December 2009

Rees Elementary is a great place to see the arts in action. The “Willow Stories” basket weaving exhibit was brought to us by the Utah Arts Council. To go along with this exhibit, a basket weaver, Corinne Bitsinnie came to Rees Elementary to show the students how to weave a basket. She starts out by pulling out a stick of sumac out of a bundle of sticks. Then they cut and split the sumac into three. Some of the first grade teachers got to help. Mrs. Jacquelyn Searle was the first one to try it.

The third graders at Rees Elementary School in Spanish Fork received dictionaries from the Rotary and Mountain America. The kids looked exited when they received the new dictionaries. The kids played a game with the dictionaries. The presenter would call out a word and then the first couple people to find the word were given a pencil.

The first grade students had a performance to show their parents and
grandparents what they had practiced. They had practiced singing songs for a long time. There were happy faces watching their kids and there were kids smiling at their parents. As family members came in they said "I can't wait to see my kids perform."