As the 2020-2021 school year gets underway, we’re continuing our Meet Us Monday Blog series to introduce you to our outstanding ILS teachers and staff. Check in each week to meet or better get to know one of our new or returning faculty members.

Today, we invite you go get to know our ILS 1st Grade Assistant Teacher, Miss Natalie Smith, with her recent “Meet Us Monday” interview.

Miss Smith has been at Immanuel for thee years, and works with Mrs. Parker in our 1st grade class.

What is your favorite thing about ILS?
I love reading to the children and the community at ILS.
What book are you currently reading?
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
What was your favorite thing you did this summer?
Spending time with family and friends, going on long walks, and having picnics by the water are just a few of my favorite things I did over the summer.
What is one place you would like to visit but have not yet been?
I would like to travel to either Greece or Australia.
What was your favorite subject/class when you were in school?
History and Science.
What was your favorite book as a child?
Madeline and The Boxcar Children were some of my favorite books.
What is your favorite scripture verse?
Ephesians 2:8-10
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”