Students in Mrs. Southam's class did a science inquiry lesson on habitats. They looked for patterns of living things and wrote down their observations. Each group found out that the animals were separated into categories based on their habitats. They found similarities between the animals that told students more about the environments that the animals lived in. 

These Maple Ridge students were our students of the month for March. They were recognized for being generous. We are proud of them! (Not pictured: Reese Robinson, Kai Cook, Thea Eppich, Maddie Puntsag, Willow Wilson, Boston Hill, and Lorelei Peterson)

Mrs. Gatley, one of our wonderful front office secretaries, was recently recognized by Craig Harvey of Horace Mann as our Maple Ridge Classified Employee of the year. Mrs. Gatley is one of a kind! She works with parents, students, and teachers and staff every day. You can often find her fixing up skinned knees, tying shoes, answering phones, laminating, copying, providing a listening ear, tutoring students, problem solving, even hairstyling! Mrs. Gatley does it all and Maple Ridge would not be what it is without her! She takes such good care of all of us! Congratulations Mrs. Gatley!

Second graders in Mrs. Berbert’s class learned about the importance of using the right tools when measuring! We used yard sticks to measure how far we jumped outside and learned that it’s helpful to use a big tool for a big measuring job!

Mrs. Sanders’ 4th graders have been doing a lot of reading since March was declared reading month at Maple Ridge. They have been working on identifying theme, main idea & details, and summarizing.

Have you been reading? Splash Summit Reading calendars are due tomorrow! Turn them in if you got 500 minutes of reading this month!
 

Maple Ridge fifth graders, McKinley Rothlisberger and Ellie Earl, won the Central Utah STEM Fair Outstanding Research Design Award. They were chosen out of all the other 5th and 6th grade projects that were there. We are so proud of these students! Well done!

Maple Ridge fifth graders, Ari Willson and Riley Petersen, won the Central Utah STEM Fair Grand Champion award for Earth Science at BYU. We are so proud of them and their hard work. Way to go, girls!   

Maple Ridge 5th graders recently participated in a wax museum. Students researched and learned about a famous person and wrote a speech about them. They then came dressed as their person and presented their speeches to students and parents. It was very apparent that a lot of work and effort went into this day and we are proud of all our fifth graders and their teachers!

Mrs. Williams' first graders have spent the last few months reading their way through the book series Mercy Watson. Mercy is a “Porcine Wonder” who is adored by almost the entire neighborhood. She loves a good adventure and she especially loves hot, buttered toast. To celebrate finishing the series, their class had a Mercy Watson birthday party complete with none other than…buttered toast.

These Maple Ridge students were our Students of the Month for February. The were recognized for demonstrating optimism. We are so proud of all of them! (Not pictured: Abbie Bartholomew, Emmett Cunningham, Finley Brimhall, Ethan Hannig, Lily Soffe)