‘From the Village’ Archives
What’s the hang up?
White Mountain School has a new hang up. Community members and students cooperated to create the 89 piece fence project. They designed, traced, cut, filed, drilled, primed, painted, sealed and then hung the artwork on the 90’ fence outside the school. This project was made possible through the generous support of the Bering Strait [...]
A Lot of Helping Going On
A Lot of Helping Going On By Judy Standafer The first semester of school has been a busy semester of people helping others in the school. At the beginning of the school year, Joanie, the principal’s wife, visited from Washington and helped the early readers in their SFA class. My class learned all about the periodic table for [...]
The Christmas Cafe
Today, Ms. Beyer’s, Vicki's long term sub, elementary class of the Kingikmiut School ran The Christmas Café. They are passing standards for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th levels in math, career skills, life skills, technology, and writing. I personally had to say it was cute. The service was sort of slow, but the food was great. Ernest, our host, [...]
White Mountain School Sign is Art
By Andy Haviland, Principal, White Mountain Julie Mathews, an Anchorage artist, spent a week and a half in White Mountain working with students to create a school entrance sign. The sign depicts the four seasons of the year and shows some of the activities and wildlife the community enjoys. Julie created all of the individual tiles, [...]
Brevig Mission Math Night
By Scott Bendlock, Special Education Teacher, Brevig Mission Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings you can find two dozen or more students waiting outside of school at 5:30 p.m.. Why? Open Gym you might ask? No. These students are waiting to improve their math scores! For an hour and a half, three nights a week, any elementary student [...]
Hawaiian Christmas
By Shaktoolik Staff “Mele Kalikimaka! Is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day!” This is the song the Intermediate Elementary students of Shaktoolik sang and danced to at the Christmas program on Tuesday December 15. The class has been learning about the Hawaiian Islands for the last month. The students learned that there are [...]
New Teacher Cultural Inservice
By Lynda Bekoalok, Teacher, Shaktoolik On September 24-26 over 40 new teachers from BSSD assembled in Shaktoolik for a Cultural In-Service. The theme of the weekend was “Beyond the Horizons: When you're on the horizon you can see in all directions. Connecting the past, present and future to attain success.” The weekend opened with [...]
White Mountain Stained Glass
Jim Kaiser, stained glass artisan from Girdwood, spent 9 days with the students and community of White Mountain as a part of the school's 1% for art in the school. Jim created two large panels, which he installed above the front entryway and above the high school entryway. Jim also spent time working with the students creating a smaller window [...]
