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Eagle News 03/25/2024

By Eagle News

March 25, 2024

CALENDAR

Mar 25 Battle of the Books Allstar Assembly 2:15 Gym

Mar 26 PTA Spirit Night-CreamWorx-6:00-9:00pm only-see attached flyer

Mar 28 Alpine SCC Meeting 9:30

Mar 28 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

Apr 1-Apr 5 Spring Break-NO SCHOOL!

Apr 9 Alpine PTA Meeting 10:45 (Board Only)

Apr 11 Ballet West Assembly 9:30 Gym

Apr 12 Hope Squad Meeting 8:45

Apr 15 Deadline to Order Yearbooks!-See Attached Order Form

School Information

Lost and Found

Our lost and found is extremely full right now. Please take a moment, or have your students, take a look and see if any of the items belong to your family. We will be taking these to DI the week after Spring Break!

Yearbooks are on Sale Now!

We are excited to announce that our yearbooks are on sale now through April 15. Please see the attached flyer for a QR code and info on how to order.

From the Library

Battle of the Books

We want to thank Mrs. Ruesch and all the volunteers for making this year’s Battle of the Books so awesome! It takes a lot of time and effort to make it so great! Thank you!

From the SCC

Please join us for our next Alpine School Community Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 28th at 9:30.

From the PTA

Specialty Classes Update – click link
Specialty Classes Update 03/11 – 03/29/24

CreamWorx Spirit Night this Tuesday, March 26 from 6-9pm only!

Treat yourself to CreamWorx ice cream (Highland location) this Tuesday from 6-9pm. A generous amount of the profits from this night will come back to us- thank you for your support! See the attached flyer for more details.

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 linq Connect 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. Additionally, we cannot give change so all money given will be placed into your student’s account. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

Specialty Class Update 03/11 – 3/29/24

By Specialty Classes Update

Rotation: March 11 – March 29
Music – Mrs. Hunt  [email protected]

Kinder- We will be learning  Bingo, Five Green and Speckled Frogs, and The Little Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly and/or Shell.

1st grade- Clapping, using patterns, and partner songs like Tideo

2nd grade- Preparing for Glow musical 

3rd grade- Reviewing songs we’ve learned this year and notation

4th grade- Reviewing music words learned and playing Bingo with words and definitions

5th grade- Working hard on our Hope of America songs 

6th grade- Drum lines and learning about the eras in music

Computer Lab – Mrs. Stonely  [email protected]

Kindergarten – Digital Citizenship: We discussed ways to be kind online and in real life..
Lesson- Learned how computers work and practiced mouse moving skills

1st Grade- Digital Citizenship: We learned about our online community and the effect we can have on it.
Lesson – Coded a tag game in Scratch Jr., learning new block functions: “When bumped”, “repeat” and how to set character speeds. We did have a small competition to see who’s tag game would go on the longest, we had some still going after 15 min.  That’s amazing.

2nd Grade – Digital Citizenship: We learned about our online community and our responsibility to  ourselves, our community and the world.
Lesson – Coded a control game in Scratch Jr.  The students learned how one sprite (character) can send a message to another sprite causing it to follow code.  The students’ control game consisted of creating directional arrows, when clicked would send a message to another sprite telling it to move in a certain direction.

3rd Grade – Digital Citizenship: Discussed their rings of responsibility online, first starting with them, what they share and say online, to their online community and how they are affected and finally to the world.
Lesson – Practice top row typing.  The third graders worked on learning which finger is responsible for top row keys and keeping other fingers anchored to the home row.

4th Grade – Digital Citizenship: Discussed our online impact and our responsibility to be a good citizen online.  We learned about our rings of responsibility: ourself, our community, and the world.
Lesson – Practiced top row typing, focusing the correct fingering and keeping our other fingers anchored to the home row.

