It is with heavy hearts that we mark the passing of Siegfried “Zig” Engelmann, a pioneer in education. Zig was a leader and visionary whose life was dedicated to providing quality instruction and curriculum for teachers throughout the country and world.  At American Prep we utilize many of the programs he developed and all of our students have benefitted from their use in our classrooms and instructional groups.  Here is the link to his obituary:

https://files.constantcontact.com/cd54916d201/853da783-6871-488f-b81e-05e91092c8ae.pdf

The Elementary Chess State Championship Tournament will be this Saturday at Freedom Academy.  These students will be representing APA in the tournament.  Best of luck to our chess team!

A big thank you from the Lady Eagles Basketball Team and their parents.  They raised over $2012 for their summer camp expenses and are grateful for the support from all the elementary students at the bake sale.

Students in grades 4-6 were treated to a performance of our H.S. Dance Team.  As our 6th graders move to the secondary school they will get the opportunity to learn social dance and become part of this amazing team.

Our District Spelling Bee was held this week and two of our Draper 2 students took the top two spots.  Congratulations to these students who will be representing our school at the state spelling bee.

Surya Kapu – 1st place

Jonathan Arulanandam – 2nd place

Congratulations to all the participants in ur Grade 1-3 Spelling Bee and our winner Vyasaraj Singeetham.  These students won their  individual class spelling bees and then had the opportunity to compete against the winners from the other classrooms.

Congratulations to Payson Lewis for having the highest score of all of our American Prep students at the recent Math Counts competition.  He is seen here with Mr. McLaughlin one of our outstanding and recently retired math teachers.

It is always a special afternoon luncheon with our staff!  Our amazing parents and FSO organized an amazing and tasty meal.  It was an afternoon our staff got to relax and spend some quality time together.  Thank you to all the parents that decorated, helped serve and clean up.  Special thanks to Nicole Harman our FSO leader and Cup Bop and the Song family for such delicious food!

Congratulations to all of our finalists that participated in our school wide Spelling Bee.  The top 6, Surya Kapu, Vaishnavi Kothamasu, Kazim Ali, Kole Henrie, Mina Hwang, and Jonathan Arulanandam, will compete in our District Spelling Bee on February 26th at our West Valley 1 campus.  An extra special congratulations to our school champion, Surya Kapu!

One of our annual traditions at American Prep began on Friday as our wonderful parents and students spent the evening decorating the doors of our staff.  It is the start of a great week of appreciating the hard work of our staff to educate our students.  Thank you to all of our families for your work and incredible creativity.