Friday, February 25, 2011

Funtastic Activities

Hello world, this post is going to back track on all of the exciting things we have done in the past year.
The first thing exciting thing we did was start to build a boat from a kit. We started the 15th of January. We work on it every Wednesday and Saturday. We’re almost done with it.
The next thing we did was learning how to skin a fox and beaver. I bet half of you are gonna think that’s cool and the other half is gonna say ew. One of the maintenance workers for our school. The first day he taught us to skin a fox. The second day, he taught us to skin a beaver, which we had to flesh after (that’s using a knife to get off all of the fat and meat). Then he showed us how to stretch it to dry out. He taught us about the different types of traps that people use. He told us some of his experiences and trapping stories. Everyone in our school got a turn at skinning it, unless they didn’t want to.

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Starting to skin the fox


The beaver

Skinning the beaver

Fleshing the beaver skin


The latest thing we have done was learn how to make stained glass windows. An artist came to the school to teach us. The community and the school got to learn how to cut glass, foil, and solder the glass together. He was here for about 2 weeks.
Cutting glass

Breaking the glass off

Foiling the glass pieces

Soldering the glass together

High school class and Jim Kaiser

During that first week, our school basketball team went to Chignik Bay for a basket ball jamboree. We won one out of three games. Not bad, but I feel like we did really well.
Our district tourney was four days. We left Monday and came home Thursday. We had almost gotten stuck. The Chignik Bay team had to stay the night because they had gotten stuck. I thought we did ok. We didn't win any of our games but it was still fun.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

First post of the Chignik Lagoon School Blog

First post of the Chignik Lagoon School Blog. I created this blog as a project I have to do to become a Student Leader in the iLead program in our district. Our school is located on the Alaska Peninsula. In our school, we have about 13 students, K-12. Small school, I know.
We are one of 13 schools. We are also one village out of three starting with the name Chignik. Our school district is roughly the size of the state of West Virginia. We have a village website. http://www.chigniklagoon.net/
Feel free to check out our school district website www.lpsd.com It shows pictures of each of the villages and their locations on a map. It also gives links to see how our district is run and contact information for job options. In my next post I will tell you about some of the funtastic activates we have done in the past school year.