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Show Thursday, September 25, 2008 OREM TIMES Page 7 NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS Suncrest Elem. revs up for Road to Success Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Students at Suncrest Elementary El-ementary School got pumped up Friday about the school participating in the Ken Garff "Road to Success" reading program pro-gram during an assembly that featured magic tricks, teachers teach-ers riding BMX bikes, and the number 1,619,200. The figure is the school's reading goal in minutes for the Road to Success reading program pro-gram through which students can win cool prizes, Utah Blaze Area Football League game tickets and even a visit from Chief, the mascot for the Utah Blaze. Suncrest's entire student body assembled in the gym Friday morning was dazzled by illusionist Mike Hamilton, who interspersed a variety of magic acts while underscoring underscor-ing the importance of reading. Several students were picked out of the crowd by Hamilton to assist him with an assortment assort-ment of magic demonstrations that drew oohs and ahhs from the children. Tom Freeman, principal of Suncrest Elementary, said the school goal for the reading program is for each student to read 20 minutes per day, five days a week. Smaller children can count minutes that their parents or siblings read aloud to them. Parents sign off on the minutes read, and for every ev-ery 100 minutes, students get to put a certificate with their name on it in a special box for drawings to win bicycles and other prizes. Two students in grades preschool through kindergarten kin-dergarten will win bikes along r 4 .n eill MICHAEL RIOERTNorth County Students at Suncrest Elementary look on in amazement on Friday as illusionist Mike Hamilton performs magic acts on stage in the school cafeteriagymnasium. The assembly kicks off the school's "Road to Success" reading program in which students are encouraged to read 20 minutes daily. with two students in grades 4-6. "You can earn prizes by your own efforts," Freeman told students. "If you can read 20 minutes a day, get really loud." The gymnasium erupted with students shouting, cheering cheer-ing and being vocal. Individual classes will set class goals for reading and students will sign their names to class posters pledging their support to reach the goals. When the school gets half way to its goal or 809,600 minutes Utah Blaze mascot Chief will visit the school. Hamilton said Suncrest Elementary was one of 220 schools across Utah partici pating in the Road to Success reading program. Sixth grader Jackie Ojeda, who aspires to one day become a tennis player, said her favorite favor-ite books are mysteries, including includ-ing recent favorite, "Among the Brave" from Margaret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children series. She plans to read at least two books a month during Suncrest's reading read-ing program. "Sometimes I read more than 20 minutes a day," Ojeda said. Classmate Shane Ostrom enjoys historical fiction. He recently read Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars" about the evacuation of Danish Jews from Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II. The story sto-ry is told through the eyes of a 10-year-old Danish girl who assists as-sists a Jewish friend to escape the Germans across the sound to Sweden. Ostrom said he reads a lot, "depending on how good the book is." Shaylee Evans, also a sixth grader at Suncrest, likes mysteries like the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne Os-borne and Sal Murdocca. She wants to teach school some day and said that learning to read is important. "So when you are older you know what's being said," Evans said. "And when you're driving ... so you don't go off a curve." Mountain View High School Yearbook Photo and ID makeup day Will be today. Evening of Shakespeare Will be tonight at 7. Utah County Academy of Sciences Student Educational Occupation Occupa-tion Plan meetings Begin on Monday, Oct. 6. Lakeridge Junior High School School Picture Retakes Will be held on Friday. UHS Spirit Week Begins on Monday and runs through Friday, Oct. 3. UVU Conference for Ninth Graders Will be on Tuesday. Tues-day. PTSA Meeting Will be held on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Drama Team at Shakespeare Festival The Drama Team will compete in the Shakespeare Shake-speare Festival in Cedar City on Oct. 2-3. Cherry Hill Elementary Accelerated Learning Lab ALL'S Prime Time night get together in on Friday. Iowa Testing Runs through Friday for third- and fifth-grade students. Parents are encouraged to make sure their children attend school on those dates. Orem Elementary School Kindergarten Literacy Night Will be held tonight at 6:30 p.m. Road to Success reading program kickoff Will be on Monday. School Community Council Will meet on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. Kindergarten field trip to HeeHaw Farms Will be on Wednesday. Turn Off Violence Day Will be on Oct. 2. Westmore Elementary School Cat Walk Awards assembly and Cookie Dough fundraiser kickoff Will be held on Friday Fri-day at 9:30 a.m. Cookie Dough fundraiser Begins on Monday. Net Smart Assembly Will be held on Oct. 3, at 9:30 a.m. for preschool through second-grade students and at 10:15 a.m. for grades 3-6. bruin i Tiana Cole Last weekend. I discovered a magically delicious new treat. No, it wasn't a bag of Lucky Charms; it was much. much better. My new favorite indulgence is gelato. On Saturday night, my dad took our family to Maestros Gelato Cafe in downtown Provo, situated between Los Hermanos and ComedySportz on Center Street. I had had gelato ge-lato before, but that was when I was much younger, and not old enough to appreciate it. My dad loved gelato when he lived in Italy, and he was very excited when he found the real deal here in the states. For those who may not know what it is, gelato is essentially es-sentially the Italian version of ice cream. However, its flavor is twice as rich, and is two-thirds two-thirds less fattening than ice cream. When done correctly, gelato is much smoother than your average Dreyer's or Blue Bunny, and it is so light that if you sit with a bite of it in your mouth, it will just disappear. Now, you may be tempted to say "Well, of course it will just melt away; it's a frozen treat." But really, it's that light. Walking into Maestros, it is a very chic yet charming place. Both the advertising board that faces the street and the display board behind the counter are flat screen monitors that can be updated in an instant. The screen near the door rotates its message every few seconds, so as to provide more information about the cafe. Your gelato is served with authentic gelato miniature spoons, which are squared off at the tip instead of round like traditional dessert spoons. The price range is anywhere from $3 for a single scoop to $14 for a quart. They also serve dessert des-sert crepes and hot chocolate. Maestros is open late (until 11 on weekdays, midnight on Fridays and Saturdays), so it is a great place to take a date, or to satisfy a late-night craving. It is a place I think I will be visiting more often now, and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. kWjTlHI SffMiEl SjTlRE-Eff '4 (felMi www.martirtscollistcmrepair.com SATISFACTION V- 71 f (GUARANTEED ps - ij'f " o m i -t. 0 NURSERY RHYMES CRA1Q D4L6ERDaity Herald Kindergarten Students at Westmore Elementary in Orem march from classroom to classroom dressed as their favorite nursery rhyme characters on Friday. 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