Vol. 4, Issue 7 January 30, 2009

The Official Newsletter of Beehive Science and Technology Academy

Beehive Science and Technology Academy

1011 Murray-Holladay Road Salt Lake City, UT 84117 (801) 265-2782 office (801) 618-4115(fax)

www.beehiveacademy.org

A small school with big ideas The Buzz

Volunteer Opportunities

1– Daily Lunch Hour Volunteers 2– Library Overseer Volunteers 3-- Running Club Volunteers Please contact Jana at 265-2782 with your availability.

School Year Reminders:

• Call in or send a note to excuse your student’s absences. The school needs to be notified within two days.

• If you are moving or

have recently changed phone numbers, please let the office know.

• Check with the office to

make sure your volun-teer hours have been recorded correctly.

Spelling Bee Challenge Jan 29

Writing Competition/Poetry Out Loud/Chess Tournament

Jan 30

Writing Competition/Math Matters Jan 31

UBSCT Testing (10th Grade only) Feb 3-5

President’s Day NO School Feb 16

Mid-Quarter Reports Feb 20

Upcoming Events Meet Adam Kuntz

Lunch System

To order lunch go to Hogi-

yogischoollunch.com

UBSCT TESTING AND BUS SCHEDULE CHANGE UBSCT Testing will be conducted from 8:10a.m. to 10:00a.m., February 3rd, 4th and 5th, next week. This test-ing is only for 10th grade students. Please have your student well rested and adequately fed. Because this test is so important, we want the halls quiet. Therefore, during these three days we’ll use our “Late Start” schedule. All other grades will come to school by 10 o’clock. The day will end as usual, at 2:55pm. There will be NO tutoring nor clubs. The yellow school bus will be here to pick up students at 3p.m.

If your student takes the yellow school bus, the pick-up times will be two hours later. That means, if the bus picks up at 6:50am. it will be changed to 8:50am. during this time only. It will resume the normal schedule Fri-day, February 6th.

Good Luck 10 Grade Testers!

Math Matters ‘09 Parents, as you may already know, our fun-filled 4th annual event, Math Matters, will be held this Saturday, January 31st. As of this date, registration for this event is closed. How-ever, if you’d like to come to add support, we’d love to have you. Oftentimes newcomers like to hear from old-timers. This gives you a chance to be heard. Let us know if you’d like to volunteer as we’d like to prepare badges for volun-teers. The competition hours are roughly 9:30 to 12:30pm. You can come for part or all of this time. Hope to see you then!

Re-enrollment Time Look out, it’s re-enrollment time! Watch for the forms this week. Please complete and return by February 27th. This holds your spot for next year, as well as helps us know who will be returning, and if we will have space available in a particular grade. Forms were sent home Thanks for your quick response in this matter.

Adam Kuntz is originally from Western New York, where he attended Palmyra-Macedon High School and SUNY Oswego College. At Oswego, he earned a Bachelors of Arts and Science majoring in History. Prior to BSTA, Mr. Kuntz worked at IBM Global Services in Rochester, New York. After two years at IBM, he moved to Utah to being his teaching career. In his first year teaching at BSTA, Mr. Kuntz is working hard to improve the skills of his students. He is teaches Geography, Math 87, Pschology, and Utah History. He also runs Basketball and Flag Football clubs. In his spare time, Mr. Kuntz enjoys playing guitar, camping and hiking, and of course watching the Buffalo Bills play on Sundays.

THE BUZZ, VOL 4 ISSUE 7

Hello, As the cold weather sets in on us, please take note that when the temperature drops below 32 degrees, the students are able to come into the lunchroom by 7:50a.m. They are able to study or read, something quiet while keeping warm until school starts. While reviewing the past few years newsletters, I’ve noticed we have a lot to brag about! We’ve won many competitions over the years, many of our students are exceptionally well pre-pared in math and reading giving Beehive its great name. As I reread these I want to bring some of my favorite articles to your attention. See some of these on this page. Additionally, as I so much enjoy learning about our families, I’m incorporating a small weekly breakfast to accommodate my objective in meet-ing everyone. I hope to have the opportunity to meet with all families by the end of the school year. Please await your invi-tational call to breakfast.

—Mr. Frank

A Message from the Principal

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BIG BUDAH FROM FOX 13 GOOD DAY UTAH WAS IN

On March 29th Wednesday morning, Big Budah was in our school and millions of Utahans watched our exciting SimCity, Lego, and Science Fair Pro-jects. It was another exciting day in BSTA that Mr. Saka and Mr. Kurban stayed at the school for a sleepover with 15 students. They worked on the projects until 11 pm and woke up at 4.50 am to get ready for the live show. Every-body was nervous, because all the students would be on live show for the first time. Never-theless, all the efforts were worth it. We had an awesome show and Big Budah was funny as always. We started to receive phone calls and emails right after the show from the parents asking about our school. The copy of the show will be available soon on the school website www.beehiveacademy.org. We would like to thank all our awesome students who made this possible. We also would like to thank our PTA head committee member Marie Jess for her hard work to get Big Budah into our school and all the other parents who were there to sup-

port us early in the morning.

