The Orion Advanced Band went to Weber High School to perform in the Weber Cone Band Concert. They rehearsed for about an hour before the concert to prepare the combined piece at the end of the concert. There were 95 students on stage from Weber High, Orion, North Ogden, and Snowcrest bands. Way to represent Orion!
The Orion Advanced Band went to the Weber School District Intermediate/Advanced Festival. This is a little more competitive than the beginning band festival, as groups are just graded on their performance by a judge. Orion walked away with two Superior ratings from the judges, which is the best score you can get in a music festival! So proud of these students' hard work!
The Orion Beginning Band went to the Weber School District Beginning Band Festival/Clinic. Two judges listened to them perform, and gave them a rating and feedback to help them improve. They got Excellent scores, and performed very well!
English Fair Highlights: Last week, students visited the library to explore the top ten finalists in short story, poetry, cover art, literature-themed art, bookmarks, and book trailers! They voted for their favorites and celebrated their peers’ creativity.
Today the Students entered the world of a Food Scientist. They were hired by a spice company to come up with a spice blend that can be added to a popcorn snack. They will spend 4 days designing and improving this spice blend before it is presented to a panel of judges.
UVU State Math Contest
I took 8 of our students to Educators Rising state conference at Weber State where they competed in various events related to the Education & Training Pathway! They all worked really hard on their projects and I know many of you helped them out! We represented well and had a few winners! ~ Mrs. Lee
Orion Advanced Orchestra participated in a district Festival where they played for judges and the other orchestras in the district. They performed really well and I’m very proud of them! They received superior ratings from the judges ~Melanie Lucas, Weber High
The AP Prep/DLI class has had a mascot for many years. He is Tito, a Chihuahua that loves to be read to. Here are a few students reading to him (in Spanish, of course.)
Construction Tech has just finished learning about Blue prints, Architectural Rulers, and Biding on a Job. With these acquired skills they then choose the shed plan they wanted to make and came up with an estimation of how much it was cost to frame it out along with how much profit they would make. With that bid they ordered their lumber and are now in the middle of constructing these sheds, converting the real life measurements into the 1" scale we are using.
Honors History National History Day competition
8th grade Honors History Field trip at the Capitol Building. We also met with Representative Wilcox and went on a tour of the Emergency Response Center.
Weber Cone Hope Squad Retreat/Training
Mrs. Lee's CCA class made Classroom Bulletin Boards & Dioramas of future classrooms for our Education & Training Unit where we learned about careers in Education!
Students striking strange poses at the Weber High Tour.
We had 9 students from our school who participated in our District-wide Jr. High Honor Band. Students in the honor band are nominated for their achievement and hard work. The honor band only had 4 rehearsals before they performed a wonderful concert. Orion was the 3rd most represented Jr high from our district! We are so proud of their hard work and achievement!
The Band and Orchestra took a trip to watch the Utah Symphony perform at Fremont High School! A great opportunity to watch professional musicians inspire the next generation.
Students in College and Career Awareness have been spending the week to try and take a single sheet of printer paper and 30 cm of masking tape and build a tower over 100cm tall. They thought it an impossible task. However the record reached for each period is, 150 cm for 5th, 176 cm for 6th and 160 for 7th. Well over the 100 cm height.
Students learned Hands Only CPR and how to use an AED
Construction students are cutting it close, trying to finish up their builds, and creations by the End of the semester. Students are practicing their lathe skills by creating their own Handles for either an Ice cream scoop or screw driver.
After two weeks of designing and building the Robotic Engineers are testing their designs and seeing who has the fastest car with some class Drag Racing down the halls
Graphing & Jumping Jacks (Constant of Proportionality)
