Miss Moore, the 7th grade teacher, has been teaching for 25 years and 17 of them she taught here at St. Joseph School. She has taught and was principal here at St. Joseph School since 1991. She says she first wanted to be a teacher when she was eight years old. Miss Moore teaches Religion and Social Studies, but her favorite subject is Religion. This year she has the following number of students: 6th-22, 7th-14, and 8th- 20. In her free time she enjoys visiting lighthouses, playing tennis, planting flowers in her garden, and traveling.
    Miss Moore chose to teach at St. Joseph school because of its strong Catholic identity. She picked her class saint, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, because this saint had a great love of the Blessed Sacrament and that's what she hopes to instill in the students.
    Miss Moore did not attend St. Joseph School, but her fondest memories of school were singing in the school choir, being on student council and organizing  events for the school, being in the drama club and performing speeches, being in the school plays, participating in sports- especially softball, and being confirmed in 8th grade.
    At the end of this year Miss Moore is looking forward to sharing with the students about her trip to Lourdes, France. This is the 150th anniversary of Our Blessed Mother appearing to St. Bernadette!
    This year, in the fall, she took her class to see a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the "Nina" displayed in Peoria. They also have  plans to go to the Federal Courthouse and participate in a mock trial. The class is  planning on visiting Dr. Honans' office and learning about the medical field, visiting and working at the soup kitchen, visiting the cathedral in Peoria and other area Catholic churches, and going to the Everett Dirksen library. A visit second semester is planned for Caterpillar. It is not all work and no play for these busy 7th graders, because during Christmas season they went caroling to several of our St. Joseph Parish members homes. These were members of our homebound in the parish.
    Her class this year has been divided up into four groups and each group has needed to create a culture. They had to pick a time period for their culture, migration patterns, language, habitats, logo, name, flag, etc. They then created a museum display about their culture and presented it to the class during  November. Their group names were: People of the Trees: Age of Discovery & Early Colonization, Buro: Age of Renaissance, The Knights: Medieval Times, and Jayshi: Age of The Future.  During the second semester the 7th grade class has been working on a project where each student has selected a specific country. An International Fair is being planned for the class and each student will participate with their country. A PowerPoint will be created on their individual country.
   
The 7th Grade was able to have an extra free dress day for their donation to St. Vincent de Paul  Food Drive winning the competition held recently by the school.