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Show Thursday, April 27, 2006 Page 4 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN , : notes W f. AND I D f A S FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS Kids woof down books Students read to dog as reward for good behavior B.irbira Christiansen Readers at ( irifiiwood I I cmi'iitai v S luxil arc literally going to the dogs. At least one dog. In I ;iVee Kawakann's third gi adc i lass, the students read to Murphy, an An edale terrier o'., in d by hei daughter, Kim-l't Kim-l't Iv She brings linn in at least oik f a week to listen to the children chil-dren as tbey read. Some niav ask il Murphy really listens, but Kitnlwi ly Kawakami Ix'lieyes he does. Not onlv that, but she thinks he icadilv anticipates his visits to the school. "I tell him that is where we ai uoing and he star ts dancing danc-ing around the room," she said. "I If gets excited to see the kids, lie loves It. lie likes heal mg then voir es, and having hav-ing them pav attention to him. I think he likes the stones they ai e telling." When the students read to Murphv, Kawakamt listens, following fol-lowing along to catch errors or oiler hints for Ix'tiei pionuncia lion or expression. She had considered doing volunteer work with htm lor some lime. "I read an article in the news-pac news-pac alxnit service dogs, going go-ing to the hospital or library," she said "I alwavs planned on doing that. About a year and a hall ago, Mom and I started talking about bringing Murphv into the ( lassroom, but the situation situ-ation wasn't right then." Times i hanged and she stall ei introducing him at the school in January. "We brought him in and so cialred him," she said "It has turned out really well." Murphy is not the only one who etiiovs the sessions, ( irotips ol students take turns sitting on a large rug with Murphv. Mur-phv. They select lxxks to bring with them ami read silently or aloud to the dog, Kimlx't lv Kawakami said they if ifii ( boose Ixxiks based Students scoff at skin Mason Porter I ast week Alpine School I iistrii t gi anted students the longest spring break in recent memory. Some people leli town to get a nice, natural tan and increase I hen ( hauce ol skin cancer, while others opted to stay close to hi line, go to Beat lies to fake bake and increase their chance of skin (ancer. I.tther wav, anyone who showed up to si hool mi Monday with pale skin hi minimal freckles freck-les was eii her i epi imanded or shunned. I.indsey Moult ne, a senior, returned re-turned to sclitxil with a nice tint IH: f 0 h Ml - "V. jM ' M 4 1 Robert Morris reads "Rosie's House" School. on whether they think Murphy will enjoy them. "'Do you think Murphy is going to like this bxk?' they ask me," she said. "They have found different Ixxiks, like (hose in the Boxcar Children series A couple of kids have come up to my mom and showed her those books have a dog like Murphy." There are requirements for the students to earn the privilege privi-lege to read to the dog. They must Ix." on task and doing inde-X'iident, inde-X'iident, guided reading. They have learned skills through the exxTienee. "It teaches them to socialize with an animal and to respect dogs," Kimlx'ily Kawakami said. " They waik quietly and always come up and pat him at the end of class. After they read, they get to through the dog a Ix ine." Increased reading skills have caveman of red brone on her face and arms. When asked about the increase of melanocytes in her epidermis she said, "1 got this bronze physique while prancing around St (ieorge for a day." She expressed her feelings on skin cancer as well. "Il l get it, it's because I am supposed to get it." She's right. She is supposed to get it because she lollygags around outdoors without proper protection in plain view of the l?V rays that the sun emits or 1 1 1 mm kif I 1 f. 9. s , V V I MMMMkMMMteMIMAHIIIitlMltolMMMHlllliMIII BARBARA CHRISTIANSENNorth County to Murphy the reading dog listens at Greenwood Elementary also resulted, she said. "I think their reading is different dif-ferent when they read with Murphy," she said. LiiVee Kawakami agreed. "They have increased in their fluency and expression," she said. The students have been enthusiastic en-thusiastic about the experience. "It Ls interesting and fun," Chase Lindsey said. "It is like I am reading to another person." "I can read out loud and it helps me catch words if I have missed them," Jaiden Losee said. "I think he likes it." Harley Griener agreed. "I like it because he lays on my lap and I like reading to him because it gets me more into reading books," he said. "It gets me liking dogs more. He Ls really re-ally fun to read with. You give him treats. You can pat him while you are reading." Sara Pontious said she enjoys cancer while on break rather fires at us. The sun is the most accurate sniper that ever existed. He'll get you, and he'll get you good. Even from the unreal distance of 93 million miles. He must have a heck of a scope. Parents, save your children. Keep them indoors or at least protect them with a nice turtle-neck, turtle-neck, a pair of Levis, steel-toed boots, and a quarter inch layer of SPF 45 sunscreen lotion. 