October 2022

October 24, 2022

CALENDAR
Oct 25 Alpine PTA Board Meeting 9:30 Faculty Room
Oct 25 Alpine Choir Practice 3:30 Gym
Oct 31 Halloween Parade 1:30 Gym
Nov 2 5th Grade Clear Creek Day-Info to come from teachers of 5th graders
Nov 3 5th Grade Clear Creek-Con’t at Creekside Park 9:30-12:15

School Information

Reflections Participants Lunch Tomorrow (Monday)Students that turned in Reflections entries will have their pizza party tomorrow in the library during their regular lunch time. If you have a kindergartner that submitted an entry, they are free to come by and get pizza anytime between 12:00-1:00. If you do have a kindergartner, please plan on attending the pizza lunch with them.

Additionally, please by this Friday, turn in all your Reflections entries to the front office. We are trying to collect them for our Reflections night which is coming up in the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Veterans Day Program
We are excited to have our Veterans Day program again this year. We would love your help with this. We would like to have friends, relatives, or neighbors that are active or retired military veterans to participate in this great experience. This will be held on Veterans Day, November 11th. If you know of anyone that would like to participate, please click on the link below and fill out the short Google Form. We would love to have as many as possible!

https://forms.gle/Fv4gVBrcp9nu8ubU7

Ink/Toner Cartridge Recycling
We are excited to continue our ink/toner cartridge recycling again this year. Please bring any empty cartridges to school, or send them with your students, and we will be happy to recycling them for you and collect a bit of money for the school.

From the Library
Keep reading!!!

From the SCC
SCC Meeting
Thanks to those who attended our last SCC meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 8th at 9:30 in the faculty room.

From the PTA

Red Ribbon Week
Thanks to all faculty, staff, parents, and students for making our Red Ribbon Week so awesome! It was a lot of work but I know that it was worthwhile!

Magic Night
A big thank you to those who organized and attended our first PTA family night. We had over 250 people attend and watch the amazing talents of the magician! Please look forward to our next night, which will be a BINGO night!

Kona Ice Day
Another thanks to those who supported our Spirit Night with Kona Ice!

PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting is October 25th at 9:30 AM.

From the Lunchroom
A reminder to everyone to please make sure your student(s) have money in their lunch accounts. If you need help with this, you can simply log on to mypaymentsplus.com and register. In addition to making payments, you can view your student account balances, history, set up automatic payments and account balance alerts. Also, our kitchen can accept cash or checks for meal payments, but not credit cards. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

October 17, 2022

CALENDAR
Oct 17 No School-Teacher Training Day
Oct 18-21 Red Ribbon Week-Info sent out with activities on previous email
Oct 18 Lone Peak Council PTA Meeting 10:00 Mountain Ridge Jr High
Oct 19 Walk to School Wednesday
Oct 19 Reflections Entries Due-See below!
Oct 20 Picture Retake Day-Info to be sent home on Tuesday
Oct 20 Alpine PTA Family Night-6:30 in gym-Magic Night!-Info to come
Oct 21 3rd Grade Field Trip-Living Planet Aquarium
Oct 21 Alpine Spirit Night-Kona Ice 3:15-5:15 at Alpine Elementary
Oct 25 Alpine PTA Board Meeting 9:30 Faculty Room

School Information

Reflections
We have extended the deadline for our Reflections entries. Please have all entries submitted by October 19th. We have had quite a few entries and are excited to see the rest of them. See below for more details!

Veterans Day Program
We are excited to have our Veterans Day program again this year. We would love your help with this. We would like to have friends, relatives, or neighbors that are active or retired military veterans to participate in this great experience. This will be held on Veterans Day, November 11th. If you know of anyone that would like to participate, please click on the link below and fill out the short Google Form. We would love to have as many as possible!

https://forms.gle/Fv4gVBrcp9nu8ubU7

Ink/Toner Cartridge Recycling
We are excited to continue our ink/toner cartridge recycling again this year. Please bring any empty cartridges to school, or send them with your students, and we will be happy to recycling them for you and collect a bit of money for the school.

From the Library
Battle of the Books Information
If you ordered a Battle of the Books t-shirt for your student, please pay the $7/shirt cost as soon as possible on myschoolfees.com. Thanks to those who have already paid 🙂 Payment deadline is October 21st.

We’re so excited for the Battle of the Books competition this year and have more students participating than ever before! It’s going to be a great year of reading!

Students who have read at least three books on their reading list by December will be invited to a pizza party in the library. Thanks for encouraging your students to read every day. We want to order A LOT of pizza for our readers 🙂

From the SCC
SCC Meeting
Thanks to those who attended our last SCC meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 8th at 9:30 in the faculty room.

