September Parent Volunteer

We would like to acknowledge Julie Wilson as the Parent Volunteer of the Month for September.
Thanks for all of your time and effort.

(Julie Wilson on left and PTA President Kellie Chatfield on right)

Halloween Parade Update

Halloween Parade Reminder

Parents—Get ready to be totally spooked! It’s time to break out the costume and prepare for Art City’s Halloween Parade!

There has been a small shift in time. The parade will be the last event of the day on Friday, October 31^st, following the individual class parties as planned by room parents/volunteers. The parade will begin at 1:45 PM. As before, parents that want to attend should assemble in the gym to watch.

This change in time is to accommodate parents who attend. With the parade at the end of school, parents can leave directly with their student (s) instead of making another trip.

*Please note that school policy does not allow students to wear masks, gory makeup or bring any type of weapon to school. Thanks for your cooperation.

Extra T-Shirt Information

PTA Members,

We are not going to order additional shirts, but we do have the following sizes available for purchase. We will sell these in order of calls or emails. Please call Jami Welch at 489-5528 or email jami.welch@franklincovey.com

Youth t-shirt (pink or grey) = $8.00
Youth zippered sweatshirt (pink or grey) = $18.00
Adult t-shirt (pink or grey) = $11.00
Adult zippered sweatshirt (grey) = $20.00

Style /Number Available
Grey t-shirt (adult)

X-large -2
2X-large -1


Pink t-shirt (adult)

2X-large -1
Large -1
Medium -2

Grey t-shirt (youth)

Medium -15
Small -2


Grey sweatshirt (youth)

Large -1
Medium -2
Small - 3


Pink fitted t-shirt (youth)

Large - 1
Medium -1


Pink sweatshirts (youth)

Medium - 2
Small - 2

Book Fair Week Pictures

The following pictures were taken during the reptile show.

October Newsletter

School News
New District-Wide Attendance Policy

Nebo School District is urging all parents and students to carefully review the new district-wide attendance policy that will be in effect for the 2008-09 school year. New Utah laws have resulted in many changes to the Elementary and Secondary Attendance policies. Nebo
School District wants to work closely with students who struggle with attendance and with their parents to avoid court referrals and keep students in classes. Attendance is vital for success. The following information provides highlights of both policies found in the “Parent Information Guide” mailed to each family. The attendance policies are available, in their entirety,
on Nebo’s web site at www.nebo.edu. Choose the “student services” link and then click on the policy youwould like to review.
Elementary Policy
• Parents must call their student’s school within
two days of an absence to excuse the absence
stating the reason for their student missing
school. Parents should contact teachers to
arrange for missing work.
• A student who is more than 60 minutes late to
school may be considered absent.
• Parents will receive a concern letter if their
student missed five days as unexcused.
• Parents will receive a Notice of Compulsory
Education Violation letter, and are required to
meet with school administration if their students
miss ten days as unexcused.
• If a student missed five more days as
unexcused after that meeting, a Compulsory
Education Violation is issued and the parents
will be referred to the Utah County Attorney’s
office.
Nebo School District looks forward to working with students and parents in the coming school year. The success of each student is important to us. If you have any questions regarding the new laws or policies, please contact your school’s administration.

National School Lunch Week
The theme for this year’s National School Lunch Week is, “Vote for School Lunch.” On October 13th through 15th, parents are encouraged to eat lunch with their kids. Please know that a reservation is required a day or two prior to the day you wish to attend. The price for
adults is $2.75 and the price for children is $1.75. Please be aware that this is a CASH ONLY event. Watch the menu for the three most favorite lunch items being served.

Early Out Day
Art City faculty and administration thank you for your support of early out Wednesdays. During that time the faculty meets in grade level teams to collaborate on student, class, grade level and school needs.

Recycling
We would like to remind you that we have a recycling receptacle for newspapers and magazines located in the parking lot. Your recycling efforts at this location really help our school.

Safety
Please do not pull your vehicle through the bus lane. Please know that this poses a hazard to our students. We have had a few close calls.

