Join us for one last celebration at Millcreek Elementary (1955-2023 Venture Out Festival
June 9, 2023
6 PM to Twilight
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Teacher Appreciation Week May 1-5
Teacher Appreciation Week is a great time to recognize your Millcreek teachers. The PTA will host a flower sale each morning before school. Flowers will be sold at $1 per stem, and students will be able to deliver them to the staff member of their choice!
Millcreek PTA Recognized by Utah State PTA
Congratulations, Millcreek PTA! In addition to receiving six Region 5 PTA Awards, it was recently announced that our Millcreek PTA won four Utah State PTA Awards! Thank you to April Flores and the PTA Board for their outstanding work this year for our entire community.
Millcreek Arts Council Celebrate our 3rd and 4th Grade Artists
Millcreek Arts Council and Millcreek Library are excited to host Millcreek Elementary students for our May Art presentation. Third and fourth graders from Grace Davis’ art classes created torn paper landscapes. Students discussed and applied what they knew about characteristics of a Utah landscape and how Utah’s landscape has changed over time to create their own images of Utah landscapes. Students learned about how artists use foreground, middleground, and background to create depth in landscape images. To start, students drew thumbnail sketches of landscapes before deciding on one idea for their final piece. They drew out their landscapes first, then tore paper to add color and create texture.
Come visit us at the library at 2266 E Evergreen Avenue to enjoy these pieces. A reception will be held from 6-7 on May 5th to celebrate the artists. Refreshments will be served. Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter, Tyler Yentsch will be performing. Tyler has been performing the Blues at the Utah Blues Festival and he gains his inspiration from past Blues legends. He began writing music in 2019 after a heartbreak and continues to create and evolve his music.
Register Now for At-Home Summer Learning Opportunity!
Granite School District has once again partnered with Waterford.org to offer our students an amazing At-Home Summer Learning Opportunity!
Waterford’s Upstart Summer Learning Path is FREE to families and gives children entering grades K–3 a boost in reading, math, and science. The program is proven to accelerate student learning. Students in grades 4-6 who are not yet at a 3rd grade reading level are also encouraged to register.
The program kicks off in June. However, registration is open now!
Follow this link to register today! http://tinyurl.com/GraniteSummer
Superintendent’s Town Hall at Olympus HIgh
Superintendent Rich Nye will host at Town Hall at Olympus High on Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 6:30 PM. Town Hall meetings are an open forum for residents and patrons to share their input and ideas with administrators regarding students and education topics in the Granite School District.
USBE Climate Survey for Student: Parent Information
Mighty Millcreek Parents,
The Utah State Board of Education is interested in learning more about you and your child’s experience with their education. Students at Millcreek will be taking this short survey the week of April 3-April 7, 2023, during the school day. This survey includes questions about your student’s learning, school safety, and interpersonal relationships. Their responses will be very helpful in improving student relationships, learning conditions, and the overall school environment.
Attached is an opt-out form if you do not want your child to participate. There is a link on the form to view the questions for each age group. Please reach out to Principal Clayton with any questions.
For any questions about the survey’s format or purpose, please contact the USBE’s Safe and Healthy Schools Department at 801-538-7640.
Sincerely,
Amber Clayton
Principal & Lead Learner
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USBE Climate Survey
Mighty Millcreek Parents,
The Utah State Board of Education is interested in learning more about your experience with your student’s education. You are invited to participate in completing the Utah School Climate Survey. This survey includes questions about your student’s learning, school safety, and interpersonal relationships, as well as your attitudes about the institutional environment and your personal involvement in school. Your responses will be very helpful in improving student relationships, learning conditions, and the overall school environment.
Beginning March 13th parents and guardians are invited to complete this survey for our school. The survey is completely confidential and brief; it contains 33 questions and takes about six minutes to complete. You can take the survey online by using the link below. Please submit your responses by May 5th.
Survey results will only be reported as group responses. There are no right or wrong answers. Responses are housed securely in an anonymous format with the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) for evaluation research purposes. All evaluation research projects are in compliance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, (343 CFR 99.31 (6)).
As you respond to each item, think about your own personal experiences as a parent, caregiver or guardian at your student’s school. Please answer all of the questions.
For any questions about this survey, please contact the Safe and Healthy Schools Department at USBE at (801) 538-7640.
The link to complete the survey is: https://graniteschools.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_emM79czVjnAwUUS
We thank you for your time, and as always we appreciate your feedback.
Principal Clayton
Millcreek PTA’s IditaRead Rad-a-Thon Under Way
The Millcreek PTA is hosting our second annual Read-A-Thon fundraiser. While this year’s event is not a fundraiser, we still want to encourage reading & challenge our students to read over 120,000 minutes during two weeks from Friday, March 3rd to Thursday, March 16th!
4 Things You Need to Know
- Encourage your student to read!
- This is the most important thing for you to do!
- Every student will receive 3 free books at the beginning of the IditaRead!
- Log At-Home Reading Minutes
- Whether you read a book to your child or they read on their own, log those minutes online!
- The link to log at-home reading minutes will be shared on Class Dojo.
- We are challenging each student to read:
- Preschool – 2nd Grade Students: At least 400 minutes
- 3rd – 5th Grade Students: At least 600 minutes
- Minutes read at school will be logged by the teacher.
- Fun School Events
- Fri Mar 2nd: Opening Ceremonies – Opening parade and outdoor assembly with sled dogs!
- Mon Mar 6th: Scales & Tails Assemblies – Students get to see and learn about interesting animals!
- Fri Mar 10th: Stuffed Animal Reading Party – Students bring a stuffed animal & get extra reading time!
- Amazing Prizes
- Every class that meets their reading goal gets extra recess!
- Top classes get free Chick-fil-A lunch at school!
- Every student that reads 1,049 minutes (the length of the Iditarod race) gets a special certificate and party with Principal Clayton!
- Deadline to Log Reading Minutes: 5pm on Thursday March 16th!
Mighty Millcreek Calendars
We are happy to share our calendars for March-May. Copies will be sent home with students tomorrow. Please be aware that the March calendar is pretty firm. The April and May calendars say “planning ahead” at the top. This is to indicate that they are still a work in progress, but we want to share the information we have with you so that you can “plan ahead”!
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