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Yup'ik RavenMarshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

 

 

 

A Great Science In-Service

On March 30-31, Marshal School teachers and staff attended an in-service presented by Gary and Cheryl Cooper from Delta Junction. They had been here once before three years ago and did such a good job that they were asked back.

During the two day in-service, the Coopers presented innovative ways of teaching science to both high school and elementary teachers and support staff. Gary presented the high school segment and Cheryl did the elementary part of it. Teachers and staff really enjoyed the workshop, and had the following comments:

Frank Keim: I especially liked making the climbing bear and balloon-powered car. I've already used some of the ideas in my classroom.

Barbara Sandlin: One of the best parts was getting science activities to do with the students. The activities will help the students learn science concepts while having fun.

Janice Olsen: My favorite science activity was "mining for gold". We chose a tool to "mine" in cookies for chocolate chips, etc. We assigned values to our "minerals," and, guess what, I won! Then we ate the cookies. Yum!

Flora M. Evan: The in-service gave me many great ideas that I could use in my classroom. I enjoyed making our projects and sharing with the group what we made.

Richard Olsen: The in-service provided many interesting ideas for teaching science concepts. These could also be used with writing activities in Language Arts.

Guy Sandlin: The hands-on activities and the thought-enhancing approach to science were the highlights for me.

Olga Soolook: The best thing for me was making something that moved in two ways.

Gail Fitka: I liked doing hands-on experiments and seeing what science is all about. The best part was the feeling of being vacuumed in a trashbag.

Clara Shorty: I liked making objects that had two ways of moving. I wish we'd had more time to do the experiments.

Max Lunt: One of the most beneficial parts was demonstrating fun methods of teaching science to our students. In education we are always looking for new ways of turning students on to science.

Donna Best: The best thing for me was the chance to learn hands-on science activities that will get kids excited about learning.

 Gary and Cheryl Cooper
Our presenters
Gary and Cheryl Cooper

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Easter egg

Marshall Hosts the Academic Pentathlon

The Lower Yukon Academic Pentathlon was held in Marshall on March 27th and 28th. There were teams from Alakanuk, Emmonak, Kotlik, Marshall, Mountain Village, and Pilot Station competing.

The Academic Pentathlon is a very difficult competition. In order to compete, the participants must read the Sunday Anchorage Daily News from the beginning of October until the end of March. The participants must also write and deliver a speech, take tests in science and math, write an essay about two novels which they were assigned to read, and be able to answer both oral and written questions about current events. All of these are difficult, but the students who participated had worked very hard and were well prepared. They even managed to have fun and meet new friends in the process.

The two students on the Marshall team were Henrietta Coffee and Jacob Turet. These two students had been preparing and practicing since last October for this two day event and both did very well. We are proud of our team.

The first place trophy went to the team from Mountain Village, second place was awarded to Emmonak, and Marshall earned third place. Twelve students from the first and second place teams will travel to Anchorage at the end of this month to represent our district in the Alaska State Academic Pentathlon.

This wonderful event was coordinated by Deanna Petru from Mountain Village. Deanna, the coaches, the Marshall volunteers, and the students all worked hard to make it a huge success.

Donna Best
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Remember Earth Day?

I wonder if people remember Earth Day anymore? It seems, with all the hustle and bustle and dissension over academic standards, high school qualifying tests, school budget formulas, and the usual student boyfriend-girlfriend problems, we've forgotten about the most important thing of all and the one that sustains all the others, the environment. All around us the environment continues to degrade while we focus on what amount to trivialities.

So let's try to put things back into perspective again. Let's remember our Mother Earth for what she gives us every day, especially here in Alaska. And let's celebrate her during Earth Day on April 22, and during the whole of the week, April 22-24, with activities especially devoted to this purpose.

There are many things we can do to accomplish this. Try the three R's, for one. Reduce your consumption of goods from the store. Then reuse what you do consume as many times as you can. Also, recycle as much as possible, and use products that are made from recycled post consumer materials. Something students could do is a personal research project on an environmental issue or problem in their community, and then report the results back to their class and their family.

And, remember, in our daily lives let's try to make every day Earth Day.

Frank Keim
Happy Earth Day
 

Kindergarten News

- Annie Hunter

Barb's 1st and 2nd Grades

By the Second Graders

Grades 3 and 4

- Janice Olson

5th and 6th Grades

- Flora Evan

Richard's Classes

- Richard Olson

Guy's Classes

- Guy Sandlin

Frank's Crazy Classes

- Frank Keim

H.S. Boys Tournament

- Maurice Turet

H.S. Girls Tournament

- Rose Lynn Fitka

April 1998 Calendar

March Madness

- Max Lunt, Principal

A Great Science In-Service

Marshall Hosts the Academic Pentathlon

- Donna Best

Remember Earth Day?

- Frank Keim

Editorial Page

Education is Very Important!

- Charlotte Alstrom

 

School News

 

 

Community News

Roman Catholic Church

- Tassie Fitka

Russian Orthodox Church

- Tassie Fitka

 

Dear Gummie

 

Look To The Stars
Your Personal Horoscope

 

 

Dedications

 

Fair Weather Camping
By: Agnes Owletuck

 

Message Page (in pdf)

Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992 Summertime Tails II 1993 Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 Signs of the Times November 1996 Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes  
M&M Monthly    
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 Happy Easter! March/April 1998 Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998 Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska Poems of Hooper Bay Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall Marshall Village PROFILE Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995 Bird Stories from Scammon Bay The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996 Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998 Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997 Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

 
 

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