Kollmann

Meet Mrs. Laurie Kollmann

 Third Grade

Mrs. Kollman has been teaching at St. Matthew’s since 2001, second and third grade. She graduated from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota with a major in Special Education and a minor in Early Childhood.  She continued to take masters classes in counseling and special education, and also earned a degree in Elementary Education from Great Falls University.  Prior to St. Matthew’s, her career experience included teaching for five years emotionally disturbed children in a private residential treatment in South Dakota, running a daycare for five years in Billings, and teaching preschool in Kalispell.  She also was Religious Education coordinator K-6 at Risen Christ for 10 years.

Mrs. Kollman enjoys many sports including downhill and water skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, camping, golf, swimming, hockey, fishing, gardening and “anything I can do in the sun.”  She also loves spending time with her girls just chatting.  Prayer is a very important part of her life, and one of her favorite 3rd grade activities is to present stations of the cross in a dark gym behind a screen.

Mrs. Kollman is a teacher because “I  love the energy each child gives me.  I enjoy watching children learn and gain emotional, academic, and social skills. ”   In fact the best part of her day is when the children walk in first thing in the morning.  ”I forget everything else and my students become #1 in my life.  They are such a joy and every day is new and challenging.”

There are a lot of things Mrs. Kollman loves about St. Matthew’s School, including “each and every child, the families, the wonderful loving staff and PRAYER.”