Thursday, April 30, 2009

April 30

Yesterday, there was a breakfast for all the students in the school. They had juice, oranges, apples, toast, grapes, carrots, pears, muffins, and donuts.

John, who is a teacher, took some pictures of the breakfast and put them on his website.

Today, some of the elementary students are going on an excursion upriver. George is going.

Yesterday, after school, Susan practiced ice-hockey. Marcusie, Brian and Gary played floor hockey in the gym with Dave.

Cathy and Annie went to the community hall after school with Peggy. They played Home Free. It is a game like Hide-and-Seek.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

April 28

Today the students played with a website that lets them make funny faces with their pictures. It is called Photoface.

Yesterday, George was riding his bicycle.

Susan had a hockey practice at the arena.

Cathy, George and Annie went to the community hall. George played floor hockey. Annie and Cathy played catch.

Gary went to the arena to watch the practice.

Toma was making a tunnel in the snow.

Marcusie stayed home because he was sick.

This afternoon, we learned how to measure the perimeter of rectangles.

Here are some pictures that the students took:

Monday, April 27, 2009

April 27

This weekend, George played baseball on Saturday and Sunday behind Martha's house on the CO-OP side. William, Marcusie, George, Jessie, Toma, Jamie, and Christopher all played.

Today, Marcusie is sick, so he did not come to school.

On May 1, Susan, Gary E., Allan, Marcusie, George, Gary K., Bobby Jr., Felix, Bobby Nassak, and Matthew will be going to Wakum Bay to play in a hockey tournament. Everybody will be coming back on May 5.

Cathy and Toma are going to go upriver on Thursday.

George might go camping or he might go play hockey.

Gary practiced hockey on Saturday.

Epife played outside with Sean K.

Susan played outside in the playground with Cathy.

Friday, April 24, 2009

April 24

Yesterday, Stephen let some of the students play floor hockey in the gym for the last period. The other students had a treasure hunt. They followed picture clues hidden in the school.

This morning, Stephen brought some fruit for the class. We had oranges, apples, watermelon and grapes.

Marcusie, Gary, Brian, George and Susan practiced hockey at the arena after school. They also played a game. Gary is the goalie. Jr. Simiunie is the coach.

Marcusie will go hunting and fishing this weekend with his family.

Brian will go upriver with his dad this weekend. They are going to shoot ptarmigan.

Many people played bingo last night. The numbers were called on the FM. Sarah Nassak won $1000. Congratulations, Sarah!

The community plays bingo every Thursday. Bingo cards can be purchased at the FM for $5 each.

We played bingo in the classroom. Cathy, Brian and Toma won granola bars.

After lunch, we watched animal videos. We watched a funny bird that could talk.

We played hangman. The winning team was Cathy, Epifi and George.

Here are some pictures that the students took:

Thursday, April 23, 2009

April 23

This morning, the students wrote sentences describing a winter picture.

They had Culture class this morning.

The boys are making starfish.

The girls are making mittens. Annie is making an amautik.

This afternoon, we added some places to our map of Kangirsuk.

Annie, the student counselor, spoke to the students about good behaviour.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

April 22

Here are pictures of the students in our class.




Today it is raining and snowing.

Here is a picture we made using Wordle. It uses words from our spring break.

Wordle: Spring Break


We played hangman. It was a very close game that went into overtime.

We played Jeopardy. The questions were all about animals. The teams were: Cathy, George and Susan versus Annie, Epifi, and Marcusie. It was a tie. Annie and Cathy played Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Annie's team won.

Here are some more photos, taken by the students:




This afternoon, we started our map of Kangirsuk. It shows the names of the buildings and where the students live. The link to this map is at the top of this page.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

April 21

Today is the first day back from spring break. The students are happy to be back in school. Some students are sad to be back in school.

Many of the students went camping during the holidays.

Annie went upriver and she went down-river. Annie caught one fish.

Marcussie went down-river. Marcussie went to Wakum Bay for bible study.

Brian went on the other side of the river, beside Aupaluk. Brian shot one ptarmigan.

Gary and Epifi stayed in Kangirsuk.

We played Wheel of Fortune. Annie and Marcussie won the first game and Cathy won the second game.

Steven brought his camera to the class and let the students take pictures. We will publish some pictures later.