5th Grade – Digital Citizenship: Discussed online friendships, what the benefit of having them are and red flags to watch out for when online.
Lesson – Created stop motion conversion tables in Canva

6th Grade –  Digital Citizenship: We learned about  plagiarism, taking someone else’s words or ideas and using them as their own.  We discussed different types of plagiarism and how to avoid it. We briefly discussed how to cite other’s work, and we will have another lesson on how to properly  cite people’s work and ideas.
Lesson – Learned how to organize their Google Drives and Gmail.  The students learned how to create folders and subfolders to organize their work and emails.  We also had a little fun in Adobe learning the feature, “Animate Your Voice” by telling St. Patrick’s Day jokes and knock knock jokes. 

Art – Mrs. Clarke  [email protected]

Kindergarten artists learned about primary and secondary colors in this rotation. They mixed the paints of the primary colors and made their own green, yellow, and purple.  They will use their mixed paints to create their own color wheel next time they come. 

Artists in first grade created a colorful cat inspired by the work of the artist Laurel Burch. They got to blend with chalk pastels then highlighted the cats facial features and patterns using black oil pastel. 

Second through sixth grade artists have finished their sculpting and have moved on to glazing. They’re all excited about how their pieces are turning out and can’t wait to take them home. They have to be fired in the kiln one more time so they won’t get them until their next rotation in art. 

Eagle News 03/16/2024

By Eagle News

March 18, 2024

CALENDAR

Mar 18 Battle of the Books Competition 3rd/4th grades

Mar 19 PTA Classic Skate Night-Classic Skating Orem

Mar 19 Alpine School Community Council Meeting 9:30

Mar 19 Lone Peak Council PTA Meeting 10:00 Mt Ridge Jr High

Mar 21 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

Mar 22 Museum on the Move visits 4th Grade

Mar 23 District Battle of the Books

Mar 25 Battle of the Books Allstar Assembly 2:15 Gym

Mar 26 PTA Spirit Night-CreamWorx-Info to come

Mar 28 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

School Information

We are ¾ of the way through the school year! Spring is almost here!

From the Library

Battle of the Books for 3rd/4th grades

We are getting excited for the 3rd and 4th grades to do battle in the Battle of the Books on March 18th! Keep reading those books 3rd and 4th graders!

From the SCC

Please join us for our next Alpine School Community Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 19th at 9:30.

From the PTA

Upcoming March Events:

March 19 – Classic Skate Night Orem

March 26 – CreamWorx Spirit Night

Seeking Performers, Talent & Volunteers for our Multicultural Family Event in May!

In lieu of a normal spring carnival (new district policy bans the use of any inflatables or rides) we are planning a big “Family Party” with a multicultural theme. We are hoping to provide entertainment/performances, food, games and crafts. We need your help to make it successful though!

Right now we are looking for 2 things:

1. People to participate on the planning committee

2. Any connections to any multicultural performers or entertainment (we’d love to find at least 5-8 performances to share that evening)

Chelsea Hertig is heading this up and really needs your help and community involvement to make this successful. Please email [email protected] for any leads on performers or if you’d like to help plan.

Thank you!

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 linq Connect 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. Additionally, we cannot give change so all money given will be placed into your student’s account. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

Eagle News 3/11/2024

By Eagle News

March 11, 2024

CALENDAR

Mar 11-12 Teacher Professional Development Days- NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Mar 14 Hope Squad Conference-Info to come to Hope Squad Members

Mar 14 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

Mar 18 Battle of the Books Competition 3rd/4th grades

Mar 19 PTA Classic Skate Night-Classic Skating Orem

Mar 19 Alpine School Community Council Meeting 9:30

Mar 19 Lone Peak Council PTA Meeting 10:00 Mt Ridge Jr High

Mar 21 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

Mar 22 Museum on the Move visits 4th Grade

Mar 23 District Battle of the Books

School Information

Playground Fundraiser

You may have noticed, but this year we are not doing a formal school fundraiser. However, we are doing an informal fundraiser to try and replace and add onto our existing playground. For the next few weeks, I will include this information in my weekly newsletter regarding this effort. This fundraiser is completely voluntary and we would love to collect as many donations as possible. We will not be sending home any flyers or information regarding this fundraiser.

