March 2016

Hobble Creek hosted the Nebo Elementary Debate Tournament.  Seventy fith and sixth grade students participated with sixty students from Mapleton Elem., Brockbank and Rees.   The issue debated this year is Do the benefits of domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency outweigh the harms.  

Sixth grade students competed in a culminating event of Greek Olympic Games that integrated social studies with math and skills that they are mastering in other content areas. 

Mrs. Smith's class wore school colors to win the Spirit Award Trophy. 

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Mrs. Wayment has BA in Liberal Studies, a master's degree in education, a reading endorsement and is still going to school to complete a math endorsement in June.When  she was teaching first grade she saw a lot of students become readers for the first time. It was amazing to watch them make such a huge leap.      Her favorite food is Texas Sheetcake.  Her favorite season is summer.  Math is her favorite subject.  She likes to read and quilt.  She likes to go to the beach.  Once she was in the Barnum and Bailey Circus.  Her dream adventure is to photograph a polar bear in the wild.  

Kristen Onitveros

Mrs. McAfee's class had a Mustache Day on Thursday, Mar. 10, for no other reason than someone had the idea, others thought it sounded fun, they begged (a lot!) and Mrs. McAfee finally caved! She allowed the student to earn Mustache Day through excellent behavior, 

Hobble Creek Teachers elected Carol Day as Hobble Creek's Teacher of the Year.  She is part of the Nebo pool of recognized teachers from which a Nebo teacher of the year will be selected.  

Carol is a graduate of Hasting College in Hastings Nebraska.  She holds a Professional Educator License from the state of Utah with endorsements in Gifted Education and Theatre.   She has two daughters.  One lives in Seattle and the other in Ithaca New York.  

She  serves as DART (District Art Resource Team) school representative, Publicity on the school website, Art Committee Coordinator with Beverly Taylor Sorenson Teaching Artist, coordinating arts teacher development, networking with teachers to meet the needs of gifted students,  teaching 6th grade advanced math, extending math reteach groups in grades 3,5 & 6,  K-6 the grade gifted and talented pull-out groups.  She attended the SITES Arts and Democracy Seminars for four years, and  organized school recycling teams.

She has served as President of Nebo Gifted Children’s Association, NGCA, for 16 years.  During this time the organization has developed Chess Club at the  school level. Also coordinating Bright Ideas Saturdays and Bright Ideas Summer.  She is a debate coach for 5th and 6th grade students as well as teaching debate skills as a part of persuasive writing.  She serves on the  Utah Debate Committee traveling to SLC to coordinate the state debate program.  She has written and coordinated arts grants for 26 years at Mapleton Elem. and Hobble Creek.  The schools received awards ranging from $500-$10,000 per grant from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the National Endowment for the Arts. She serves on the   Board of Directors for daCi Utah,  (dance and the Child international) as treasurer  managing grants to provide inter-generational days of dance annually.

Carol believes that each student has the right to learn something new every day.  Students are the reason for giving  her time and talent.

The Hobble Creek Students of the Week for March 4, 2016 were:  George Putnam, Bridgette Murphy, Rachel Gwilliam, Soren Anderson, Addie Christiansen, Olivia Laing, Emma Snap, Jared Garrett, chase johnston, Nathan Wolfgramm, Dakota Durden, Claire Hafen, Sydnie Hawkes, Denton Marks, Tyler Christensen, Nolan Brice, Grace Carter, Ammon Brown, Piper Montgomery, Brynlee Stepp.