April 2006

BSTA Flexes its Math Muscles and Comes Up Strong!

Another success story from BSTA

This is the season for math competition here in SLC and so far BSTA is proving itself to be a formidable challenger!

American Mathematics Con-test 8 (AMC8) Competition

On November 15, 2005, Con-ner Shaw, an 8th grade stu-dent at BSTA, competed in the 2005 American Mathemat-ics Contest 8 (AMC8) Competi-tion. Administered by the Mathematical Association of America, members of the BSTA team took the test among 143,000 students in grades 4-8 participated na-tionwide. In Utah, approxi-mately 900 students com-peted.

Best Programming Award Las Vegas, Nevada

1st in Utah, 2nd in the region

Some of you may know that BSTA’s Lego League team, lead by the Science Teacher Mr. Kurban, went to a competition in Las Vegas, Nevada on the weekend of Decem-ber 2nd. We are proud to announce that our team came back with an award for best programming. The trophy stands in the main office for all to see. We took a brief time away from Study Tables to show the students of BSTA the missions that were completed by the Lego league team, and to award each person that went to Nevada with a certificate. As the first team in Utah to receive such award in this competition, BSTA’s Lego League is setting high standards for the rest of Utah. We are hoping to go to the National competition in April. Good Job to all of the Lego league mem-bers!

November 2005

The Drama Club would like to invite all students to enter the VSA Arts script writing competition. The winner receives $2,000 and a trip to Washington DC to see their play performed. Students grades 6-12 are eligible to enter. Mrs. Fagundes is over this project. Deadline is

April 15th.

The BSTA Spelling Bee will be held after school, 3:15pm on January 29th. All 7th and 8th graders are eligible to enter. The top

three spellers will be awarded a prize, and the top speller will go on to compete in the Salt Lake Valley

Spelling Bee.

Math Matters 09’ will be held this Saturday, January 31st! Come, bring your neighbors and friend, and play…

This is a competition designed for 5th and 6th grade students. Check in is at 9:30a.m. with a 30 minute test that follows. While

teachers grade tests, students will be involved in games. The awards ceremony will take place about 11:30a.m. After the event, you can look forward to light refreshments and tours of our facil-

Fund Raiser Student Event

Hollywood Connections

3217 S Decker Lake Drive

Friday, February 13th 4pm to 11:30pm

Only $8 per wristband sold between the hours of 4-8pm

Unlimited miniature golf, roller skating, soft play area, bumper cars, roller coaster, & other rides

Tuesday, Feb. 3rd through Thursday, Feb. 5th will be late start days for all students except

10th graders, due to State wide UBSCT testing required by Utah Office of Education.

Late start means school starts at 10:05 am

Child Find Any parent who would like their child tested for special education, please contact Mrs.

Johansen at 265-2782 ext 108 or georgiana.johansen@beehiveacademy.org,

. She will complete a referral to see where the gap exists and will proceed as necessary.

Student Not Coming Today? Please notify the office as soon as you are able to do so if you student will not be attending school. This is im-portant as we need to know students are safe, and parents are aware they’re not in school. 265-2782 x 100.

RE-Enrollment Be sure to submit your re-enrollment forms by Feb-ruary 27th. This saves your spot for next year. Open enrollment begins March 1st. Students are bringing forms home January 29th.

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Two quarters flew by quickly. We are excited for the third quarter. All our students have gone be-yond my expectation. The 2009 School Wide Math Contest was held on January 7th. All participants did very well! This contest was held to choose the top five students from each grade to participate in the State Math Contest on March 18th. Congratulations to our overall winner Catherine Ipson. The top class winners that will represent each grade at the State Contest are as follows:

7th grade: Jake Hillard (Grade winner), Jay Shah (Grade winner), Devin Ross, Brittany Wayment, Sherman Norton and Rebekkah Hamilton.

8th grade: Catherine Ipson (Grade winner), Christian Mickelsen, Donovan Wall, Tatyana Meiners, Seth Huston, and Alec Jackson.

9th grade: Tyler McGettigan (Grade winner), Susan Mesquita, Jared Jensen, Haylee Burr and Asher Deadman.

10th grade: Joseph Ipson (Grade winner), Josh Wayment, Jordon Jess, Brian Campbell and Luke Stagg.

11th grade: Inez Rakhmawulan (Grade winner), Kailin Gao, Travis Wald, Widya Ramadhani and Jo-seph Marchant.

Chinese Club is temporarily not in session this quarter due to conflicting schedules in preparing for the State Math Competition in March. However, we celebrated Chinese New Year by going to a Chi-nese restaurant for a dinner on Wednesday 28th of January. All students had a fantastic time! Per-haps we ’ l l do this again!

My Wish List • Dry Erase Markers (all colors)

• Expo Whiteboard Cleaner

• Pencil Sharpener