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/
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.