Halloween Parade
Are your costumes ready for the Art City Elementary Halloween Parade? The parade will be held on October 31st from 12:45 to 1:45 pm. Watch for more information to come.

PTA News
Art City Elementary PTA
Goals for 2008-2009
Based upon the response of the Needs Assessment Survey, we have determined the following 3 areas as our focus for the 2008-2009 school year:
• Promote Respect for Authority and Good
Behavior Towards Others
• Strengthen Parent/Family Involvement in
School
• Encourage and Promote Healthy Nutrition in
the Lives of our Students
The PTA has a blog at www.artcitynews.blogspot.com. Here you will be able to find more information about our goals and what is happening in the PTA. There will also be invitations to join our board meetings and see the minutes from the meetings.

Green Ribbon Week
We would like to thank everyone who participated in Green Ribbon Week and helped to make it such a big success. We would like to give a special thanks to all of the Health and Safety committee and our local sponsors. Thank you to Wendy’s, Allen’s, Ream’s Quiznos, Dairy Queen and the Springville Pool for their donations and support of our community.

Red Ribbon Week
Red Ribbon Week is October 20th-23rd. Red Ribbon Week is a national program designated to prevent substance abuse and violence throughout the US. We will have fun activities to support this week and remember to have your kids wear red colors this week. This year’s Red Ribbon Week Theme is “Step it Up: A Call to Action.” Art City students are invited to live a drug free life by participating in a poster contest. All posters are due Tuesday, October 21st and must follow
the theme, “I will stomp out drugs by…” Winning posters will be announced Thursday,

October 23rd
• Oct. 20: Wear Purple and Red
• Oct. 21: “Don’t Let Drugs Turn You Inside Out”
Wear inside out clothes
• Oct. 22: “Sock it to Drugs” Wear crazy socks
• Oct. 23: “Boot Out Drugs” Wear boots
Drug Awareness Night for Red Ribbon Week will be held October 29th at 7:00 pm at Springville High School. All parents and students are invited to attend this event.

PTA Meeting
Our PTA meeting will be held October 7th at 10:00. The meeting will be held in the teachers lounge. All PTA members are invited to attend.

Reflections
If you haven’t already, it’s time to START THE ART! Get your pieces ready for entry in the Reflections contest. Prizes will be awarded to all who participate. You won’t want to miss out.
• Theme: WOW!
• Due Date: October 15th (No entries accepted
before or after this date)
• Entry forms/rules: Available in the office or at
utahpta.org>individual development>reflections
• Categories: Writing, Film/Video, Music
Composition, Visual Art, 3-D Art, Dance,
Photography and Theater
Students can enter several times, but can submit only one entry per category, and they must submit all signed paperwork with EVERY entry. The paperwork will only take a few minutes to complete, and it’s such a worthy project. Your children will always remember their entries and the time spent preparing them! Did you know that is perfectly legal to enter a school assignment into the contest? So be looking at your children’s art and writing projects. Students can earn a
prize for something they’ve already completed! Entries must have been completed this year. With such a great theme, this year should be our best EVER. We can’t wait to see the entries. For questions or further information, contact Kim Jepperson 491-9208.

Fridays
Fridays are the day to show your school spirit by wearing your school T-Shirt or sweatshirt or wearing the school colors (blue and yellow).

Calendar
October is Red/Purple Ribbon Month
(Drugs and Violence Prevention)
Oct. 2 4th Grade to SHS (Utah Symphony)
Oct. 7 PTA Meeting 10:00 am
School Picture Day
Oct. 9 Kindergarten to Pumpkinland
Oct. 14 1st Grade to Hee Haw Farms
Oct. 16-17 Fall Break (No school)
Oct. 20-23 Red Ribbon Week
Oct. 24 TDD (No School)
Oct. 27 Term 2 Begins
Oct. 28 6th Grade to BYU
Oct. 30 Kindergarten Program for Parents
Morning 10:00 am
Afternoon 1:30 pm
Oct. 31 Halloween Parade 12:45

A Big Thank You

Wow! What a great couple of weeks we’ve had. There are so many of you we’d like to thank for giving of your time and talents to help us have a successful September.

