Voznesenka School Newsletter
September 2022
PBIS: Cougar Code Kick off Success~
August 24, 2022 was our annual Cougar Code Kick Off-- All staff and students gathered together to celebrate our 22-23 school year. We celebrated by getting together to create posters, banners and flags to decorate our school with our Cougar Code expectations of; Be Safe, Be Responsible and Be Respectful!
Meeting Dates:
3:10 pm in Portable 1
Student Council will meet every other Tuesday in Portable 1, after school. Students wanting to participate in the 22-23 Cougar Council must have a permission returned to Mrs. Thornton or Mr. Kudla.
Fall Tentative Dates:
9/13, 10/4, 10/18, 11/1, 11/15, 11/29, 12/13
Student Council
Cougar Cafe
Mon, Tues, & Thur. 12:35 - 1:05
Student council will be opening our lunch cafe beginning Monday September 12th.
Students can use either their cougar tickets or cash to buy snacks during lunch.
22-23 Student Council Members:
Now Recruiting!
Permission Slips are available in the office
We would LOVE your donations of frozen berries for smoothies
Movie Night Coming Soon
It is important for a child to read Russian as much as possible in order to become fluent reader. Encourage your youth to read Russian at home. Here is a website that provides Russian online books, https://skazkiwsem.ru/
Efimia Basargin’s Russian Class
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Everyday the middle school students are practicing writing in Russian cursive.
They are working on their Grammar in a booklet “Мой русский язычок.” They did syllables, capital letters, nouns, proper nouns and ext…
They are also reading to each other, and they are answering questions about their story.
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Also the 9th & 10th graders are writing in journals using Russian vocabulary words.
We have started reading “Носок” Дмитрий Суслин. For each chapter the students answer questions, translate Russian vocabulary words and study the vocabulary words for a test.
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Michael Houghton’s September Newsletter
Welcome back to a new year.
Contact information:
Email: Mhoughton@kpbsd.k12.ak.us
Home phone: 907-399-4093
Office Hours: 8:00 to 8:20 and 3:10 to 3:30
The 6th and 7th grade math students are working on an operations with decimals unit and remediating individual skills as needed. The 8th grade students are beginning a unit on rational numbers. They are starting with operations on integers and absolute value. Students will be using the iReady math curriculum for remediation of skills.
Pre-algebra students are beginning with a review variables, expressions and integers. One use of integers is to describe distances above and below sea level. From there we move on to a unit on solving equations.
Algebra students are beginning a unit on solving equations and inequalities. When that is finished we will begin working with linear equations and linear functions.
High school Earth Science is beginning a unit on earth’s resources. We will learn about earth’s renewable and nonrenewable resources and how we are dependent upon them for our survival..
Middle school Earth Science just finished a KPBSD required unit on Common Sense Media teaching about internet safety, cyberbullying and self image and identity online. We then worked on a watercolor art unit painting birch trees. After that we will begin a unit on Earth’s changes over time looking at the theories of Contintal Drift, seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
Michelle Thornton Social Studies
9/10 World History: Students are learning about Early Civilizations and what factors made up the strongest civilizations.
6-8th American History: We just finished wrapping up our first unit on Why we Study History. Next, students will be moving into their unit on Native Americans.
11/12 Government: The class just finished their first unit on the purpose of Government. We are now working on Branches of Government and Federalism.
11/12 Alaska History: Students are finishing up our first unit on the Geography of Alaska. We learned about physical landscape, resources, and natural disasters.
Lisa Nordstrom: Special Education Teacher K-12
SEL; Social Emotional Learning Tip of the Month~
“Researchers from Harvard found that 2 minutes in the Power Pose; Tadasana, can change the brain chemistry of the brain causing us to perform better! By breathing in to the Power Pose we can reduce stress by changing the way our brain functions”
Reading and Writing in Resource Room~
Narrative Focus
MS Reading -HOLES by Louis Sachar
HS Reading- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Creative writing stories of adventure!
Clayton Gallus: Elementary Physical Education (K-5)
3rd-5th PE: Students started with team-building activities while learning new expectations. Now students are starting Soccer Unit and doing fitness testing.
