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My journey with the Alaska Gateway School District began in the fall of 2012. For the first two years, I was teaching the kindergarten through 2nd grade groups in Tetlin. For the next two years, I taught the same ages at another village school in Northway. In the fall of 2016, I transferred to Tok School to teach 4th grade for two years. This year I requested the third grade, as I always enjoy taking on a new grade level of students. Before moving to Tok, my background consisted of four years living in Botswana, Africa, with my husband where I taught mostly English as second language learners in grades kindergarten through fourth. Previously, we were long time Alaska residents. Most of our years in Alaska were spent living in the interior bush community of Galena, where I taught an alternative program for teens, 7th and 8th grades, Title 1 reading, and kindergarten. For a number of years before obtaining my teacher certificate, I was part of the classified support staff in addition to serving on the local school board. It has been great to be back in Alaska, and Tok has been a good fit for us.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Week 2

Weekly Greetings!

Wow, what a great first week we had in 4th grade! This truly is a fabulous group of students!

I am sorry to say, I am only able to post one picture from some of the pictures I took of group activities last week on this blog due to either permission issues or the paperwork has not been returned. There was a lot of information sent home last week from the district, Tok School, and myself and I realized it takes busy people some time to go through it all. So, hopefully I can post more pictures next week. I will also know who else may not want pictures on the blog. The blog is really just another method for you to see what your child is doing in school in case a parent letter does not get home to you.In my parent letter to go home I will add some pictures that I will not be able to post, but they will not be in color and a limit amount for printing purposes.

The one picture I can post below shows how in small groups the students worked to establish classroom rules. It was wonderful to see how well they cooperated together and the ideas they generated were perfect!
 

This week we will continue to work on the foundation for a solid classroom community and further define routine expectations. It all really ties into our Six Keys Book project, and we will really considerate on how the keys will help to make a successful year for them all. 

During reading last week, we focused on comprehension skills and independent reading guidelines. This week we will start Unit 1 of the Treasure curriculum. I am sending home a spelling list that they will practice in class this week. Please have them practice reading each word, writing each word, and spelling each word out loud. Next week I will start sending home a small amount of enrichment homework along with the spelling list from their reading program. 

Last week in Math, students reviewed Math vocabulary in addition to other review concepts. For fun, we made a real and picture graph of the class to see the amount of girls verses boys in the class. I will only post the picture graph here on the blog, but in the parent letter you will see both the real and picture graph. This week in Math, we will continue to do review work with a focus on 3 digit numbers and place value.
 
 Our afternoon Science will be limited this week due to the Cross Country Meet on Monday and a large block of Art time with Shauna Lee on Wednesday. I am sending home information about her Art Club that starts next week. Though we will only have one day of Science, we will continue with a short unit on healthy habits and check the potatoes that the students all handled last week, first with dirty hands and then handling another potato with clean hands. The focus will be the importance of washing hands to remove germs.
The class will also have to finalize the fund raising ideas this week. We may just need to start with a bake sale, instead of trying to combine it with a car wash as there are only three adult family members that have said they would help at this point. For a car wash, we would need more support.

In closing, please remember that next Monday is Labor Day and there will not be any school. 

Have an awesome week!

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown
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