From the PTA
Reflections
Reflections is a national PTA program and it gives students the chance to submit art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts.  The theme for this year is Show your Voice!  Submissions need to be sent electronically here: https://www.utahpta.org/ref (this is also where instructions and rules are found) by October 19th.

Red Ribbon Week
Our students and staff will be participating in our annual Red Ribbon Week, October 18 – 21. We are grateful to one of our parents, Andrew Young, and the fantastic videos he produces that our students will watch each day this week. The focus of the week is for students to learn how to say no to drugs and alcohol. Ask your students what they learned at school each day this week. The most powerful conversations about making safe and correct choices about drugs and alcohol happen at home.  Tuesday will be hat day, Wednesday will be crazy hair day, Thursday will be sports jersey day, and Friday will be wear red or camo day.

Magic Night
We are so excited for the great family fun nights our PTA is putting together.  We are having Jason Fun, magician extraordinaire, come perform for us on October 20th at 6:30 PM.  This is a free event for the entire family.  Please see the attached flyer and come enjoy a magical night.

Kona Ice Day
Our first spirit day of the year will be October 21st from 3:15-5:15 PM.  Come grab Kona Ice right in front of the school.  A portion of your purchase will come back to the PTA and will be used for field trips.  Field trips are currently funded mostly by the $25 donations teachers ask for at the beginning of the year.  This will be a way to help fund more field trips for the students throughout the year.   Come grab your Kona Ice right as school gets out or come back a little later.  If it is really cold that day (below 50 degrees), they will be serving hot cocoa and hot apple cider.  Prices are included in the flyer below.

Community Bond Presentation
If you have any questions about the upcoming school district bond or you want to learn more about it, please feel free to attend one of the upcoming education sessions.  The closest one to us will be held October 18th at 6:30 PM at American Fork High School in the auditorium.

PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting is October 25th at 9:30 AM.

From the Lunchroom
A reminder to everyone to please make sure your student(s) have money in their lunch accounts. If you need help with this, you can simply log on to mypaymentsplus.com and register. In addition to making payments, you can view your student account balances, history, set up automatic payments and account balance alerts. Also, our kitchen can accept cash or checks for meal payments, but not credit cards. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

October 10, 2022

CALENDAR
Oct 11 4th Grade Field Trip-This is the Place State Park
Oct 11 Alpine School Community Council Meeting 9:30-Faculty Room
Oct 11 Alpine Elementary Student Council Conference-BYU-Bus leaves at 8:25am
Oct 12 Walk to School Wednesday
Oct 12 End of 1st Term
Oct 13-17 Fall Break-NO SCHOOL
Oct 18-21 Red Ribbon Week-see below
Oct 18 Lone Peak Council PTA Meeting 10:00 Location TBD
Oct 19 Walk to School Wednesday
Oct 20 Alpine PTA Family Night-6:30 in gym-Magic Night!-Info to come
Oct 21 3rd Grade Field Trip-Living Planet Aquarium

School Information

Counseling Newsletter
Please see the attached Counseling Newsletter for the month of October.

Reflections-See below for details
I would just like to encourage you to help your students with a Reflection entry. Hopefully, you have all noticed a reduction in the homework for your students. One benefit that can be had with this homework policy is that you might have a bit more time to do things like a Reflection entry. I know life is busy but the Reflections program is something that your children remember for years to come. Please remember that entries are due by October 13th.

Red Ribbon Week Coming Up
We have our annual Red Ribbon Week coming up Oct 18-21. I had some parents ask to have a “heads-up” on when the dress up days will be. So, there will be more information coming but we wanted to let you know that on Tuesday of that week it will be hat day, Wednesday will be crazy hair day, Thursday will be sports jersey day, and Friday will be wear red or camo day. Hope that helps those who wanted to know early.

From the Library

Battle of the Books Information
If you ordered a Battle of the Books t-shirt for your student, please pay the $7/shirt cost as soon as possible on myschoolfees.com. Thanks to those who have already paid 🙂 Payment deadline is October 21st.

We’re so excited for the Battle of the Books competition this year and have more students participating than ever before! It’s going to be a great year of reading!

Students who have read at least three books on their reading list by December will be invited to a pizza party in the library. Thanks for encouraging your students to read every day. We want to order A LOT of pizza for our readers 🙂

From the SCC

SCC Meeting
Thanks to those who attended our last SCC meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 11th at 9:30 in the faculty room.  Click here for the meeting minutes

From the PTA

Running Club
Running Club is continuing this week!  It will take place during Monday and Friday morning recess and Wednesday afternoon recess.  Remember to wear tennis shoes for those kids wanting to participate.  Prizes will be given out to the kids who reach their running milestones.

