Hi, I'm Mrs. Graffis. I began teaching at LaSalle School in 1996. I graduated from Western Illinois University in 1995, and I did my student teaching here at LaSalle School. I graduated from St. Xavier in May of 2001 with a master's in Teaching and Leadership. I taught one year in Pekin in an at-risk preschool program before coming to LaSalle School to teach second grade. After teaching second grade for six years, I moved to kindergarten. After six years of teaching kindergarten I moved to first grade and this is my third year in first.