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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 15-17, 2006 The Park Record A-12 SOFA UPHOLSJBRy Custom Handiwork Everything Rebuilt Better Than New/ Sofas starting at $400 (labor only) Chairs starting at $200 (labor only) ZIONS UPHOLSTERY Quality workmanship since 1937 801-328-0201 Sixth-graders present projects to third-graders Hfe can warm yourightup! HARTMAN By DALE THOMPSON HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING Commercial. Residential Serving the 'Jiart" oi your home F™™gavaMeoAc 435-615-1857 -CORNERSTONE MOIVIE M O R T G A G E Loans to Fit Everyone's Needs Committed to Service Becky Stouffer Hall, do a wonderful job of that. White says that her responsibilities for each of her alphabetically assigned students include watching out for their "affect, their academics, their healthy choices, friendships, and goals." By KENDALL FISCHER She adds that "that's a lot to be Park Record intern watching for" and "it's a lot of They help us arrange our class time." Understandably, sometimes schedules, balance academics with she feels "really stretched thin." However, White says that she cxtracurriculars, maintain a state of emotional well-being, and plan for loves her job because "it is joyful to our lives after high school. They work with kids." are high school counselors. In some cases, counselors1 Last week (February 2 - 6) responsibilities are further extendwas National School Counselors' ed to accommodate the special Week. interests of each of their students. "They were very flexible," The National Mental Health Information Center said about the says high school junior/senior Rene week, "(It is) sponsored by the Cohen, who will be able to graduate American School Counselor a year early. Association (ASCA), this special Thanks to the help of her counweek celebrates the valuable role of selor, Fiat, Cohen can now take full school counselors in our country's advantage of her age and talent and educational system." pursue a career as a dancer. "They're really helpful," Cohen This year's theme for Counselors' Week was' "changing says of the counseling department, lives, building futures." Park City "they totally understood where I High School counselors Jerry Fiat, was coming from." Joan Mills, Laurie White, and John "Its fun . . . to watch them grow High school counselors help build students' futures up, grow stronger," and pursue "whatever their after-high school dreams may be," says Laurie White. The counselors hold special meetings with each of the students in their junior year to discuss their after- high school plans in SEOP (Student Education Occupation Plan) meetings. "Watching the dynamics between parents and kids during planning their next step - that's really fun," White laughs good-naturedlyThe PCHS counselors guide students through high school and their words of wisdom will take us beyond that to build our futures. Although she notes that everyone has been saying this since Kendall Fischer the beginning of time, White thinks thank you, thank you to counselors that now, "It's harder than ever for everywhere for your devotion to students in high school. The temp- building our futures. tations, the struggles are intense." What do you think? Students, She continues, "That's why I The Park Record has its own blog have so much respect for those who for students to shout out how they make good healthy choices." feel about "Student to Student" or Looking at the whole picture any other topic. Join the cyber-reaim of everything in our lives, the guid- today at ance of our counselors makes a prstudentblog. blogspo t. com. huge impact on most of us. So Students take on the role of science teachers NEED A NEW FURNACE? Greg Sardo STUDENT TO STUDENT Keara Sardo Amy Yost Looking for a flexible loan program? We have the loan that fits your needs!!! Of the Record staff There's a new wave at Ecker Hill International Middle School: heat waves, light waves, and sound waves. Jamie Duis' sixth-graders participated in an energy expo fair on Monday. The students hosted thirdgrade visitors from Jeremy Ranch Elementary School to look at the different projects. . The fair is the culmination of a iwo-month unit on heat, light and sound. Duis told her students to make their projects look like a science museum exhibit, and behave as though the JRES students were their patrons. Many of the enterprising sixth-graders brought props and had colorful tri-fold posters. Kiley Morgan titled her project "Jingle Bells." It examined why sound cannot travel in a vacuum. While a group of curious thirdgraders watched, she shook a jar that had a bell taped to the lid. On the first demonstration they could hear it, but after burning bits of small bits of paper inside the jar the sound had virtually disappeared. "I thought it seemed interesting that if you light a fire in a jar you can't hear a bell ring," she said. Kiley dedicated one-hour every day for a week to researching her project and creating a presentation. "It was fun, and it is fun right now showing the kids because they seem interested," she said. Duis said all of her students were excited to take on the roll of teacher. "It helps my kids feel a sense of pride," she said. Kara Hendrickson, a third-grade teacher at JRES said that much of what the students were presenting built on basic concepts the elementary students were already familiar with. "This is third-grade curriculum," Hendrickson said, adding that being introduced to these subjects now helps them build a platform for understanding more complex areas of heat, light and sound when they will be brought up later in their education. Tanner Gulbrandsen's project demonstrated the way light waves are used in communication devices. 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International Baccalaureate proShe had observed that a glass vial gram. Each student had to examine filled with cooking oil disappeared how it related to the way humans when it was immersed in the same influence their surroundings,- also oil. known as "homo faber." "The oil and the glass have the "It's" really about understanding same refraction index," she how human creativity changes explained, which is why the vial dis- lives," Duis said. appears. Park City, UT 1.1-80. Exit 145 turn South onS.R. 224 I 435.645.7078 I Monday-Saturday 10-9. Sunday 11-6 Visit www.tangeroutlet.com for store information & seasonal specials |