Tasty! Fun! (and STICKY!)

We made cookies on Thursday. 

We got the microwave from Heather. We had to use a recipe. 

First, we checked the ingredients and equipment.
Second, we followed the steps of the recipe.
Third, we put spray on our hands so we did not get stuck to the cookies. 
Then, we finally made the cookies. They were very sticky! We put on red cinnamon candy, too. 

We put the cookies on wax paper. They had to cool over night. We could pick them up on Friday morning after breakfast. 

We had to work as a team. Everyone on the team had to do something. Everybody helped.


The cookies were going to be holiday wreaths. They did not look like wreaths. They looked like globs. But, it was fun.

After we cleaned up, we got to "test drive" the math board games we designed and built this week. 

Period 6/7's game, "Memory," had an Egyptian theme. The math questions were about geometry. They got first place in the competition.

Period 1/2 made a game called "Domaloc Race Track." The math questions were about mean, median, mode, range, and positive and negative numbers. It came out good and it was fun to play. 

Period 8/9 made a game that included Dakota hunting. You could get a horse and then you moved faster. You had to get to the tipi village to win. The math questions were about mean, median, mode and range and also had adding, subtracting and multiplying negatives. There was also absolute value and the 9 x Table.

Building Games

Last week, we got "hired" to build board games for Grade 5-12.

We had to work as a team. We had to make decisions. We had to work on the math, too.

We will get "paid" between $100 and $300 each for our work. We are also competing for a prize.

Each game has a different theme:

• Racing
• Egypt
• Early Dakota Life

Stay tuned so you can see the finished games!

Hard Work Pays Off!

We take the MAP tests three times a year. At the beginning of the year, we wrote down our scores on an index card. We keep it in our Work Box. 

This week, almost all of us finished our mid-year testing. We had a lot of questions in math that we knew how to do now! We had geometry questions, questions about graphs, negative numbers, and even multiplying questions. 

We tried to use our strategies for reading comprehension:

• Skim first, then read it slowly. Skimming and reading are not the same thing.
• Use the clues (context) for new words.
• Go back to the reading because the answer is almost always in there. 

We also used a lot of our test -taking strategies. The most important or helpful ones we used were:

1. Peek at the questions before you read. Then read. Then answer the questions.
2. Go back and look at the reading again to check before you click.
3. "Slash the trash" (eliminate answers you know are wrong).
4. Take your time. There is no need to rush.
5. Ask for breaks when you need them. 
6. Use scrap paper.
7. If you have to guess, do an "educated guess."

Nobody enjoys testing. But we all did our best! Everyone in our program who improved on their score got to put their initials on the Wall of Champions!

Taƞyan ecaƞnuƞ !

• Maza
• Jevon
• Itancan
• Dom
• Tate
• Jaden 
• Robert
• Isaiah
• Glendean

Those who improved their scores will also get to go to a movie in January.

Lakota Nation Invitationals

This week, a lot of Tiospa Zina students, staff, and parents went to "LNI," Lakota Nation Invitational. It is in Rapid City. 

We will have students competing in basketball, hand game, and archery. There is also a Language Bowl competition. 

This year is the first year TZ sent work to the LNI Art Show. \

Our classmate Tahtay Win is one of the artists! Hers is the small diamond design with a black background.

Congratulations for having your work chosen to represent us at LNI!

Lots of Celebrating!

We have been busy here. We have a lot to celebrate!

Robert receives his November award
for Book-a-Month Club

Robert, Itancan, and Lee received the November BAM Club awards. Way to go!! BAM Club means "Book-a-Month." We can read a book or listen to it on Learning Ally apps.

Itancan also completed the Rubik's Cube!

Itancan studied the algorithms until
he succeeded. Good work!

Maza was the first in our program to complete it. He practices a lot. His top speed to complete it is 1 minute and 27 seconds!

Maza was the first to complete his cube!

A lot of us are working on solving the cube, but it is really hard! We can work on solutions when we finish our other work. Sometimes "Cube" is our assignment, too. 

Lee almost has the "white face" completed
in this picture.

This is our Leader Board.

We are in our second quarter of our Śuƞginyaƞgkiyapi (Pony Race). Sister Patrice even got an Attendance Award! It is her second one this year. The teachers can get one every month if they have 100 % attendance.

Sister Patrice looks very proud.

We also are happy to share some of our thoughts with the rest of the school. Here is our hallway display we made after we read about the Medal of Freedom. It is the highest US medal for civilians. It only goes to people who do stuff to make the world better. It is a way of showing gratitude. 

After we did the story, we thought about what we are grateful for. We made posters. A lot of kids look at the posters in the hallway.