Congratulations to the Rees spelling bee winners!

1st place ~ Lindsay Chapman

2nd place ~ Kelcie Richmond

3rd place ~ Kelsey Heaton

These are the Rees spelling bee participants.  2 students per class

represented their class and grade level in the spelling bee.  Thank you

students and staff for all of your hard work preparing for the spelling bee!

Students in Mrs. Bethany Ericksen’s kindergarten class at Rees Elementary School have completed a marathon (26.2 miles).  Beginning in January, the students ran twice a week and kept track of their mileage.  On April 24th, the students participated in the school wide 1 mile Kids Race which was also the final mile of their marathon.  Dr. Garron Miller at Utah Valley Pediatrics in Payson was their sponsor which allowed the students to get marathon shirts and finisher medals. 

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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.