May 2014

The purpose of the 9th grade honors English summer assignment is to help students continue to develop strong reading and interpretive abilities. 

For this assignment you will need to read one of the books listed on the second page of the assignment.  As you read the book you will need to keep a reading response journal.  The journal should have two columns.  Look at the PDF above for more detailed information.  

 SJHS went to districts! On Thursday, May 15 and Friday, May 16 students from our school represented Springville Jr. High and completed at the Nebo district track meet.         

 On Thursday, May 29th, Springville Junior High is going to Lagoon for our annual Lagoon Day! 

“It has been a tradition to go to Lagoon for a long time. I love to watch the kids having lots of fun! My favorite thing is definitely going to Pioneer Village for a cinnamon roll,” said Ms. Wimmer, a secretary at SJHS.

“It’s been a tradition for as long as I can remember. I love just visiting and talking with friends from other schools and talking to the kids in a casual way. My favorite ride would have to be colossus,” said Mr. Van Ausdal, the principal at SJHS.

On Friday, May 16th, the last choir concert of the year was held.  “I love all of the songs, but some of my favorites were, ‘There's No Business Like Show Business’ - because I it comes from one of my favorite musicals, Annie Get Your Gun; ‘Mama, I'm a Big Girls Now,’ from Hairspray, because the girls had so much fun doing it; ‘For Good,’ from Wicked, because of the great message of the song, ‘Lion King Medley,’ from Lion King: The Musical, because I have always loved the movie; and ‘Do You Hear The People Sing?’ because it is so powerful!” said Mrs. Utrera, the choir teacher at SJHS.        

For the last few weeks of school, Mrs. Maughan’s English classes are doing “I’m the teacher” presentations. The students pick something they want to teach the class, and they go up in front of the class for at least five minutes. According to Mrs. Maughan, she does not remember how she decided to do this assignment but she loves it. It is her favorite assignment of the whole year!

On Wednesday May 21st, the last band concert of the year was held in the SJHS auditorium. 

The seventh graders played “Eclipsys”, “Hogan's Heroes March”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (The Beatles), “Stonehenge”, “Thriller”, and “Y.M.C.A.” The eighth graders played “Swahili Folk Hymn”, “Raiders March” (Indiana Jones), “Three Welsh Songs”, “Best of the Beatles”, and “Jurassic Park”. The ninth graders played “New Forest March”, “Down By the Salley Gardens”, “Pueblo”, “Michael Jackson Hit Mix”, and “Smoke on the Water”. 

Mr. Kindrick, a science teacher here at SJHS, had his students build mousetrap cars a couple weeks ago, like many of the other science teachers. Mr. Kindrick gives a prize to the student who breaks the record of the year.

Jackson Chambers, an eighth grade student, made his car expecting it to go about 60 or 70 feet. Jackson’s car went 99 feet, breaking the record of this year which was 73 feet. 

Jackson said the biggest struggle he had to deal with was time. He felt like he had a lot to do in short amount of time.  

Mrs. Jackson is a math teacher that has been teaching at Springville Junior High for 19 years.   She is from Indiana, and is married with four boys.  She loves to watch sports and be outside with her kids.

Mrs. Jackson said, “Spending time with my family and teaching are two of the best ways to spend my time.”

She chose math as her major because it always came easy for her.  She really loves doing all types of math.  After doing some education classes she knew that she wanted to teach.  She knew it would be something different everyday and that seemed fun to her.

Abby Smith, seventh grade student, said, “She teaches very well and is easy to understand.”        

On Wednesday, May 7th, the SJHS orchestra classes performed in the Utah Valley University Orchestra Festival. The festival included orchestras from many different schools and took place at the UVU Sorenson Center in the Ragan Theater. The Springville students performed from 1:30pm to 2:30pm.

On Monday, May 5th, seventh and eighth grade students elected the student council for the 2014-2015 school year!  The winners of the election were Jared Buhler, Easton Call, Zack Dalley, Lauryn Davis, Ryker Jenkins, Claire Pexton, and Chloe Wimmer.       

Lauryn Davis said, “When they called my name, it felt like everything stopped.  I was like, ‘Did I hear that right?’  I was really surprised!  I want to be on student council so that instead of just coming to school, I can come to school and actually make a difference daily.”