Grace Dwinnell of Springs Journey Homeschool High School was honored as a Murrieta Chamber Commerce Senior of the Month. She has been a Springs student since Kindergarten, and has maintained a 3.98 GPA.
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Juniors Brian Shaffer and Connor Miller, both Aviation 3 students at Springs’ Flabob Airport Preparatory Academy (FAPA), are preparing for their future careers in aviation. FAPA provides four full courses for aspiring aviators to learn the concepts, science, history, and regulations needed to be successful pilots or drone operators.
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Students at Citrus Springs Charter School in Santa Ana celebrated their first trimester academic assembly, reported Principal Priscilla Doorbar. Students K-8 were recognized by their teachers and granted awards including most improved in academics and behavior, math, reading, writing and science. Parents were part of the celebration.
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Sisters Olivia and Grace Clements of Chula Vista are the December Student Artists of the Month. Olivia is in the 5th grade and Grace the 1st grade at Springs’ Otay Ranch Academy of the Arts (ORAA). Their artwork is entitled “The Final Foodtier.” The sisters explained, “We wanted to build the solar system and then thought it would be fun to do it with food. We spent a lot of time finding different food items that would be the right shape and colors.”
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Sydney Tucker, a 10th grade student with Springs’ Journey Homeschool High School, is a gifted artist. She has been drawing for most of her life, and is currently taking art classes at Springs and Studio Pillar. Among her favorite artists is Camilla d’Errico.
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Springs Cherry Valley Student Center has completed its Character Build Assemblies in which students make presentations promoting the school’s Reach Core Values: respect, empathy, acceptance, commitment and honesty. Following the assemblies, students take the “Principal’s Challenge,” in which they complete a writing task associated with the spotlighted value. Students then take the challenge home to complete and then return to school for submission for “Lunch with Admin,” during which time students and administrators share stories at lunch.
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Venture Online 1st grade student Westley Beyer is developing an encyclopedic knowledge of space and is an astronomer in the making. At age 3, he developed an interest in space after watching Toy Story and becoming fascinated with Buzz Lightyear. He studied extensively, and three years later, as Westley was taking his 1st grade test in reading and math, he proceeded to teach his 1st grade Venture Online teacher all about Saturn’s rain, lightning on the moon, the Arcturus, the tornado on the sun’s north pole and the gas giant, Jupiter.
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Kim Bagby is the new principal of the Vista Student Center. She previously worked in the education field in her native Michigan. In three schools with which she worked, she was responsible for curriculum mapping and planning and aligning it to standards, ultimately resulting in higher levels of student achievement.
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Springs Homeschool hosted the Imagination Machine Assembly at Springs’ Riverside Pathfinder site with more than 75 students in attendance. Students participated in a creative writing workshop, including creating characters, establishing a setting, and resolving conflict in the plot. Some students’ stories will be selected to be acted out by Imagination Machine in February.
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Springs’ Bear River Student Center held an Apex fun run fundraiser which raised $30,000; wish list projects to be funded include a bus for field trips, new basketball courts and a gym. The school serves 700 students grades TK-8.
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