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Show Thursday, November 1, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 5 NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS Students dare to 'Dream Big' at Cherry Hill Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Taking a page out of their new principal Alisa Hart's play book, students and staff at Cherry Hill Elementary are setting their sights high to achieve their educational and personal goals. When Hart, in her first year as Cherry Hill Elementary 's principal, introduced her "Dream Big" school theme for the year in August, her intent was to make a difference in students' lives. During the first two weeks of school, Hart held assemblies, visited each classroom class-room individually and shared her vision with teachers and staff. Each student received a gold star that he or she personalized personal-ized with goals and pictures. A virtual galaxy of stars permeates perme-ates every hall in the school as STRIKE A POSE , - , V fs v i T t- ... i it .-.... 2. '-...,. "V.' V- '. '.. . liTiin i' i'i mi IJembers of the Mountain View High School yearbook club shoot 'Bruin lamination' photos AVJSifor part of the yearbook with the Bruin school mascot and a generic rival Monday at on the school's campus. Junior High students observe National Cathy Allred NORTH COUNTY STAFF Junior High School students in the south Alpine School District have been celebrating reading and getting rewards for their efforts. Orem Jr. High School and Pleasant Grove Jr. High School kids observed National Teen Read Week Oct. 16-19, the same week as Red Ribbon Week. "We encouraged kids to come in," said Paula Cloward, PGJHS media specialist. "Hopefully "Hope-fully next year it will be more exciting ... it increased circulation circula-tion so it was good." Students received bookmarks book-marks and pencils when they checked books in at P.G. Jr. and Cloward got them going on word searches and puzzles. There was trivia question each day and winners could get a prize at the office. Wednesday and Thursday during the lunch hour the librarians had games and things set up for student activities. The big contest was a guessing guess-ing game with the winners estimating correctly how many books were in the media center, 11,243 books. Some of the school media specialists had "Teen Read" the following week, Oct. 22-26. Overall, students appeared to enjoyed the celebration of reading. "Yes, they've liked it a lot," Jennifer Batchler said of the Iff 5 f students are reminded to try to reach for the stars and realize their aspirations whether they be about academics or personal things they want to achieve in their lives. Hart said one first-grade student told a teacher he was not a member : "His dream had come true." The boy, who was new to Cherry Hill Elementary, shared that his goal was to make friends this year. The teacher asked the name of his new friend, Hart said. "No," the boy said, " I made lots of friends this year." The boy with new-found friends and other students who reach their individual dreams, get to make an origami star with Hart and then place it in a special "Dream Chest" located in her office. "At the end of the year, we want it to be full," she said. j-w JSmi V,' i ii n 4 it week-long program. She is the media specialist for Oak Canyon Junior High School in Lindon. "There's 1,950 hours of reading between Monday and Friday," she said. "That's a lot of hours." All junior high media specialists special-ists in Pleasant Grove, Lindon and Orem participated in the Teen Read program together designing their own contests to interest their students. "We're all doing slightly different dif-ferent activities," said Batchler. "Canyon View and another school have a challenge where they try to get the librarian to laugh out loud." If a librarian laughs they get a prize, if they don't the student is directed to where the joke books are kept. It was done all in good fun to go with the National Teen Read Week theme of "Laugh Out Loud your library." "I heard an abundance of knock-knock jokes," said Kari Mecham, Orem's Canyon View media specialist. At Oak Canyon, kids posted their favorite book titles on a bulletin board and those titles, Batchler said, will become part of a recommended reading read-ing brochure for the library. Students who posted a title received a book mark and a piece of candy. Well known titles such as "Eragon," "Avalon," "Pen-dragon" "Pen-dragon" and "Twilight," and less knowns such as "Skel- Townhomes In Salem Starting At $179,000 T7 "You talk to a lot of kids about Dream Big and it's making them see the possibilities in themselves ... What can you accomplish this year at Cherry Hill?" Teachers and staff have created their own Dream boards in their classroom and embarked on activities and discussions to customize the school theme to their students' individual needs and goals. Suzanne Wilson, a first-grade first-grade teacher, said her students stu-dents on their own have set goals in reading, writing, and math. One girl even shared her goal of saving more money. "Any activity I do in my room relates to Dream Big," she said. "We were learning about Christopher Columbus and talked about that he had a big dream and he didn't let anyone stop him. They thought he was crazy." lig," "Sabotaur" and "Mice of Magic," dotted the board. Religious titles indicative of the dominant culture in the area such as "Book of Mormon" and the "New Testament" also were interspersed lightly with the collection. For every tenth book a student stu-dent checked out of the library, they got a prize. Oak Canyon also had its "fine forgiveness" day with more than 200 books turned in and fines erased from students' records. Special cards were hidden in popular books and students who checked one of the books out and