Author: Jstandafer

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 science and below Katherine helps Helena make a large periodic chart for the hallway.

Our own VBC and AEC president, Ellen, helped to make the school Halloween carnival a success.

As we got ready for Thanksgiving, my junior high math class helped the intermediate class do a scale drawing of turkeys. Tia is asking Molly where to begin drawing.

5 year old Chelsea Ida helps Molly and Alicia learn the body systems by offering to have her body traced to draw and label organ parts.

Both my science classes pretended to be surgeons and nurses.  Nurse Julia helps Surgeon Cynthia with her gloves as assistant surgeon Katherine looks on. Nurse Sean helps surgeon Stacey and assistant surgeon Angela with a tough spot working on a hinge joint.

Julia shows visiting district office personnel how the smart board works with an interactive knee replacement surgery.

And finally, the junior and high school help with a practice run of the Christmas Café to open to elders and parents the following two days. Tia takes Lloyd’s order.

It feels good to help each other no matter how old you are.

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 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th 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, seated Herman, Lloyd and me at a three-seated – table, gave us a small bag of play money and a menu. Janice, my waitress, only served me because she was shy of the boys I was seated with. Well as we walked in, they had everything fixed like a little restaurant with tables, food, drinks, and employees.

There was a miscalculation in our checks, but we straightened them out.  Fred and Archie were the cashiers that we paid as we left The Christmas Café.

Other workers not mentioned were: the food preparers- Michael, Jr, and Rebecca; waitresses- Tia and Sherrie; and bus-person- Shawna.  Choices of food were brownies, special cookies, cake, jello with whipped topping, juice, coffee, hot tea, and hot cocoa.  They plan to serve elders, parents and other community members in the next two days.

by:Helena Oxereok and Ms Judy Standafer