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Lena in Kiana: Don't Give Up
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009. For a moving story from today. . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kiana Village History Project. Kiana Summary, Alaska Community Database. Sun and Moon Rise. I've spent this last year as an 8th grade Physical Science student teacher at Tanana Middle School in Fairbanks, AK. This trip is a part of my Multicultural Education class in the teacher certification program at UAF. Off the Road and Into the Bush! Visiting Kaktovik, Alaska. Rob at Effie Kokrine. Visit to Russian Mission.
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Lena in Kiana: After an air tour of Alaska, we made it!
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Friday, April 10, 2009. After an air tour of Alaska, we made it! 160;Anchorage. (thanks, Redoubt). Here's Tim at Chili's in the airport figuring out the fancy recording equipment:. 160;Nome. This is all we got to see of Nome:. 160;Our stop in Kotzebue ("Kotz") was a bit longer, so I took a quick walk around outside the airport. . Rusty Toyota truck (which also had cool icicles and some seriously suped up tires):. April 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM. What a gorgeous school! April 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM. I've spent...
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Lena in Kiana: Inservice on a Saturday?
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. Inservice on a Saturday? A funny photo was taken to send to one of the teacher's moms who keeps the staff stocked with candy and other fun things from Outside. We even got to meet the legendary Glenn, a 16-year Kianan, 20-year teacher, principal, who now works at the Red Dog Mine. He's a skilled trapper, hunter, storyteller, and he knows a lot about the land and how to survive here. A plane flew right over us as we approached the cemetery. . Another 7th grader came by on her sn...
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Lena in Kiana: Sunny Sunday
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. Tim found this little surprise for us this morning. The box was a little nest for Cadbury eggs. The card said "Two mugs for you to drink deeply from this experience" and a dinner invitation for Tuesday night. What a great start to the day! Boats are being dug out in preparation for breakup, about a month away:. Did I mention how beautiful it is here? 160;The Selawik Hills lie about 50 miles east. Satellite dishes in town:. We saw five other people walking on the river.  ...
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Teacher prepartation at UAF-Kaden-Rural Alaska09-Kaktovik: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. The Kaktovik School has currently 57 students enrolled, early childhood (3 and 4 year old kids), pre-kindergarten to 12 Grade and employs 8 full time teachers. Teachers teach multiple subjects and grade levels. The school building is extremely well maintained (Thanks Dave Tetreau and team), beautifully decorated, and provides a welcoming atmosphere. It shows that students, the community, and employees are proud of their school. Seeing the smile on the faces of the Native kids and...
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Lena in Kiana: WOO!!
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Saturday, April 11, 2009. Friday night was a busy one for the Kiana School with the potluck, basketball camp, singing group, AND it was the night of the 3rd and 4th grade sleepover. Students who came to most of the SBA practice sessions were eligible for the sleepover. 15 out of 19 kids got to come, and only two of those 15 were boys. The kids were . 160;Tim and I were psyched too - we got to play all kinds of cool games and got to know some students really well on our first night:. Sun and Moon Rise.
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Lena in Kiana: Science and Inupiaq
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Today was a great day - I already started feeling sad about leaving. I really like the students here. They are great kids, extremely respectful and more importantly, curious about stuff. All of the signs in the school are written in English, Inupiaq and Braille. Try saying Illitchuqsriniagvik three times fast (or even one time slowly). Here is one of the students carefully keeping the thermometers out of the sun until the start of data collection:. 160;What's your name?