Tee up for a great cause at the 2nd annual Feed the Kids Foundation Golf Tournament! Gather your friends, family, and colleagues for a day filled with fun, camaraderie, and golf, all while supporting a worthy cause. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of children in need.
Register here: https://givebutter.com/c/ftkgolfclassic25
Congratulations to Mr. Griffith, Mrs. Flanders and Ms. McCarty on their retirement! 🤍
Please help us honor and celebrate as three amazing teachers and faculty. Their retirement celebration will be held in the gym on Tuesday, May 13th from 4-5:30 p.m. It has been an honor and privilege to work along side them throughout their careers. We wish them nothing but the best on all of their adventures!
Kids Cause is excited to invite you to our Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, June 2! This event will support students in Nebo School District by helping provide glasses, dental work, clothing, and other essentials. Kids Cause works closely with school social workers and administrators to identify students who need extra help, making a real difference in our community.
The tournament promises a fun day for a great cause — just $60 per person! Bring your own foursome if possible! Lunch will be provided, and there will be lots of prizes to win throughout the day. Come enjoy a round of golf and help us continue supporting kids in need! We hope to see you there!
Just a FEW of the MANY silent auction baskets you’ll find at the PTA Fiesta Fundraiser on Friday, May 9th, 5-8p.m! There are so many amazing things to bid on to take home! Come enjoy food trucks, bounce houses, a performance by the middle school mariachi band, and MORE!
ONE WEEK until the annual PTA fundraiser! Come celebrate, eat some food from FOUR food trucks, bid on some stellar silent auction items, listen to the Payson Jr. High Mariachi band from 6-7p.m., visit with Santaquin Police and Fire, and let your kids bounce on EIGHT bounce houses! Yep, EIGHT!! Your attendance and continued support of the PTA sponsored events allows some amazing things to happen in our school and for our students! See you all there! Friday, May 9th!!
We honored royalty, aka our awesome principal, Mrs. Ribble, on Thursday, with the letter "K" for Kings and Queens! She is absolute royalty, and her crown and sparkly shoes were appropriately worn to celebrate! We would absolutely "Fall to Pieces" without her! 🥰
The annual PTA fundraiser is happening Friday, May 9th! Come celebrate the school year, eat some delicious food truck food, play games, bounce on bounce houses and bid on some amazing silent auction items. We will have lively music and a we will have a whole lot of FUN!! See the flyer for more details!
Yesterday's Chalk the Walk Day was a huge success. The artwork from so many students was bright, cheerful and SO colorful, and the students got to enjoy the beautiful weather a little extra. Can you tell that 1st grade is learning about American Independence and important American symbols? We will be enjoying all of these beautiful chalk drawings for many days through our countdown to the last day of school!
B-I-N-G-O!!
Our countdown to the last day of school continued with the letter B! We played Bingo as a school and our bingo caller, Mrs. Braithwaite is SO FUN!
We will be counting down the days and going through the alphabet with an activity each day!
Monday is the letter C, chalk the sidewalk! Enjoy pictures of some of the winners!
Our most recent students of the month! These students worked hard and showed off their Chieftain Pride! And amazing weather called for an outdoor picture, featuring our adorable spring window art!
Spring BOGO Book Fair starts on Monday April 14th, after school! The book fair will only be open during lunch on Friday. Please note the change in hours and communicate with your students!!
BOGO is the BEST bookfair because everything is buy 1 item at regular price, get one FREE!! We'll see you all there!
Can you believe it is already time to register for the next school year?! Time flies when we are having fun!
Registration opens on April 7th! Get your student(s) registered sooner than later. It helps so much with placements, class sizes, and preparation. Registration is easy through Infinite Campus. Verify your student(s) and all personal information. If you have a new student to add, please make sure you have the proper documentation ready to upload. Once it is done, you don't have to worry about it again until next year😉
Maraca's is SO SUPPORTIVE of our school! They have donated student of the month certificates, donated food to feed our faculty, donated to our festivals and silent auction, AND hosted many past spirit nights! NOW they are hosting our final spirit night for the '24-'25 school year and they have come up with a Santaquin Elementary Spirit Special, 15 tacos for $30, ALL DAY, Tuesday, April 8th!! Dine in or take out any other menu items as well! Come support a local business who continuously supports our school!!!
College and Career Week is March 24th-March 28th! Get your students excited about their future! Our school counselor has been sparking their interest in their futures and speaking with students about what they want to be when they grow up. Next week we will celebrate all that their future's have to offer with these fun spirit days!!
Save the Date! Join us for a fun, free to enter family night event!
Monday, March 24th from 5-7 p.m. We are celebrating literacy and Read Across America with a literacy event. Kona Ice will be selling sno-cones, students and their families can see and learn how students have been studying literacy through art, and participate in activities and games based on reading! Fun for the whole family ❤📕📖📘
Mrs. Howard, our art specialty teacher, applied for and received a grant from the Nebo Education Foundation. She requested funds to purchase digital cameras for the students to use to study photography, movement, balance and many other principles of composition. She has big ideas and high hopes that this will be a fun way for students to engage with technology safely and appropriately, while also learning how to transform images in fun, artistic ways! Congratulations, Mrs. Howard!
Today was the first day of Art Club! It was a fun, successful day of painting dogs! PTA sponsored clubs have been a fun addition this year. If you are interested in helping with a club next year or are interested in starting a new one, please attend the next PTA meeting, date to be announced soon!
"Kind People Are Our Kind of People"
Kindness week continues at Santaquin Elementary. Students signed and drew on a kindness banner. Mrs. Teuller, our school counselor, has had great activities for students at lunch all week, and it has been so fun watching the students participate!
Ms. Nielsen, one of our fabulous first grade teachers, won a Constitution Teacher Contest from the 2024 Freedom Festival. She had to submit images of her and her class learning about the United States Constitution and she WON a hefty ca$h prize! Congratulations!!
