Miriam Teodosio presents ideas on a whiteboard while Writers’ Group members explore the merits of each. Conversations escalate into intense debates, sparking new and better ideas, as they engage more deeply in the pre-writing process. Their goal?  They plan to write a story. Together. Through weekly planning sessions, students are discovering how to design the story to accommodate many writers, working out the overarching conflict that will draw each character—and each writer—into the main storyline. 

PICTURE MAKE UP DAY

BELL Photography will be at the school for picture retakes on Friday, October 4th. You can see packages and prepay at WWW.BELLPHOTO.COM using the code sfjrfall19

SOCKTOBER!

 20s Problem

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

………………………………………….. = 20

Arrive at 20 in nine different ways, using:

• On the first line, only 1’s
• On the second line, only 2’s
• And so on… On the eighth line only 8’s.
• On every line, use the given digit no more than six times.

This past Thursday students who had read an adventure book and signed up prior to the event were invited to the library for pack time to try out some adventurous foods! Students were able to try eating Crickets, Worms, Queen Weaver Ants, Haggis, Turkish Delight, Spicy Chocolate, and other adventurous foods.

Some wild guests visited 7th grade College and Career Awareness classes today. Sarah Jacobson introduced several animals from Wild Wonders Animal Rescue while teaching students about animal careers. Some students took the chance to pet some of the animals after the presentation. 

Banana Tag is one of the many PE warm ups that takes place here at the Jr. High school.

 Such a fun way to start a class!

Kaleb Patten, Brayden Reese, Cole Bailey and Zachary McGowan all play an intense game of 4-square as Ethan Rivera and Blake Wood watch on. 

4-square is quite the "Hit" in PE classes!

The Spanish Fork Junior High Hope Squad went on a field trip today to Camp Maple Dell.

The kids got to know each other better while supporting each other on the ropes course and zip line!

Weeeeeeeeeeee!

The SFJH Counselors recently spoke to all the Freshmen Social Studies students on two topics-- getting ready to go to Spanish Fork High School and preparing for college and careers.