February Newsletter

School News

Kindergarten Registration
Please mark your calendars for Monday, March 22nd. Kindergarten registration will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at all Springville and Mapleton Elementary Schools. This registration is for all students who will be entering kindergarten in August 2010. Please register at your neighborhood school and bring a birth certificate and current immunization record with you. Children must be 5 years old on or before September 1, 2010 to be enrolled for the fall.

Spelling Bee
The Art City School Spelling Bee will be held on February 19th at 9:00 a.m. for students in 3rd to 6th grade.

Book Fair
Get ready to come “dine” with your favorite books at our Scholastic Book Fair March 15th to the 18th. We look forward to seeing you!

Open Enrollment
The open enrollment window closes on February 19th. Applications are available in the office. If you applied and were accepted last year, you do not need to reapply until your child goes to the junior high school. This is for students who live outside the Art City boundary.

Lunch Calendars
Beginning in February the lunch calendars will no longer be distributed at school. Parents can access the lunch menu online at www.nebo.edu. Click on departments, then operations and then food services. There will also be a link to the lunch menu on the Art City blog at
www.artcitynews.blogspot.com.

Parenting with Love and Logic
Nebo School District offers parenting classes in their Community School. This is available to view online at www.nebo.edu. Click on departments and scroll to the bottom to Community School. The Parenting with Love and Logic course is designed to help parents practice effective parenting without the power struggles. Parenting with Love and Logic teaches parents and children to accept natural consequences and reach a win/win agreement. The course length is 4 weeks.

Art City Peace Prize Winners 2010
1st Grade: Jacob Gee(Murdock), Daniel Kawai(Luther), Sally Giatras(Wheatley), Gavyn Douglas(Chatterley), Ellee Barton(Campbell)
2nd Grade: Kelby Jeppson(Kunzler), Nathan Conrad(Sutton), Ammon Elzinga(Roylance), Maggie VanOrman(Winkel)
3rd Grade: Natalie Mertz(Larsen), Jackie Durfey(Orme), Mayzie Brunson(Mills), Emma Wilson(Morgan)
4th Grade: Kadee Allred(Hadlock), Megan Martin(Balser), Jane Shoemaker(Grant)
5th Grade: Taylor Moeaki(Aitken), Austin Jensen(Fluckiger), Jonathan Weeks(Sabey), Ben
Leishman(Haslam)
6th Grade: Sadie Ogles(Huffaker), Avery Graves(Gibson), Halle Acor(Perkins), Samantha Allan(Winkleman)
Congratulations to all our winners!!

Recess Procedures
We want to inform you of the current policies that are in place for our recess schedule. If the outside temperature is under 20 degrees, all students are required to stay inside. We provide appropriate activities on these days. If the outside temperature is above 20 degrees and all other conditions are normal (wind, rain, snow), students are sent outside for activities. Students must be prepared with coats, gloves, hats, etc. Please make sure names are labeled on these items. Students with notes from home indicating the need to stay inside will be provided a place to do so. Air quality is also a concern, so the office does monitor the air quality on a daily basis. We follow the guidelines provided to us by the Utah Department of Health.

2009-2010 Student Wellness Program
The challenge for February is to eat at least a total of 5 fruits or vegetables for most days of the week for 18 days total.

PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting will be Tuesday, February 2 at 10 a.m. in the Teacher's Lounge. We love to hear new ideas or to get your input on PTA activities. Please feel free to come to the meetings
even if you just want to listen in on what is going on.

Yearbook Presale
Be on the look out for a flyer about yearbooks coming this month. The flyer will consist of an order form that you can turn in with your payment to reserve your copy of the yearbook that will be passed out the last week of school. The cost of yearbooks this year is going to be $9.00. In case you were wondering, the $9.00 charge is what the company who produces the yearbooks charges us to make them. The PTA doesn't make any kind of a profit on the books. So, all of your money goes into making the book the great product that it is!

Class Pictures
Speaking of the yearbook - we just want to make you aware that on February 10th, the day of Spring Pictures, our yearbook committee also takes class pictures that we then put in the yearbook. We all agreed that we missed the "old fashioned" class pictures that we used to take with the whole class standing together. The photography company that we use for school pictures doesn't do that kind of picture any more so that's why we decided to start taking one of our own that we could use in the yearbook. So, even if your not planning having Spring Pictures taken, your child might still want to comb their hair and brush their teeth that day for class pictures!

A Big Thank You
Thanks you to Jamey Smith and her committee for the great dinner they provided to the teachers during SEP's in January.

School T-Shirts
We have a few t-shirts and sweatshirts left if anyone is interested in buying them. The sizes we
have left are -
Youth sweatshirts - (2) small, (8) medium, (2) large
Youth t-shirts, navy blue - (1) extra small
Youth t-shirts, light blue - (1) large
Adult t-shirts, navy blue - (3) large, (2) 2XL
Adult t-shirts, light blue - (1) XL
Contact Christy Brenchley (489-8085) if you would like to purchase any of the items.

Fridays
Each Friday is the day to show your school spirit by wearing your school t-shirt or sweatshirt or wearing the school colors (blue and yellow).

Calendar
February 2010
Feb. 9 3rd Grade Morgan’s Class Trip to
Macey’s
Feb. 10 Spring Pictures
Feb. 11 4th -- 6th Grade SEP Conferences
from 3:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 12 5th Grade Wax Museum --8:45 a.m.
to 11:15 a.m.
TK Field Trip to Bean Museum
Feb. 15 President’s Day--No School
Feb. 18 3rd Grade Program for School -1:45
3rd Grade Program for Parents-7:00
Feb. 19 Spelling Bee -- 9:00 a.m.
Feb. 22 3rd Grade Bowling Field Trip