Much of the equipment on our current playground is decades old and has experienced a large amount of wear and tear. In addition, the number of items on our playground is not on par with the number of students on our playground, resulting in kids not finding things to do and being as active as we would like them to be during recess hours.

Our new playground design actually EXTENDS the playground by a large amount (near the portables) and adds several new pieces of playground equipment, including an entirely new ninja obstacle course, a new climber spinner, a brand-new slide, additional swings, and benches and shade canopies for students wanting to read or sit and chat. Take a look at the new playground designs attached!

In total, the new playground will cost roughly $135k, and we as a community will need to raise the funds. We would like to open up the opportunity for parents and businesses to make a donation for the playground. 

As part of the new playground, we will include a permanent sign displaying names and logos of those donors who are able to make significant contributions. Logos and names displayed on the permanent sign will be tiered according to the following donation amounts:

  • Bronze = $10k or less

  • Silver = $11k – $25k

  • Gold = $26k – $50k

  • Platinum = >$50k

To make a donation, please make a check out to the Alpine School District Foundation and drop it off to our front office. Construction will commence as soon as we reach our playground fundraising goal. 

Let’s give our students an awesome new playground so they can stay active and healthy while they’re on school grounds!

From the Library

Battle of the Books for 3rd/4th grades

We are getting excited for the 3rd and 4th grades to do battle in the Battle of the Books on March 18th! Keep reading those books 3rd and 4th graders!

From the SCC

Please join us for our next Alpine School Community Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 19th at 9:30.

From the PTA

Upcoming March Events:

March 19 – Classic Skate Night Orem

March 26 – CreamWorx Spirit Night

Seeking Performers, Talent & Volunteers for our Multicultural Family Event in May!

In lieu of a normal spring carnival (new district policy bans the use of any inflatables or rides) we are planning a big “Family Party” with a multicultural theme. We are hoping to provide entertainment/performances, food, games and crafts. We need your help to make it successful though!

Right now we are looking for 2 things:

1. People to participate on the planning committee

2. Any connections to any multicultural performers or entertainment (we’d love to find at least 5-8 performances to share that evening)

Chelsea Hertig is heading this up and really needs your help and community involvement to make this successful. Please email [email protected] for any leads on performers or if you’d like to help plan.

Thank you!

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 linq Connect 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. Additionally, we cannot give change so all money given will be placed into your student’s account. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

 

Eagle News 03/03/2024

By Uncategorized

March 3, 2024

CALENDAR

Mar 4 Battle of the Books Competition 5th/6th grades

Mar 5 Alpine PTA Meeting 10:45 Faculty Room

Mar 7 Watergardens Movie Morning for 5th and Kindergarten

Mar 7 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

Mar 8 Alpine Yearbook Cover Design Contest Due-See attachment

Mar 8 Hope Squad Meeting 8:45 Ms. Johnson’s room

Mar 8 Safe Walking Routes Assembly 9:30-K-3rd 10:10 4th-6th

Mar 8 End of 3rd Term

Mar 11-12 Teacher Professional Development Days- NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Mar 14 Hope Squad Conference-Info to come to Hope Squad Members

Mar 14 5th/6th Grade Math Olympiads-Mrs. Monson’s room 3:30

School Information

Specialty Classes Updates

Click the link to see what your child is doing in art, computers and music.

Specialty Classes 2/19/24-3/08/24

Playground Fundraiser

You may have noticed, but this year we are not doing a formal school fundraiser. However, we are doing an informal fundraiser to try and replace and add onto our existing playground. For the next few weeks, I will include this information in my weekly newsletter regarding this effort. This fundraiser is completely voluntary and we would love to collect as many donations as possible. We will not be sending home any flyers or information with your students regarding this fundraiser.