First of all thank you to Kristi Ohman for organizing our room parents. We love our Room Parents! Kristi will have reminders for all who volunteered at Back to School Night. Thank you parents for signing up to help your student’s teachers.

Thanks to Cory Fisher for leading our Health and Safety committee in celebrating Green Ribbon Month. The students of Art City were recognized in the local paper and a crew from a TV station joined us as well. There were over 500 students that participated in our “Walk to School” day. Thanks parents for encouraging and donning your sneakers too.

Thanks to Jennifer Follette, Deanna Lindsey and of course our own beloved librarian Angel Pearce for a spectacular book fair. The Book Fair committee put in some long hours and we greatly appreciate them. A few highlights of our Safari week included visits from the in-house gorilla, the reading mouse, a BIG boa constrictor (wrapped around Mr. Rowe!) and lots and lots of great books.

We hope the SEP night was successful for our teachers and we thank Kelli Cutler and the SEP Dinner Committee for feeding our teachers and staff so well. Yum!

When you visit Art City on Fridays you’ll notice lots and lots of pink and grey t-shirts and sweatshirts. WOW do they look great. Jami Welch has put in a considerable amount of hours in making sure our Elementary Students are the best looking kids around. A big thanks to Jami for all her work and perseverance. There will be one more t-shirt order placed so if you are interested get your money to the school as soon as possible.

As you can tell we could not function as a PTA board without ALL your help. We appreciate our teachers for participating and supporting our activities, Mark Warner for setting up and taking down many, many tables, Mr. Rowe for making it fun, and for our parents who LOVE to be involved.
Now…on to October!

PTA Goals for 2008-2009

Art City Elementary PTA

Goals for 2008-2009

Based on the response of the Needs Assessment Survey we have determined the following 3 areas as our focus for the 2008-2009 school year:

Promote Respect for Authority and Good Behavior toward Others

Eagle Eye--We look forward to participating in a brand new program at Art City called Eagle Eye. This program will reward all students throughout the year for going the extra mile, being kind to others and showing gratitude. Our Student Council will be running the program.

The Nation's Largest Teacher Thank-You Card project. An effort to collect thousands of thank-you messages to teachers from individuals across the nation. Our message is simple: Thank a Teacher! This project was created in response to an NEA poll revealing that the gift nearly half of all teachers would most like to receive is a simple "thank you."

Still searching for a fun assembly with this focus.

Strengthen Parent/Family Involvement in School

Communicate more effectively-monthly emails along with flyers, announcements, newsletters to parents with reminders of upcoming events and activities.

Opportunities to be more involved in our children’s education. We are planning an upcoming Parent Volunteer Day. Possibly adopting the program Three 4 Me. See more at: http://www.three4me.com/about.htm

Monthly invitations to join and participate in our PTA board meetings. If not able to be there, meeting minutes will be available on the Art City Elementary PTA blog at http://artcitynews.blogspot.com/

Encourage and Promote Healthy Nutrition in the lives of our students

Participate with the Nebo School Districts Healthy Lifestyle Challenge

Sponsor a fun assembly, Mont Magic’s “Mission Nutrition”. This assembly teaches children the value of nutrition in a fun and exciting way. To learn more about this assembly and ways in which parents can become involved go to the following web sites: http://www.hypnomontmagic.com/MARS.html

http://www.nebo.edu/healthychallenge/Campaigns/Introduction_signup.pdf

Fun, yummy and healthy snack ideas and tips in the monthly PTA/School newsletter

T-shirt Updates

Just a reminder that this Thursday is Art City Elementary's SEPs from 3:00 to
8:30 PM. Our much anticipated t-shirts and sweatshirts will be available to pick
up that night. See you then!

Message from the President

We had a GREAT Green Ribbon Week last week with all kinds of fun, prizes,
celebrities and good information for every student at Art City Elementary.
I took a minute to quiz my kids about what they learned from the week and I
was pleasantly surprised to hear they knew almost all the bike and walking
safety rules and planned on practicing them.

