Dear Parents,
Thanks for all your support with our Halloween Parade and parties today. Our students had a great time! Stay safe tonight during Trick or Treating!
End of Day Phone Calls
At the end of our school day starting at 2:45, we have only one person in our front office to help with any patron or student needs. We can no longer take or send messages to students for that last ten minutes of the school day. If you need to get information to your child about who is picking them up or other important information, please call before 2:45 pm. Often when parents call at the last minute, it’s tricky to find the student as they may be in Brain Boosters, or doing an end-of-day activity outside, or other activities, and we feel badly if the information isn’t relayed. Please help us get that info to your child by calling before 2:45 pm. Thanks for your help with this.
October Eagle of the Month
Congratulations to our Eagles of the Month! This honor is a nomination from their classroom teacher. Thanks for being such awesome students!
Kinder:
Crabtree: Elliott Stoddard
Prime: Henning Jensen
Keller: Annie Thackeray
1st grade:
Milianta: Omar Sarr
Rogers: Camille Young
Babitz: Max Roundy
Sanz: Hazel Hosenfeld
Smith: Christopher Rodriguez
2nd grade:
Coleman: Greyson Bennett
Vincent: Rocklynn Burnside
Guzman: Juliet Nordgren
Perez: Owen Linnell
3rd grade:
Kunzler: AnnMarie Gutierrez
Christensen: Alem Zeljkovic
Trifilio: Carson Burgon
Wilkinson: Damon Gausnell
Penn: Miles Martin
4th grade:
Brown: Sage Savage
Fowden: Naomi Chavez
Baird/West: Jameson Wells
Arbeloa: Sophie Trost
Hayes: Zeek Everton
5th grade:
Deem: Ivy Anderson
Nelson: Arabella Zank
Ordaya: Noah Falk
Milne: Juliette Mills
Bettridge: Ryder Cates
Kindness Is Cool
Here are some examples of kindness happening at our school these past couple of months. We have the best students!
Riley Milne (4th) – opening the door for a student who was hurt and needed to go to the nurse’s office
Mara Stoddard, Eleanor Madsen & Aubrey Kuran (3rd) – played a game at recess with a student in another class to help him be included
Dylan Novack (5th) – setting a good example and always doing his best
Kiersten Valdez & Azaylea Olson (5th) – stepping up and helping clean a mess in the bathroom
Chloe Ray (1st) – helping a hurt student find the nurse’s office
Ian Taylor (Kindergarten) – letting a friend use the ball first at recess
Important Links:
School Website: https://silvermesa.canyonsdistrict.org/
Instagram: silvermesa_eagles
Parent Volunteer application: https://volunteer.canyonsdistrict.org/volunteersystem/#!/application/volunteer//
School Front Office: (801) 826-9400
PTA Info
Website-https://silvermesapta.org/
Instagram- silver_mesa_pta
Facebook- Silver Mesa PTA
Thank you for your support and help with Red Ribbon Week. Especially the Egg Drop. The kids had a fantastic time!
Also, Thank you for supporting out School Spirit Night at Handle’s Ice Cream!
*-PTA General Board Meeting- Tues Nov 1st 11:30-12:30
Our next PTA meeting is tomorrow. It will be at 11:30 in the kiva. We will not have a zoom meeting at this time. We hope you will come get to know the other members better. If you would like to see the minutes from last month or the agenda for tomorrow check out our webpage. silvermesapta.org
*-Reflections & Judges DUE THIS FRIDAY
Students of Silver Mesa! Reflections are due THIS FRIDAY!
SHOW US YOUR VOICE! Reflections 2022 is here! The theme is “Show your voice”. We love to see your original creations in dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography, 2D and 3D visual arts.
Reflection will need to be submitted online by Friday Nov. 4, 2023. Use the link below for further information. Now go create!
We will have someone at the school Tuesday 2:45-3:45, Thursday 2:45-3:45, and Friday morning 7:30-8:20, to help you with your online submissions. We are so excited to see what you have created!
We are also looking for judges for Reflections 2022. We need 2-3 judges per category in: Film, music composition, dance choreography, 2D and 3D visual arts, literature and photography. We are swapping judges with Peruvian Park Elementary. We will be judging for their reflections, and they will be judging ours. We do this cause the judges can’t know any of the participants. If you have any expertise in any of these areas, please help us! It is all done online and will need to be done Nov. 5-11. You can do it at home! I have judge before and it is so great to see the creativity of the students!
Sign up on the link for sign up genius below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0949ACAD22A0FB6-reflection
*-White Ribbon Week- Nov 7-11
PTA sponsors white ribbon week each year to help kids understand how to use technology in safe and healthy ways. Next week, we are hosting with the theme “Let’s Get Real,” which helps students become more aware of their digital time and give priority to real life. Each family will receive a booklet with media conversations to have with your children at home. Our power boosts for next week are:
- I will use technology to show kindness and respect.
- I will give priority to real life relationships.
- I will choose healthy activities to handle stress and boredom.
- I will choose to balance my day.
- I will remember that not everything online is real.
We’d like to make a school slideshow that showcases Silver Mesa students and what they love to do in their “real life” to have fun, beat boredom, relieve stress, etc. Take a picture of your child doing an activity that doesn’t involve screens and send it to silvermesapta@gmail.com. We will create a slideshow for the students to watch. Pictures must be submitted by Thursday, Nov. 10th.
—-Finally, we’ll need help with lunchtime activities. Sign up here to help!
*-Watch D.O.G.S (Dads of Great Students)
If you are interested in being a Watch D.O.G.S. volunteer, Click HERE
Upcoming Dates
Now-Nov. 21st—DLI application window is open; Application portal
Nov. 1st—General PTA Meeting; Kiva; 11:30 am; All are welcome!
Nov. 2nd—SCC Meeting; 7:15 am; All are welcome! Zoom link: https://canyonsdistrict-org.zoom.us/j/82999368357?pwd=UlFKYTdZeE1jNXVtc2Y3RHZNTkI2Zz09
Nov. 4th—Student Council Meeting right after school
Nov. 14th—5th grade Reaction Time (a special science assembly)
Nov. 16th—Report cards from the first grading period will be coming home this day
Nov. 18th—Spirit Day; Rainbow Day—each grade will be assigned a color to wear that day. The student council will be finalizing the colors at their meeting this week.
Nov. 23rd-25th—Thanksgiving Recess; No school
Nov. 29th—First Grade field trip to the Natural History Museum
Nov. 30th—Fifth Grade field trip to see the play at Union Middle School
It’s a great day to be an eagle!
Julie Fielding, Principal
Silver Mesa Elementary
