November Student of the Month

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AM Kindergarten - Not pictured: Isreal Santillian, Natalia Quijas, Aiden Houck, Julie Baxter, Juan Pastor, and Kambrie Carter.

PM Kindergarten: Byton Ross, Rylee Carter, Allyson Beardall, and Parker Schollenberger.

First-grade: Nika Leuk, Libby Miller, Makayla Sandoval, Corbin Llewellyn, Ryuer Hancock, Mallie Johnson, Patricia Montgomery, Jared Ullery, Tessa Hutchings, Kaden Liddiard, Kylie Christensen, and Branson Baker.

November Kids with Character

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Ryan Roger, Koby Creviston, Mayson Bloom, Alexa Riches, Britton Biggs, Landon Shurtleff, Sabrina Blackhurst, Makenna Holt, Jack Payne, Addie Quijas, Scott Snow, Joshua Dunn, Wliie Walker, Travis Christensen, Ana Wilde, Samantha White, Eli Davis, Hayden Peacock, Rykley Houser, Madison Harward, Spencer Memmott, Brittan Christensen, Avery Wall, Natalie Rapier, and Issac Muhlestein.

Reading Magician Visits Spring Lake Elementary

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There was magic in the air on Friday November 18th at Spring Lake Elementary School in Payson. The students discovered the magical power of reading as special guest Paul Brewer the Reading Magician visited Spring Lake as part of the Ken Garff Road to Success reading program. The students were mesmerized and entertained as many of their fellow students participated in the magic show and received free books. With his magical powers Paul motivated students to go home and read all they can to help their school reach their reading goal of over 2 million minutes!

Spring Lake Third-Graders Have Thanksgiving Feast

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On November 22nd, 2011 Third-Grade Students participated in their annual Thanksgiving feast. They made place mats, and ate together as a grade level. Parents helped make hats, and provided pumpkins pies to eat. Later in the afternoon they did turkey bowling with two liter bottles and frozen Cornish game hens as the bowling ball. It was a blast. Thanks to all those that helped.

Spring Lake Elementary Annual Turkey Gobbling Contest

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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Spring Lake Elementary students participated in the schools annual Turkey Gobbling Contest. Winners from each class were selected earlier in the week to participate. One at a time they took to the stage and gave their best turkey call, and strut. Winners were Brady Jacobson from Ms. Grover's third-grade class for the younger grades, and Jackson Terry in Mr. Ewell’s fifth-grade class for the upper grades. They both took home a frozen turkey for Thanksgiving.

Reflections Winners 2011 Spring Lake Elementary

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Literature Primary
*Rafael Barreda

Literature Intermediate
Daniel Havens, Zeke Mangum, Brenna Worthington, and Jadyn Bohn.

Literature 6th Grade
Christopher Turner, Kayden Young, Talbie Oberg,  and Ashlyn Sharp.

Music Intermediate
Brianna Bartholmew, Dayna Chapa, and Bryton Webber.

6th grade Music
Megan Neal

3D Art Primary
Garrett Wirfs, Abby Whiting, and Parker Schollenberger.

3D Art Intermediate
Megan Curtis, Hailey Wilkinson, Carson Finch, and Brianna Bartholomew.

3D Art 6th grade Intermediate

October Kids With Character

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Kids With Character

Michael Yi, Emma Sanders, Koby Creviston, Beau Jacobson,
Helen Wolfe, Malone Ewell, Sam Hunsaker, Garrison Sumner, Timothy Hempel, Emma Atkin, Katelyn Rice, Brissa Castillo, Kody Webber, Ty Creviston, Ella Ford, Maren Hartle, Jaquel Bennett, Jeremy Bloom, Gracie LeFever, Casandra John, Samantha Taylor, Ryan Lines, Ashley Graham, Kyrra Lundberg, Levi John, and Rachel Slack.

October Students Of The Month

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Morning Kindergarten:Tanner Harmon, lynlee Howard, Elerie Hutchinson, Tatum Begay, Kylie Sorensen, and Ezra Davis.

Afternoon Kindergarten: Beckham Higley, Kamryn Wilson, Trevor Bulow, and Makenna Larsen.

First-Grade: Burley Lofgran, Hailey Herbst, Kylee Keisel, Jaxon Openshaw, Weston Kershaw, Allix Harward, Rai Pineda, Quincy Rawson, Chantel Reynoso, Joshua Webber, Alex Cowie, and Hailey Mangum.

Second-Grade: Rebecca Albright, Ben Morgan, Tanner Memmott, Mandalyn Baker, Zoe DeRosier, Ethan Muhlestein, Chloe Mangum, and Garrett Wirfs.

Who is A Veteran?

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Mrs. Ray's fourth-grade class has been learning what a Veteran is and presented a skit  "Who is Veteran?" to the whole school on Friday for Veteran’s Day..
Stockton Laypath, Annie Colby, Brian Cox, Chase Tingen, Taylor Hutchings, and Zowie Renzello
memorized a poem honoring Veteran's.
A flag folding ceremony was presented by Sgt. Danny Ray, Sgt. Dakota Ray, and Spec. Collin Smith.
The program ended with "God Bless the USA sung by all of the children in attendance.  All in attendance were grateful for the program honoring our Veterans.

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Story by: Denise Ray

Reflections Open House at Spring Lake Elementary

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Thursday, November 10, 2011 parents and students were invited to attend an open house to honor all the students that participated in the P.T.A. ‘Reflections’ contest. Over a hundred and fifty students entered the competition.  Some of the categories were visual arts, dance, photography, music, and writing.  The theme this year was  “Diversity Means...”  Awards will be given out at an assembly next week.  The winners will be going on to represent Spring Lake at district and hopefully go on to region and state.

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Pictures by: Megan Muhlestein