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Show Page 4 OREM GENEVA TIMES Thursday. April 13, 2006 t J E ' 0 A Tj D IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS A wonderful world at Bonneville Elementary Melissa Mayntz Ji'XUK'ViJJ Injeriiary students stu-dents sliarwl tr-ir filings about tins great work with treir J;utijj-s and Irierxis during their "V.'ImI a Wonderlu) World" program pro-gram on Ajxil T J'l- VHiunule all vhool pro-gi pro-gi am irx ludd -fijrman es by ea h graoV to shire messages about ry )ui. saving the rainforest rain-forest arid wrking together. 'Hie y hooJ's rx-.ai)y students performed dijfwujJ yungs while a coordinated visual pM-vntatjon and vtudiiit iarraJv expanded on tiie universal rr-ssages, 'I ea ii-rs and aji- ;rgam,ed a variety ot durations including posif s ajid pr ograms ganieid hy lbra 04 iris. Ute y jyjrj's assistant principal. GPA system is out of date Connie Wagner (reni High is out -dated, and I'm not lalkmg about the building lis methods of CPA calculation calcula-tion and class difficulty are utterly ancient and ineffectual ineffec-tual VVhile the resl of the nation na-tion advances in these areas, progressing wiih the times. rein High is left behind, making success less attainable attain-able toils sludents. The different class levels at Or em High include honors, AP and regular. On paper, this sounds fine. However, it's about as successful in practice as is communism. When both honors and regular levels are off ered for a class ai OHS. a significant difference is nonexislent. Both ibe workload and the speed are generally the same Conseq uent ) y , conscient ious students who thrive on challenging chal-lenging courses are denied tl; opportunity, because the title "honors" means nothing. Furthermore, because both levels are so similar, the school lias eliminated ttie choice of an honors class in several subjects. So a studeni. no rnatler how brilliant bril-liant he or she is, must send a transcripl with bis or her college ifrjlicaiion saying ihe ALL SCHOOLS Spring break Monday ituough April 2 is spring break lor all Alpine Dislnd scIkjoIs. ('lasses will resume re-sume f 21. TIMPAN0G0S HIGH SCHOOL Students win awards atFCCLA Tunpanogos students won a number of awards at the state Family, Career & Community Leader s of America convention recently. AJ Heaps won as Utah's national officer candidate, and wil Ije running for of fice in July at the national convention in Nashville. Amber Maxwell was elected as a stale officer for next year. Maxwell and Lace Brown won first place for a project, as well as a gold medal and second place for national programs. Paige Wriglfl received a gold medal and second place for chapter showcase. Heaps was awarded a gold medal and tfurd place for national programs. Jasmyne Robarge earned a gold medal and second place ffjr job interview. Sherise Phister was a winner win-ner in "Sew Trendy." Finalists winning gold medals were Tiffany Tif-fany Sisk (Focus on Children); Rachel Reese (Early Childhood); and Nicole Johnson and Meredith Mer-edith Allen (Chapter Service). Twelve THS members were recognized for achieving the Step One Awar d, and seven for the Power of One Award. Heidi Weight received a "Maiiter Advisor" recognition, and Timpanogos received the top Four-Star Chapter rating. tfr- program wits designed to show Ixw people working to-geirKT to-geirKT can truly make a diifer- "I!' purpose was to teach the criikiren that as individuals we can help other people." -hns sax! "Wert just a speck on the planet but we can aJJ make a dif-IfrwM dif-IfrwM " 'leachers chose iron) a variety va-riety of grade-level songs and si udnil s have t-en orking of) their singing performances for nearly f ive weeks Classroom rehearsals were held ai each grade level, and the week o) the final performajv e one lull dress reliearsa) was arranged for each tra k. Each track of siudn its performed per-formed both a nyning and evening shM' to allow family members t o alt et id St udent s in tiger student took easy classes. T o a college, the st udent looks lazy, or stupid. Colleges do not know that Orem High School does not offer any other dif f iculty level. A highly intelligent student's stu-dent's application becomes much less impressive, and his chances of admission are limited. Also, Orem High School does not weight CPAs. An A in an A P class and an A in a non-honors class count for exactly the same in a CPA. How does the school expect students to lake APand honors classes if their top priority is a 4.0V That perfect CPA is much easier to attain without the course load of AP classes. As high school students, we are expected to aspire to be great. We are expected to attend college and achieve our full potential. With the high school we attend at-tend narrowing our opportunities opportu-nities and placing barriers in our way, how can we do this? That's just what the school is doing: making our yjb of succeeding suc-ceeding way too difficult. I Students win HOSA awards live sludents representing THS at the state Health Occupations Oc-cupations Students of America convention earned medals and qualified for nationals. They are: Martin Jensen, first place, nutrition exam; Kristine Freeze, first place, prepared speaking skills; Sandi Dawson, Brent Young, and Chandi Ostlund, second place, creative problem solving t Band competition Lance Levar and the THS jazz band participated in state competition competi-tion at Murray High School and received scores making them again one of the top-rai ed jazz bands in Utah. MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL Blood drive The American Red Cross is always in desperate need of blood donations. Mountain View's blood drive is Friday at a m. The public is welcome to participate. Students under age 18 