November 2011

The SFJH FFA organization traveled to Louisville, KY and Indianapolis, IN for the national FFA convention which was held October 18th  to 24th. More than 50,000 FFA members from all over the United States attended the event.

Five students from Spanish Fork and five students from Maple Mountain were selected to attend. “Our chapter received the National Chapter Award, which only the top 2% percent of the over 7,000 FFA chapters can receive,” Mrs. Myers told the Lobo Howl.

Mrs. Thompson, a seventh-grade English teacher at SFJHS, attended a professional development program called the Central Utah Writing Project (CUWP) this summer. CUWP is a program to encourage everyone to write more; students and teachers alike. The course she attended was for four weeks at the Alpine School District Professional Development Center in American Fork.

We are ready to congratulate our five finalists for our songwriter’s competition hosted and judged by: Mrs. Hopkins (Choir Teacher). Sariah Lee, India Quist, Kaitlin Adams Hailey Boggess and Zac Hansen are all fabulous song writers, as we saw in the Assembly a couple of weeks ago.

Sariah Lee, a ninth grader, wrote the song; Falling. She thinks that it is,” A good song that many people can relate to".

Our very own Mr. Anson recently taught teachers from all over the state of Utah at the annual UCTE/LA Conference help in Salt Lake City. 

Do you know Mr. Bass? He is a science teacher for 8th and 9th graders and has been teaching here at SFJHS for 22 years. The Lobo Howl interviewed Mr. Bass, and discovered some cool facts.

           One of the questions we asked was, “What is your most embarrassing teaching moment?” He replied, “I came to school and was teaching first period before I realized I was only in underwear.  Actually this was only a dream but the memory of that dream still scares me.”

A couple weeks ago, the 4-H program at our school sponsored a service project.  The goal was to collect coats for Tabitha's Way.

Tabitha's Way is a local non-profit Christian thrift store looking to help the less fortunate. Tabitha's Way opened its doors in 2010.   Wendy Osborne got the inspiration for the store when reading Acts 9:36-42.  She felt it was important to open the store to help others in need. Osborne will only charge people $1.00 for a coat, but only if they can afford to pay. The $1 goes to help pay the rent for the building.

Congratulations to Mr. Ferrin! He has been awarded Faculty Teacher of the Month for November. There were quite a few amazing nominations sent in for him. Here they are:

Eric Ferrin is always willing to help with computer issues--Brad Dayton

Eric Ferrin because he runs around solving all our computer issues and still manages to teach his classes--Katrina Davenport

Red Ribbon Week at Spanish Fork Junior High School was held October 31 through November 4.  Monday was Halloween, so students were asked to dress in red.  The Junior Honor Society visited their classes and rewarded students with some candy to start off their day with a slow dose of sugar for the night to come.  A Pie-Eating contest was held during both lunches in the cafeteria.  Two students from each grade and two teachers competed to down some pumpkin pies in a hurry.  Mr. Bartholomew and Mr.

Here are the winners of the Zombie Haiku Contest 2011:
7th Grade:       
1st place           Katherine Weber
2nd place          Natalie Wilcox
3rd place           Aidan Dayton