover one thing that they want to dig deeper and deeper in. My goal as a teacher is to help my students find that one interest that really opens their world to a life time of learning.

What Contribution(s) He/She Brings to Noble to Make it a Great Organization:

Before coming to Noble, I served with Minnesota Reading Corps working as an Elementary Literacy Tutor in the Minneapolis Public Schools. This experience gave me a great understanding of Literacy and the acqusition of Literary Skills. I am also someone who is very innovative. I enjoy the challenge of being given little and turning into something great.

Interesting Facts [Hobbies, Favorite Vacation Spot(s), Family, ect.]:

I am a traveler. I love visiting a variety of places and really getting to know the essence of the place. I enjoy nature and being completely encompassed by nature. I love to hike, bike, kayak, camp, snowshoe and snowboard, mostly because those are things that are done outdoors. You will see elements of this in my teaching as I love encorporarting some of my passions into my lessons.