Congratulations Graduates!

To All the Graduates of 2019 who were part of Learning 4Life Success:

Itancan and Andrew

We wish you the best as you graduate. 

You have achieved one of your important goals. You had to work extra hard. You did it!

You learned a lot about adulthood. Now you get to do it.

Tahtaywih

You are good role models for all of us. We are happy for you and your tiwahe. 

We hope you come back some time to visit us.

Nina wopida!

Sincerely yours,

Your classmates at Tiospa Zina Tribal School

Subway Sandwiches for Summer Birthdays

Wednesday was our last day of classes. We had Subway sandwiches for lunch together. We ate in the classroom.

We did a little school work. Then we did a lot of clean up work.

"We worked as a team to decorate our classroom, so we're going to work as a team to clean it up for summer," said Sister Patrice.

Jaden, Itancan, Isaiah, TahtayWih and Maza won the Quarter 4 Pony Race! They had 90% or higher attendance during Q4. Way to go! They got a certificate and a Dairy Queen gift card.

Then we took the ponies down and put them away. They were tired. They ran all year since August!

Everyone who completed the Rubik's Cube challenge this year got a certificate, a pin, and a teeny-tiny Rubik's Cube to take home. 

Maza, Avory, Itancan, and Robert also did the 2x2 cube! They got a certificate for that, too.

Three of us liked the Rubik's Cube so much we got our own. Avory even got a professional speed cube that is super smooth and fast. He plans to get faster than his current 1 minute record by practicing new algorithms during the summer.

We all agreed: The Rubik's Cube challenge was scary when we found out about it in August. We all were worried we couldn't do it! If we didn't do it by the end of the year, we would fail math!

Sister Patrice encouraged us and also she told us solving a Rubik's Cube is like adult life. It is hard, but you can do it.  We all did it. At the end of the year, we all felt very happy with how hard we worked to learn how to do it. We felt successful because we did a hard thing and learned about patience. Five of us even mentioned our cube challenge in our final presentation!

Engineering the Last Days of School

"Never stop learning" is good advice.

We kept learning all through the last two weeks of school, right up until the last full day!!

On Tuesday, we had an engineering problem to solve.

Engineering: We had a contest. We had teams. The team got a packet of 3x5 cards, 30 cm of tape, a meter stick, and a Rubik's cube.

We got 10 minutes to research on "index card towers" and then each team got 30 minutes to try to make the tallest tower of index cards that could hold up a Rubik's cube.

We got to do as many iterations  as we wanted. Iteration means you try it once, then you "tweak" it to make it better. Then you test it. Then you try it again. "Tweak" means make a little change. 

We had to think about what happened when our tower fell down. Then we could make a change to it.

It was harder than you think to make a tall tower!

It was also sometimes hard to work in a team because some of us work better alone. But we tried.

    

The tallest was Avory's

at 74.5 cm!

TZ Senior Creates Web Resource for Young Adults

Getting ready for adulthood is a big focus for our classes in Learning 4Life Success. 

Soon-to-graduate Senior Itancan Christenson curated a set of helpful videos for Seniors, ascending Juniors, and graduates who are trying to decide what to do next in life.

Take a look!

LINK to WEB PAGE

Personal Best?

One of the important things about learning is to always be trying to do your personal best.

"Personal Best" means the best YOU can do. It is not about competing with someone else. And, it is not about "I'm smarter than you are, haha!" 

These three "Math-letes" have been working to improve their personal speed on their Rubik's Cube. They are all hoping/ trying to break the 1 minute mark! That takes a LOT of persistence and a LOT of self-discipline!  Way to go!!

Professor, can you please explain that?

This week in Geometry we focused on finding the area and perimeter of complex shapes. This was HARD.

We got through five levels though!

As our last activity for this skill, we had four guest "professors" come to class to solve and then explain a problem. You might recognize them, because they look remarkably like high school students in the Learning 4Life Success program.

Professor A. Renville

Professor O. Owen

Professor R. Lacroix

Professor W. Christenson (right, back)

Here are our solutions. Each professor had to explain exactly how he decided to decompose the shape, why he selected the formulas he chose, and how he found the answer. Like in much of math, understanding WHY is sometimes more important than just knowing "how" to do something!

We learned a LOT this week! It was sure nice of those professors to come to our class to share their expertise, too!

Get a Job and Keep a Job

We are learning about getting and keeping a job. 

In class, we are watching this video. We are taking notes. We put the notes onto stickies. Then we organize them on a poster. Finally, we will write in our Handbook for Adulthood so that we have a good list of things to do, and what not to do, when we go to get a job.

Here is a link if you want to see the video we used.

Here is a picture of our poster. It isn't done yet. We are still adding things.