St. Paul’s Elementary Grades

1st Grade – Mrs. Bredendick

This year is my 43rd year of teaching. (23rd year of teaching 1st grade). I have taught grades preschool through high school minus grades 5-8. Those grades have always been my husband’s grades. My husband and I met in high school and got married after graduation from MLC. We are only 8 days apart in age. When we graduated from collage; we were assigned to teach at a school in North Hollywood, CA. This was a 2 room school. I had grades K-4 in my room and my husband was the principal and taught grades 5-8 in another room. We taught at that school for 18 years. After the 18 years; we accepted new calls to a school a short distance away. We were still in North Hollywood. At our new school I taught 2 grade for 17 years. After spending 35 years in CA, we then moved to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. We were only there 2 years. Our first year there, I taught 3 &4 grades in Madison, WI. Our 2nd year there I taught Foods and Child Development at Lakeside Lutheran High School in Lake Mills, WI. For the past 3 years, I taught 1st grade at Crown of Life in West St. Paul, MN.

I grew up in Wisconsin (Neenah). I went to Martin Luther for grade school and Fox Valley Lutheran High School. I am the oldest of 4. I have 3 younger brothers. Besides my husband, I have 2 adult daughters , a son-in-law and 2 grandchildren.