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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, December 4, 2016

Week 16

Weekly Greetings!

As I mentioned last week, Tim Lorenzini from the Tetlin Refuge was in on Monday to help get the class focused on a contribution to the Migratory Bird calendar for 2018. After the students returned from PE, and the wonderful time practicing NYO techniques that day, they were ready to research the bird each had chosen to study. For those that had been struggling with picking a bird, Tim had numerous books to look at and he was able to help everyone find a bird that interested them. Using the internet, the students read and took notes on characteristics and habitat, in addition to listening to the bird's song. This week, they will finish a literature contribution, and start a picture in Art on Wednesday.
Last week in Science, we started seriously looking at the role of living organisms in the balance of recycling nature. Students worked in pairs to observe and describe Pill Bugs on one day, then Millipedes on another day.
They seemed to enjoy the Millipedes more, as they were far more active.
This week, the class will observe aquatic organisms and compare the snails and fish we have in our room.

Please remember that we have a fundraiser movie night planned on Friday and I will send home a final flyer later this week.

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown
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