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Show u n c m i i ivi t j NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS edia room draws on books muiiudy, sepienmer i, uuo m notes Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Geneva Elementary students returning from summer vacation vaca-tion to the school library found themselves transported into a three-dimensional world of imagination featuring an Adventure Forest at one end of the room, and a medieval castle at the other. The creative transformation is courtesy of media specialist Nancy Gould, who is quick to credit her ideas to her fellow professionals in the Alpine School District. "I've just been inspired by other media specialists throughout the district," Gould said. "They just have such good ideas." The Adventure Forest is populated with dolls and "critters" "crit-ters" like the Cheshire Cat from "Alice in Wonderland" perched in the trees with some of them reading books. Gould said the forest ties in with the library theme for the school year "Books Take Us on Adventures". "Through books, we can visit vis-it countries we can't travel to, we can become explorers and scientists, we can go to space, and we can find out more about the human body. We can even time travel which is why we have the medieval castle and the dragons," Gould OJH takes Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orem Junior High recently brought home the top prize in the academic division of a contest testing computer knowledge and skills, a contest that was open to any team in Mexico, the U. S. and Canada. The contest is called the IC3 (Internet Computing Core Certification) Cer-tification) Cup, developed and sponsored by Certiport, a local company that is a distributor for Microsoft Office tests. When OJH computer teacher teach-er Phil Hanney heard about the contest, he signed up online to have all of his students participate, partici-pate, as well as some students from other teachers' classes. A first step was to have t-wolves WYATT FELT Homecoming! Waha! It's Homecoming week. Pretty exciting, I know. I hope everybody is going. If you're a boy, you've have no excuse not to (unless you're 15). And everybody knows where Homecoming is this 6oWsmitb& l i t i i '-;CJ- ( f tin Open Mon Ho peynant tor 6 Ho intetsil lor t Frw dupoMl ot f i -i Si A Haaqar's Mattress ' Nancy Gould, media specialist at by part of the Adventure Forest said. "So, this is Geneva's 'Adventureland.' When the students stu-dents leave, they are going on an adventure, with the book in their hand. That's what gets us excited as librarians." Gould and her daughter, home top prize in computer contest the students take tests called "benchmarks," which were like a pre-test to allow those being be-ing quizzed to see where their knowledge and capabilities needed to be filled in for the real IC3 tests. The OJH team received points for taking the benchmark tests. Earning team points, some students went on to take the IC3 tests, which covered three areas: "Computing Fundamentals" (testing knowledge of hardware, hard-ware, software, and operations systems); "Key Applications'' (testing knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint); and "Living Online" (testing knowledge of networks, e-mail, the Internet, and how computers comput-ers are used in society). Forty-percent of Hanney's year, right? Drum roll please ... home! That's right this year we really are coming home for Homecoming. It's at the school. Now before you start murmuring murmur-ing about how last year it was in Lehi, consider what you don't know. Up until about two years ago this is how it was done. But none of us would know this because none of us were around. The senior class officers had to do some serious digging to figure this out. But if you think about the concept it makes a whole lot of sense. Why celebrate how Light Her Fire. 'Utah County's largest Jewelery Showroom-' 120 No. Lniversity Ave. Provo 3T5-5220 www.goldsmithjewders.com Firm Twin Mattress Sale s89 Box Spring $60 1 0-year warranty 10-6 - Sat rronito, 0AC mimtrrt. OAff old rrattri, ST f -Vi IT; MARC HADDOCKNorth County Geneva Elementary, stands she has created. Shaunna Paxman, and friends . Dave and Belinda Told, worked on the decorating project proj-ect almost every day for about three weeks during the summer. sum-mer. A crafts business donated some leaves and greenery, and students passed the IC3 tests with high enough scores to become be-come IC3 certified, which can help prepare them to obtain employment and college credit. Parents and teachers were able to participate in the competition competi-tion as well. The contest concluded at the end of June a challenge for Hanney because school was out. "Even then, we were still in first place for most of the contest," he said. In the last two weeks, OJH was edged out for total points by eventual even-tual corporate division winner CompUSA. "We went through a lot with all of the students to train them," Hanney explained. As team coach, Hanney glad we're to be coming back to our alma mater by going somewhere else? But don't be afraid, it's not going to look like Timpanogos when you come Saturday. Trust me. But even you can't go to the dance, there's plenty of ways you can enjoy Homecoming. You could get a good start by swinging by the Homecoming showcase tonight at 7:30 p.m., free of charge. If you've never been to a showcase let me just tell you from the bottom of my heart how much fun they are: They Disc Herniation? New FDA Approved Technology Treats Herniated Discs Without Drugs or Surgery Utah County- A new free report has recently been released that reveals how break through medical technology is offering surgery free new hope for disc pain sufferers. suffer-ers. Research has proven that FDA approved non-surgical spinal decompression has a 86 success rate for treating debilitating back pain including sciatica and multiple herniated disc. It looks like another NASA discovery has lead to the most promising non-surgical disc treatment today. For your free report entitled, "How Space Age Technology Is Solving Back Pain Without Drugs Or Surgery!" call 1-888-671-8601 and listen to the toll-free 24 hr recorded message for all the details or go to www. Utahdiscrelief.com. These free reports are available for a limited time. siiacnaiiKKtRaifio Physicians' Research Options and Medical Doctors at Mt. Timpanogos Women's Health Care, are conducting a clinical research study of an investigational oral medication