On October 21, 2014 the Clark Planetarium visited the fourth through sixth-grade students at Art City Elementary, they gave students a chance to feel electricity, watch chemical reactions and learn a little about space. "The Clark Planetarium’s mission is to create and present enlightening experiences that inspire wonder in learning about space and science. We accomplish this by presenting programs about science and astronomy in an exciting and engaging way.

On October 29 and 30th, 2014  Art City Elementary kindergarten classes performed in a Halloween Program. Songs include: Halloween what does it mean?; Five Little Pumpkins; Ghost Toast Orange Pumpkin; Little Ghost; Jack-O-Lantern Poem; In the Pot; Diddle-Dee; Little Witch; Witch Poem; Witch With an Itch; Halloween is almost here; SHUSH!!!; Fly Little Bats; Five Little Bats; Ghost of John; High in Air; Dark, Dark House; Time to trick or treat; and Halloween! Art City was proud of the kindergarteners for celebrating Halloween while showing school spirit! 

On October 29, students were so excitted to have their turn to ride in the "really cool, big limo".  Starting at 11:20 a.m and going every eight minutes until ubout 1:15; students would line up and when it was their turn they would climb into the limo, get seat belted in then go for a ride around the block while watching a movie clip and feeling really special.  Mrs. Nielsen had the opportunity to ride along and see all of the smiling giggling students as they enjoyed their limo ride. 

“You Be You”, by Linda Kranz, is the book Mrs. Alisa Morgan, Kindergarten Teacher at Art City Elementary School based her lesson on.  The students had an opportunity to read the book, write about a prompt, and create their own fish.  Students shared their thoughts about, “We all have something special that only we can share.”  The objective of the lesson is to help students know that we are all different and that “You Be You”.  Mrs.

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".