Miss McGuire has been at TLA five years, and she specializes in teaching our youngest students. This year she has eleven Kindergarten through third graders; her hands are full! She is especially adept at teaching beginning reading and math skills, and she intuitively understands how students learn and what they enjoy doing to learn. Her gifts mesh so well with our classical model. Miss McGuire’s favorite thing about teaching at TLA is “living daily with the greatest youngsters in the world!” She especially enjoys teaching science and sharing the Scriptures with her charges. She appreciates parents and grandparents who join in making the classroom run smoothly. One grandparent is Mrs. Ann Marie Wilkes, a retired Special Education teacher who volunteers two days a week in the classroom. Each semester, education students from Marywood University are assigned placements in Miss McGuire’s classroom, and she enjoys their energy and ideas. Miss McGuire’s students describe her as kind, active, fun, loving, and, as a third grader quipped, “a teacher of order”. Her students love to learn, and they expressed joy in learning how to read, write, and master addition and multiplication facts; to learn about penguins and sea creatures; and, of course, “she lets us play outside!” One Kindergartner enthused, “I like that she likes to read to us!”