Hello and welcome to sixth grade!

I am Mrs. Downs and I will be the Language Arts teacher in sixth grade. I am so incredibly excited to work with all of you this year; I know it is going to be a great time. This is my fourth year working with all of the amazing students at Wells Junior High school. Before that, I had the opportunity to spend four years teaching at Massabesic Middle School.

My husband, Tim, and I have been married for four years. My daughter, Eleanor, just turned four in August. She is a whole bundle of crazy and loves coming to visit Wells Junior High. She especially loved joining in on our Zoom meetings in the past few years. If we are virtual again at some point, I am sure you will all get to meet her! My son, Teddy is due to be born on July 2nd. He is going to be the first boy in our family out of 7 different grandkids! I'll have some great pictures to show you all when school starts.

We love camping and four wheeling. If we could spend our whole summer outside, you wouldn't see us again until September! In the winter we love to go snowmobiling to keep ourselves outside. I am the perfect example of someone who loves something even if they aren't really good at it! I think I have fallen more times than I haven't, especially snowmobiling. I definitely learned the hard way that you can't turn out on the lake without tipping over!

As well as our human family, we have a crazy dog, Maya, two cats, Louise and Elvira, and a whole flock of chickens. In fact, I think we may just have gone past the 3 dozen mark. There is always something going on in our house it seems like!