GPA plans Discover Montessori Week

We greatly enjoyed our week off, and started off our fourth with “When Dreams Come True,” a concert featuring all choir, band, orchestra, percussion and guitar students. This is the final “practice” for the students performing in Anaheim, Calif. March 12-14.

This week will feature school-wide celebrations on the birthday of Dr. Seuss, including a Green Eggs and Ham breakfast for our fourth through sixth graders.

Our monthly story time takes place next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Library.

Mark your calendars for the week of March 15-19. It will be “Discover Montessori Week” at Gateway Preparatory Academy as well as our Scholastic Book Fair. More information about the guided tours, Montessori expo and parent education classes will be coming soon.

East has visit from Korean educators

We had the wonderful opportunity of having 10 Korean education students from Seoul National University of Education with us over the past two weeks. They were part of a program with SUU that allowed them a chance to intern in our school.

The Korean pre-service had the chance to work with every grade and a variety of different teachers. It was a wonderful experience for our teachers and students to learn about Korean culture and about their educational system. We are grateful for the opportunity of having them in our school.

We were privileged to have an excellent opera performance sponsored by the Orchestra of Southern Utah. It was wonderful to have such outstanding talent come to our school. We would like to express our thanks to the performers and OSU for providing such a good experience for your students.

Enoch preparing for year-end tests

Parent/teacher conference week has arrived. We welcome parents to our school for SEP meetings and we look forward to working together as we discuss student needs.

These meetings are such a great opportunity to help students succeed. Thank you for taking time out to show your care and concern for your student.

Last week, we celebrated our Blue Ribbon accomplishments and this week we move on to new goals and dreams.

Each classroom has switched into high gear as we prepare for end-of-level testing and benchmark level reading readiness. Our fifth grade students successfully completed the Direct Writing Assessment with confidence. Good work, kids! We are proud of you!

School will be dismissed at 2:30 each day this week. Our book fair will also be taking place this week.

Don’t forget to check out our school web page. It contains lots of essential information helpful to parents.

Fiddlers has SEPs

Fiddlers Canyon Elementary would like to remind parents that it is SEP week. Parents are urged to meet with their child’s teacher at their appointed time. When school and home work together, great things happen in the life of a child!

Our schedule is shortened this week in order to accommodate more time for parent/teacher conferences. Our PTA is also having its Book Fair this week. Parents are encouraged to come in and see the great variety of books offered in our Buy One—Get One Free sale.

North thanks book fair volunteers

We are busy with SEP Conferences this week. It’s a great time for each student’s learning team to meet together and make plans for their success in school. North Elementary has wonderfully supportive parents.

There is also a buy one, get one free book fair in the library from March 1 through March 5. The hours are 11:55 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. This is a wonderful opportunity to build your home library.

We appreciate our PTA who sponsors this book fair, and extend special thanks to Barbara Lewis who is a long-time volunteer for this event. She puts in many hours and we recognize her dedication to North Elementary and to the PTA goal of getting books into the hands of children.

Parowan has Western Program

Wonderful things are always happening at Parowan Elementary. As part of the study of Iron County, the third graders had their exciting and always special Western Program.

Each year the students honor a very special citizen of Parowan along with singing and dancing and putting on plays. This year Mrs. Elaine Sandberg Adams was honored. Mrs. Adams celebrated her 91st birthday the day of the program.

Students honored her with citing her personal history, giving her a birthday cake and singing “Happy Birthday.” Members of her family, including her children, sang a special song just for mom and grandmother.

Students displayed pioneer projects that included anything that related to pioneer life. Fun was had by all.

Not to have the fun end, the third and fourth graders were rewarded for learning times tables and reaching their accelerated reading goal by going to a SUU basketball game. Wow! We invite anyone to ride a bus with third and fourth graders to a ballgame.

The fifth and sixth graders have been busy with writing assessments which are part of the year-end testing activities.

We have a lot going on at Parowan Elementary as well as having the greatest principal in the world.

South to have Read-a-thon, play

This week is SEP week. It is an exciting time of year to share student accomplishments. Make sure to contact your student’s teacher if you don’t have an appointment scheduled!

The PTA is sponsoring a book fair this week as well, so be sure to stop by the gym and check out some fun reads!

Our Read-a-thon begins Monday and we will have a school-wide kickoff. We will have an Olympic theme for this year’s events.

Kindergarten registration is next Wednesday, March 10, in the gym from noon to 3:30. Children who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 may register. Please bring a state birth certificate, a social security card, and immunization record.

