It is always an exciting assembly when we get to recognize our Builders each month.  Today we recognized our March Builders and so many proud parents came in to celebrate and of course get some pictures of their students. Congratulations to all of our award winners!

A HUGE Shout-out to all the families that donated money for our classroom libraries.  We raised over $7,000 and have orders for more than 200 books being delivered to our school.  These donations will help us increase the amount of books and choices for our students!  A special shout out to Ms. Bergman’s AMAZING class that raised the most money of any classroom.

It is always an exciting assembly when we celebrate our “Builders of the Year” .  Although we have many builders throughout our school and parent community, these shining stars represent “exemplars” of Builder behavior.  Recognizing all of their efforts to make our school and community a better place is an important part of our schools.  Congratulations and thank you to all of our Builders!

Congratulations to Surya Kapu who won the Northern Utah Spelling competition and will represent our state at the National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. the week of May 27th-30th.  Surya has worked hard over many years and spent many extra hours studying.  Congratulations to Surya and all of his hard work in accomplishing this prestigious award.

 

Thanks to everyone that stopped in to have a meal at Cafe Zupas!  Our school brought in $2187.65 and we will receive a check for $437.53 for our classroom libraries.

It has been exciting to open all the packages of books that have started to come into the school.  Our students and their families have been ordering from the Draper 2 wish list on Amazon Smile.  Thank you for the generous donations!

March is National Reading Month and here at American Prep, we are celebrating with our first “Read-A-Thon”.  We are encouraging our students to read more and for our parents to donate money or buy books for our classroom libraries.  Julia Berquist in 3rd grade is reading a new book series and brings her book to school in case she gets some extra time to read.  Way to go Julia!

Congratulations to our Chess Team that were crowned the 2019 Utah Elementary Chess Champions! All of our students that participated helped our team with this amazing accomplishment.

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!