Important: The writing on these pages represents the students early efforts to write in English after primary instruction in Yup'ik. This "phonetic spelling" has not been edited for correctness.
Thomas Brink
I like to play basketball bekas there fun to play basketball they play bump and they fill happy and they be tired and they sot in the rim and they play 2 person
and I like monkey in the middle bekas there fun they play 3 persan with boll and if they do thrower hos to go in the middle
and I like to play jump rope bekas there fun they sing a sang and they play two people and if they miss youre a turner
and I like to play not-it bekas there fun they play with who and they play with ball
Moses Brink
During recess I like to play Not-it becase it is fun and we throw the ball at the person. If we catch the person on the head they mite cry. We time on the blue matt. we run on the bleachers. we throw from long shot and we kick the ball sometimes.
And during recess I like to play basketball and we play bump at basket ball becase it is fun playing. when we are tired we sit down and who aver gets the lots of baskets they win.
Gabriel Nicholas
Dringe Recess I like to play Not-it case its fun. I get tired and we tag with ball or hand. The blue mat we time out. Go on bleachers and we quit ate 10:40 am
Dringe Recess I like to play monkey in the middle becas its fun. We gate have ball. Don't let the middle people get the ball. The and
Cynthia Anvil
dvring recess I like to play jump rope becas it is fun. We get tierd and we do red hot pepper. at Not-It we alwoys hove to ran fest and wen we tace a prsene thae always be ete. at basketball we always trie tric to sot it in the rim. The and.
Yvonne Jackson
During recess, I like to play jump rope and wen thers jast 3 people mor people will com. We sing a song like apple apple on a tree tell me how your love well be! Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz. By its time to go. During recess, I like to pla nod-itwe let people join if they wont to w like to play nod-it it is fan som times wi count to 20 or 10. By!
Robert Tinker
During recess Time I like to play basketball beacos the saeknd person tery to make a basket, if the ferst person mackset they go back. The next person makeset the next person will be out.
They next game is Not-it. The person is it he tery to hit os whith a ball if he katsh os we are it. The next person hit somebody and if he katsh him he will be it and if the bell rings we go to klas.
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