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 the 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.
Keep Reading
As we continue our Ken Garff Road to Success Program, we want to remind all parents and students to keep working towards our goal of 2.5 million minutes of reading! Read your 20+ minutes each night, record it on the calendars and remember to turn in your 100 minute slips to the library! Keep up the good work!
Testing
The state year-end testing window opens on April 19th and closes on May 19th. Please avoid planning things such as appointments, vacations or anything that would take the student away from school during those dates. Thank you for your help in this matter.
Read-A-Thon
The Read-A-Thon will take place on March 2nd. Please watch for information to come home with your student.
Book Fair
We are excited to announce that Art City Book Fair Diner will be open for business and serving up a delightful selection of books the week of March 15th through the 18th. Our menu includes new release, adventure, mystery and fantasy books. The diner will be open for breakfast, lunch
and after school browsing. You are welcome to come and sample the great selection during our business hours. The Book Fair Diner will be hosting a special St. Patrick’s Day celebration March 17th from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. Mark your calendars now because you won’t want to miss this toe
tapping family event!
Family Support & Treatment Center
Support for families who are in need of crisis or respite care for ages 0-11.
• Doctor or therapy appointments
• Looking for employment or housing
• Going through a divorce (legal appointments)
• Time-out (basic break time) 3 hours once a week
With questions or for more information, contact the Nursery Coordinator, Jill Weiser at 801-229-1181 or jweiser@utahvalleyfamilysupport.org.
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 parent’s 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.
radKIDS Simulation
The radKIDS Simulation for the 2nd grade classes will be held on March 23rd and 24th. This is a great opportunity for parents and siblings to see what the kids have been learning. The evening times are as follows:
• March 23rd 5:00 – Winkel
6:30 – Sutton
• March 24th 5:00 – Roylance
6:30 – Kunzler
SEP Conferences
Please remember that the SEP Conferences for K-3rd grades will be held on Thursday, March 18th from 3:00 to 8:30 p.m. We will be scheduling appointments again, so please watch for a note to come home with your child in early March. Please note that there will not be any
Kindergarten classes this day.
PTA News
2009-2010 Student Wellness Program
The challenge for March is the Smart Beverage Challenge. Students are encouraged to not drink
sugared drinks for 5 days a week for 20 days total.
PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting will be on March 2nd at 10:00 in the teachers lounge. We would love to see you there.
St. Patrick's Day "Family Night" Activity
Mark your calendars for March 17th because we are going to have a school wide St. Patrick’s Day party from 5:00 to7:30 p.m. in the gym. There will be a DJ, games and contests with prizes (maybe a Pot of Gold!) The whole family is invited to this FREE event. There will be food available for around $3. Our semi annual Book Fair will open in the Library at this time as well. So please bring your family and have some fun at the school!
Yearbook Cover Contest
It is time for our yearly Yearbook Cover Contest! We have had some great covers over the last
couple of years and are looking forward to some more! All entries are due by March 8th. Make sure your art is on 8 ½ x 11 inch unlined paper. Please do not submit any art that is in pencil or any copyrighted material. All cover art must be original. The winner will receive one free copy of this year’s yearbook and of course their art will be used as the cover of the yearbook. Also, we just want to say thank you to Eric and Sarah Ferrin for all the work they put into creating our yearbook. If they didn’t do it we wouldn’t have a yearbook--Thanks!
A Big Thank You
We want to thank Sarah Sumsion and her committee for their help with spring pictures. Also,
a thank you goes to Julie Wilson and her committee for the wonderful dinner they served the 4th - 6th grade teachers at our last SEP night.
Theme Baskets
Our spring carnival and theme basket fundraiser is right around the corner. If you have baskets you would like to donate or know of a company that would like to donate items for the fundraiser, please contact Amber Park at jasonamber417@msn.com. There was also an email sent out to parents about theme baskets. If you did not receive this email or would like the information again, you can find the email at artcitynews.blogspot.com.
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
March 2010
Mar. 2 Dr. Seuss Day -- Read-a-Thon
Mar. 5 6th Grade to Springville Jr. High
Orientation
Mar. 6 District Chess Tournament
Mar. 12 3rd Grade Mums and Muffins
Mar. 15-18 Book Fair
Mar. 16 1st Grade Field Trip to Scera Theatre
Mar. 17 St. Patrick’s Day Family Night
Activity 5:00 to 7:30
Mar. 18 K-3rd Grades SEP Conf. 3:00-8:30
No Kindergarten Classes due to SEP
6th Grade Field Trip to UVU
Term 3 Ends
Mar. 19 TDD -- No School
Mar. 22 Kindergarten Registration 8:00-4:00
Mar. 23 2nd Grade radKIDS Simulation
5:00--Winkel
6:30--Sutton
Mar.24 2nd Grade radKIDS Simulation
5:00--Roylance
6:30--Kunzler
Mar. 25 SCC 3:15 p.m.
Mar. 26 6th Grade Field Trip to Clark
Planetarium
