On March 23, 2012 Students at Spring Lake Elementary celebrated March Madness. Students that have been reading all month, in conjunction with the Ken Garff Road to Success Program earned entries to be able to picked as class winners for prizes. Several students were drawn to play for cash. If chosen they could pick friends or teachers to help shoot from different places on the court for money. They got 35 seconds from when the first basket went in. Several went home with a fist full of cash. Remember to keep reading, and remember it always pays to read.

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.

Tuesday, February 28th, the third-grade students met with the school nurse and some BYU nursing students. They taught the students the importance of proper hygiene in taking care of our bodies.  The nurses also showed first hand how quickly germs spread by putting germ powder on a ball and how quickly it spread to all the students.  We need to make sure that we all wash our hands often and thoroughly.

Noah Dinkens, David Bartholomew, Adam Coates, Graham Mckay, Melina Wilds, Josh Pitcher, Cash Muir, Nyan Wood, Chance Wilkinson, Naomi Broadhead, Bryron Haparai, Jaran Terry, Logan Martin, Rebecca Dinkins, Trvis christensen, Zach Wood, Jarrett Jones, Zachary Cotton, Jadyn Bohn, Estefani Lopez, MeganMichaelis, Audra Lillie, Joshua Ullery, Bromley Carter, Jana Worthington, and Cody Ostler.

The week of February 21-24th. Spring Lake Elementary celebrated their second annual bullying awareness week. The week was kicked off with an assembly put on by “Be The Change” from Payson High School. They discussed that even though everyone is different there are many things that we can all have in common. Interest or hobbies or which animal we like. A skit was shown of what happens when we bully and how we can make it better.  Students signed posters pledging not to be a bully at the end of the assembly.  The PTA sponsored several dress up days.

Sunny Howard has been the Art planning time teacher for the last 3 years. She is a wonderful addition to our school. She always comes up with the most creative art projects for students to do.  She works very hard and it shows!  She has a perpetual smile and positive attitude that shines through whenever you have a conversation with her and even just when she says hi!  Students love her.  They love talking to her and going to her class!

On January 4th, 2012 Students in the sixth grade went back into the Middle Ages. Sir Bailey a knight from Medieval Times came to show the sixth-grade his armor, weapons, and teach about the Dark Ages. It was a blast from the past.