1 have seen far too many children playing outside in the warm summer sun, running through sprinklers (wasting water) and jeopardizing their futures. Be a good parent, buy a plasma screen TV or, even better, bet-ter, a projection screen. Buy an Forbes Elementary sings into spring Barbara Christiansen NOKIH ( OUNIY SIAfl Forbes Elementary School Ls having its annual Spring Sing today. First-, second-, fourth- and fifth-grade students will perform songs from around the world. "All the music classes who are taking music now are involved," said director Merrilee Hunter, "It is kind of a neat thing." The students have been studying study-ing countries of the world in their social studies classes and have used that knowledge as a basis for the concert. Students submitted information for the narration about the songs from last semester's classes. They have included music from Australia, Austra-lia, Africa, England, France, Germany, Ger-many, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Ja-pan, Mexico, Scandinavia, Russia and the United States. The song from France will be sung in French and the one from Israel will be sung in Hebrew. Music from Ireland will feature fea-ture the students playing an Irish jig on the recorder with Megan V i - reading to the dog, and thinks Murphy enjoys it, too. "I like it when he is always laying on me," she said. "He actually ac-tually listens to me." James Tohara chose his favorite part about reading to Murphy. "We get to read to him," he said. "He likes us to read dog books." Indra Garcia told what she has learned. "I learned to not be afraid of animals that are bigger than the ones I have seen," she said. "I like the reading. I can read better bet-ter now." Kimberly Kawakami enjoys helping her mom, showing off her dog, having the children like her dog, and contributing to her former school. "I went to Greenwood as a child from kindergarten to sixth grade," she said. "I like to give something back to them." Xbox 360 or preorder a Playstation Playsta-tion 3, because you don't want your kid to have to leave home to find good entertainment. Sell your car, you won't need it anymore. Lock your doors from the outside. Keep all of your blinds shut, in fact, don't have windows. Order your groceries online. Pay your bills online. Disregard traditional mail and communicate only via Electronic Mail or walkie-talkie (cell phones can cause cancer, too). Work out of the house. Live the American dream. Following this advice will ensure en-sure a longer, happier life. And you'll thank me for it later. But until then have a good day, and a pleasant tomorrow. Bromley doing an Irish step dance. There will be four presentations presenta-tions of the concert. At 8:15 a.m. the students from Miss Larson's and Mrs. Taylor's track one classes will perform. At 9:30 it will feature the track two students stu-dents from those core teachers. Track two students of Mr. Mortensen, Miss Pace and Mrs. Peterson will perform at the 10:30 a.m. session and track"one students stu-dents of Miss Pace, Mrs. Peterson Peter-son and Mrs. Engles will perform at 1:30 p.m. Each concert will feature some soloists. Hunter said the participation is what makes the concerts good. "The neat thing about the Spring program is that it is not auditioned," she said. "Everybody "Every-body gets to participate. They learn correct singing techniques as they have practiced." Students began learning the music in January and started putting put-ting the program together at the beginning of March. Forbes is located at 281 N. 200 East, American Fork. AMERICAN FORK HIGH SCHOOL Graduation party The last day to purchase tickets for the all-night graduation grad-uation party at Boondocks on June 1 is tomorrow . Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the financial office. All students planning to attend must ride the bus, which will depart from AFHS at 9:30 p.m. and return to the school at 2:30 a.m. Activities include rock wall, slick track, laser tag and more. AFHS band awards banquet The American Fork High School Band will host its annual an-nual awards banquet on May 9 at 7 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. The purpose of the banquet is to honor members of the 2005-2006 marching band who participated in the undefeated competitive season sea-son and the National Bands of America competition held in Indianapolis, Ind. Tickets for the dinner are $7 per person and may be purchased at the high school financial office through May 5. Band members and their parents are invited to attend. Shoes will be available for purchase for those who do not have them, as well as other apparel from Thorson's Embroidery. I FFA judging contest Two teams from the AFHS FFA recently participated in a judging contest in Tooele at the Deseret Peak Invitational. The teams competed against other schools in judging farm animals. The goal 6f each team is to get the closest clos-est score to the real judges as possible. The horse team consisting of Krystal Frank, Lauren Moses, and Samantha Williams took 2nd place. The dairy cattle team consisting consist-ing of Brent Jensen, Kiley Papworth and Jerrin Wilkey took 4th place. I Electronic High School The deadline for Electronic Elec-tronic High School is May 1. Any senior who is taking a class or classes through E.H.S. must complete all coursework by this date in order to graduate. The deadline dead-line for all other alternative credit, including East Shore High School is May 26. For more information, contact the Counseling Center at 756-8555. 