At SJHS, Music is Smart Too

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The Springville Junior High and High School Orchestras are using a program called Smart Music.  This program is used for playing test and more. Smart Music allows students to evaluate and listen to the way they play their instrument. Not only does it work for orchestra, but it works for band, choir and more.  Students can also tune their instrument and find and play other music during their free time. Also, the instructor, Dr. Samuel Tsugawa, can give assignments through Smart Music.

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Demmi Nava, SJHS Staff Writer

Springville Junior High School Freshman Basketball Teams Announced

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Freshman boys and girls basketball tryouts were held on November 7th and 8th.  The following students made the freshman boys’ basketball team: Britain Patten, Kenyon Jepperson, Tyson Galbraith, Nik Grosland, Sam Graves, Omar Garibay, Brandon Merkley, Skyler Spencer, Tristan Bradley, Andrew Creer, Preston Adams, Ryan Gage, and Coleman Lindquist. The following students made the freshman girls’ basketball team: Annie Anderson, Susie Suazo, Melanie Anderson, Ellis Bennett, Addie Bowers, Anna Bunnell, Sarah Clark, Talauna Davenport, Morgan Fulkerson, Jackie Gurtierrez, Andalyn Hall, Yolandy Leilua, Olivia Money, and Stacy Stapel. 

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Ali Earnshaw, SJHS Staff Writer

Service Learning Takes a Trip to Brookside

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Mrs. Adrienne Murray, the Service Learning teacher at Springville Junior High School, and her service learning walk to Brookside every Friday to work and play with some of the elementary students. Mrs. Murray said, “The service learning class has gone to Brookside on a regular basis. A few of the students have chosen to be in charge of going to the school as their semester service project.”  

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Cassidy Bowers, SJHS, Staff Writer

Freshmen Girls at SJHS make the High School Basketball Team

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This year at SJHS, we had two freshmen girls make the Springville High School basketball team. Lexi Moeaki and Lindsay Johnson, ninth grade, both made the junior varsity (JV) and sophomore teams. The teams practice, together, everyday from 3-5 PM, in the G-Wing gym at the high school, with the exception of Saturday practices that are usually in the morning. The JV and sophomore games start December 2nd at home, against Herriman and end the beginning of February. The JV team usually plays at 3:30 and the sophomores usually play at 7:00.

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Lydia Austin, SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. Cudney’s amazing photography class

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Photography is a one-semester class taught by Mr. Mitch Cudney. Photography takes place during sixth period. Mr. Cudney said he hopes to “get students excited about taking photographs” through this class. 

According to Sarah Mitchell, an eighth grader at SJHS, she likes photography because she likes the assignments that they get, and she enjoys taking pictures. Sarah said other kids in her class seem like they enjoy being part of photography.

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Chase Kimball, SJHS Staff Writer

SJHS November Super Knight Assembly

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On November 4, 2011, the students at SJHS attended an assembly for their Super Knights. During the assembly, a dance class performed and the 4H drama club performed for the rest of the student body. Mr. Ken Van Ausdal, SJHS principal, came up with the idea to give out Super Knight awards, and it started this year.

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Marin Rosenberg, SJHS Staff Writer

Students Sew During Quest Time

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       Mrs. Diane Bird, the clothing teacher at SJHS, is doing a sewing club during Quest Time.  During this time, students are making sling bags that tie at the shoulder. According to Mrs. Bird, she started the sewing club so all the students could participate in sewing, even if they could not get the clothing class in their schedule.   Shaylee Ferran, seventh grader at SJHS, said, “I like sewing club because I like learning how to sew different things.”

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Cassidy Bowers, SJHS Staff Writer

Ms. Dunn: New English Teacher at SJHS

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Ms. Jennifer Dunn, a new English teacher at Springville Junior High School, has always wanted to be a teacher. When she was really little, she would play school with her brothers and sisters and their stuffed animals, and she was always the teacher.  Three out of her four grandparents were teachers, and her dad is a professor at BYU. Ms. Dunn has always thought that education is very important. If she wasn’t an English teacher, then she would definitely want to teach history. She has always loved studying history; she is big into World War II.

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Allyson Smith, SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. Hansen’s eighth-grade history class learns about the stock market

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Mr. David Hansen’s eighth-grade U.S. History class had taken step back from learning about the colonies to learn bout the stock market. “It’s important to learn about stock market because the stock market is the foundation of America’s economy,” said Mr. Hansen.  

Mr. Hansen and his student teacher, Ms. Megan Cadworth, put together a simulation to show how the stock market works. Mr. Hansen gave the students fake paper money and then let the students decide if they wanted to buy stocks or not. “I bought five stocks and I thought I would do ok, but in the end I lost a lot of money,” said Haylee Markham, an eighth grader at SJHS.

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Clarissa Scott, SJHS Staff Writer