Much of the equipment on our current playground is decades old and has experienced a large amount of wear and tear. In addition, the number of items on our playground is not on par with the number of students on our playground, resulting in kids not finding things to do and being as active as we would like them to be during recess hours.

Our new playground design actually EXTENDS the playground by a large amount (near the portables) and adds several new pieces of playground equipment, including an entirely new ninja obstacle course, a new climber spinner, a brand-new slide, additional swings, and benches and shade canopies for students wanting to read or sit and chat. Take a look at the new playground designs attached!

In total, the new playground will cost roughly $135k, and we as a community will need to raise the funds. We would like to open up the opportunity for parents and businesses to make a donation for the playground. 

As part of the new playground, we will include a permanent sign displaying names and logos of those donors who are able to make significant contributions. Logos and names displayed on the permanent sign will be tiered according to the following donation amounts:

  • Bronze = $10k or less

  • Silver = $11k – $25k

  • Gold = $26k – $50k

  • Platinum = >$50k

To make a donation, please make a check out to the Alpine School District Foundation and drop it off to our front office. Construction will commence as soon as we reach our playground fundraising goal.

Let’s give our students an awesome new playground so they can stay active and healthy while they’re on school grounds!

Kindergarten Registration continues this Week!

We want to make you aware that we are continuing our Kindergarten Registration for the 2024-2025 year. This takes place online via our school website. You can click on this link http://alpine.alpineschools.org to access our website. You will need to upload a few items to complete your student’s registration.

1. Birth Certificate

2. Proof of residency-this can be a rental agreement, utility bill, etc. Something that has your name and address on it.

3. Proof of immunization-we know that you may not have these done yet, so if you do not have these completed yet, it is ok. You can get these to us later.

We will also be available to help those with the registration process (computers, etc) if you would like to come in and register in the main office during the week. Additionally, if you know of anyone that does not have a student currently at our school but may have a kindergarten student next year, you may forward this email on so they have this information.

If you do have a kindergartener to register, we ask that you do it as soon as possible as this allows us to get a better number on staffing, etc for the upcoming year. 

Please let me know if you have any questions. You may respond to this email or email me at [email protected].

From the Library

Read, Read, Read!

From the SCC

Please join us for our next Alpine School Community Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 19th at 9:30.

From the PTA

PTA General Meeting this Tuesday, March 5 at 10:45am

Join us this Tuesday at 10:45am in the faculty room for a PTA general meeting. We will be voting in the new PTA board for 2024-25, as well as discussing events for the remainder of the school year.

Seeking Performers, Talent & Volunteers for our Multicultural Family Event in May!

In lieu of a normal spring carnival (new district policy bans the use of any inflatables or rides) we are planning a big “Family Party” with a multicultural theme. We are hoping to provide entertainment/performances, food, games and crafts. We need your help to make it successful though!

Right now we are looking for 2 things:

1. People to participate on the planning committee

2. Any connections to any multicultural performers or entertainment (we’d love to find at least 5-8 performances to share that evening)

Chelsea Hertig is heading this up and really needs your help and community involvement to make this successful. Please email [email protected] for any leads on performers or if you’d like to help plan.

Thank you!

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 linq Connect 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. Additionally, we cannot give change so all money given will be placed into your student’s account. If you have any questions or may need help, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at 801-610-8700.

Specialty Classes 02/19/24 – 03/08/24

By Specialty Classes Update

Rotation: Feb. 19 – March 8

Music – Mrs. Hunt
During this music rotation we will be learning:

KA- The 4 Seasons by Vivaldi, making weather sounds with percussion instruments, circle dancing with left and right, and in and out with the song The Old Brass Wagon

1st- Morning by Edvard Grieg- moving our bodies to the feeling we get when we listen, Learning the song Down by the banks- clap the beat while singing and playing a circle game.

2nd- Working on our Glow program that is coming up the 1st week in May. Please have your child work on their speaking parts if they have one. All the children have a part whether it’s singing, speaking, or dancing. Reyes’ class performs on May 1st at 1 pm, Clement’s class on May 2nd at 10 am, and Fu’s class is on May 3rd at 10 am.

