Mr. Dave Packard has been with us for seven years.  He is a great help in our lunchroom, cleaning our school, shoveling snow and all around happiness spreader.  Dave recently moved with his family out of the area.  We will miss his smile and friendship.   We had a surprise assembly and all of the students sang to him. No good bye's, just see you later.  

Good Luck Dave!

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Third grade is learning about engineering. We have made toothpick towers, spagetti towers and pendulums.  We were lucky enough to have a parent of a third grader come and tell us what he does at work as a process engineer.  It was great to learn how our education could impact our future. The future looks bright with these students learning to think like an engineer. Thank you Mr. Simister!!

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Each year Discovery Gateway comes to do an assembly with the 5th grade. They conduct physical and chemical changes experiments for the students to review our science core. After the hour assembly, the students have the opportunity to attend a lab session where they get to show what they learned by conducting their own experiments. It is a great assembly each year. 

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Dr. Seuss' birthday is March 2nd.  Many schools across America spend time reading to celebrate his birthday.  Santaquin Elementary had a school wide read-a-thon at the end of the day. One of his most popular books is, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish."  The school provided Swedish Fish and Goldfish crackers. 

#santaquinelementary  #welovereading  #readacrossamerica

Not really, but he thinks about them a lot.  Paul’s dad, Kyle Gardner, shared his knowledge about rocks with the class.  He let the students look at the rocks, and hold the rocks. He even brought a dinosaur vertebrae for the students to see. The second graders had a lot of questions, and Kyle answered them all!  The students had a fun time learning about different types of rocks. It was the perfect ending to our rock unit. We are so grateful for parents!

 #santaquinelementary  #rocks  #santaquinparentsrock  #thankyou

Our Santaquin Chieftains are reading machines!  These students have all completed the library's 40 Book Challenge and have enjoyed prizes like bookmarks, candy bars, movie passes, and a free book of their choice!  Way to go!

The 5th graders recently learned about the Civil War. As part of this unit, the children participated in an underground railroad simultation. For this actvity, the students traveled to four station masters on their way to freedom on the underground railroad. They had to hide in small spaces and travel on a cart as to not get caught and sent back to the South. The students also had the opportunity to take apart cotton and seperate out the seed pods. The students loved this activity and getting a glimpse into how the Undeerground Railroad worked and why it was important to American history. 

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Spring SEP's are Thursday, March 14.  Please sign up to visit with your child's teacher. If you have any questions, please call Mrs. Hunter or Mrs. Hamilton at 801-754-3611.

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The Payson Junior High band, orchestra, and jazz band came to perform for the 6th graders to introduce them to the instruments and get them interested in trying out a musical instrument in 7th grade.

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