Our singers are zealously working on our play “The Principal and the Pea.” Set aside March 11 or 12 to attend that!

Three Peaks enjoys Dr. Seuss Day

Fifth graders performed very well on the Direct Writing Assessment conducted online last week.

Third and fourth graders were treated to a visit from the Canyon View High School dance team.

Dr. Seuss made an appearance at the school on Friday. Students were invited to read with buddy classes, attended the reading assembly for February, ate birthday cake provided by our wonderful PTA at lunch, and wore P.J.’s this day. A fun time was had by all.

SEP Conferences will be all week (March 1-5), with dismissal at 2:30 each day. All parents have been assigned an appointment time.

The school and PTA goal is again to have 100 percent of the conferences held. If for some reason parents cannot make their scheduled appointment time, they should contact their child’s teacher to reschedule.

Iron Springs Elem. celebrates Seuss

Iron Springs Elementary celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday Friday, February 26th. Students and adults could wear pajamas and brought their Dr. Seuss books to read during the day.

The entire school attended a Dr. Seuss assembly put on by Patty Johnson’s middle school students. The upper grades peer read with the lower grades. Students also had other Dr. Seuss activities with their classes.

CVMS has b-ball success vs. CMS

Our Cougar basketball team competed with Cedar Middle School and came out on top a second time this year. Members of the team were Koy Huxford, Keaton Kringlin, Ryan Jensen, Ty Nelson, Derek Dunnell, Brock Hunter, Anthony Casteneda, Brycen Bybee, Jaycee Slack, Brielle Nicholes, Josie Platt and coach Daxon Holmes. Great job!

CVMS is going to try a new intramural sport – Soccer. Each of our four houses will field a team for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. This is something the students have been wanting to try and they’re excited to play after school on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning this month, if the weather cooperates.

Orchestra I and II participated on the Southern Utah Performing Arts Festival at Desert Hills High School on Feb. 22, receiving Superior and Excellent ratings. The adjudicator was very impressed with the students’ appearance and how well they represented CVMS.

Our own CVMS Cougar Band visited our feeder elementary schools giving the fifth grade students a taste of band by performing for them and giving them an opportunity to try out instruments. Parents may contact Mrs. Anderson, our band director, via e-mail at lauralyn.anderson@ironmail.org if they have questions.

CMS has band performances

CMS Honor Society enjoyed entertainment by Off the Cuff! Students may join with a 3.7 GPA and no N’s or U’s in citizenship. Next activity is the spring BBQ at the park. Seventh grade core classes are doing the Read Across America service project for three elementary schools. They are taking their “Cat in the Hat” play to Iron Springs, East and North. This is great fun, and the students have worked hard and are excited to share it.

Our wonderful, talented, awesome CMS Band Students are gearing up for their annual Mid-Winter Pops Concert. The Intermediate Sixth Grade, Advanced Sixth Grade and Concert Band concerts were Wednesday. Today the JV Band will perform at 5:30 with the Varsity Band following at 7:30.

Five CHS musicians go to all-state

Cedar High School swimmers represented our school well at 3A State. Boys placed 6th and Girls placed 5th. Congratulations to Emily Morris, the only state champion in all of Southern Utah.

Recently five CHS students were honored with participation in the All-State Band and All-State Orchestra, which is comprised of the best music students in the state. Acceptance into these groups is by a rigorous audition. After passing the audition, the group met for 12 hours of rehearsal culminating in a concert at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City.

Representing the band were Austin Robinson, trumpet; Joseph Palmer, trumpet; and Will Shugart, euphonium. Robinson was selected the first chair trumpet player for the second straight year.

The orchestra was represented by Marisa Barth, violin; and Mason Hunter, double bass. Congratulations to the CHS Cheerleaders for winning the Utah Spirit Championships for the fourth year in a row.

SUCCESS kids excel in engineering

On Feb. 17, approximately 60 SUCCESS Academy students competed in the annual Engineering Week activities at SUU. These activities are sponsored by the Integrated Engineering department and Technology department at SUU.

Students from the university and area high schools participate. SUCCESS Academy competed very well and had a lot of fun. Calvin Panah took first place in the catapult competition with Carolos del Costill taking second place.

In the balloon race competition, Amy Gifford and Stephanie Fausett took first place; Kelsy Rasmussen, Tiffany Hanson, and Telisah Pantelakis took second place; Romn Stead and Nathan Coonen took third place, Adrian Briano took fourth place, and Jared Rhoton, Wyatt Humphries, Leen, Samha and Sabrina Mckissack took sixth place.

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who participated!