found the card got a candy bar. For every 30 minutes min-utes of reading students also received a ticket they could enter in the drawing at the end 24 HOURS AM R AD O Tfle eY to I fa $ Jesus 1450 rrsnw 'rr. NT0W with Full Streaming In Audio on the Web HTTP:WWW.KEYY.COM wmmmmmmmmmm FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Focus on the Family Dr. James Oobson .. M-F 6 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Family Life Today Dr. Dennis Rainey , M-F 12 noon & Sat. 9 a.m. Money Matters .. Howard Dayton .. M-F 6:30 p.m. & Sat 9:30 a.m. & p.m, Complete program schedule and listener comment opportunity on our web site or phone us for a copy of our schedule! KEYY will not add your name to any mailing lists. I . AM RAf0 Wilson's pupils have even participated in a scholastic program pro-gram with Utah Opera Festival's Festi-val's Michael Ballam in writing their own opera. The students will perform the yet -to-be-named opera later this year. "Tears are welling up in my eyes because they never get the chance to shine," she said. Brent Van Wagener, a third-grade third-grade teacher at Cherry Hill, said his students have written essays on the theme of "Dream Big, Dream Far, and Dream Often." If they can visualize doing things as a teen or adult, he said, then his students can project proj-ect themselves into accomplishing accomplish-ing their goals. "If they don't have dreams to follow, then they're just reacting re-acting to what happens," Van Wagener said. i MIKE RIGERTNorth County Teen Week of the week. Friday at 2 p.m., Principal David Smith drew a name from a wire barrel. "Derk Espiritu," he called out. The next ticket drawn had a first name but the last name was illegible so another ticket was drawn and the second winner, Wen-Di Adair, was announced. an-nounced. The winners will each receive re-ceive a $25 gift card to a mall. "I think it's a good idea," Oak Canyon 8th grader Nicolle said. "It encourages us to read more." Lakeridge Jr. High School is celebrating the week of reading Nov. 12-16, the week following parent teacher conferences. con-ferences. A DAY FAMILY FRIENDLY Christ l Children's Programs m a j , . navvmurv in vuyuvj M-f 6:00 p.m. 1 Sat. 8 a.m. & 8 p m. Down Giltad't Unt Saturdays 7:30 a.m. S 7:30 p.m. CBHStofytim Mflpm. j L iCn Espanol1 s 4- dm im vHtm mm Crtmto J Mountain View High School Sadie Hawkin's Dance A Sadie Hawkin's dance will be held at Mountain View on Friday, Fri-day, Nov. 2, at 8:30 p.m. PTSA Board Meeting-Mountain Meeting-Mountain View's PTSA Board will meet on Wednesday Wednes-day at 12 p.m. PTSA 'Reflections' Award Night The PTSA 'Reflections' 'Reflec-tions' Awards Night will be on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. Lakeridge Junior High School Seventh-grade TI C booklets Seventh-grade TLC booklets book-lets are today. Canned food drive begins The Canned Food Drive begins today. Mathletes team scramble The Mathletes team scramble is on today. Basketball Tryouts Basketball Bas-ketball team tryouts begin on Monday. Student Led Conferences Student Led Conferences f Drum Brayden Santo After a bit of studying and research, I'm going to attempt to explain something on a subject that is of very heated debate right this very minute. So hopefully I won't insult or offend too many people. We've all seen the signs: "I'm AGAINST Referendum One" or "Vote For 1." My initial ini-tial response was "I'm against this, because I go to a public school, and the Referendum hurts public schools." But I hadn't done my research. I got online, and "googled" this proposition. Immediately, biased blogs, forums and Web sites came up, both for and against it. I couldn't trust this stuff, so after watching the television ads, both for and against, I was still confused. KSL news had an excellent article, which deciphers what was said in both advertisements, advertise-ments, which helped me immensely im-mensely in learning. 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An Equal Opportunity Employer, MFDV. will be held Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 7 p.m. Choir Fall Festival The Choir Fall Festival is at Canyon Can-yon View on Thursday, Nov. 8. Cherry Hill Elementary Red Ribbon Week Red Ribbon Week during which students will learn about the importance of saying no to drugs runs through Friday. Activities throughout the week will correspond with the Red Ribbon message. Orem Elementary Report cards Report cards will be sent home with students on Friday. Election Day Elections will be held in the Orem Elementary El-ementary gym on Tuesday. Westmore Elementary 'Reflections' entries due Reflections entries are due today. pubic school students and using us-ing it to send other students to private schools. The rest of that student's money would then be given back to the school system, essentially giving giv-ing the other students a bit more money, per person. Doing Do-ing this would thus decrease class sizes in public schools, and still allocate enough money for public school to function. This is all true and good, but according to KSL, the public school budget, overall, is about $3.5 billion. After doing do-ing the math, school districts would save between $2.4 and $11.5 million. Compared to $3.5 billion, that's 310ths of 1, or .003 savings. Bryan Merrill posed the question, "If the budget impact im-pact is so teeny, why don't we just use 75 percent recycled paper or buy Western Family white glue instead of Elmer's and save that much money?" Obviously, there's a bit more involved than the money, but I'm running out of space. I've looked this over a bit, and have come to decide that if I could vote, I would probably vote against Referendum Refer-endum 1. Thank heavens that I'm still only 17. for 7 days FREE. heraldextra.com JHliljHtroU) Talecris 'CMSMAWSOUK'fS L imh urn mmvm i |