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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.

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Week 27

Weekly Greetings!

Another four-day week flew by and I have a number of highlights to share. We started the week with an investigation in Math on creating and taking surveys that tied into the last investigation about information that can be graphed. The students created a survey about the favorite juice of our class. After all the tallies were made, we found that apple is liked the most.
The next day was Valentine's Day and we shared cards, goodies, graphed candy hearts, and did a class word search. When sorting and graphing the hearts, we found that there were very few white hearts, while pink and yellow were the most common color in two bags.
On Wednesday we went to the Homecoming Assembly and the class was full of school spirit. They also enjoyed watching the lip sink competition and the Wolverine mascot dance.  For the middle school and high school groups, there were other activities that we all had fun watching.
This week we will continue to work on the Science Fair projects and display boards. I am sure there will be some tired students after all the excitement of the basketball tournament, but we will press on with our regular rigor. Also, thank you to all the parents that helped with the gate!

Have a great week!

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown
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