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Show Orchard School 4th, 5th graders cited for History Fair excellence y Sr "Tji . . pit tnSiitlf j first, second and third place winners win-ners in each category for the "Primary," "Junior" and "Senior" levels and these winners were invited to the state fair at the University. Orchard Elementary had eight winning entries at the Regional Re-gional Fair. Three of these were also winners at the State History Fair. Two groups of fifth graders in Mrs. Gail Bock's class were winners win-ners at the state level. First place in the performance category, a performance per-formance entitled, "More Room, More Taxes" which was a re-enactment re-enactment of the conflicts during the building of the North Salt Lake City Hall. Members of the group were April Clayton, Heather Fluckiger, Stacey Lovell, and Melanie Owen. ' Third place in the media presen-; tation category, a report concern-,' ing the Bountiful floods of 1983. Members of this group were Kami; Bell, Tracy Clark, Ashley Forsyth and Lisa Turner. Other fifth graders who attended . the State Fair were Holly Taintor, Kristen Johnson, Rebecca Johnson John-son and April Sudweeks who pre-' sented a performance concerning; adoption called "Who Will Raise1 My Child," and Kristen Bunker,:? Lance Lewis, John Hatch, Cindy Fisher and Angie Phillips who presented pre-sented a performance about Daniel Wood and the naming of Woods Cross. Jamie Lovell, Molly Mason, Sara Michaelson, Rebecca Crosby, Cros-by, and Regina Hale, students of Mrs. Mortensen, 4th grade. Orchard School, won second place at state for the Utah history fair given at the University of Utah. - The title of their project was "Who Has the Right to the Water." Wa-ter." Their project study told about the water rights of the people in North Salt Lake in 1946. Many thanks to Mrs. Lovell who gave volunteer hours helping the students stu-dents research their project. Several fifth grade students from Orchard Elementary also received special honors at the recent history fair. These students have been working very hard since last fall in their effort to learn more about history. his-tory. They chose a subject to research re-search based on the national theme, "Conflict and Compromise" Comprom-ise" and had the option to present their work for judging either as a research paper, a media presentation, presenta-tion, a live performance or a project. pro-ject. The project category is by far the most popular and includes making some kind of visual demonstration of the research, usually displayed on a board, and explaining it to the judges. To be eligible to attend the State History Fair, the students were required re-quired to participate in the Regional Region-al History Fair held at the beginning begin-ning of March. From among hundreds hun-dreds of entries the judges named ORCHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 4th-5th graders were cited for outstanding State History Fair presentations. Students included: front, Regina Hale, left, Rebecca Crosby and Molly Mason; middle, Jaymie Lovell, left, Kami Bell, Tracy Clark, Lisa Turner and Sara Michaelson; back, Ashley Ash-ley Forsyth, left, Melanie Owen, April Clayton, Stacey Lovell and Heather Fluckiger. |