must bring parental permission permis-sion form and picture ID. taster egg hunt Bring the whole family on Saturday for a fun Easter experience. The Mountain View High School east lawn will be the place f or toddlers (ages 0-3) and the football foot-ball field will be divided into age groups (4-6 and 7-11) for tlie older children. Remember there is no cost and all children receive a bag of treats before entering the field. Set aside this date and plan to be on time as the hunt will start at 9 a.m. For more information about the Easier egg hunt , please call 229-7167. ihe H a m. track performed at 10 a m. and H pm., while the 9L5 a m. track performed at 1 p.m. and 7 45 pm. Each vxig emphasized a different differ-ent aspect of helping the planet, such as the first -graders' performance per-formance of "Protect (Air Rainforest Rain-forest " and the fourth-graders' rendition of "Make This World a lifter Place." The opening song, " Jne Big Family" and the closing clos-ing number, "We Can Save Our Planet," were performed by the entire schooL Parents and visitors were urged to donate one non-perishable food item as admission to the program. Approximately 500 items were collected and all were donated to the Utah Food Bank to continue the theme of helping one another. The program also ties in to At least elections Brayden Santo NOfTH f OUMTY VAFf Another week has come and gone, which means we are seven days closer to spring break, and then school being over. This week was very busy, with little things here and there, but the main thing was student body final elections. Last Friday, the elections were held, and there were two assemblies, making class really short. The first assembly was the skit assembly where each team, of gold and red, got to perform for us. The gold team didn't really re-ally have a theme, but they had several skits that would explain what they would do if they were elected and why we should elect them. Some of these were things like, "Vote for us because we believe in school spirit," and "Vote for us because we stick up for our friends." Overall their performance was really good, and funny. Then, with a surprise, the white team came out. They were our student body officers this year. Their presentation was really funny, with lip-sync and all. I asked Derik Walters what he thought and he just laughed. Then the red team came out, and their theme was "Need a hero?" They all had super pow- OREM HIGH SCHOOL Sophomore Slide The Sophomore Slide girls' choice pirate-themed dance is Friday in the new student lounge. Tickets are $7 in advance ad-vance or $ 10 at the door, Senior photo The class of 2006 senior panoramic picture will be taken Friday at 9 a.m. Contact Annette Newsom for details. CANYON VIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Spring basket The Student Council will deliver de-liver spring baskets to the Utah State Hospital on Friday, They wish to thank aU community members for the generous donations do-nations that make this project possible. OREM JUNIOR HIGH Track meet planned The next track meet for Orem Jr. High will be April 27 at 2:30 p.m. at American Fork High School with American Fork Jr. High ASPEN ELEMENTARY Track requests due Friday is the last day for parents to submit 2006-2007 school year track requests for their children. There will be no teacher requests this year because of many changes in the school district. Call 227-8700 for additional information. I Cookie dough for talc As the school's ongoing T-shirt sales program. Environmentally themed t-shirts and other "Save the Rainforest" merchandise is available, and orders will be taken until Friday. Every 10 items sold saves one acre of Brazilian rainforest, which demonstrates how individual indi-vidual contributions quickly add up to a sizeable impact. "I hope the whole school gets 'a great understanding of the importance of recycling," Gehris said. Bonneville Elementary has organized several programs this school year with similar themes. The school recycling club continually con-tinually works to reuse materials, and the food drive in November was another example of individual indi-vidual donations making a larger overall impact. are entertaining ers that would help them with what they were running for, and Skyier Carr, running for student body president, was their trainer. I asked a few students what they thought of the assembly, and Sage Bastian said, "I think it's funny." Mike Ryan said, "I don't know," and chuckled to himself a bit. Then, there were a few more hours of class and then we went to the winners' assembly, I guess you could call it that. They crammed all of us into the gym, and announced the winners. It was really neat because they had big posters that they would roll down for each person. The final choices were; Skyier Carr, student body president; Chelsea Robinson, student body vice president; Kelly Jo Black, secretary; Annie An-nie McMurray, finance; Aaron BoswelL programs; Marcel Del-gadillo, Del-gadillo, activities, TJ Skidmore, public relations; Missy RusseL artist; and Lauren Gutierrez, historian. That pretty much sums it up. If I missed someone, please forgive me, but as for now, I'm gone. Stand up and stand Out. pen Elementary is selling Sally Foster Gourmet Cookie Dough for 12 per tub or 14 per pre-portioned pre-portioned box. Ten flavors are available including chocolate chunk, sugar, peanut butter and Heath Orders will be taken through Friday. I Kindergarten field trip Kindergarten Kin-dergarten classes will take their field trip to Thanksgiving Point Friday beginning at 9:15 am For information contact the Main Office at 227-3700. BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY Save the rainforest Parents and communit y members can help Bonneville Elementary save the Brazilian