February 2023

Nebo School District in partnership with Spanish Fork City presents a virtual Love and Logic Parenting Workshop.

“There's a lot of advice out there on how to raise your kids – some better than others. ‘Love and Logic’ is a favorite of therapists, family life educators, teachers, principals, and most importantly parents. It is practical, easy to learn, and really effective! Come and enjoy this fun, upbeat, and informative workshop full of useful tips!” – Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, Family Therapist and Parent Educator

Where: Online via Zoom

Third grade students at Maple Ridge were thrilled with a visit from the Springville Rotary who generously donated a dictionary to each one of our 130 third graders. Students loved looking through the different resources and the favorite page seemed to be the one with the longest word in the English language! Thank you to the Springville Rotary for such an awesome donation.

Congratulations to these Maple Ridge students. They were our students of the month for January and were recognized for being resilient. We are so proud of these students! (Not pictured: Boden Bebert, Everett Lym, ChaiVeea Carter, Oaklyn Perry, Olive Griffen)

Some of our upper grade students recently participated in our Maple Ridge School Science Fair. The students worked hard on choosing their project, experimenting, and presenting their findings to other students and judges. We are proud of how hard these students worked! 

Congratulations to the following students are moving on to the district level science fair: Ellie Earl, Hyrum Dastrup, Ari Willson, Riley Petersen, Sammie Smith, Porter Staheli, Maggie Davis, Kinley Richardson, Linden Baker, Wyatt Naugle, and McKinley Rothlisberger.

Maple Ridge Kindergartners celebrated the 100th day of school! They rotated to each of the kindergarten classrooms to do fun 100 day activities. They made crowns, did 100 day exercises and songs, built with 100 cups, 100 legos, 100 blocks, and 100 linking cubes. They even had cookies that made the number 100!  Hip-hip hurray for the 100th day of kindergarten!

Happy National School Counselor Week to our fantastic school counselor, Mrs. Brindley! This year Mrs. Brindley has implemented our Maple Ridge S.T.R.O.N.G lessons and she goes into every classroom each month to teach different skills to help students be the best people they can be (S.T.R.O.N.G stands for: supportive, thankful, resilient, optimistic, nice, and generous). Beyond teaching us these lessons, Mrs. Brindley jumps right in and helps whenever and however she can and is a very important part of our school. We are so grateful to have her at Maple Ridge. Thank you for all you do, Mrs.

First Graders in Mrs. Williams' class had a busy week! On Monday last week, they celebrated the 100th day of school. They each brought 100 things from home and participated in a 100 things museum with other first graders. On Tuesday they had  a fun math lesson with Mrs. Nelson from the district. They used Code and Go robots to create greater than, less than and equal statements. They had a blast.

Mrs. Brown (Nebo Visual Arts Specialist) recently visited some of our 5th grade classrooms and did some fun art projects with them. Here are some pictures of the day the 5th graders did Native American pottery. The students loved it and we have enjoyed having Mrs. Brown at Maple Ridge!

The 3rd grade got a welcomed visit from the Bean Museum where they learned about animal inherited traits during a really fun and interactive science presentation!  They learned why animals are able to survive in their environments. Third graders even got to see (not touch!) a live tarantula named Rosie! Pictured here are Ms. Harward’s and Mrs. Rasmussen’s classes.

February 9th is the date for the next parent workshop by Heidi Whitaker (Nebo School District Parent Consultant). This is a great workshop to help parents who are raising children with Disabilities! This meeting will be held via zoom and is open to everyone, but you will need to RSVP. See the flyer for more details.