Mapleton Elementary School students and faculty were treated to a performance by the B.Y.U. Theater Department recently.

Theater students turned Mapleton's  Auditorium into a "Theater in the Round" to present a delightful rendition of  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".  Second and Third Grade students attended a workshop after the performance to learn about reading with Voice. They were instructed in the use of roll play, sound orchestration, onomatopoeia ( words that represent sounds)  and analysis of the play.
 

Sixth grade students under the direction of Jessica Knight gave their family and friends their first concert on Thursday night December 6, 2012.  The combined ensemble, thirty seven students,  performed nine pieces from jazzy to traditional Christmas Carols. A large audience enjoyed the winter concert at Mapleton Elementary.

Students from Rees Elementary, Mapleton Elementary and Hobble Creek Elementary participated in the dance and the Child International (daCi) Day of Dance "Stories That Move Us" on Saturday November 3, 2012.  The day began with a Native American grass dance by Rees students and a pioneer story acted out by Hobble Creek students narrated by Lora Schmidt.  The students learned a hip hop slam poetry dance, a folk dance, and played at creative drama or musical theatre with storyteller Lora Schmidt, and professors from BYU, U of U and UVU.  They also created a dance to

Once again this year Mapleton Elementary students were surprised with the gift of a pumpkin from Harward Farms. Each student was presented with their very own pumpkin. Students returned to their classrooms to think of as many activities as possible to use their pumpkins. Some of the activities were learning about how pumpkins grow, graphing pumpkins,  estimating to find how many seeds were inside their pumpkins,  pumpkin carving and writing about pumpkins.