More Fish!

This week we have had a lot of fish hatching in our tank. Everyone is really excited! Yesterday we also replaced five gallons of water because it was starting to get foamy. We did make a mistake though. We poured the water over the egg basket and they went WHOOF. Most of them were kind of "tossed" out the basket and onto the gravel. But now it is easier to see them and when we have to take the egg sacs out, all we have to do is scoop the fish out and syphon them out. Our teacher has been very diligent about reminding us to keep track of the ATUs. Which stands for Accumulated Thermal Unit. It helps us keep track of when they will turn into fry.

Erin is currently at King Salmon, taking a Web Design and Excel class. She will be back on Saturday along with Kasie.

Tyler and I will be going to Dillingham on the 14th and come back the 15th. Its a Subsistence Science and Career symposium. We will be going with one student from Chignik Bay and two from Egegik.

Speaking of Tyler, he twisted a water bottle to look like a fish. Here is a picture.

We had our pizza feed on Saturday. It went really well. We got $658 dollars from donations and even more from having our store open. We even had pizzas left over that people could take home and bake. I will get pictures posted sometime next week.

Sorry about not posting on Friday, I forgot. But I had wrote it, just never posted it.

Fish Eggs!

Ok, last week was Thanksgiving break. We had a half-day on Wednesday and we were out for the rest of the week. We even had a community Thanksgiving potluck.

This week was Spirit Week. Monday was Favorite Character Day, Tuesday was Chignik Wear, Wednesday was Summer Wear, Thursday was Formal Wear and today is Pajama Day!

Something exciting happened on Thursday! Our fish egg started to hatch. J They don’t look like they should so our teacher thinks that they didn’t survive the trip down. We currently have one Alevin in our tank that we know of.  

Fish eggs 

The tank

Everyone looking at the fish

My salmon journal

Tyler and I got accepted to go to a Subsistence Science and Career Symposium in Dillingham. We leave either the 13^th or the 14^th. We come back on the 15^th. We are going to learn about careers in subsistence management and lots of other things.

This Saturday we are going to have a Pizza Feed. The Chignik Lagoon Student Government is going to make pizzas and have sort of a potluck. We are not charging admission but we are going to sell items from our student store. 

Volleyball

This week we went to our District Tourney. Which was in Newhalen. Our team, which was Tyler, me, and Zach, took 6^th place. There were about 11 schools and about 14 teams. Some schools had two teams. We won three games.

We also did a lot of other things besides volleyball. We had a service project that the Newhalen iLead students ran. A few of the south iLead students ran a teamwork building shop.

The service project was to write letters to people in the military or the hospital. I didn’t get to go since I was helping with the teamwork session. But Zach did say that there was a big stack of letters so I think it went well.

The teamwork building sessions were basically a bunch of mini icebreakers. The first activity we did was sticking a card on our foreheads and treating the person based on the value of the card. Then after about 15 minutes, we lined up based on the way we were treated. The next activity was to get into groups and pass a tennis ball around and introduce themselves. Then another tennis ball was added and they had to do it again, after they were done that time, a volleyball was added. The last activity was an obstacle course. The groups had a leader and everyone was blindfolded but their leader. They had to put their hands on each others shoulders and the leader had lead them through a obstacle course. I think everyone had a good time doing all of the activities.

We also had a serving and a bump contest. Pilot Point won the serving contest and got a trophy. Madison Manning and Rylee Manning won the bump contest.

We had an award ceremony after all of the games. The Levelock Vikings took first place. 8 people were picked for an all tourney team that would stay in Newhalen and play at regionals. I have heard that they have been practicing very hard! Good luck to the LPSD All Tourney Team!

I didn't take any pictures while I was there, I'm sorry :D

Salmon Tank

This morning we decided to set up the tank we will be hatching fish in. We have a tank, an air compressor, and a condenser. We also got some gravel and some rocks. Our teacher would like to get bigger rocks at some point so we can see the fish hiding better. 

