Grab your pom-poms and megaphones and hold onto your seats cause our SJHS 8th grade cheer team is about to rock your world! They dance, they stunt, and they will blow your socks off with their dances and cheers.
Its Halloween time at SJHS and people are starting to figure out what they are going to dress up as. The Halloween Spirit starts the month of October. We asked a few of SJHS students about what they are going to be for Halloween and a lot of them had some interesting responses. Most people dress up to have fun and get candy. Oh, and you can't forget to scare people when you dress up!
Did you hear about the mummies in Mr. McKell’s class? That’s right, on Thursday October sixth, Mr. McKell’s geography classes learned about Egypt and the mummification process while doing a hands on activity to learn about it. During this activity, the students practiced drying things out by drying and preserving apples. They also practiced their mummy wrapping skills by wrapping one another up in toilet paper. Mr. McKell says, “I did the mummification process activity, because first off, I think it is always good to try to make learning fun. I thought it would make students more engaged and interested in learning about mummification and Egypt in general.”
Find out what’s cooking up in the kitchen today! Here at Springville Junior High we have an incredible staff in our cafetorium. The ladies put in a lot of hard work just for us to eat. Getting the lunch room ready, the food cooked and serving the food doesn’t just take an hour or two; it takes all day and when they’re done they already have to start on tomorrow’s lunch and breakfast.
Most students in 9th grade at Springville Junior High take advantage of a special opportunity to participate in a different type of elective during release time. These students take a seminary class for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Some students have seminary early in the morning before school, and some have it during the day for one of their class periods. There are two teachers: Brother Jepsen and Brother Hurst.
In this day and age, it is getting more and more important to know what one of many career pathways you are going to take. This is the exact reason Mrs. Distefano, 7th grader counselor, decided to set up a Quest Time opportunity in room 404 for students to watch a presentation about a certain career. The presenter is someone who knows lots about the profession, usually being someone who has gone down that certain career pathway. Mrs. Distefeno told us the biggest problem she had was not enough people knowing about it, so hopefully by the end of the article, you’ll consider attending one of the presentations. There’s an infinite number of careers; so there has to be one for you!
This year the Golf team is swinging their way to victory with great technique and amazing skill! Some of these students are pros and have been doing golf for years!
What is Peer Tutor? What do you do in Peer Tutor? Is it fun? If you're like me, you have asked these questions and more.
I hope that by now, based on the title, you have guessed that I am talking about the heavenly, sweet mouth watering thing, chocolate.
Chocolate comes from the cacao tree. It only grows in tropical places. The pods are as big as a butternut squash and they hold 30-50 almond sized beans. The beans have to ferment for 3-5 days. Then they are sorted into cocoa nibs 47% and 53% cocoa liquor. Which is not alcoholic by the way. It is then mixed with vanilla and sugar and lecithin which is basically a fat. Also the average chocolate bar has insect parts in it.
