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Show Thursday, September 13, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 7 notes NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS The Storycirafters visit Orchard Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Students at Orchard Elementary Elemen-tary had a taste of Orem's Timpanogos Storytelling Festival Fes-tival via special delivery Aug. 28 when "The Storycrafters" Barry Marshall and Jeri Burns performed their art at a two-session assembly at the school. "You are some of the luckiest lucki-est kids in Utah," said Cassie Howard, a festival volunteer who introduced the couple to the audience. "You have the 'Dynamic Duo.'" The nickname refers to the performing style of the New York couple, which involves telling stories in tandem, often with music added, and with rapid-fire interaction with the audience. The Storycrafters' Web site states that Marshall and Burns have performed and taught their art form across the United States and in the British Isles, and that they "strive to honor world cultures by telling tell-ing the old stories in respectful respect-ful ways, often integrating musical instruments, songs, or dances indigenous to that region." For the Brazilian story about 1 wolv Bri Borup This week was Club Rush at Timpanogos. Club Rush is two days were all clubs set up tables in the school commons and have interested kids sign up to be a part their club. Our school has a large array ar-ray of clubs; from service to academic. 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The performers quickly taught their audience an attention-getting song about Sambalele that was us6d throughout the story. The song was Sambalele's favorite, because it was about himself. The egomaniacal monkey used the watering hole in his rainforest home for a mirror. His habits of stealing steal-ing food from his friends and playing dirty tricks earned him the reputation of "having no respect for other living things." He was promised that someday, some-day, someone would "get him in the face." One day, in a fit of pique, Sambalele left home. He came across the much-loved garden of a woman who happened to be gone because she was at the river washing her clothes and fishing. With abandon, Sambalele jumped into the "garden of monkey delights," and proceeded pro-ceeded to help himself to a red banana, a coconut, and other treats, littering the area with peels, pits, and branches true to his reputation as one a new bunch of fun interesting clubs that students start. Last year, I started my very own club (with some help from Texas, Hillary, Megan, Kallie, Morgan, Alicia, and Mrs. Freestone). Free-stone). We called it the UCHC an acronym from "Un Celebrated Cel-ebrated Holidays Club." You can already tell from the title that we were a bunch of weirdos (yes, we realize that "un" is not a word by itself). The name is semi self-explanatory. self-explanatory. We even had a phrase: "Something to celebrate." Great, right? We celebrated holidays that are Gg"c "fclno cure - X-800ACS235 or carxcer.org DOLLARS , DOLLARS convenient place to turn your saap into Prices, Fast Friendly Service, and a True by and Give Us A Try! m net ant 550 North Geneva Road Orem ((BOD 225-0001) having no respect for other living liv-ing things. Completely satiated, Sambalele Sam-balele fell asleep, and the garden gar-den owner came back, furious to discover the mess in her garden. gar-den. After seeing the evidence of monkey paw prints in the mud, she came up with a plan, and stayed up all night constructing con-structing a tar baby-like doll which she covered with sticky, gooey rubber from a rubber tree, and placed in the garden like a scarecrow. The woman went back to the river to wash clothes and fish again, and Sambalele woke up, ready to eat. He thoroughly enjoyed en-joyed mangoes that were "the color of sunshine," with a taste that was even sweeter, and again, he disrespectfully tossed his pits about the garden. Sambalele then wanted someone to play with, so he approached the doll, who wouldn't talk to him. When he tried to get her to dance with him, he ended up trapped, with most parts of his body stuck to the rubber. "That's the one who's been messing up my garden!" cried the woman, returning from the river. Since Sambalele's bottom was not stuck to the doll, the not officially recognized, such as Talk Like a Pirate Day, and Chocolate-Covered Everything Day. Not only did we have fun activities, ac-tivities, but we did service, too. UCHC was only one of many awesome clubs last year. There were others such as the Lost Club, the Four Square Club, and Thank a Soldier Club. This year, my new favorite club is "Heart of the T-wolf" (I don't know if that's the exact title, but something along those lines). It is a club that is all about school pride and spirit. I for cash. We buy all Aluminum Commitment to Cans, woman got a bamboo stick to use to spank him. The frightened fright-ened monkey pulled away from the doll and ran away, but chunks of fur from his hands, face, and feet were left behind. The story explains why, to this day, monkeys lack fur on those spots. Sambalele went home and lied