How is it that Alaska has warmer weather than almost everywhere else in the US...well at least the cities my family are living in lol

Rough Week..

This week has been pretty rough...I think its a combination of MAPS testing and Christmas break almost being here...also the fact that I am out of peanut butter thats really the bad part haha

Anywho, Im attaching pictures of a fun day.  My 7th graders are working with the 3rd graders on a Christmas assembly song, one they already know, and I have been so proud of them watching them teach the little ones and taking bride in that task :)

Thanksgiving in Nightmute

I went to Thanksgiving in Nightmute...4 whole days of Settlers of Catan and Harry Potter.  Nightmute was beautiful, there is a wrap around boardwalk that is built into the side of a hill that has houses and stores on either side...well one store.  There is a beautiful natural spring that comes out of the hill and is deposited into little well that the villagers get fresh water from...no sanitation needed or anything. 

I am missing my friends and family in the lower 48 more and more these days.  I love my students, but Christmas break cannot come soon enough!  Here is my  break schedule, email me if you can visit :)

Dec 20 - Denver
Dec 21 - Wisconsin/Marquette
Dec 22 - Marquette
Dec 23-26 - TC
Dec 27 - Chicago
Dec 28-Jan 2 - Jacksonville, FL
Jan 2/3 - Chicago

Jan 4 - Anchorage

Videos from Tununak

Its how I get home every day :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIutHpPFyFs&feature=youtu.be

Here's what happens when 10-12ft swells hit Tununak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agiTNkdUtgQ&feature=youtu.be

Fire Safety Week with Mommy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKlIJLUGFUA&feature=youtu.be

Mommy doing Wii Dance to the Dirty Dancing Song :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFLw-rng-4&feature=youtu.be

Mommy and I doing Eskimo Dancing, we are waaaay in the back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8nB52TBPsQ&feature=youtu.be

Halloween!!

Hey everyone!  Here are some pictures of the teachers and some of my students in their costumes!  I am the Yellow Ranger :)

Teaching is going well, I am starting to LOVE my coffee haha  PS - finally got some snow today, amazing it took so long! lol

Well Its been quite a while since I posted, but I haven't really done much since the last post.  Most important piece of information is that I successfully got through the first quarter of my first ever teaching job!!!  Its feels great, and I am not even in the "October Slum" that some teachers talk about.  I still get excited over new ideas that come to my head for lesson plans.

Mommy visited and had a blast!  She gave a bunch of Fire Safety Presentations and had a lot of fun learning with my students.  She made me lots of her home cooking I missed so am super happy about that :)

Pretty good end of the day...

I skyped in four USA Wrestling World Team members, an Olympian, and World Champ or two today with my wrestling club kids...absolutely amazing!!!  I mean seriously!!  My kids are more excited now about wrestling than they have been before!  It was great!

I've been making some yummy foooood!!1  Deep dish pizza, Pancake Cake, black berry yumminess!

Amazing Sunsets in Tununak!

Gidget sent me a box of YUMMIES!!!  Christmas in October!!

Skyped in an FAA friend to show my Math class how Math is used in the REAL WORLD!

Oh and I forgot to mention...

MOMMY'S COMING TO VISIT TOMORROW!!!