A BIG THANKS to Cory Fisher, our Health and Safety Commissioner, along with
her fabulous committee. They put in many hours and we thank them for it and
hopefully our children remembered to thank them as well.

We look forward to Red Ribbon Month coming in October!

Good luck to all helping and participating this week with our Book Fair.

You're all amazing!

Thank you.

Kellie Chatfield

More Health and Safety Week Fun

Today is Funky Eyeglasses day and the children were surprised to find the mascot of UVU welcoming them to school. The Wolverine gave out many hugs and high-5s.

September PTA meeting minutes

Art City PTA Meeting
September 2, 2008 10:00 a.m.
Minutes

Attendance: Kellie Chatfield, Sarah Ferrin, Jeni Neel, Arryn Patten, Dave Rowe, Lori Borget,
Jennifer Follette, Kim Jepperson, Mandi Jeppson, Cory Fisher, Stephanie Petersen, Margi Fullmer,
and Niccole Webster.

Called to Order: 10:05

Kellie Chatfield: Discussed first day of school. Meetings will be on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. Also, about the T-shirt designs that were printed wrong and the company is redoing them.

Reflections: Kim Jepperson talked doing a reflections assembly to get the word out about the WOW theme.

Needs Assessment: went over the most important ones that we needed to talk about, Respect and Self Esteem, School Violence and Bullying, and Nutrition. Nutrition will be the first time we will focus on the topic but we could focus on healthy food, beverages, screen time and have a score card idea. An idea was mentioned about having Mont Magic come and give a presentation (space theme) about healthy nutrition.

Mr. Rowe: Introduced Nischelle Morgan, the Teacher VP. Discussed the Eagle Eye Tickets-recognize kids who are doing good job and give them a slip. The school keeps the carbon copy and prizes will be drawn from the slips in the mornings. An idea about having names in plaques and student council will run it with Mr. Rowe. Discussed which Fundraiser Dessert we want to do by paper votes. Discussed the Ken Garff “Road to Success”, they provide prizes and have 2assemblies with big prizes.

Polo Shirts: Nischelle is getting response from teachers. Discussed parent volunteer day with concerns for too many parents helping, some left out who can’t come. Came up with idea of having moms and muffins/dads and donuts for coming in and reading to child.

Stephanie Petersen: categories for recommendation to update needs assessment for ease.

Secretary Duties: Niccole Webster discussed e-mailing minutes to PTA members. Idea for a blog for updated info from meeting, Kellie agreed for idea.

Treasurer: Lori Borget discussed T-shirt and member income so far. Discussed sales tax reimbursement and needs to find certificates to claim. Asked all the save receipts for reimbursement. Also, the counting of money needs to have 3 people present.

Newsletter: Mandi Jeppson discussed the deadline is 15^th-20^th for submissions and the new blogsite is a go. The address is Artcitynews.blogspot.com.

Membership: Sarah Ferrin discussed the membership of 210 this year and 10% were males. Volunteer hours need to be marked and accounted for. She will call monthly to submit hours to log for parents coming and helping and maybe have incentive for helping hours.

Legislative: Arryn Patten gets e-mail from PTA child adv., anything that affects children.

School Pictures: Sarah Sumsion discussed same pictures and plan for spring pictures.

Health and Safety: Cory Fisher discussed Green Ribbon Week for 15^th-19^th of September. Wednesday will be walk to school day. She talked to Springville Police Department to come on Tuesday afternoon for bike safety and some police will bring their Harleys for fun with bike run. She will make handouts.

Bookfair: Jennifer Follette discussed the Safari theme and had activities planned out.

Halloween: Laurie Edwards discussed the Article circle certificates for students and needs to get 730-750.

PTA goals: Kellie mentioned nutrition as main one she wants to work on. Discussed PTA meetings being opened up to all.

Adjourn 11:10

First Day of School

The PTA welcomed the students back to school with a pencil to start out the new year. Thanks to the kids who helped and to Mrs. Pearce for the pictures.