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Show NOVEMBER 24, 1907 L, Sweat shirts are a hot selling item at Central Davis Junior High School. A 9th grade math class project included selling shirts students designed and marketed. The brains behind the project included: Steve Garcia, seated, left, Cliff Stewart, back, Misty Robbins and Nathan Diaz, with Jay Green there to buy a shirt. Math can pay ofP, CDJH students learn d North Davis GymnasInstructors and students are ready for action at the Smith and Potter are on the tics. Students Jenny seated beam, back; front, Keith Christy r; Kristin Monica Amy Christensen, Choate, Mary Ann Potter, left, r. arid Anna Olsen, newly-forme- owner-instructo- Kings-ley-Carte- owner-instructo- rs r, owner-instructo- LAYTON A group of math students at Central Davis Junior High School has turned a classroom learning activity into a business and a service to their fellow students. North Davis Gymnastics9 gives old store new look LAYTON Beginning the first week in December, the old Safeway store on the east end of the Fort Lane Shopping Center will look different. The space will be filled with people. They wont be pushing shopaisles.. ping carts up food-fille- d They wont be looking for the best buys on grocery items. The new customers for the old Safeway building will be doing strange and things like vaults, round-off- s hand springs. The North Davis Gymnastics open in this location that has been empty for so many years. This new gymnastics school is a combination of the Potter School of Gymnastics, owned by Keith Potter and the Gymnastics, owned by Mary Ann and Anna Olsen. The two businesses are combining to offer students many more advantages including a space triple the size they had at their previous locations and twice the equipment. Another big plus to the new business is the quality of instruction that will be available. Four certified national USGF judges will be part of the club. The three professional instructors have abilities in all gymnastic events plus expertise in tumbling. Classes will be offered in all areas of gymnastics from be will rs Kings-ley-Cart- er ginning and recreational classes into Class IV and Class III groups plus Class II gymnastics as the students develop. Students will have opportunities to compete in gymnastic meets on many occasions. Classes can also help develop skills for cheerleading and drill teams. Students can start in this program at the age of 3 years. Besides a complete gymnastic program, the North Davis Gymnastics will offer tumbling classes. Mr. Potter explains there is a difference between gymnastics and tumbling. Gymnastics consists of four events floor exercise, beam, bars and vault. Tumbling is a straight run of gymnastic skills. It is usually done along an 80 foot strip. The three owners and instructors are well qualified professionals. Keith Potter is a product of his mother, Bernice Potters training. She worked in the gymnastics and dance program for 40 years. Keith took over the Potter School of Gymnastics nearly two years ago. He placed first in the state of Utah in tumbling in 1976 and was awarded a gymnastic scholarship to BYU. He has 10 years of teaching experience. Many of his students have competed in state contests and have gone on to compete in gymnastics on a college After attending the District level. is Mary Ann Kingsley-Carte- r still competing in tumbling. She has reached Level I in the USGF classifications. In 1980 Mary Ann placed seventh in the nation in power tumbling. Anna Olsen is a certified USGF national judge with a Class II rating. In 1976 she was named the outstanding senior gymnast in her high school. As a freshman at Weber State College, she received recognition as the outstanding gymnastic athlete. Anna has twelve years teaching experience. When the North Davis Gymnastics opens, there will be about 150 students in the program. Classes are taught nightly, Monday through Fridays for one hour sessions. Beginning students usually take a one hour session per week while the more advanced students sometimes spend six hours a week in gymnastics programs. Class size will be about 24 kids per session. This is eight students per coach, a small ratio that allows instructors to give attention to each student. The qualifications of the instructors will give them the ability to rotate events. The tumbling classes will continue to operate at their present location at 52 N. Main, Layton. Championship volleyball game for girls in Farmington about a month ago, the ninth grade resource math students of Mrs. Andersons commented to their teacher that Central students appeared to be the only junior high students in the county without a school sweatshirt. They wondered why this was the case. Mrs. Anderson investigated and discovered no one had ever designed and sold Central sweatshirts. Her class members decided this would be a good learning project and a service to the school. A committee consisting of Steve Garcia, Misty Robbins, Cliff Stewart and Nathan Diaz was formed to de sign, produce and sell Central sweatshirts. The first step was to get permission from the school principal, Dr. Ross Poore. He responded favorably but with the condition that any profits from sweatshirt sales would be put into school activities. The students agreed. Money raised will go for a spring dance and for special supplies for the resource department. year. Shirts can be purchased at the school for $12. Sales didnt interfere with class time. The students and advisors took orders before and after school and during the lunch hours. Next, the students designed the shirt. Their idea was given to Mrs. Patillo, an aide in the art department. She only took three days to get the design ready for a printing company to use. After receiving an example of what the shirt wouuld look like, the camstudents started a pre-sal- paign. In two weeks, they had sold 175 shirts. They are now taking reorders and this process will continue until the end of the school This activity was more than simply selling sweatshirts. The math students say its biggest value was teaching then responsibility. They learned many other things as well. Basic skills like working with money, balancing accounts and making correct change were applied to this real situation. They also learned much about our economic system. Mrs. Anderson said one major benefit was the that this activity built in her students. Because the sale of sweatshirts was so successful this year, Mrs. Anderson plans to incorporate it as a study unit in her ninth grade math curriculum and it will become an annual event. self-estee- m 4. TOST LAW Center Shopping rs il QP 'Jk vS 0 a by Helicopter November 28th at 2:00 PM Economics is learned early, these days, with Kaysville Elementary School students getting deeply involved. Participants in a recent school economics fair were: Melanie Zaugg, left, Mindy Evans, Amy Young, Ben Towers, Justin Carter and Danny Martin. Economics fair slated KAYSVILLE The fifth grade students at Kaysville Elementary School will hold an Economics Fair Friday, Dec. 4 starting at 3 p.m. in the large activity room at the school. The public is invited to support this project. In order to participate the students have to be able to trace the steps of our free enterprise system from the beginning when a product is just an idea through the manufac ! turing, marketing and evaluation steps of selling. The children made articles to sell in their individual homes with some help from family members. They kept track of their expenses so they would know how much to sell the article" for and how much profit they would earn from each article sold. Each student had to buy a permit to sell, a license and some space for their articles in the activity room. These added ex Bring Your Children to Meet Santa . penses had to be figured into the of their products. Three rooms will be participating in the Economics Fair. The teachers are Marcus Morrell, Ms. Pat Smith and Ms. Rebecca Hunt. This is the second year the Kaysville Elementary students have held an Economics Fair as a mjor learning experience coordinated with a free enterprise social studies unit of study. Last year's fair was cost very successftil. i Lane Shopping Center Sponsored by the Fort Merchants: and these Pet Land Video Village Ink Spot Kings Layton Drug North Davis Gymnastics Canyon Office Products |