The students that brought in $20 or more were given limo-ride certificates; students who brought in more than $100 were given the opportunity to pick a prize and were given limo-ride certificates.  Each student that participated in the walk-a-thon and brought their packet back were given tickets to purchase prizes from the walk-a-thon store.  The teachers of the classes that brought in the most money were challenged to play some "Minute-to-win-it" games.

On Friday, October 10, Art City held it's annual walk-a-thon to raise money for the PTA and the school.  Students go out a couple of weeks before the walk-a-thon and get pledges for how many laps they will do.  On the day of the walk-a-thon they have 45 minutes to walk or run as many laps as they can; the students have a card that is marked for each time they go around the area, when they are finished they take the cards home and collect the pledges.  This year the students walked an accumulative of approx 1200 miles and collected just over $9,200.

Thank you to all who came out and supported the Family Night for the Book fair; and thank you to everyone that purchased books and made the Book Fair a success throughout the week.  The more books the students have the better prepared they are for their future. 

Hear ye, hear ye, your presence is requested in Art City Elementary's Court, from October 20th to October 24th. We'll protect the kingom from dragons that snort.  So get out your chain mail, our castle awaits.  Just hop on your horse and head towards the gates!

Book fair hours are daily 8:20 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  

Family night will be a "Medieval" theme, come dressed in your Medieval costumes (princess, knight, dragon, etc.) Monday, October 20th from 5-6:30 p.m.  Come for games, prizes, treats, and more!

This week has been Red ribbon week at Art City Elementary school.  Monday was "Be a "Jeanious" Don't do drugs", students were wearing red t-shirts and Jeans; Tuesday was "Don't be Crazy don't do drugs", students wore crazy socks and their hair was crazy; Wednesday was "Don't dream about doing drugs" and students wore their pajamas.  Most of the classes made a Drug Free poster and hung it outside of their classrooms and the PTA had a contest of the best poster.  The winners are: First place, Mrs. Huffaker's 6th-grade class; Second place was a tie between Ms.

There is more than one way to get kids to work on their cursive writing skills.  The third-grade at Art City Elementary has students write their names on white art paper, fold the paper in half then cut out their names; with the scrape pieces of paper they create a head, arms, and legs . . . their name becomes the body of a skeleton.  What a fun way to make cursive writing enjoyable. Can you see their names.  One of the pictures is zoomed in on "Jane". 

Remember that October 13-15 is Red Ribbon Week.  Monday wear jeans and a red shirt.  Tuesday is crazy socks and or crazy hair.  Wednesday wear your pajamas.  Have fun not drugs. 

What makes you want to SCREAM?  In October Mrs Larsen's class at Art City Elementary, Springville, wrote about what makes them want to scream.  The students studied The Scream by Edvard Munch and used similar colors, lines and movement to create their own watercolors.  Using a Digital camera their picture was taken, while re-creating that famous scream face.  Their pictures were printed then cut out and glued onto their watercolor painting.  Students then wrote about what makes them scream and published their writing in the school computer lab.

Art City Elementary sixth-grade, as part of the sixth-grade core, they had the opportunity to attend The Utah Renaissance Faire, at Thanksgiving Point on Friday September 26, 2014.  "The Utah Renaissance Faire is a world-class event with full-contact jousting matches and artisan villages of the Renaissance. Other entertainment includes archery, sword and shield combat shows, theater, music and street performers.

Students at Art City submitted pictures representing how to stay safe for a coloring contest.  The following students were the poster contest winners:  Kelsie Kindergarden, Zayley 1st grade, Grace 2nd-grade, Jane 3rd-grade, Brianna 4th-grade, Lily 5th-grade, Ann 6th-grade, Jane 6th-grade, Grand prize winner.