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News from Donna's Resource
Room
This past month has been very busy for
Gail and me in the resource room. We have been working on
many different skills with students from preschool through
high school.
In addition we have started preparations
for the Christmas program. Gail has a group of students who
have begun practice on a very special presentation that will
be most entertaining. Those who attend the program will be
surprised to see the special guest star who will appear with
Gail's group.
The last week of November I was able to
take a group of Special Olympic Athletes to Anchorage for
the State Bowling Tournament. These students did a great job
and made wonderful representatives from our
district.
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Annie's
Kindergarten
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This week in reading we've been learning the
letter "i",
both upper and lower case. The
students have colored two scoops of ice cream to highlight
this letter, then they drew 1 to 10
scoops of ice cream on another worksheet. On Friday everyone
earned an ice cream for a treat. By now they should know the
letter "i".
In math, the Kindergarten students are
exploring numbers 0 through 5. They are also starting
chapter three in Houghton Mifflin's, The Mathematics
Experience.
They have been practicing their Christmas
Program, songs and poems beginning
from the first day of December. I hope they do well in front
of the audience and that they are
especially loud enough for all to hear.
Richard's
Classes
The freshman and sophomore English class
just finished reading another book written by James Houston,
entitled "The White Archer". The story is about a young
Eskimo boy in Northern Canada who escapes an attack by
Indians who kill his parents and kidnaps his
sister.
The students are currently reading "Akavak" which
is also authored by James Houston. Students are assigned to write
a summary of up to
three pages,
depending on the length of the book.
The junior high class just finished
reading a story entitled "Shoes for Hector." It is about a
young boy who is unwilling to wear his uncle's shoes to his
graduation because his parents can't afford to buy him new
ones. He is worried that the other kids will tease him. His
parents convince him to wear the shoes, and no one says
anything negative. The lesson learned is that we sometimes
worry about things unneccessarily.
The high school shop class students are
busy with various individual projects. Several nice
box-joint boxes have been made by students.
The junior high shop class is also making
boxes and some gun racks. The students learn how to use hand
tools and the value of their math lessons on
fractions.
Guy's Classes
The 7th and 8th grade students have been
decorating the classroom with multicolored snowflakes and
paper Santas as the holiday spirit begins to grow. The 7th
graders are studying fractions while the 8th graders are
learning about operations with positive and negative
integers. In Geography the Jr. high is doing research on
Latin American countries in preparation for an oral
presentation.
The high school Pre-Algebra students are
studying percents while the Algebra I students are solving
rational algebraic equations. The Human Biology and Health
class is examining effects of smoking on the respiratory as
well as the circulatory system. Presentations by the
students have helped increase the knowledge of their
classmates in the areas of the circulatory system, nervous
system, skeletal system, and respiratory system.
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Barb's 1st and 2nd
Grades
We have been working in school and have
been good. We are good readers. We do lots of work. We like
to get 100% on our papers.
We have a Christmas tree in our
classroom. Our tree has bubble lights, angels, bells, ginger
bread boys, a paper chain and singing lights.
We are going to sing a Christmas song for
the Christmas program. We have been practicing our song
everyday.
Our classroom plants are doing good. They
are growing really big. Some of them have flowers. We have
five different kinds of plants in our room.
Today we made a cloud in our classroom.
We put warm water in a jar and ice on the lid. The water
evaporated and then it rained down in the jar.
Written By the 1st and 2nd
Grades
Tom's Classes
Too busy to meet the deadline. But they
are busily preparing for the Christmas program.
Janice's
Classes
Things were too crazy to meet the
deadline, but they too are crazily preparing for the
Christmas program.
Frank's
Classes
In Language Arts we have finished our
novel, Last of the Breed, and are now doing a unit on
the Alaska short story. We have read Charles Keim's
Change and are now reading a story by Ted Kerasote.
Other authors we will read are Margaret Murie and Barbara
Kingsolver, among others. We have also finished our unit,
Fish Fire and Water, and are publishing our book with
the same title.
In World History we are studying China
and are now on the Chinese Revolution.
Journalism includes work on the December
school newspaper and a consideration of the novel in
journalism. We are reading Deadline, by John Dunning,
which is a story about the life of an investigative
reporter.
In Russian we are studying Time and
aspects of the various cases in Russian grammar.
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Marshall
Cultural Atlas