for birth control. :, Qualified participants will receive at no cost for up to 6 months: Study related medical and physical exams Investigational oral birth control medication Females that are age 18-45 years of age, sexually active, and have regular menstrual cycles may be eligible for participation. Compensation is available for time and travel. For more information and a confidential Screening ' about this research study please call: Mt. Timpanogos Women's Health Care (801)763-7526 Participation is completely voluntary illiiimnmn i ii.iiiii.i mini in,, n niiiim in tutltJaitaaltt Dave Told installed some pipes on the walls that support the trees. Gould's granddaughter donated a princess doll for the castle. The media specialist plans to keep the Adventure Forest in place long-term, but will probably change the medieval castle setting eventually. The library is also benefiting benefit-ing from a financial donation from the estate of a former teacher who taught at Geneva for years, retired, and recently passed away. Gould said the contribution from the teacher's family was used to purchase a new bookcase and Dr. Seuss books, and to pay for part of the cost of a striking dragon rug. Comments from thank -you notes Gould had the students write to the donor family reflect the youngsters' appreciation appre-ciation for their new surroundings. surround-ings. "We will not break the books in the bookshelf. We will not stain the rug," read one offering. Another note said: "The" bookcase looks so nice. It makes the library look so much nicer." Non-fiction books particularly par-ticularly those on dinosaurs and animals are the most popular books among Gould's young patrons, with fantasy books another genre they enjoy. was awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World in Orlando, where, at a company conference, he received a large trophy that he said nearly put his luggage over the weight limit. Prizes for the team also included computers, iPods, and T-shirts. Hanney plans enter the annual contest again, using the iPods and T-shirts to motivate moti-vate the students. Hanney said many of his students stu-dents come into class "thinking they know everything" about computers because they can check their e-mail, chat online, play games, and download music. mu-sic. The IC3 experience is "really "re-ally helpful to get them to see beyond" those skills, he said, and to use as a stepping stone to other certifications. are very fun. No joke. And they don't just pick uppity jocks to be in them there are friends of you and me in there. And maybe you get tremendously tre-mendously sick tonight and, though you love to, you can't make it to the showcase. There is still the game tomorrow night, complete with tailgate party. And this tailgate party isn't just face paints and candy. We're talking hot dogs, music, face paints and candy. That's going to be tomorrow night starting at 6. See you there. TIMPANOGOS HIGH SCHOOL School musicians featured at Park City Jazz Festival Jazz musicians from Timpanogos High School were featured recently at the Park City Jazz Festival. Each year, said Timpanogos instrumental music mu-sic director Lance Levar, two different high school honor groups are showcased in the Crescent Super Band and in the Park City All-Star Jazz Combo. The Crescent Super Band is composed of "20 top-notch jazz musicians from all along the Wasatch Front," Levar said, and last year's group, which was featured at this year's late-August festival, included current seniors Brady Bills and Lauren Tyler, along with recent THS graduate, gradu-ate, Andrew Wangemann. "The Park City All-Star Jazz Combo selects six or seven of the top high school jazz artists from around the state and awards them each a $1,000 scholarship to use on music-related items," said Levar. With Tyler and Bills as members of the elite group this year, it is the second year in a row that Timpanogos has had two of the six or seven selected players. Last year's players from THS were Bills and Wangemann. Both honor groups performed per-formed with Grammy Award winning saxophone player Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. In addition, Levar said, three-time Grammy Gram-my Award nominee Kirk Whalum appeared on stage at the end of the Super Band's performance to join Coffin in a musical "showdown". OREM JUNIOR HIGH Parentteacher conferences Parentteacher conferences will be September 28 from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. Bond, leeway meeting An informational meeting for the public on the proposed bondleeway will be held at the Orem Jr. High School auditorium on Oct. 3, at 6:30 Support the future give the gift For more information more lmormaiion . u call 344-2923 iHullji WHlto f I I A 'We have an Extensive Credit Program. We can help with a New or Used car and Reestablish your credit. No Hassle 24 hr. Credit Line. (801)492-1870 Or For One-on One Help Call Jake at 492-0100 DOUG ft Mil M Family Owned & Operated 523 W. Main, American Fork, Utah Exit 281 801-492-1110 p.m. BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY Recycling club expands The Recycling Club, whose members arc Bonneville students, stu-dents, is now extending its recycling efforts to include aluminum cans and plastic bags in addition to paper products, said Debra (ichns, I SA and director of the club. Last year, proceeds from the recycling were used to buy flowers and trees for beautifi-cation beautifi-cation projects at the school. ORCHARD ELEMENTARY Spanish Immersion fiesta A Spanish Immersion Fiesta, featuring food and fun, was held Sept. 1!) as a fundraiser to earn money for more Spanish books to be used in the Spanish Immersion Immer-sion Ciuided Reading Library, said Orchard TSA I'aula (Jor-don. (Jor-don. The event was planned and carried out by a parent committee. WINDSOR ELEMENTARY Constitution week to end Windsor will be concluding conclud-ing its "Celebration of the Constitution" Week on Sept. 22. This week, teachers have used information packets and fun quizzes to teach lessons on the U.S. Constitution, said Principal Mark Pew. Iowa Testing Iowa Testing for the third and fifth grades will be Sept. 26 to Oct. 3. Bond, leeway meeting Patrons of Windsor are invited in-vited to attend a district bond meeting at Canyon View Jr. High on October 3 at 7 p.m. This informational meeting is open to the public and a presentation pre-sentation will be given on the bondleeway election. of your community, of literacy. ni !jiw2 .1 COPY |
