May 19, 2013

Weekly Greetings!
This will be the last blog post for the school year, as the students will be off for summer break after this week. The last day of school will be on Thursday, and there will be an early release. Please remember that the end of the year school picnic will be Wednesday and will start with some games for the students at 11:00am. Lunch will be at 12 noon, with a baseball game to follow.

Last week was very full with a number of events. On Wednesday, we had a special visit from Mr. Cudney's 91 year old mother. She was accompanied by her niece, and warmly welcomed by the students in addition to some community members that were able to come meet her. Mrs. Cudney was able to have lunch at the school and then there was an assembly in her honor. A number of cultural gifts were given to her by the students that were made by their families.

After the assembly, Mrs. Cudeny visited in all the classrooms and wanted to meet each of the students that had sent her comforting letters. She is pictured with our class in the afternoon.

 An all school photo was taken just before Mrs. Cudney departed to go back to Tok and is pictured below.

The next morning, the students learned about fire prevention when two men from the local Forestry Department came out to Tetin. They showed the students some movies and also the tools that are used when fighting forest fires. They left some great coloring books and information for the kids to take home too.

To finish off the week, the next year's Kindergarten students were invited to spend the morning doing some fun activities with our current class. After our morning gathering to start the day, we had some number games and hunted 26 Teddy Bear counters that were hidden in the room. To keep track of the number of bears found, each bear was placed on an alphabet letter on the floor.

 At snack time, we had a Teddy Bear picnic before playing a game called "Poor, Cute Teddy"

There were other activities throughout the morning, in addition to a story and craft before lunch. Every one of the kids said they enjoyed the morning, so hopefully they will be eager and ready to start school next fall.

The statewide Duck Stamp competition awards were presented in Tok on Saturday and a number of Tetlin students won awards. From our class, Ethan got a 3rd place ribbon and some gift items. He is pictured by his drawing, which is the Mallard just above his head in the picture to follow. Well done Ethan and all the others from our school that entered the competition.

We will continue to keep a normal schedule through Wednesday morning, but there will not be any homework sent home this last week. It has been a pleasure to be a part of the Tetlin School this year and I wish you all a safe and joy-filled summer!