Reflections

Reflections is a national PTA program and it gives students the chance to submit art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts.  The theme for this year is Show your Voice!  Submissions need to be sent electronically here: https://www.utahpta.org/ref (this is also where instructions and rules are found) by October 13th.

PTA Meeting

Our next PTA meeting is Oct 25th from 9:30-10:30 AM in the teacher’s lounge.  We would love to have you there!

At this meeting, we will be voting on our new PTA bylaws.  The proposed bylaws are posted in the teacher’s lounge.  If you have any concerns or issues with the bylaws, please email [email protected].

From the Lunchroom

A reminder to everyone to please make sure your student(s) have money in their lunch accounts. If you need help with this, you can simply log on to mypaymentsplus.com and register. In addition to making payments, you can view your student account balances, history, set up automatic payments and account balance alerts. Also, our kitchen can accept cash or checks for meal payments, but not credit cards. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

 

October 3, 2022

CALENDAR
Oct 4 Alpine PTA Board Meeting 9:30 in the Faculty Room
Oct 4 2nd Grade Field Trip-Equestrian Park-Lehi
Oct 11 4th Grade Field Trip-This is the Place State Park
Oct 11 Alpine School Community Council Meeting 9:30-Faculty Room
Oct 12 End of 1st Term
Oct 13-17 Fall Break-NO SCHOOL

School Information
Fall Festival and Fun Run
We would like to thank our PTA for the fantastic week we had last week. They put in hundreds of hours planning and carrying out these events. We would also like to thank Doterra for supplying the T-shirts and Smith’s Marketplace in Lehi for donating the fantastic fruits for the Fun Run. Thanks, PTA, for all you do for our school!

Reflections-See below for details
I would just like to encourage you to help your students with a Reflection entry. Hopefully, you have all noticed a reduction in the homework for your students. One benefit that can be had with this homework policy is that you might have a bit more time to do things like a Reflection entry. I know life is busy but the Reflections program is something that your children remember for years to come. Please remember that entries are due by October 13th.

Cornbelly Opportunity
Cornbelly’s opened last weekend!  If your family is planning on going to Cornbelly’s any time this season, use ALPINEPTA as your promo code and you can get $3 off your admission to Cornbelly’s

From the Library
Please remember to return any past due library books!

From the SCC
SCC Meeting
Thanks to those who attended our last SCC meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 11th at 9:30 in the faculty room.

From the PTA
We are overwhelmed with the generosity of our Alpine Elementary parents and community! Thank you so much for all of those who donated to our fundraiser and those who bought our Fall Festival baskets.  You are all amazing!!  We brought in a final total of $18,918.96!!  That exceeded our PTA Fun Run Fundraiser goal of $15k.  The winners of the Chick-Fil-A lunches for each grade are:

• Kindergarten – Ms. Malone’s AM class

• 1st Grade – Ms. Johnson’s class

• 2nd Grade – Ms. Clement’s class

• 3rd Grade – Ms. Chen’s class

• 4th Grade – Ms. Dale’s class

• 5th Grade – Mr. Horan’s class

• 6th Grade – Ms. Reyes’ class

We want to send a special thank you to Doterra for donating to make our T-shirts happen!  All of the students and faculty looked awesome in the shirts during the Fun Run!!  The lunches for the winning classes will happen soon!

Also, thank you to all the volunteers who made last week possible!  Everyone had a great time at the Fun Run and the Fall Festival!  We appreciate all that you do!

Running Club
Running Club is starting this week!  It will take place during Monday and Friday morning recess and Wednesday afternoon recess.  Remember to wear tennis shoes for those kids wanting to participate.  Prizes will be given out to the kids who reach their running milestones.

Reflections
Reflections is a national PTA program and it gives students the chance to submit art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts.  The theme for this year is Show your Voice!  Submissions need to be sent electronically here: https://www.utahpta.org/ref (this is also where instructions and rules are found) by October 13th.

PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting is Oct 4th from 9:30-10:30 AM in the teacher’s lounge.  We would love to have you there!
At the end of October, we will be voting on our new PTA bylaws.  The proposed bylaws are posted in the teacher’s lounge.  If you have any concerns or issues with the bylaws, please email [email protected].

PTA Calendar
Attached is our current tentative PTA calendar so you can look ahead and plan for events to come.  Dates are subject to change slightly.

From the Lunchroom
A reminder to everyone to please make sure your student(s) have money in their lunch accounts. If you need help with this, you can simply log on to mypaymentsplus.com and register. In addition to making payments, you can view your student account balances, history, set up automatic payments and account balance alerts. Also, our kitchen can accept cash or checks for meal payments, but not credit cards. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.