GED Completion Celebration

Our family literacy class focuses on all sorts of interesting topics. Thank goodness Sue is more competent at teaching English, math, writing, science, and technology than she is at teaching cake frosting!

CONGRATULATIONS Michelle WARD.!!!!

Melinda looks like she might challenge that word, Sue.

*note the sad (albeit thoughtful) cake that teacher

Many good wishes for continued success Michelle!

So today i set a goal with Sue. Yay!!!!! Now to see if I can do it. Lol.

We also read the introduction to "The Hip Mama's Survival Guide." It was really interesting. I hope to read more when I have some free time. :}

I looked up the 'Hip Mama' magazine. The author of the book, Ariel Gore started it as a project for college. It is interesting and I hope to read that one too.

Yours to read:} Ruby B. Holt

New Assignment:}

Today I got my first real college assignment:} Reading the book "The Hip Mama Survival Guide" I'm lookin forward to reading it.

Thanks, Ruby Holt

YOU are a Rock Star

We discussed goal setting tips today in class.

Goal number 1? Set S.M.A.R.T goals!!!

Stay tuned for student and teacher updates.

posted by: Sue Zalokar

American Bullfighter: A Challenge on Many Different Levels

The film 'American Bullfighter' is a documentary about a Basque-born American citizen who spends his childhood living in Spain then moves to the United States. He grows up and loses much of his life to alcoholism. In this film, Alex tries to regain his sense of pride and self-esteem (and the love of his father) by training to be a matador in Spain.

Preparing for the big day....he says the prayer fo the Matodor.

In the ring....

As a teacher, I found it very difficult to complete this task from beginning to end because my students were not completely interested. (Some were...thanks to those of you who stuck it out).

In many ways, I was the bull and my students were the talented matadors....swinging capes to distract me from goring [read: boring] them with more school tasks!!!! : )

In the end though, we had some good conversation and I hope to re-visit the lessons Alex learned from his experiences in the bullfighting ring.

Read "The Puppet" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Posted by Sue Zalokar

Family Lit 10-20-10

Today was my secound day of school and we finished watching American Bullfighter. I thought it was a ok movie to watch but overall I like coming to class and hope some more people will join us too.
RUBY B HOLT

Quileute Literacy Wordle

Check out our Wordle!!!!!

Quileute Exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum

This view sure looks familiar.... I taught on the other side of the beach for five years. What a treat to see the Quileute exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum while on a business trip this weekend. Here are some snaps of the exhibit:
"Future Citizens" ???
I have always admired Native art work.




Readthis article in the Peninsula Daily News to learn about Kwati the changer and the REAL wolf story.

Lakota Woman-A woman from He-Dog

We are reading this book in Family Literacy this quarter. The first chapter was "A Woman from He-Dog". Sue and I took turns reading three to four paraghraps together through the first chapter.This book is really interesting, the first chapter was really brutal and sad.

-katie-

PASSED THE TEST!!!

Ruby, and I just got the last test results back and we passed. we are officially done with our GED and more then likely going to start college in september we will miss our class but of course we will come back for help in our classes at the college.. It was so awesome you should have seen sue's reaction and sandy almost made me cry it was a big rush of emotion that I dont even really know how i felt but im happy now.. this has been something a long time coming and FINALLY were done and with my Best Friend of all ppl to accomplish something with I Love her to death and always will... wow the feelings are a bit much but i love it.. about to go out to lunch =) YAY!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!

Get'Er Done

Well me and Ruby are getting down to it. We both only have one more test to do and were going to be in the health fair. Were getting stressed out and at the same time were not. Im still pretty confused on whats next but oh well. time will tell whats to come but for now im going to finish my salad and go to work :) I miss reen....

Still Having Fun;)

The school year is almost over and we still come and have fun while getting our education :) Our Children get to play togther in class or goto the daycare. In this picture is my son Ethen and another students son getting to know one another:) SO CUTE!!!

RUBY B HOLT

"Food Inc."

David Jackson

Today in family literacy we watched this movie “Food Inc.”. This movie was telling us about how our food such as beef, chicken and pork is being harvested or reproduced. Watching how the chickens are raised was kind of gross. How they mass produce them in big buildings all together and some die due to how fast the farmers make them grow. Other then how they mass produce our meat will want to make you think twice or three times on where or how you get your meat.

AIDS memorial quilt

Last Thursday I went on a field trip to the AIDS quilt show. There were so eight different designs on just one quilt. It made me wonder about friends and family that may have AIDS. I saw this picture of the all the quilts that people that had died from AIDS that were placed at the mall in Washington DC. It was pretty amazing to see that. http://www.aidsquilt.org/


Natalie

Family Literacy at the 'AIDS Memorial Quilt Show'

Last week on the 4th for Family Literacy we met Sue at the Forks Coffee Shop to have breakfast after we ate we went to the AIDS Memorial Quilt Show where we got to look at some quilts in memorial of people that has passed away form AIDS. We also had the chance to listen to a guest speaker talk about being 27 years identified with HIV and how he is managing it by taking several different medications along with three different protien powders.

Delsheena Williams

I LOVE THIS CLASS

JUNE 2009 WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO HAVE A MASSAGE TEACHER COME AND TEACH THE CLASS HOW TO MASSAGE OUR CHILDREN AND WE ALSO GOT ONE OURSELVES

THIS PICTURE IS OF ME MY SISTER AND OUR SONS ALSO PICTURED IS ONE OF OUR TEACHER DEE AND MY OLD SUPERVISOR TRINA

RUBY B HOLT:)

Hello I am David Jackson and this is my family. Delsheena Williams is my girlfriend for the last 5 years now and this is our youngest son NaSean Jackson. We are doin family lituracy for Quileute Tribal TANF. We have been attendending for 2 weeks now. I am enjoying myself here in this class. Learning alot in this with some reading, math and other activities. It's a learning experience for me and my family.

This is a Learning Experience

We celebrated a Happy Birthday for Eleanor two weeks ago. We made brownie cupcakes and went to the restaruant for lunch. It was a lot of fun. We also gifted Eleanor and Winston lots of books to read at home!

Wisa Wi Hatlis.

my name is christina black i have came here in the past and i went to the one in forks and didnt like it.i really enjoy it here.it is fun.

i choose this picture because it is beautiful.i am going to come here until i finish my g.e.d i am so determined to get it.

FROM THE LOVELY "RUBY"

WELL THIS IS MY FIRST POST NEVER HAVE TIME LOL. I LOVE COMING TO FAM. LIT. WE HAVE FUN WITH ALOT OF STUFF...WE DO ALOT OF WORK BUT WE PLAY AT THE SAME TIME:) BOTH MY SONS LIKE COMIN AND KIDS ARE WELCOM TO COME TOO.

Is There Anybody Out There?

SO....we have [finally] gotten our act together in Quileute Family Literacy. We are up to 7 students!!!!! Yay! We are looking to pick out some books for reading in class and at home. Stay tuned.

Here is a picture of one of our favorite Family Literacy alumni. We miss you Rena!