What do silly mustaches, colorful hair, disappearing ink, and squeals of delight have in common? A Carnival! Art City Elementary PTA held it's annual Carnival to celebrate it's students. Students and families had fun jumping, running, eating, giggling, chasing, hanging out with friends and relaxing. Thank you Art City PTA for all you do for the students at Art City Elementary.
Art City Sixth-grade presented a program to students and parents on Thursday May 22, 2014. "Let's go on an adventure!" Austin said to his friends. They find reasons not to go, but Austin is determined to go out and "see the world". As he journey's, he sees and experiences good and bad things, kind people, and a few "ruffians". The students portrayed, through song and dance, many things Austin experienced. A few things they sang about were Defying Gravity, being Alone in the Universe and How Lucy You Are. Mrs.
BYU Kinnect Dancers visited Art City Elementary on Friday May 16, 2014, and presented a program about Heros. Kinnect is a student outreach performance dance company with a specific focus on developing teaching, creative, and performing skills in its members. This group is carefully selected, prepared, and mentored in order to effectively teach dance as a creative process to elementary- and middle-school-age children, following the U.S. National Dance Standards and the Utah State Dance Core Curriculum.
All of the students that had earned a black belt in Mrs. Lisa Gervais music class at Art City Elementary were invited to participate in playing in front of the school on May 14, 2014. Mrs. Gervais the Music teacher, uses the program "Recorder Karate by Barb Philipak".
Sixth-grade had the opportunity to share what they have learned during a concert on May 14, 2014. The Sixth-grade students--Violin: Jimmy Avila, Joshua Ball, Caroline Elliott, Hannah Mason, and Quincey Troutman. Viola: Alicia Britt, Emily Clisbee, Spencer Sumsion, and Rebecca Walton. Cello: Olivia Collings, Nathan Langton, Mikayla Robison, and Hanna Thurman--learn to use the string instruments through the year, they have the opportunity to perform Christmas songs in December and then other songs in May. It is always fun to hear how much they improve by May.
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The Art City Elementary School Third-grade sang songs about how to help us how to reduce, reuse and recycle. The students wore earth toned colores, blue, green and brown, they danced and sang and shared how to take care of our earth and each other. Students shared what ArborDay and Earth Day are and why we celebrate those days. Earth Day is a day we celebrate the Earth and discuss ways we can make it better by reducing, reusing and recycling.
On Tuesday May 6, 2014 Art City Jr. Choir performed for the school and their parents. Mrs. Langston, Mrs. Jessop, and Mrs. Jervais have been working with the Art City Jr. Choir for a couple of months learning all of the songs and getting ready to perform. The Junior choir consists of students from first through third-grade, they met two times a week to learn their songs.
"Nestled in the shadows of the Uinta Mountains, up the left fork of the beautiful Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville, Utah, is a place called Shadow Mountain. Home of the Nebo School District Summer Education Program (Summer Camp)."
One April 17th the sixth-grade from Art City Elementary were invited to participate in the Hershey Track meet, sponsored by Hershey, supported by Springville City and Springville High School. The students have a choice of three events to participate in. Sixth-grade does 100, 200, 400, 800, and a few brave souls do the 1600 Meter run. The students may choose to do the standing long jump and the softball throw as one of their events. It is a fun day that the students have to meet students from other schools and have a little competition.