Elementary bake Sale

      In the beginning of January 28^th the Elementary students will hold a once-a-week bake sale.  The students will start out with baking bread rolls, dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls and they hope to offer more things in the future like pies, cakes and all the other goodies. 

         The Elementary students plan to use the money they earn to buy something for the class.  They made a list of ideas that they would like to get: class pet, smart board, cruise ship, Legos, flat screen TV, cat, dog, DDR, more computers for each student, and games.

         There will be order forms and Thursday is the bake day.  They will deliver or costumers will be able to come and pick up their orders.  The main reason for them having a bake sale is so that they can practice math and reading skills while doing something they enjoy.  

Students rolling out dough

         Keilan, one of the Elementary Students,  said he is excited for baking and that they are baking bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, and he said his favorite thing about baking is eating the stuff they baked when its done.

The Turkey Shoot

The Turkey shoot was awesome! In this paper I will tell you about how the Turkey Shoot went.

Turkey

            I will start by telling you the rules. The rules were simple. You had to shoot the rope that the turkey was hung up on a tree until it broke and the turkey fell to the ground. The other rules were that you couldn’t shoot the turkey or you were disqualified, and you could only use a .22 rifle.

            There were 19 people shooting. The youngest was 6yrs old and the oldest was Randy. We started shooting one by one down a line at about 40 yards from the turkey. As we were getting closer people started hitting the rope.

I was getting nervous because I wanted to win and almost every shot that other people took, hit the rope. Soon we were about 10 yards from the turkey my heart was pumping like crazy. It was my turn and I wanted to beat my dad and Terek. I put my sites right on the rope and WAM!

The turkey had been yanked out of the yellow mesh and on to the ground. I had won and beaten my dad and Terek YIPPEE!

Angel's hot pink .22

Champion 

So that was the turkey shoot and I hoped you enjoyed this paper. I can’t wait till next years turkey shoot.   

Vollyball

Volleyball

Lukas Zackar

           

This year’s Igiugig volleyball team members were Tess, Loretta, Dolly Ann, and Lukas.  Our coach was Tanya.  All of us started off not very confident in ourselves and we lacked skills.  Practice really helped us get a lot better.  The drills Tanya made us do definitely paid off.  The community also contributed by supporting and scrimmaging against us every Thursday.

The first meet of the year was held here in Igiugig.  All of the LPSD North schools came, which were Port Alsworth, Newhalen, Kokhanok, Levelock, and Nondalton.  Each team got a chance to play each other because it wasn’t a tournament.  We went undefeated for both six-man and three-man games.  Kaleb and Fewnia helped us win the six-man games.  The community gave us a lot of support throughout the jamboree by showing up to our games.  The teams had to do service projects, such as getting wood for elders and recycling pop cans for the village council.  During the week everyone enjoyed themselves and got along well.

The second and last volleyball district meet was held in Perryville.  This time both North and South schools went. The South schools included Port Heiden, Chignik Lake, Chignig Bay, and Egegik.  It was a double elimination tournament so a team had to lose twice before they were out.  The six-man teams were there just to play each other for fun to get more practice for their district tournament.  Many of the games were close and exciting.  The championship game was evenly matched between Pilot Point and us.  We lost the first match and won the next three in a best out of five game.  Igiugig won the district championship going undefeated the whole season.

I think we really deserved this championship because we certainly worked hard to earn it.  The team truly appreciates the time Tanya took to coach us and help us improve our game.  She saw what we needed to work on and had us practice it until we got it down.  Also the community boosted our confidence by showing up to our home games and the pep rally’s that were held.  The No-See-Ums are ready for another good volleyball season next year.                  

We are running out for our first game.

The team is being introduced.

Loretta and I are waiting for Tess to serve.

Barging on Lake Iliamna

Barging on Lake Iliamna

Igiugig Transport is a barge service operating on Lake Iliamna, the largest fresh water lake in Alaska. It has been in business since 1998. The barge is made of two fishing boats pushing a Flexi-Float which is owned by the Igiugig Village Council. The Flexi-Float can be taken apart, making it a unique and easy way to transport to other bodies of water. The boats names are Chulyen that means “Raven” and the other one’s name is 11th Hour, which belongs to Marc Watson. Igiugig Transport takes Mark Watson’s boat barging and he takes their boat fishing. AlexAnna Salmon is the Manager. AlexAnna uses a GPS Tracker to see where the barge is and where it’s going.

Igiugig Transport mostly move freight on Iliamna Lake to the communities of Pile Bay, Pedro Bay, Iliamna, Igiugig, Kokhanok, and lodges around the lake. The freight is mainly things that can’t fit on airplanes, such as heavy equipment. Most of the things they barge come from Homer. It takes anywhere from 3 hours to 8 hours to barge to a different community depending on the weather. Fall is the worst time to barge because there is darkness and horrible weather. In late fall the boats get put up at Naknek, and the Flexi-Floats get put away at Pile Bay or Igiugig.                                                                                                                                                 Right now Terek Anelon is the main captain. Terek loves working on the barge because he is the boss, although he gets told where to go, and he loves being on the water. He is barging with Robbie Hill. Usually 1-3 people work on the barge. It’s a dangerous working place. That’s why the workers get paid a lot. Nobody has been hurt on the barge in their records. However in 2011 Igiugig Transport sunk a boat, the Island Runner, and that was their first incident.  The largest business expenses are fuel, insurance, maintenance, and Flexi-Float Rentals. There is a website if anybody has any questions: www.sayakrentals.com. 

Igiugig School loves are new teachers!

Igiugig loves our new teachers! I will tell you some things about them; like why the teachers moved to Igiugig, their past teaching history, living next to the school, what ages they like teaching, and their favorite subjects.

            The first thing I will tell you is why the teachers moved to Igiugig. They thought Igiugig was a nice place and a good environment for their teaching job and family. They were also interested in different programs around the village.

            The second thing I will tell you about is their past teaching experience. The teachers taught in Chignik Bay, which had 10 to 14 students in school. Goodnews Bay, which had 70 students, and Delta Junction, which had 150 students.

             Do the teachers like living next to the school. The teachers like living next to the school? They do! The teachers like living next to the school because driving to the school is no fun. They also don’t like living next to the school because they get too preoccupied in their work.

            The forth thing I am going to tell you about is what ages of students the teachers like working with. Mrs. Gooden likes working with all of the students, big and little. Mr. Gooden likes working with big kids (don’t tell him I told you though). The little kids are too rowdy for Mr. Gooden.

            The last thing I will tell you about are their favorite subjects. Mr. Gooden likes science and math. Mrs. Gooden likes language arts and music.

            I have told you only some of the many thing about our teachers. If you would like to learn more about them, go talk with them yourself. Thank you for reading.