As part of their study of government, the Constitution, and the legislative process, the fifth graders from Spring Lake Elementary spent their school day at the state legislative session on Thursday, February 16. In preparation for their visit they had taken opportunity to observe the session at school via live video streaming. The students were able to then go and actually spending significant time observing the business of debating and voting in the House and Senate from the galleries at the Capitol.

A.M. Kindergarten: *Aaron Neal, *Ashley Ubaldo, *Natalie Everett, *Xane Harmon, and *Kyler Rhoades.

P.M. Kindergarten: Luke Sutton, *Natalie Marvin, Zane Bergstrom, and Chloe Dunn.

First-grade: Michael Yi, *David Knapp, Gage, Losser, Koby Creviston, Jasmine John, Riley VanNosdol, Rai Pineda Heather Wolsey, Pablo Ceja, Rett Robinson, Simon Evans, and Reagan Baird.

Second-grade: Grady Grimshaw, Melissa McCauley, *Jaylee Cofran, Matthew Scholes, Matthew Mason, Sequoia Saunders, Katelyn Rice, and Alex Saunders.

Spring Lake Elementary students have been reading towards their goal of 2.6 million minutes. For five nights of reading students get to put a ticket in the drawing. For a complete week of reading they get to put in two. On Friday March 2nd, 2012  they pulled a winner for a bicycle. Swazie Davis in Mrs. Marty Davis’ P.M. Kindergarten was the lucky winner.

Wednesday, February 29th, third-grade celebrated leap year with a culminating activity for their reading goal for the month. Each class read 13,500 minutes. Classes then participated in a leap day obstacle course. Students started by leaping through hula hoops, jump roping, hopping on lily pads, bunny hopping round cones, and finally in groups of three leap-frogging  back to the finish line. At the end students from each class made a long line and then each student was able to leaped frog over the whole class.