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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, March 25, 2017

Week 32

 Weekly Greetings!

It was really great see everyone of the students this week and hear about their Spring Break. Of course the highlight of our week was the trip to Frank Etsminger's home to see his bird collection.  We were fortunate to have Ranger Stephen Rudolph join us for the half day-trip and, as I mentioned before, we hope to do a follow up to this trip to view the returning waterfowl later this spring with Tetlin Refuge personnel.
 When we got to the Etsminger home, Frank greeted the class and introduced himself. Then we followed him into a display room where the class got a tour and could ask questions about all the mounted wildlife. Frank has collected almost every type of duck that migrates to Alaska, in addition to numerous other types of birds.
 There was another display room attached to the workshop that Frank does taxidermy, and the students were amazed at the diversity of birds surrounding them. They also got to see the shop and how taxidermy work is done.
This week we will start the district writing assessment and hopefully complete it before starting the state testing next week. In reading, the class will finish the novel unit before stepping back into the Treasures material next week.

Also, I have been working on a spring filed trip and it is looking like we can make an educational trip to Fairbanks in May with a couple more fundraisers. With the weekly letter, I will be sending home forms to order shirts with the school logo on it that we can order to raise funds. In addition, I would like to have a bake sale next Saturday afternoon at the school during the adult basketball games. Please let me know if you can help out or bake something that we can sell.

Have an awesome week!

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown
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