756-8555. I State science fair Shannon Shan-non Babb and Jeff Bean were selected from the state science sci-ence fair to take their projects proj-ects to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Indianapolis, Ind. May 7-13. Shannon also won first place in Environmental Science Sci-ence and Jeff won first place in chemistry. Other winners and their categories from the state fair include Ryan Paxman 2nd in behavioral science, Anna Wernli third in botany and a BYU scholarship, scholar-ship, Jeremy Mefford, second in computer science, Allen Purvis a BYU scholarship, Anthony Morgan, third in engineering, International Society for Optical Engineering Engineer-ing and US Metric Association, Associa-tion, Becca Ingram second in physics, Pascal Weingartner U.S. Metric Association, Mike Meyer, third in mathematics, math-ematics, MU Alpha Theta Excellence Ex-cellence in math and a UVSC scholarship, Tyler Ellingson, third in zoology and a UVSC scholarship, Jared Nielson and D.J. Hall third in team projects and Lindsey and Lennea Grimes third in team projects. I German National Test The following German students scored above 70 percent on the National German Test. Level 2: Jordan Cannon, Cecilia Sorenson, Jessica Rich, and Megan Sanderson. Level 3: Kate Garlick, Alex Mansfield, Jose Morales, and Shelly Steele. Level 4: Vanessa Stansell, Phil McKin-ney, McKin-ney, and Matt Volk. In Utah, Vansessa Stansell had the highest score and Phil McK-inney McK-inney the second highest on test level 4. Kate Garlick and Alex Mansfield were fifth and seventh in Utah on test level 3. Jordan Cannon and Cecilia Sorenson were fourth and sixth in Utah on test level 2. AMERICAN FORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Teacher honored Leland Moon was recently awarded the Accent on Excellence Ex-cellence award by the Alpine School District Foundation. This is an award recognizing dedication, service and leadership. lead-ership. I Yearbook information Parents and students who have not purchased a yearbook year-book yet are encouraged to do so." Yearbooks can be purchased pur-chased at the student finance office. I Art show The art show will be on display in the Little Theater all week beginning May L Patrons and community commu-nity members are invited to view the display. I PTSA Board luncheon The PTSA board will hold a luncheon lun-cheon on May 4 at noon. All board members are invited and encouraged to attend. ) Teacher appreciation week Teacher appreciation week will be held May 1-5; the school officials encourage notes of appreciation for jobs well done. I Parent-teacher conferences The final parent -teacher conference of the school year will be May 4 from 3:45 to 7 p.m. A "buy one, get one free" book fair sponsored by the PTA will also be held in conjunction with parent-teacher parent-teacher conference. Book displays will be set up inside the main entrance. BARRATT ELEMENTARY Volunteer efforts If all Barratt Elementary volunteers were paid employees employ-ees (which none are) and if they only earned minimum wage, Barratt's PTA would have donated more than $16,000 worth of time to the school. This number only includes volunteer hours up to the end of December. The PTA board thanks them for all their work and asks them to remember to continue recording re-cording their volunteer hours in the white binder in the office. of-fice. They offer thanks to all the parents who have been quietly quiet-ly working behind the scenes in classrooms, on field trips, with the fifth grade Traveling Show, the Renaissance Fair, and changing home reading books. Their efforts are noticed no-ticed and appreciated, they said. FORBES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Core testing The testing window for state core testing is May 1-12. 1-12. Families are asked to not schedule any family activities activi-ties for these days, It is very important that all students be in attendance during these days. SHELLEY ELEMENTARY Volunteers appreciated by PTA PTA officials offer thanks to the dozens of volunteers who have helped with PTA projects, field trips, school programs, Take Home Reading Read-ing Library, working with individual students, providing provid-ing meals and refreshments, serving on committees, coaching teams, and many other acts of service and kindness for the students and teachers of Shelley School. Swim lessons Swim lessons les-sons for both tracks will be May 3. Handcart trek The annual fourth grade handcart trek will take place May 4 for track 1 students and Friday, May 5 for track 2 students. I Field trip The first-grade classes will go on a field trip to Hogle Zoo on May 5. I Core testing The state core testing will be done May 15-19. Parents are encouraged encour-aged to plan around these dates so that students can avoid absences. The administration reminds parents and students that attendance matters and requests that at home, attendance at-tendance is not viewed as optional. "We hope that all students will have a renewed commitment commit-ment to miss the fewest days possible for the remainder of this year and the years to come. It will certainly make a difference in learning and school success." |