rainforest by buying a special environmental T-shirt, Several designs are available and each shirt costs $14. Every 10 items purcliased will save one acre of rainforest. Orders will be taken until Friday, CaH 227-8703 for more details. I Teacher Appreciation Week Teacher Appreciation Week at Bonneville Qementary will be May 1-5, I Field day in the planning Field day is coining up in May and many volunteers are needed for a fun event. Please contact Kenioe Whitaker for details or to volunteer, CASCADE ELEMENTARY FAposrtionsunfiied There are several positions still available on the Cascade Elementary PTA Board. The state convention is in May and new members are encouraged bruin : CATHY AUUtEOttorth County Alinda Heder from Central Elementary demonstrates her dance that took third place during the State Reflections Contest Award Evening on April 8 at Lehi High School. Students honored for Reflections Andrea ViNegas NORTH COUNTY SWf The auditorium of Lehi High School was bursting with students stu-dents and parents from all over the state on Saturday, They had all gathered to celebrate the winners of the Utah PTA Reflections contest. Each year the Utah PTA gets an enormous number of students participating in the reflections contest, "Over 40,000 students from across the state participated in the Reflections this year," Patsy Pat-sy Chandler, PTA Reflections chairman, said. "We also had 16 students who participated at the National JeveL Eight of those students received awards. That is 50 percent of our students winning. Only two other states did better than us." One of the national winners was Johnathan Keith, a junior at American Fork High School He performed his piano piece titled "Daydreams," This is not new for Johnathan; Johna-than; he is very familiar with performing. "I played at the Reflections award night for the PTA a few years ago," Johnathan said, The day had been a busy one for him, Johnathan said, "I took the ACT this morning and I am a lead in the high school musical too," to attend. For more information about what positions are available, avail-able, contact April Zusht Spring parties PTA sponsored spon-sored classroom spring parties are Friday for all students. I Spirit day Friday is spirit day and this week's theme is 70s and '80s dress. Parents should remember to observe all dress code guidelines with their child's clothing. CHERRY HILL ELEMENTARY 'Annie' run to end Cherry HiU Elementary presents pres-ents the final performance of "Annie" today at 6 pm in the Auditorium. Tickets are $1 per person or $5 for a family. Please contact Mrs. Billings for more information, I Volunteers needed Volunteers Vol-unteers are needed for the week-long Cherry Hill 40th Anniversary An-niversary Celebration April 25 through May 3, Contact Karen Fletcher for additional information, informa-tion, I Recycling program Help Cherry Hill earn money by donating do-nating junk mail, newspapers and catalogs to the recycling bins in the parking lot. Be sure to shred any personal information informa-tion before leaving the material at the schooL This year's goal is to earn enough money by recycling recy-cling to purchase a new copier for the teachers. ORCHARD ELEMENTARY Registration delayed Registration for the 2006-2007 2006-2007 Orchard Elementary & ' fC v7 f; c' He performed wearing a tux because he was going to junior prom that evening. The Reflections Awards Evening is a night to celebrate the exceptional talent that the students have. Art work was on display in the cafeteria and a program showcased other talents like dance, theater, music, mu-sic, and film and video. Each student who enters has created their entry from their own creativity, Johnathan said, "I thought about something I always do to get away from school My piece is really about me going to class and daydreaming." Anastasia Roundy, a seventh-grader at Millcreek Junior High, said "I thought about the theme and thought of a song that expressed it. Then I made up the dance. I put in things I really like to do while I dance." Anastasia's dance was titled, "I haven't found what I am looking for" danced to music by U2 with similar lyrics, "She hasn't found it because he room is a mess," Laina Roundy said The reflections contest is a great opportunity for students to display their creativity. It also helps to emphasize the importance of art in education. For those who want to enter next year's competition or encourage en-courage a student to do so, the 2006-2007 theme is "My favorite favor-ite place,,, " school year is delayed due to many changes occurring at the schooL Information will be sent home with students as soon as enrollment numbers and faculty assignment s are determined, I Earn a Seven Peaks pass Students Stu-dents can earn a Seven Peaks pass by reading a certain number num-ber of book pages (numbers differ by grade level). The reading read-ing window closes April 28 but Spring Break is a great time to get in extra reading. Teachers have extra reading logs and rules available and they are also available online at www seven-peaks seven-peaks .com. FOOTHILL ELEMENTARY 70s party Foothill Elementary invites students and their families to a 70'$ party today from 5:30-13f)p.m 5:30-13f)p.m This event is free and is sure to be full of peace and love, 'Co Dog, Co' Foothill's first grade and special education classes are invited to attend a showing of "Go Dog, Gof at the Scera Theater Friday, Students wiU love this musical based on the lovable canine stars from the popular children's book by PD, Eastman, WESTMORE EUMENTARY 'State Fair" Come hear renditions of Montana's state song and smell Colorado's state flower Friday, April 14, Westmore's fifth grade will present displays of each ate tn the Union between 93MlVte.xn. at their "State Fair" POOR |