May 2012

Kim Head Receives Larsen Elementary Classified Employee Of The Year Award

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 13:34
Wednesday April 25, 2012, Craig Harvey from Horace Mann Insurance presented Kim Head, Larsen Elementary's Classified Employee of the year Award for the 2011-2012 school year.  Faculty and staff were asked to vote for the classified employee that they felt had the greatest influence this last year and who they would like to honor.Kim is the new secretary for Larsen Elementary and does an AMAZING job in the office. Her sweet, bubbly personality and warm smile and influence is felt throughout the school. Kim has worked for Nebo School District for over 10 years.
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N.Hansen

2nd Graders get a visit from the National Guard and learn a thing or two about firefighting.

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 13:29

The second grade classes have been learning about firefighters and how they help our community.  Amy Mathew spoke up and told me her father was in the National Guard and was a firefighter.  She proceeded to take the story home to her father Sargent Mathews.  He called me and was willing to visit with the children about what he does. 

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K.Diede

3rd Grade Discovers Clarke Planetarium

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 15:02

Friday April 20th, Larsen Elementary 3rd grade students blasted off to the Clarke Planetarium in Salt Lake City.   While we were at the planetarium we got to watch a very cool movie that taught us alot about the different planets and what each planet is made up of.  After exploring the Planetarium, discovering what clouds really feel like with the cloud machine and playing with the static electricity ball, we loaded the buses and shuttled down to Pleasant Grove where we landed and ate our sack lunches and played at the Discovery Park. We orbited back through

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N.Hansen

6th Grade Students Get Up Close With Microorganisms.

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 13:34

6th Grade students went on their spring fieldtrip to the Provo Reclamation center April 19, 2012.  They have studied microorganisms throughout the year. Students were able to see how the laboratory staff uses their knowledge of microbes to perform water quality tests. The 43-acre East Bay facility is designed to treat an average inflow of 15 million gallons of wastewater each day.  The lab performs about 550 individual tests per week in order to treat the wastewater and reduce impurities.

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M.Waite

Larsen Elementary 2nd Graders Visit Harwood Farm.

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 14:44

Larsen Elementary second grade classes were able to attend the Farm Field Days in Springville on April 4, 2012.  We learned about how important agriculture is to everyone.  We started off the day seeing how a sheep gets a hair cut.  Farmers like to call it sheering.  The sheep love to get rid of their heavy wool coat.

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K.Diede

Princess power comes to Larsen Elementary 4-H.

Submitted by natalee.hansen on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 13:14

Recently the Larsen after school 4-H program had some very pretty princess power in one of their 4-H classes.  Princesses was just one of the many fun classes held for the students to participate in.  The girls who took part in the princess class learned how to have better manners, make necklaces, create a wand, decorate mirrors and last but no least, all the girls got to dress up for the last day and break a pinata. The fun princess class was taught by Mrs. Kim Head and her daughter Aubree Head. WAY TO GO LEOPARDS!!

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N.Hansen