February already!

Wow, how time flies! It is almost May already! The last two or so weeks have been very busy, and yet very uneventful. I was supposed to get out of town to go to Kotzebue for the district spelling bee finals. However, in true “Alaskan Bush” fashion, you are at the mercy of the airlines. And on the day, the airline ruled it was too cloudy here to fly (although this was just do to the readings they were getting, it was perfectly clear here!!!). So, the winner of the school spelling bee and myself were able to do the spelling bee over teleconference. She did well, ultimately spelling the word “portfolio” wrong in the 3rd round. This performance was good enough for a tie for 2nd place!!! (Ravel and tundra were spelled correctly, and as I told her, “It would be REAL embarrassing to spell tundra wrong!”

Also, this past weekend, we hosted some basketball games (my first this year, the schools’ 2nd, as I was in Kotz for the first set of games).  Selawik were in town, and when games are in town a lot of responsibility falls on the teachers to assure that things run smoothly.  Doing  my part, I was the scorekeeper of all games. There were 3 middle school games both Friday and Saturday as Deering and Kotzebue were in town. Following the middle school games each night the varsity girls team played (the boys were in Selawik). The middle school (co-ed) team went a perfect 4-0! The girls on the other hand dropped both games to the mighty Wolves.  However, our boys swept Selawik on the road!

My class size is back down to 12, the student that added right after winter break has already left us. The rest of my students are doing well, but I am really clamping down on behavior issues, which keep arising, depending how their home life is. I am also busy trying to get the students to pass these tests in April, and they are trying their best to get ready for their first ever time taking standardized tests.

I’m excited for the Super Bowl this weekend, and an advantage of being in Alaska means the game starts at 2:30, leaving me time to do my lesson plans following the game. However, this is probably a bad idea, since I have to probably do 2 weeks of lesson plans, since the following Thursday through Saturday I will be busy helping run the Buckland Bash tournament where there will be 3 boys teams and 3 girls teams visiting, meaning 4 games each day for a total of 12!!!

In other good news, Friday is an in-service day, which means no kids!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the delay, I’m going to try and get better at keeping the blog up to date.