Ms. Holly’s fourth period Drama students, all seventh graders, are busy writing scripts, designing sets, and creating puppets for productions after Winter break.

Students are in charge of all aspects of their productions.  During the last week before the break, students were busy creating their set pieces.  Performances start once they get back.

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 New Math Teachers and Student Schedule Changes

Winning is fun, but losing shows us what we need to learn.  This was the case for the Lady Lobos this week after their efforts came up short against Salem Junior’s girls’ team.  The final score was 31-24, Salem.  Here are Coach Harmer’s observations.

“The Lady Lobos struggled at their game on Monday against Salem Jr.  They got off to a slow start and were never really able to get the energy and intensity up that they needed to win the game.”

Coming off a win over Mapleton, the SFJH Lobos left home court advantage behind to battle the boards with the Salem Spartans on Monday.  We’ll let Coach Johnson fill in the details:

“The boys’ basketball team traveled to Salem Jr. on Monday and was able to leave with the W.  The Lobos played a very tightly contested defensive battle and were able to come out victorious with a 49 to 42 victory over the Spartans.”

“I am very pleased with how we took care of the ball throughout the game--we were able to create turnovers on several occasions.” 

If you weren’t at Friday’s boys’ basketball game against Mapleton Junior, you missed a great show.  Despite the hot shooting of the Mustang’s Cameron Dorney, the Mustangs fell to our mighty Lobos 64-46.

Coach Johnson sent us his thoughts on the game:

Camden McDonald, an eighth-grade student at Spanish Fork Jr. High, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on December 11, 2015 and a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship. 

The school-level Bee was the first round in the 28th annual National Geographic Bee.  In order to participate in the Bee, eighth graders had to pass a written test with a high qualifying score. During the bee itself, qualifying students answered questions orally on geography.  

Mapleton Junior’s girls’ basketball team showed up ready to play on Friday, December 11th. What an exciting game!  Coach Harmer sent us this report with the details.

“Friday’s game with Mapleton was a tough and well fought battle.  Both teams came out strong and the game was close the whole time.”

12 Days of Gifts

In the traditional holiday carol called " The Twelve Days of Christmas," what is the total number of gifts given?

Here are the latest results for the Spanish Fork Junior High Girls’ Basketball team. 

 December 3, 2015—The Lady Lobos slashed the Springville Junior Knights by 21 points in their last meeting.  the final score for the Springville game was 48-27. Top scorers are:

Riley Jaussi 11pts

Katie Huntsman 12 pts

December 7, 2015—Mt. Nebo Junior put an end to the Spanish Fork girls’ winning streak on Monday.  The Lady Lobos fell to the Panthers with a score of 29-27.

On December 8th, SFJH’s FFA had a Christmas Party for all its members.  Here is a report from FFA members Katelynn Poulsen  and Katelyn Beckstead:

“We ate donuts and drank hot chocolate.  There was also a white elephant gift exchange and then we watched the movie “Elf.”  There were about 30 students who came.  It was fun to meet new friends and celebrate! Hope to see more at the next event!  Merry Christmas!!”