April 2012

SJHS’s Service Learning Cleans up Courtyard

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 15:32

The Service Learning students at Springville Junior High School have just finished a big project at SJHS. The students cleaned and fixed up the courtyard at SJHS. According to Mrs. Adrienne Murray, service learning teacher at SJHS, she was excited to help the school and the students with their service project. Tyler Johnson, Bailey Bird, Jacqueline Bradford, and Christopher Esklund were in charge of this project. These students planned and designed the landscape.

Attributions
Cassidy Bowers, SJHS Staff Writer

Students Make Mousetrap Cars in Science

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 13:45

Eighth-grade students in integrated science classes at Springville Junior High School were assigned to build a mousetrap car using one regular mousetrap as a source of power. You’re probably wondering how a mousetrap car works.  Mesa Bake, an eighth grade student at SJHS, said, “You need to use your notes and knowledge.”

Attributions
Rachel Dockstader, SJHS Staff Writer

Lights, Camera, Soundboard?

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:39

Did you know that there is a lights and sound crew at Springville Junior High School? Yes, you heard right, The lights and sound crew is made up of a group of hand-picked students here at SJHS. Mr. Shawn Hatfield, a teacher and the lights and sound advisor, at SJHS, said, “The crew does a very,very,very good job and they are very responsible.” 

Attributions
Lexey Anderson, SJHS Staff Writer

Spotlight: Ms. Neeley

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:32

Ms. Rachel Neeley is an English, creative writing, and yearbook teacher at SJHS. Janessa Lewis, Halle Acor, Morgan Martin, Stacy Staple, Meg Longhurst, Riley Brockbank, and Maiya Buckley love Ms. Neeley’s yearbook class, and are hoping students take her class next year.  “One thing Ms. Neeley can do so well, is always keeping her students on track and making sure they are focused,” said Morgan Martin, a ninth-grade yearbook student.

Attributions
Luanei Mulipola, SJHS Staff Writer

Students and Teachers Celebrate the End of Winter

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:28

Several SJHS students and teachers celebrated the start of spring and the end of winter by going to the Color Festival. The Color Festival was held on Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25 at the Sri Sri Radna Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.  The point of the Color Festival is to celebrate the end of winter and the start of spring. At the Color Festival, attendees buy chalk that comes in  many different colors and throw it on others.  People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other. They have a color countdown every two hours, where they count from ten and at one they throw colors in the air, which makes a cloud of many different colors in the air so everyone has at least some color on.

Attributions
Lexey Anderson, SJHS Staff Writer

Dance Class Salsa Dancing With Boys P.E.

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:24

Mrs. Erica Persson’s dance class salsa danced with Mr. Michael Parker’s Boys P.E. class at the end of March. Mrs. Persson thought that the boys and girls would have fun dancing together, and she was right! According to Caden Swendson, a ninth-grade student at Springville Junior High School, it was fun because a lot of the kids thought that they were too cool to dance, and that made it really funny. Caden also said his favorite step was “when the boys got to spin.”

There are a lot of different opinions about dancing. Some like it and some don’t. Sometimes it’s a fast learning process, and sometimes it’s slow. Caden said, “Some steps were fast and easy, but others seemed impossible.”

Attributions
Sarah Mitchell, SJHS Staff Writer

Lights, Cameras, and Action on Mrs. Droz

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:17

Mrs. Courtney Droz, a ninth-grade counselor, is very interested in counseling at SJHS. “I enjoy working with the students here, they’re all amazing and wonderful kids, and I love to get to know them.”  Claire Bunnell, a ninth-grade student, is always at Mrs. Droz office. According to Claire, she loves to go to see Mrs. Droz and talk to her, because she is so chillaxed, nice, and you could tell her anything you want.

Attributions
Luanei Mulipola, SJHS Staff Writer

How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck Could Take Woodshop?

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 13:06

Mr. David Rencher is the Introduction into manufacturing teacher, also called woodshop, at SJHS.  Mr. Rencher, said, ”I really love working with my hands and working with the problems that come with that kind of work.” Mr. Rencher has spent his whole teaching career at SJHS; he has been here for 20 years. Mr. Rencher, got his Master's and Bachelor’s Degrees both at BYU. “Woodshop is one of the things I did really well when I was in junior high,” Mr. Rencher said. 

Attributions
Katherine Johnson, SJHS Staff Writer

Spotlight: Mr. Wright

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 13:02

A new assistant principal has just come to Springville Junior High School. Mr. B.J. Wright was assigned to come to SJHS by BYU. He has taught third and sixth grade at Wilson Elementary School in Payson. According to Mr. Wright, he had the opportunity to be an intern principal at Riverview Elementary in Spanish Fork, as well as Lehi High School, in addition to here at SJHS. 

Attributions
Cassidy Bowers, SJHS Staff Writer

How to write a Journalism article, it’s THAT simple!

Submitted by tiffanie.miley on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 11:55

Did you ever wonder how the journalism class writes their articles? At Springville Junior High School, we have a school newspaper. That’s thanks to Ms. Tiffanie Miley, teacher of the journalism class at SJHS. The journalism class is in charge of writing articles and taking pictures for the newspaper. Ms. Miley created the system used to write an article. If the articles are well-written enough, they can be entered into the Springville Independent News, and maybe published in the next issue. Here’s how journalism students a journalism article.First, the student starts out with a brainstorm. They figure out what they already know, what they need to know, and who they can interview.

Attributions
Rachel Dockstader, SJHS Staff Writer