The concert band students had an amazing opportunity this morning to have Dr. Kirt Saville from BYU work with them. Students were able to learn more about the proper style to play a march and how to bring more emotion to their music as a group. The band had Dr. Saville visit in preparation for their upcoming concerts and festivals in March. They will be performing at Salem Hills High on Wednesday March 8th at 6:00pm. 

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Every month, our math teachers challenge students at our school by posting three questions that students can answer to get tickets to enter a drawing at the end of the month. One student from each grade is chosen to win a prize. Each question gets progressively harder and is worth more tickets. Question 1 is worth one ticket, Question 2 is worth two tickets, and Question 3 is, of course, worth 3 tickets. This is Question 2 for the month of February. Can you answer it? Share with your friends to see if they can as well.

The library is getting a huge new shipment of books this Tuesday! Some of the new books include: Calamity, Beauty of Darkness, Heart of Betrayal, Hikaru no go series, along with many other interesting series and novels. All of these books are fun to read and so interesting. Be sure to check out all of the new shipments of awesome books this coming week!

Congratulations to Lexi Webster and Lana Marks who won the school-wide spelling bee! Lexi Webster got 1st place and  Lana Marks was right behind her in 2nd place.  They lasted 18 rounds!  They are going to State on March 25th.  The journalism team interviewed Lana and she said that she studied for an hour to get to 2nd place.  1st place winner Lexi Webster got a $15 gift card to iTunes and Lana Marks received a $10 dollar gift card to Burger King.  Congratulations to you both and good luck at State!

Every month, our math teachers challenge students at our school by posting three questions that students can answer to get tickets to enter a drawing at the end of the month. One student from each grade is chosen to win a prize. Each question gets progressively harder and is worth more tickets. Question 1 is worth one ticket, Question 2 is worth two tickets, and Question 3 is, of course, worth 3 tickets. This is Question 1 for the month of February. Can you answer it? Share with your friends to see if they can as well.

The students of the month for February have been announced. These students have really impressed their teachers with their work ethic and great attitudes. Here at SaJHS we try to recognize as many students as possible who are doing great things. Make sure to congratulate them if you see them

These are the ones we chose for February: 

7th: Lainy Edwards and Tyler Larsen

8th: Lexie Bishop and Corbin Swartz

Mr. Stolworthy brought the 7th grade beginning woodwind class to visit Mrs. Peery's and Miss Swenson's class yesterday to show them the woodwind instruments and play some songs for them to identify. Songs included "7 Nation Army" "Light Em Up" "Rude" "Pompeii" and some simple songs like "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and "Old MacDonald." These are our two self-contained units in the school and the kids really appreciate it when other students come by to share their time and their talents. They loved the songs and everyone had a great time. Mrs.

When most people think of a teacher they think of a crabby adult with not enough sleep, too much coffee and a bad attitude. But nobody ever wonders how the teachers got there, I interviewed several teachers on how they got where they are now and here are their responses.

We are doing a shoe drive up until February 17th. Our goal is to collect 1000 shoes that will be sent to needy kids in Africa or they will be recycled and the money from that will help communities by paying to build wells and farms among other things.