Daily Herald's Utah Valley Educator of the Week is our own Nikki Mendenhall!
Ms. Mendenhall is a wonderful teacher who loves not only the students she teaches but all of the students at Salem Jr High. She is fun to be around and we are lucky to have her at our school. Learn more about Ms. Mendenhall . . . http://www.heraldextra.com/news/community/education/utah-valley-educator-of-the-week-nikki-mendenhall/article_0c22ca4d-0356-5d58-aea0-9c1275546ef4.html
Daily Herald's Utah Valley Student of the Week is Salem Jr High's Tanner Rogers!
Congratulations, Tanner, on being an awesome student. Read more about Tanner: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/community/education/utah-valley-student-of-the-week-tanner-rogers/article_dc39b10f-2fef-59a2-9b34-48230f87210a.html
Last Friday, we held our annual 8th-grade vs. faculty basketball game. Every year the 8th-graders get the chance to go up against their teachers in a 25 minute, full-court contest. It was a lot of fun listening to students cheer on their fellow students as they brought their best game against some of the teachers.
Most cheer for the student team, but, every year, there is always a small group of 9th-graders who cheer for the teachers.
Students of the month were chosen and announced for January. Competition is getting fierce as teachers have many students who we feel are worthy of recognition for what they contribute to our school. Here are the students who we feel have really stood out this last month:
7th Grade
8th Grade
9th Grade
District championships were held for our junior high wrestlers earlier this month. We had a great showing and many of our kids placed in their weight division. Here are the results. Good job Spartans. What a great way to end the season.
1ST PLACE:
2ND PLACE:
3RD PLACE:
Nebo School District will be hosting a series of Parent Awareness Nights. Several community service providers will be present to answer questions and help individuals access services. See the attached link for more information: http://www.nebo.edu/sites/nebo.edu/files/mental-health-flyer_2017-2018.pdf.
Here is the next edition of the Spartan Chronicle. Students in the journalism class worked hard on this and hope you enjoy it.
Christmas break starts tomorrow, Dec. 21 which is a half day, so don't forget to pick your kids up at 11:15. It will go through the 1st of January. We hope you all have a great break and try not to break anything. We all hope that you have an amazing Christmas. We all hope you get tons of gifts or give tons of gifts. If you are going out of town have a safe trip and if not, then still be safe
In PE This year we have done a lot of fun and challenging things. Yet we have had so much fun. In the beginning of PE, we did land paddling it was so fun. Land paddling is where you have a paddle board then you have a paddle that looks like a real paddle but had a rubber end to it that helped you stop. It was ultimately fun.
After we did volleyball. The hard part in volleyball was that a lot of us couldn’t get it above the net, but it was still very fun to play.
Another term has rolled around since our last concert, which means we have another concert coming soon (December 14th, at 7:00 P.M. to be specific). The Christmas concerts are always very exciting, and our choirs have been working very hard to make sure we have a memorable time for both the students and the audience. Along with the concert, last Friday the advanced choirs (Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Bella Voce) performed at both the Provo and Orem malls. This is always one of the choir highlights of the year and always stirs up excitement.