On Thursday, January 12th, the second grade students at Sage Creek had their annual Walking Report Card SEP Conferences! For this conference, our students participated in a progress report that actually showed parents what their child could do. This was the students chance to show off! A Walking Report Card is a progress report provided for parents in the form of an organized observation of their child in a school setting. Parents were provided the opportunity to assess their child's progress by watching him/her participate in academic and social activities. Walking Report Cards are a simple, efficient and fun way to provide parents with important hands-on information about their student’s learning and understanding. Keep up the great work, second graders!

On Wednesday, January 25th, the second grade students at Sage Creek Elementary were treated to a visit from Little Caesar’s Pizza as part of their social studies ‘goods and services’ unit.   Kyle Krebs, a former Sage Creek student and manager of the hard working Little Caesar’s Pizza team, is totally committed to excellence and serious about having fun.  Kyle demonstrated this as he rolled out balls of pizza dough creating pizzas for the students to sample!  The students learned how all of the dough is made fresh every day and needs to rise for 12 hours!  We also learned that the most popular type of pizza is pepperoni and that on any given Friday night, Little Caesar's makes around 1,000  pizzas!!  At the close of the presentation, each of the second graders were treated to a hot slice of the delicious pizza.  Thank you Kyle and Little Caesar’s for an awesome and very tasty visit!

January 23rd marked the beginning of Chinese New Year and was celebrated both abroad and at Sage Creek Elementary.  This year it was an especially significant event for Sage Creek Elementary Dragons as it is the year of the Dragon and also celebrates our first year as a Chinese Dual Language Immersion School!  Students started the day with a traditional Chinese Dragon parade and along with noise-makers chanted the phrases for Happy New Year ( Xin Nian Kuai Le) and Congratulations ( Gong Xi ) in Chinese as the dragon passed.  Students in each grade level also learned the story behind Chinese New Year and participated in fun activities connected to it throughout the day.  Even the Nebo District school lunch program  joined the festivities by providing orange chicken and rice, complete with fortune cookie, for an authentic Chinese lunch! 

At Sage Creek Elementary, classes are taught weekly the following Character Education skills:  how to show appreciation, accept responsibility, and make good choices.  These students have been chosen to be the Determined Dragons for the month of December because they have made our school a better place by using their Character Education skills.  They are: Lizzie Blonquist, Tyler Call, Andrew Florence, Mario Gallegos, Emma Goslin, Noah Houtz, Hailey Rollins, Addy Rowland, Adam Taylor, Ethan White, Audrey Wood.  Congratulations awesome students!!

Fourth grade students at Sage Creek Elementary were fortunate to be able to attend a performance of the Utah Symphony on Monday, December 19th at Salem Hills High School.  All of the fourth grade students in the district are invited to see and hear the symphony perform each year and for some this is a once in a lifetime experience.  In preparation for this significant event the students have been learning about different musical instruments, composers, and types of music.  They all dressed in their very best  for this extra special occasion and had an experience they will never forget

A fairy tale came to life in Mrs. Robbins  4th grade class at  Sage Creek Elementary.  A handsome prince arrived at their class (although not on horseback) dressed in his finest princely attire with flowers in hand.  He got down on one knee in front of the awestruck class and proposed to their much beloved student teacher ....an princess, Melissa Griffin!  Naturally, and thankfully for the prince, she accepted his proposal Everyone was excited, and very glad that she said YES and are sure that they will love happily ever after.

Sage Creek students of all ages were treated to their annual 6th Grade Orchestra Christmas Concert.  Students played Christmas songs from around the world and had the audience chime in for a verse of their favorite - Jingle Bells!  Members of the orchestra have been coming to school at 8:00 AM for two to three days a week since the beginning of the school year; many had never even picked up an instrument before this time.  Orchestra members are:  Violin:  Allen Bird, Abbey Deyo, Adam Gee Cala Giles, Ashlyn Glazier, Amanda Guernsey, Haley Green, Chandler Jones, and Emma Scott.  Cellos:  Ethan Averett, Lydia Davies, Josh Eaton, Derek Heiner, Jorge Kaufman, Bradley Nicol, Rachel Sturman.  Violas:  Sydney Gee, Emily Ells. Isabella Nelson and Abbigail Zonts.  Many thanks to Miss Maggie Hall for her hours and hours of help with these students.

At Sage Creek Elementary, classes are taught weekly the following Character Education skills:  how to show appreciation, accept responsibility, and make good choices.  These students have been chosen to be the Determined Dragons for the month of November because they have made our school a better place by using their Character Education skills.  They are:   Cole Bailey, Tyler Call, Cashlynn Chruma, Berkley Clements, Canyon Crossett, Kash Cullimore, Sarah Dangerfield, Camille Davies, Andrew Florence, Adam Golding, Maylie Graves, Ethan Holiday, Sydnie Nilsson, Carter Pearce, Anna Pickering, Dustin Schramm, Adam Taylor, Kirsten Twitchell, Lance Welch, Ethan White

At Sage Creek Elementary, classes are taught weekly the following Character Education skills:  how to show appreciation, accept responsibility, and make good choices.  These students have been chosen to be the Determined Dragons for the month of October because they have made our school a better place by using their Character Education skills.  They are: Adelein Aaron, Michelle Alt, Caden Atkinson, Kim Bartholomew, Emily Barwick, Daniel Beach, Quinn Belknap, Stephen Belknap, Lizzie Blonquist, Audree Clark, Hannah Cox, Sam Daybell, Ty Dixon, Robert Espino, Ellie Esplin, Andrew Florence, Adam Golding, Ximena Gollaz, Paris Goodsell, Emma Goslin, Matthew Hall, Addy Johnson, Ally Johnson, Braxton Jones, Logan Judd, Maia Kentjana-Putra, Nikki Larios, Amy Lemus, HayLee McKell, Austin Mortensen, Sydnie Nilsson, Tenley Nuttall, Emily Osborn, Carter Pearce, Ethan Roberts, Addy Rowland, Armando Salcedo, Eliska Simonu, Kyle Snyder, Kayla Squire, Tern Stubbs, Nathan Taylor, Lance Welch, Hugo Whitaker, Christy White, Zach Zonts.  Way to go students!
 

On November 9th, Sage Creek Elementary second grade teachers, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Lund, Mrs. Greenwood, Mrs. Ellis and Ms. Sayers, were invited to the Nebo School Board of Education meeting to present the exemplary way in which they are integrating the fine arts curriculum into academic subjects throughout the day.  They explained to the board that initially they had  gone through their existing curriculum map and highlighted what they were already doing in the fine arts areas.  Since that time and have then been using collaboration to continue adding more aspects of music, movement, drama, ad drawing to other areas of their academic curriculum.. They showed several video vignettes of students using different fine arts methods in various lessons and talked about how they have seen the process of incorporating these elements into their lesson enhance student learning.  Second grade teachers at Sage Creek Elementary shine!