Kangaroos in English

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On April 28, 2010, students in Ms. Tiffanie Miley’s seventh grade English class were all in shock when a kangaroo jumped into their classroom. Throughout the semester, Andalyn Hall, a student in Ms. Miley’s first period class, has told the class about her grandfather’s kangaroo.  Her grandfather and mom brought the kangaroo in to surprise Andalyn and the rest of the class to celebrate the end of state testing.

Andalyn’s grandfather, Grandpa Dutch, owns a farm in Springville where he raises animals. After his kangaroo is full grown, he will give the kangaroo to one of his friends who keep full grown kangaroos.

Attributions
Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writer

Student-Led Conferences to be held Thursday, April 29th

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Springville Junior High School’s Student-Led Conferences will be held tonight from 3:30-8:30 pm.  The purpose of the Student-Led Conference is two-fold.  First, students will be actively involved in reflecting on their progress and accomplishments.  Second, the Student-Led Conferences provide an opportunity for students to improve communication skills and discuss their understanding of their own learning process. 

Ninth Grade Band festival at Spanish Fork High School

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Mr. Booth’s ninth grade band class competed in a district festival on April 16, 2010, at Spanish Fork High School. The ninth grade band has been preparing for this festival since before Christmas and has worked hard to get to where they are today. 

The band played three pieces of music: Appalachian Morning, Lost Mountain, and All Glory Told. These pieces of music were challenging, and difficult for the band to learn. They worked hard, and dedicated their band class to becoming better.

The ninth grade band will also be performing in a district festival at U.V.U on May fifth, where they will be performing the same songs.



 

Attributions
Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writer

Yuda Bands sold at SJHS

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Students at Springville Junior High School are considered very lucky to have the opportunities they do, by living here, in the United States. Other teens in the world aren’t as lucky to be able to go to school all through high school.

In an effort to help other teens in other places of the world, Springville Junior High is participating in fundraiser to help earn money for students around the world that aren’t as fortunate as others.

Attributions
Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writer

Wanted: 2010-11 Yearbook Staff

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Attention! Attention!  If you’re a 7th or 8th grader at SJHS, this is your chance to be on the 2010-2011 yearbook staff!  The time has come to sign up to help make this memorable book for the whole school. 

Yearbook is a fun class that lets you use your imagination.  You get to design pages, think of a theme, and put it all together.  You get to put your ideas with others’ and come up with an amazing book that the entire student body will remember for the rest of their lives. 

Attributions
Kristi Hatch, SJHS Staff Writer

95% Attendance Activity

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On Thursday, April 15, 2010, students at Springville Junior High School got to attend a movie at Spanish 8 Theater.  This activity is a reward for having 95% attendance that term, along with good citizenship grades and no F’s. 

Three movies were offered: Alice in Wonderland, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Lightning Thief.  Congratulations to these students!
 

Attributions
Kristi Hatch, SJHS Staff Writer

Citizens of the Year at SJHS

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Springville Junior High has a tradition that once every year, thirty students, ten from each grade, are selected to be students of the year. On April 2, 2010, these students went on a special field trip to Trafalga Family Fun Center for being voted citizens of the year at Springville Junior High. These students were nominated by teachers and staff for being outstanding citizens.

Attributions
Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writer

Yearbook Week at SJHS

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All year, eight SJHS students have been working hard to bring you a book that you will keep for the rest of your life.  Now all that’s left is for YOU to buy one! 

Yearbook Week is April 19-23.  This is the time for SJHS students to buy their 2009-2010 yearbook.  During this week, students who have bought a yearbook are put into a drawing for prizes, and a prize will be given away every day.  The last prize that will be given away will be an iPod shuffle, and you could be the winner! 

Attributions
Kristi Hatch, SJHS Staff Writer

Author Chris Crowe visits Springville Junior High

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In Mrs. Bass’s ninth grade English classes, they have been reading “Mississippi Trial 1955,” by Chris Crowe. As part of their learning experience, Mrs. Bass’s classes invited Dr. Crowe, an English Education professor from BYU, to come and speak to them about his book and the history behind it.

The book is about the famous Mississippi Trial and a boy who lived during that time. Dr. Crowe spoke about the cause of the trial, the results, and how different society was back then from how it is today. 

Attributions
Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writer

RASK Week at SJHS

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Every year, Springville Junior High School celebrates R.A.S.K. Week (Random Acts of Selfless Kindness). The purpose of this week is to encourage the students to perform service for others to form unity in the school.  The Service Learning class came up with different ideas to get students to get excited about helping others.  Each day, there’s a different theme to help students remember to help each other.

Starting on Monday, March 22, there were different activities going on at SJHS.  Monday was Sports Day, when students could dress up in their sports clothes and “Sport” Kindness, and there were organized sports outside during lunch.

Attributions
Kristi Hatch and Kara Dunn, SJHS Staff Writers