The Springville Junior High School choir will be performing a candlelight concert for parents on Friday, December ninth at 7:30. Mrs. Leslie Walker, SJHS choir teacher, said,“It’s a very nice concert because we honor people who have given service to the school and to the community.”

The Master Singers, who are ninth graders, will be singing five songs. The Journeymen, who are eighth graders, will also be singing five songs. The Knightingales, who are eighth-graders, will be singing four songs. The Master Singers and the Journeymen will be singing three songs together.

Mr.Mitch Cudney, the art and photography teacher at SJHS, is letting imagination and creativity be expressed through the hands in his sculpting class.  For one of these sculpture projects, the students had to sculpt a humanistic head out of clay.  However, according to Mr. Cudney, there is a process you go through before you start sculpting.  Mr. Cudney said, “The students will sketch out their sculpture, get ideas from other artists, and create an original design.”

On October 27, Brian Smith, or “the man” as lots of kids call him, came to SJHS to teach kids about how to make Japanese food.  Brian is related to Mrs. Luke, the foods teacher at SJHS, and so she was really happy to see him again. Brian spent two years in Japan, and he LOVES to cook Japanese food. It’s his seventh year coming to teach kids how to cook. He has been teaching ninth graders only, but two years ago, he started to teach eighth graders too.  He has taught them how to make salads and salad dressings.  He also taught them about fruits and other healthy foods.

The journalism class at Springville Jr. High School is an elective class for students who like to write. The journalism students write articles about junior high happenings and spotlight articles about members of the SJHS community.  

In Mr. Sam Dahl’s science class at SJHS, the eighth-grade students made a periodic table of the elements.  Mr. Dahl assigned elements from the periodic table to the students, and the students went to a computer lab to research their assigned element.  Darien Karren, a student in Mr. Dahl’s class, said, “The funnest part was getting to draw and getting to color the element cards we made.”  The students were also able to make more element cards for extra credit.

Mr. Greg Shields, Mrs. Elizabeth Bass and Mrs. Lise Carpenter, the teachers of the eighth grade pod decided to do a pod activity with their second, third and fourth period classes.  They decided that they would do a tie-dying activity because of the book they read in Mrs. Bass’s classes called “Schooled.” "Schooled" is about a teenage hippy that has lived with his hippy grandma his whole life. But when his grandma gets injured he gets his first taste of the real-world and gets elected as Claverage Middle School's eight-grade president.   Along with making tie-dyed shirts, Mrs. Carpenter made some home made root beer with dry ice which had to do with what her classes where learning at the time.

Sarah Emmett and Kelty Cope, eighth graders at Springville Junior High School, are making fleece quilts for Primary Children’s Hospital.  Primary Children's is a hospital that specializes in helping really sick children.

According to Mrs. Adrienne Murray, service learning teacher, Sarah Emmett and Kelty Cope are in charge of the quilt making for Primary Children’s Hospital.

Sarah Emmett said, “When the children from Primary Children’s Hospital come out of surgery, they have a blanket, and they will feel special, and think that someone made this blanket just for me.” 

Ms. Rachel Neeley, the creative writing teacher at Springville Junior High School, adds mystery to what students learn at school.  Here is the basic process of how mystery stories are written:  Ms. Neeley presented several different books to her class, each on the topic the class has chosen to write about, in this case mystery.  They learned about the general characteristics of that particular genre, and then learned what needs to be included in that type of writing. Then the students will planned their story with a plot diagram and a character sketch.  After they finished those things, they wrote the rough draft, then edit and peer review.

Students who are not understanding math or having trouble with math, there’s no need to fear! Mrs. Meredith Sabey is here! Mrs. Sabey is the new half-time math teacher at Springville Junior High School. Her job is to help students with math when they are struggling. 

“I teach a math intervention for seventh through ninth grade. It is a class that helps students get more practice with certain math concepts they might be struggling with. We work on assignments in class, and I help students understand the concepts a little bit better,” Mrs. Sabey said. Mrs. Sabey started working here the third week of school and she teaches fifth, sixth, and seventh period. 

Students at SJHS begin in band the seventh grade and continue in eighth and ninth grade. Students learn to play the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, or percussion. Their first concert is on Wednesday, December 14th and second one Wednesday, May 16th. 

Most students' favorite part of band is the awesome music they play and Mr. Booth’s humor. Mr. Booth tells a lot of stories. Hannah Grosland, an eighth-grade student at SJHS, said, “I wanted to take band because I wanted to learn to play an instrument.”