The National PTA Reflections Program encourages students of all ages and abilities to explore and be involved in the arts for fun and recognition. Our theme this year is: "Let Your Imagination Fly".  This year, we had a record number of entries.  Thank you to all of the students, parents and teachers who supported this year's Reflections. 

Each year students are recognized for their artistic ingenuity to bring the theme to life in a way that is personal and meaningful.  Our winners for the 2015-16 year at Spanish Fork High School are:

7th Grade:

                1st – Jaden Kay

                2nd – Kayden Wonacott

                3rd –Leah Jensen

 8th Grade:

                1st – Kacie Rosales

Students in Mrs. Thompson's ESL class just finished reading the story of Sadako, a young Japanese girl who finds she has leukemia ten years after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

In connection with the novel, students read about leukemia, the atom bomb, and the thousand paper crane legend. They also learned a little origami in the process.

Marble Mayhem

 Fred, Ginger, Julio and Dawn decide to play marbles.  Fred empties his bag of marbles and divides them equally among the four players.  Everyone gets at least one marble.  There is one marble left over.

 At that moment, Jake joins them and asks to play.  They gather up all Fred’s marbles and redivide them among the five kids.  There is still one marble left over.

It’s not easy to beat Mrs. Parker in the 7th Grade Language Arts Reading Challenge, but every year at least one student does. This year it was Isabel Francis. Isabel came in first place having read 26 books or 8,403 pages compared to Mrs. Parker’s 25 books or 7,474 pages.

Have a happy and safe Halloween this weekend!

Parents, Students and Friends –

 Halloween Costumes

Are you interested in learning how apps or electronic games work?  Or how websites or software programs operate? If you are interested in learning the language of computers (computer coding), starting in November Nebo School District is offering after-school classes for students in grades 4-9 in various locations throughout the district.  Please click this link for further information or to register for coding camps.  

Nebo’s own Spanish Fork Junior High’s orchestra teacher, Angela Harman, was recognized by the “Teaching Music” magazine in the October 2015 issue.  

Chad Criswell writes, “Almost every music education classroom can be enhanced in some way through the use of technology.” He goes on to spotlight Angela’s innovation with technology from iPads and apps to GarageBand software.

Today, seventh graders in Mrs. Nielsen’s second pod were excited. In fact, excited might not even be the right word—let’s use ecstatic!

Yesterday, pod 2, the smallest of Mrs. Nielsen’s classes , inched past pod 3 on the 100 Book Chart. They were really jazzed over this accomplishment because pod 3 is the biggest class with 31 students. “We’ve been behind them all term,” commented one student. “Now we only have two books until we reach 100!”