about how he had been treated, but received no sympathy sym-pathy from his friends, who said, "All the trouble you have been causing has come around and got you in the face." Marshall and Burns are craftsmen at being able to gear their presentations in an age-appropriate way, with high energy, and drawing participation par-ticipation from the audience, Howard said. The first session at Orchard was for grades 1-3, and the second for 4-6. Different Differ-ent stories were slated for each session, she said. The Timpanogos Storytelling Storytell-ing Festival is now the second largest in the nation, with a strong force of volunteers, said Howard. "We have the largest volunteer vol-unteer organization. (The) National (Storytelling Festival) wants to figure out how we do it," she said. one think it's about time that our school had a spirit club! Not only will it motivate students stu-dents to get to games and support sup-port our amazing athletes, but it will get students to see the greatness of Timp. The regular clubs of our school are still there: Drama, Spanish, NHS, etc. I'm sure that it will be an amazing year for Timpanogos thanks to all those amazing people who run clubs. So, if you haven't joined a club yet, I'm sure there is a club right for you. Just go and find it. ft" .!. I '.') . I .1. Utah's Wild Ma TM. Special Adoption Fee for Pairs Adopt a Mare or Jenny Pair for $125.00 Aug. 1 thru Sept. 28, M-F 9-3 Sat. Aug 1 1 & Sept 22, 8-4 Special Weanling Adoption Saturday,October 20, 8-4 Sept 28 -Delta Wild Horse & Burro Facility -featuring Utah's own Swasey horses!!! Timpanogos High Back to School Night Back to School Night at Timpanogos this year will be a combined open house and school showcase on Sept. 2(i from (:.') to 8:.') p.m. I I IS is going to a new student -led conference format to replace the previous style of parent-teacher parent-teacher conferences, and the new format will be demonstrated demon-strated during the course of the evening's events. Orem Jr. High Spirit Week This week has been Spirit Week, with special activities each day. Monday was "Future Job Dress-up Day"; Tuesday was "Red, White, & Blue Dress-up Dress-up Day", in remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001; yesterday was "Twin Day"; today was "Backwards Day"; and tomorrow tomor-row is "Movie Star Dress-up Day". The week will conclude with service activities on "I Care" Saturday. Auditions Ninth grade auditions for the upcoming school play, "The Vied Pix-r", will be today. Auditions for the younger grades were earlier ear-lier this week. "The Pied IMp-er" IMp-er" is scheduled to run toward the middle of November. Teacher rewards The 0.II1 student council is hoping to reward teachers by having two or three drawings during the year and giving away gift certificates or gift cards to restaurants. If any restaurant businesses are interested in donating these to the sch(X)l, it would be greatly appreciated. appreci-ated. Please contact student council advisor Derek Rentz at 227-8751), ext. 127 or 128. Iowa testing Iowa testing test-ing for 8th graders begins Monday and will continue through Oct. 5. Midterm grades Midterm grade reports will be distributed distrib-uted in B4 classes on Sept. 20. Handicap awareness "Handicap Awareness Days" will be next week, Wednesday Wednes-day through Friday. Aspen Elementary Ballet West assembly Ballet Bal-let West will perform an assembly as-sembly at the school Monday at 9:30 a.m. - Doughnut Date Sept. 21 at 9:20 a.m. is the Doughnut Dough-nut Date for fifth graders to share reading time and a Horse & Burro Adoption treat with a parent or other significant adult in their lives. Bonneville Elementary Grandparents' Day Grandparents' Day, a traditional tra-ditional event at Bonneville where grandparents of students stu-dents visit the school, will be on Sept. 18. Parent conferences Bonneville Bonn-eville parent conferences (SKI'S) are scheduled for Oct. 2 and 3. Geneva Elementary Vision screenings Vision screenings will be Sept. 21. Picture day ScIkx1 pictures pic-tures will be taken (XI. 3. Northridge Elementary Fall carnival The fall carnival will be Sept. 27 from 4-:30 p.m. Achievement assemblies This year, Northridge have an assembly each month to recognize students for their achievements in academics andor behavior. In line with the TEAM ( Together Everyone Every-one Achieves More) theme at the sch(X)l this year, those recognized in September are designated "September Aces." Orchard Elementary School pictures School pictures are today. Spanish immersion An opening social for the Spanish immersion program will be Sept. 22. Volunteers needed Orchard Or-chard is in need of volunteers to help with its reading tutoring tutor-ing program. Sessions will begin later this month. Volunteers Volun-teers should be able to come on a twice-weekly schedule, from 8:30 to 9 a.m., or 2:15 to 2:45 p.m., usually on Tuesdays Tues-days and Thursdays. Windsor Elementary "Welcome Back" Night Windsor's "Welcome Back" Night will be Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. Wild Hrfe Burro Program Also adopt at: Manti Adoption, August 25 or Delta Wild Horse & Burro Facility M-F 8-5 (435)864-4068 |