3rd- Singing Hey, Ho, Nobody’s Home in a Round. Singing The Man on the Flying Trapeze and moving to the feel of the music. Learning about George Gershwin and listening to Rhapsody in Blue. Keeping a steady beat while moving around playing Beat Monster.

4th- Working on our Utah songs for the performance on March 1st. Introducing recorders and how to play them.

5th- Working on Hope of America songs. Please sign up your child under hopeofamerica.org We are scheduled to perform the night of Tuesday, May 7th. This is an amazing event so please encourage your child to participate.

6th- Working on our Pillow Concert songs and drum lines. The Pillow concert is on May 17th.
As always, please email me with any questions at [email protected]

Computer Lab – Mrs. Stonely
Kindergarten – Learning to log in and off the lab computers by themselves.  They are also working on learning about the keyboard and where the letters are located.

1st Grade- Digital Citizenship: Learned  skills of pausing and thinking when they are online, using their head, gut and heart to help keep them safe.  
Lesson: Worked on sequence coding in Scratch Jr. creating a story inspired by “Dragons Love Tacos”.

2nd Grade – Digital Citizenship: Learned the importance of pausing when they are on a screen to listen to people, take a breath and finish up when it’s time to get off.
Lesson: Introduced top row typing.  The second graders worked on learning which finger is responsible for top row keys and keeping other fingers anchored to the home row.

3rd Grade – Digital Citizenship: Discussed the power of our words online and how we can show empathy to others.
Lesson:  Coded a Hide and Seek game in CS First, learning about variables by adding in a scoreboard. 

4th Grade – Digital Citizenship: Discussed online personal information vs. private information. Personal information are  things we like, hobbies,  interests.  Private information is identifying information such as name, address, phone number, school name and parents’ names. 
Lesson: Created energy transfer stop motion movies in Canva.

5th Grade- Digital Citizenship: Learned about clickbait and its purpose. 
Lesson: Bottom row typing practice, working on keeping fingers on home row, acting as anchors. We also did a Rotating Story activity to encourage touch typing practice,  ask your child about their story.

6th Grade- Digital Citizenship: Learned about fake vs. real websites and strategies on how to tell the difference.
Lesson: Started 7th Grade Boot Camp designed to help the sixth graders be ready for middle school by learning formatting skills in Google docs.  We will be doing other 7th Grade Boot Camp activities like organizing Google Drive, Gmail and working in Canvas.

Art – Mrs. Clarke
It is an exciting time for Alpine Artists right now because we are working with clay that will be fired and glazed in the school kiln!  Before we started, we looked at the work of “Master Potter” Juan Quezada whose pieces can be found in museums throughout the world. His curiosity as a young boy led to his discovery of some ancient pottery while exploring a cave one day.  Fascinated by the pieces he found but without any previous experience with pottery Juan worked to create pots using only local materials like the ancient Paquime Indians would have.  Today, the village of Mata Ortiz is alive only because of Juan’s ceramic artistry and his willingness to generously share all he knew with many locals.  As a college student I was able to visit Mata Ortiz and see Juan Quezada as he worked on a pot.  I didn’t understand at the time the legend that was in front of me but it has been fun to revisit and share his story with your students.  His example of curiosity, willingness to experiment and fail, and desire to share all he learned is the inspiration for us as we try this new art medium.    Your artist will soon bring home their ceramic creation and we can’t wait to see how they turn out!  We have practiced the score and slip method used to attach two pieces of clay as well as the coil, slab, and pinch techniques.  After they finish their project it requires an entire week of air drying before it can be loaded in the kiln and fired for two days.  Students’ next art rotation will be spent glazing their piece with non-toxic and dishwasher safe glaze.  After firing them a second time they will finally be able to bring them home and share with you their masterpiece.  It will be a few weeks before you get to see them but we are working hard, getting messy, and practicing some patience through the process.