Today we also have to send the Alutiiq language box back to Kodiak. We made a few copies of the pages. 

A board game

We had our Banana Split Social on Saturday at 6. We got a few donations but everyone had fun. We packaged up the rest of the bananas and are planning on using them for smoothies. 

Next week we are going to Newhalen. We are leaving Monday. It will just be Tyler, Zach and me going. We will be gone until Wednesday. 

Well thats all for now. I'll post pictures of the social sometime next week when I get back. :D

FRIDAY! :D

Hi, my posting has been off since sports and traveling. This Saturday, at 6PM, we are going to have a ice cream social. We will be making banana splits and accepting donations for our student government. We also got our student government order in.

On the 14th, we will be traveling to Newhalen for our District Trouney. We will be there until the 16th. Our coach spent a lot of his time yesterday putting up a new volleyball net for us. :)

We started learning Alutiiq in school. We got a box from the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak. It contained flash cards, CDs, projector slides and a video. We have been having half hour lessons everyday.

Today we have parent-teacher confferences. We got out of school at one today.

Well this is it until next Friday, I hope your weekend is awesome!

Volleyball

Last week we went to the Volleyball Jamboree in Port Heiden. We played a lot of games and did some other activities. We did a service project, where we went out and picked up trash. Port Heiden is known to have glass balls wash up on their beaches all the time. I never found one.

The glass balls are what the Japanese used to keep their nets afloat. They wash up on beaches and people find them.

I got to help with teaching a lesson to the K-5^th graders at Port Heiden because I am a part of iLead. We taught them about kindness and read them the book The Giving Tree by Shel Silerstein. After the book we did a small coloring activity, where they colored a giving tree and put an apple on it that had a small act of kindness. We then told them that every time their teacher saw them being kind, they would get an apple on their tree.

The iLeaders

Me and Madison Manning

The elementary coloring

Waylon Abyo talking to student

Me watching some little kids

We also did a session with the high school students about Red Ribbon Week. We talked about the myths and facts about tobacco, and then we did a couple of activities with them. One activity was we had them close their eyes, and we poured popcorn kernels into a metal bowl, so they could hear how many went in. Each popcorn kernel represented someone who died. One amount was how many people died from car crashes, another was how many people died from alcohol,and the last was how many people died from tobacco use. The next activity was we had everyone run in place and sing happy birthday twice. After that we had everyone breath through coffee stirring straws.

After that, everyone went and picked up trash. We did play a lot of games. Chignik Lake A team won first place and we got second place. Port Heiden White team got third.

Alex, our Coach

Kasie, our counselor

Our team

We also did some NYO. The Eskimo Stick pull, One Foot High Kick, and the Alaskan

High Kick. We also got out the stick for the Wrist Carry and did a couple of runs of that.

That was about it for our Jamboree, November 14^th through the 16^th is the District Tourney and that is up in Newhalen.

Rubber Ducky Race

Last Saturday we had our first official fund raiser. It was a Rubber Ducky Race at Parkers Creek. We made a lot of money and we had lots of fun. People bought their duck and then they were able to eat at the picnic. We had hot dogs, marshmallows and soda that you could buy. At 2:30, we dumped the ducks into the creek and watched them race down. We are hoping to be able to do it again after a big storm or when the snow off the mountains starts to melt. We had Erin take pictures of the event. 

Next week we will be having in-service. All the teachers will go to a Bristol Bay school to talk about different methods of education. We will have school Monday and a half day Tuesday. We have the rest of the week off after that.

Setting up the food

Bringing out the chairs

The lagoon

Setting up the ducks

The tub of bought duckies

The food

Cooking hot dogs

Getting ready to toss them

Tossing the dogs

Watching the ducks

The ducks floating down the creek

Still waiting

None of them were right side up

The tub

Getting ducks that made it to the finish line

Me with a whole bunch of random ducks

Alex, tormenting the little kids

The three winners

My two ducks, Forrest Gump and Chuck Norris

Well I think that’s all for now. I won’t be posting next week because there isn’t going to be school.