Students here at SJHS recently saw this years school musical, “Once Upon a Mattress,” which was choreographed by Mrs. Gleave, Springville Junior High School Geometry teacher. According to her, she loved the show and loved being able to work with all the talented students of SJHS.

Performances of the play went from March 10th to the 19th; although it wasn’t performed everyday. The performances were in the SJHS auditorium.  According to Darby Farr, ninth-grade cast member, her favorite part of the play was the ‘Spanish Panic’ dance.  She said, “It was kind of hard but way fun to learn and perform; the best move was when we did Soldier Boy!”

All seventh through ninth grade boys have the opportunity to participate in boys tennis.  At practice some of the things they do are play matches against each other, run drills, practice different hits and work on consistency. Tanner Garvais, an eighth grader as SJHS, said, “We do conditioning, run, and lots of other stuff, we don’t just play tennis.”

Mrs. Luke is mixing it up in the foods room. Students are cooking foreign cuisine and salads. A guest chef visited Mrs. Luke’s eighth and ninth grade food classes on March 21st. Brian Smith, Mrs. Luke’s brother-in-law, came to demonstrate a variety of foods for her students. Katelynn Marshall, ninth-grade student, said, “I liked it when he came.  It was really fun to learn to make all that food and watch him make it.”

Chef Brian Smith has been coming every semester to Mrs. Luke’s food classes for six years now. Mrs. Luke, foods teacher, said, “He comes because he loves to share great recipes and it’s always fun to have people come in and share new techniques and ideas.”

Student council is more than a few students who are on a committee for school—it’s  leadership. Most people want to run for student council because of the fame that comes along with it, but it’s also about being a good example to others.  Amanda Ripley, an eighth grader at SJHS, said, “I wanted to run for student council because I want the world to be a better place. I can start at SJHS with student council and then work my way to the world.” According to Mr. Knudsen, vice principal at SJHS, student council is an opportunity for students to be leaders. It’s also a chance to be able to hear the voice of the students towards school events.

A massive hunt for dark objects and mysterious signs in a book are what await Harry and his two best friends as they conclude their epic story. With Professor Dumbledore gone, they must continue his mission to stop Lord Voldemort, but this is no picnic. Ministry Wizards and Death Eaters have set a ten thousand galleon price on Harry’s head so he and his friends must embark on their journey in secret. Leaving the wizarding world in wonder of what has happened to them, Harry, Ron, and Hermione go on an adventure to end this epic series.

On March 21st through March 27th if you walked into Mr. Shields’s classroom you wouldn’t see him up there teaching. You would see his students, and if you looked around the room, you would see him sitting in the back of the room acting like an eighth grader.

Summer, the warm weather that everyone loves. On May 26th, school will be out for SJHS. Most people like summer for a time to take a break from school. Mr. Nelson, a history and body conditioning teacher at SJHS, said, “I’m very excited for summer because I love the warmth. This summer I’m moving up to Idaho to work on our cattle ranch with my wife.”  Some people just like to relax during summer. Caden Swendsen, a eighth grader at SJHS, said, “My favorite part of summer is sleeping all day, staying up all night, and parting like its 1999.”

NAEP stands for National Assessment Educational Progress. The NAEP test is taken to assess the nation’s educational progress. The test is a booklet like the end-of-year test, but much smaller.

The test takes about ninety minutes; some randomly selected eighth graders completed it on March ninth. There are four sections in the test. Three of the sections have to do with school subjects. The last section is about the student taking the test. Students were given about 25 minutes to complete each section.  The tests had different subjects. So if one person has a science test the person next to them may have a math or reading test.

On Monday, March 28th, Mrs. Bird’s service learning class and the student council took a bus up to Salt Lake and made kits at the Humanitarian Center for many different families, countries, or anyone that has gone through a natural disaster recently.

“It was fun!” said Andalyn Hall, an eighth grader at SJHS, “I liked being able to get out of school to do service.”

Service learning and the student council went up to the Humanitarian Center and were given a tour of it and then put to work in making different sorts of kits for people in need of them. There where three different kinds of kits: a newborn kit, school kit, and hygiene kit. Each of these kits where for different needs that people had.

Don’t you wish you could choose how your life went? What kind of person to be, what kind of setting, if you had powers? Well, the students in Mrs. Rice’s eighth-grade class got to do just that. Create Your Own Adventure (CYOA) is a project where the students in Mrs. Rice’s class got to make Power Point stories about books that they read where you get to choose your own adventure. This was done by making many slides and hyperlinking the choices to other articles that have more choices. The students worked on this during the month of March. This is an example of what it looks like:

You are a 12 year old potato farmer that found a strange turquoise potato while farming.

Choices:

Take it home and eat it