Spring Lake Elementary teachers have been working with Mrs. Lisa Bean a district art specialist to integrate drama in with their core. Here students are involved in a decision alley where they are trying to convince the person walking down the middle to side with them. The task was to decide if they should build the settlement near the river or not. Some said it could flood, others argued they did not want to carry the water a long distance to camp.
Kindergarten: Leah Bryce, Corbin Richins, Rylee Ross, Joshua Trevino, Jaxten Moss, Jill Baxter, Brielle Morena, Joseph Trevino, Emily Oldham, and Hogan Bates.
First-grade: Gunner Hall, Kaylie Durfee, Carter Lindsey, Natalie Gordon, Avery Orme, Layna Hatfield, Allie Rapier, Lincoln Jockumsen, Jaycelyn Keisel, Jared Buchanan, Carter Tingen, and Mary Williams.
Second-grade: Trevor Bulow, Ethan Laypath, Summer DeSoto, Beckam Higley, Zach Jensen, Kate Slack, Mckinley Olsen, and Xane Harmon.
On October 31st we had a dead word funeral. Miss Stephens told us to pick two words we think we use too much and write those two words on a certain piece of paper. Miss Stephens encouraged us not to use those words in our language or writing. We lined up chairs and had tissues. We expressed our experiences with the class(audience). Miss Stephens sent us one by one to say goodbye to our words and set them in their grave.
It is Halloween time in Kindergarten at Spring Lake Elementary. Our cute little goblins had a great time learning how to dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Spooky fun was had by all! Happy Halloween!
Lindsey Smith was honored by the Spring Lake faculty as this years Crystal Apple winner. Some things our faculty said about her…She is fantastic! She is willing to help anyone who needs help. She has a positive attitude and is fun to be around. She has great ideas on how to teach kids, she likes to learn new things, she is a great team member, she goes above and beyond, she is a team player, she made sure I never forgot holidays and kept me lint free!
Students at Spring Lake Elementary celebrated Red Ribbon week by pledging to stay drug free. Monday they wore red mustaches to school. Tuesday was crazy day because you would have to be crazy to do drugs, so student have crazy socks and hair. Wednesday Students wore team jerseys because we need to stick together. Thursday was a pajama day to wake up and say no to drugs. Students also made banners that hung in the hallways, and had a penny fundraising competition to help sponsor someone at Steps Recovery Center in Payson. $365.53 was raised which will be matched.
The office at Spring Lake Elementary was turned overnight into the Black Pearl. Pirates were seen taking over as Halloween was celebrated.
Part of our science core for fourth-grade is that students will understand how fossils are made and do investigations with fossils. Luckily for us at Spring Lake Elementary School, we have a really nice landowner in our neighborhood, that has fossils on his property. For the past five or six years he has allowed us to take a one mile hike up into the foothills on his property and look for fossils. Over fifty percent of the students find fossils. They are mostly fossilized clams from ancient seas that used to cover the area around our school.