Classified Employee of the Year From Spanish Oaks

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Lindsey Downey, our wonderful librarian, was named Classified Employee of the Year this morning in our faculty meeting.  Let's get to know her a little better . . . Mrs. Downey is from Spanish Fork and is married to her high school sweetheart.  She has two children and is a huge Utah UTE fan.  Lindsey loves to cook, go camping and sew.  She is very creative and organized, and grows a mean garden!  She makes learning fun and the students LOVE HER, as do all of us here at Spanish Oaks.  Congratulations Mrs. Downey!

Chocolate Day in Miss Robison's First Grade

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Chocolate Day is every child's favorite day because who doesn't like learning when there is chocolate involved?  After lunch, students went on an Easter Egg Hung around our classroom.  They had to find the egg that had their student number on it.  After our Easter Egg Hunt, we watched a couple clips from the movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."  Then students had to finish the sentence, "If I was Willy Wonka, I would make a candy bar called________."  Students had to describe what was inside their candy bar and draw a picture of it.  Then I gave

Some Fun Learning in Miss Young's Class

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Miss Young has some fun learning going on in and out of her classroom. The outside pictures are of our geometry monsters we made using chalk to draw animals out of the shapes we have learned about.  

The inside pictures are of our synonym egg hunt. The students were each given an egg with a word, then they had to search the room for the egg with the matching word so that they could use their words in two sentences and draw a picture to go with it. 

Science EXTRA Club Going Strong

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Miss Babcock has been running our Science EXTRA Club for the past several weeks, and the students are loving it!  They are covering a variety of science concepts, such as "forces in motion".  Empty toilet paper rolls came in handy as the students designed and created cars to analyze and adjust before doing the final race.  Keep up the great work, students, and thanks to Miss Babcock for her time and effort.

Reading Champions Challenge March 1-March 31

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Spanish Fork City has invited all the students of Spanish Oaks Elementary to ‘compete’ alongside the Cowboys in The Reading Champions Challenge, March 1-March 31.  Students were challenged to keep track of the reading they do during the month of March and return the attached calendar it to their teacher at the end of the month.  Winners will be chosen from all of our returned reading calendars from each grade level.  Seven Champion Readers will be awarded two (2) tickets each to the rodeo!  There are only two weeks

Student of the Week: Jacob Theodosis

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Jacob Theodosis is a sixth grade student at Spanish Oaks Elementary. He was chosen as the Daily Herald's Utah Valley Student of the Week.

"Jacob is not only an excellent student, but an amazing older brother," said Theodosis' father Nicholas. "He often will take care of younger siblings without being asked when parents are sick. I could not ask for a better son."