K-1st PE: Students are learning tag/fleeing games and being aware of their surroundings while traveling in different locomotor movements
1st-2nd PE: Students started with learning new activities involving throwing to a target. Now students are moving into Soccer Unit.
Clayton Gallus: Secondary Physical Education (6-12)
Middle & High School PE: Students have been learning how to work together with others while doing team-building activities. Then lead into students participating in Ultimate Frisbee and Volleyball Units working as teams. Also, students have done there fitness testing and reflecting on their scores to write goals for the year.
Tuesday Sept. 20th: All Middle and High School students will be going to the SPARC center in Homer for the afternoon. Permission slip needs to be turned in before the trip or student can’t go on the trip.
Charley Murphy Combined 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Class.
Hello! I am very happy to be teaching my first year here at Voznesenka School! I have felt very welcomed by all of the students and staff, and am hoping to have a positive impact with the families.
This year has started off great and is only getting better! With the class being a combination of 3 different grades I have been doing my best to make sure each student is receiving the best education they deserve and I am meeting them at their level. For this I have split the students into groups especially for reading and math.
We have been working on our reading, writing, and math skills everyday.
We switch which days we are doing science and social studies. The students have made requests to do animal research for science so be on the look out for this project to start in the next month or 2.
I can be contacted through email. cmurphy@kpbsd.k12.ak.us
1st & 2nd
Reading:
The first round of testing is complete so we will start reading groups September 19th.
Phonemic Awareness:
Everyday we practice phonemic awareness, or the sounds that letters make.
Writing:
We have a journal that we write in daily. We are going to practice writing everyday so we can write complete sentences.
Math:
We finished the first round of testing and have started our new math program. This is an online program that corresponds to the new math book we are working in.
1st Grade:
We are starting with numbers within ten, adding and subtracting, finding the missing number and working through word problems.
2nd Grade:
We are starting to solve 1-step word problems, adding and subtracting. Students have to identify the important information from the problem and find the answer.
Kindergarten and 1st grade
We are back at it in Mr. Kudla’s class!!!
Math: Students are engaged in the new IReady Math curriculum. Through tech, worksheets, and math manipulatives kindergarteners are learning the fundamentals of mathematics, 1st graders are building on their fundamental knowledge!
Literacy: All students are hitting their daily 5 literacy skills with the new scope and sequence provided by KPBSD. Through whole group discussions and small group learning centers students all students are gaining in their phonemic awareness skills, while discovering how to become effective early literacy readers!
Thank you for being awesome parents! Your children are absolutely amazing!
Contact me at anytime:
(315)-246-6657 on Whatsapp!
Voz Preschool Newsletter
September 2022 - It’s already been a great start in preschool! In the first few months of preschool are going to be learning about Me and My School. We will be learning about students and their role as a learner and friend at Voznesenka school. Each newsletter I’ll focus on a different part of the preschool day and why it is important. First up, everyone’s favorite - centers. During centers, each preschooler will get to choose what they would like to do. They may choose from activities like blocks, art, building with manipulatives like legos or tiles, or dramatic play with kitchen and dress up clothes and more! Skills such as sharing, planning, pretending/storytelling are learned with the help and guidance of Anfisa and Annie. Students develop more strength in their fingers for writing and while they are playing we talk about what colors, shapes and letters they may be using. Some centers change weekly and some will stay the same all year. Take a look at some of our centers ->
Annie Robinson
arobinson@kpbsd.12.ak.us
Title 1 Meeting and Student FUN!
October 6th from 3:10-3:40pm
We are combining forces for a quick after school activity for Pre-K thru 2nd grade students PLUS an informational Title 1 meeting for parents.
Our Migrant Education Lead, Joey Kraszeski, will be leading students in a make and take clay activity while parents hear about our Title 1 program at Voz with Title 1 lead, Annie Robinson. You will have the opportunity to give feedback on our program and how to make it better.
Please come! Light refreshments provided. Located in the Prek and K/1 rooms.
Annie Robinson, Title 1 Teacher {arobinson@kpbsd.k12.ak.us}
Title 1 information is located on the bulletin board outside classroom 5, of you can ask me to send the information home with your child.
What is Title 1?
Title 1 is a federal program that funds our preschool program and also early literacy intervention for students in grades K-2nd.