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This years Crystal Apple Award goes to Miss Shoni Winkel, Second grade teacher at Art City Elementary.  Shoni grew up in Nyssa, Oregon where she graduated from Nyssa High School.  She attended Ricks College (now BYUI) then transferred to Brigham Young University in Provo where she studied Early Childhood Education.  Shoni Graduated in August 2000; she then started teaching 1/2 day Kindergarten at Sage Creek and 1/2 day Kindergarten at Art City.  She taught First Grade for six years and has taught Second Grade for three years at Art City Elementary.
The Crystal Apple Award was presented by Craig Harvey and is sponsored by Horace Mann insurance; teachers nominate their peers for the award.
 

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The students at Art City Elementary are holding a Help for Haiti fundraiser from 02/23/2010 to 03/02/2010.  (Picture: Art City Student Council)

Each class will be discussing the recent earthquake that struck the impoverished island nation of Haiti.  A donation container will be placed in each classroom and students will have the opportunity to make a donation to help the children of Haiti recover from the terrible devastation that has disrupted their lives.  Students will be encouraged to donate what they can, no amount is too small!  At the conclusion of our campaign a donation will be made to Save the Children.

Established in 1932, Save the Children Federation, Inc. is a registered 501(c) (3) organization.  Their mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need.  Save the Children has worked in Haiti continuously since 1978. Local staff members in Port-au-Prince have been joined by Save the Children’s international disaster response experts and have, to date, reached over 200,000 people with immediate assistance. Please see their website, www.savethechildren.org, for more information.

The Help for Haiti fundraiser goal is to encourage our students, who are ultimately our future leaders, to have empathy for those in need -- and know that they can have an impact in the lives of those who are suffering.

If you desire to make a donation to this cause, you may do so by dropping off a check or cash donation at Art City Elementary's  front office, Trapnell Orthodontics or the Springville Dairy Queen.   Please write checks out to: Help for Haiti.

A closing assembly will be held on Tuesday, March 2nd at 9:30 am where the students will bring the money each class donated, and add up the final amount collected for the entire school.

The students are eagerly looking forward to this opportunity to help the children of Haiti recover from the effects of the January 12th earthquake that has affected the lives of so many

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Art City Elementary wants to thank the Utah Opera Company for presenting "Who wants to be an Opera Star?" on Friday, March 6th. Many students said "I don't want to go", but after the assembly they were really excitted and said "we didn't know it was going to be a game show." Many students came away from the assembly singing and pretending to be opera singers and with a little more appreciation for the opera.

The Utah Opera Young artist ensemble for 2009-2010, included, Chanel Wood, Soprano; Melissa Treinkman, Mezzo-soprano; Aaron Blake, tenor; Brent Turner, baritone; Willem van Schalkwyk, pianist. (biographical information on the artists check online at http://usuoeducation.org/teacher_materials

"Who wants to be an Opera Star?" is an introduction to opera: The art form that combines drama, the visual arts, dance, orchestral music and singing. Operas use words, action and music to tell stories full of conflict and emotion, and they are usually entirely sung.

"Who Wants to be an Opera Star?" used the framework of a television game show. The assembly runs as a series of questions and competitions, with four singers in the roles of MC and contestants. Studio audieence members (the students) learned about voice types, arias, duets, trios, and quartets. They also participated in identifying emotions, sinding melodies, and clapping rhytms in musical selections taken from some of the world's favorite operas.
 

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Third grade students from Art City Elementary celebrated their math bowl by going bowling at Miracle Bowl. Students are given twenty days to turn in all of their math assignments to earn the privilege to go bowling. Everyone had a lot of fun; some students even out bowled their teachers.