Laramie Letters 10.18.22

Laramie Letters 10.18.22

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Letter from the Principal

Dear San Tan Families,

I hope you are having a wonderful week! We are rolling right along in our second quarter preparing for learning celebration as well as our cultural fair. Please see details below! We have our home football game this Friday starting at 7 pm, our 6th grade group will be fundraising selling pizza, water and Gatorade and our Mighty Tiny Cheerleaders are performing so please come to support them and enjoy the community event!

I also attached a great community event if you are interested for trick or treating.

– Mrs. Sarah Laramie

 

Month at a Glance

  • Paper Drive- 10/10- 12/9
  • EF 2023-2024 Trip Night- 10/18
    • Domestic Trip- 5 pm
    • International Trip- 6 pm
  • Half Day of School- 10/31

Important Announcements

Learning Celebration

Learning Celebration is a time-honored tradition that we have at San Tan where families are invited into each student’s classroom to celebrate all the hard work and learning the students have done. We will run Learning Celebration from 1:00-3:30 (1130-12:00 for half day Kinder) on Friday November 4th.

 

Disguise Your Pumpkin Competition

Click the following link to join us for our Annual Disguise your pumpkin competition. This is such a fun family event that brings out our competitive and creativity sides, but most of all some fun with our families.

https://yqysjrrxph.formstack.com/forms/recker_pumpkin_competition

Guidelines:

  • Pumpkin size:  2lbs or less
  • Pumpkins cannot be carved
  • No scary Halloween decorations (Preschool friendly)
  • 10/24 Turn pumpkins in to the front desk and a number will be assigned.

Families will get a chance to vote for their favorite pumpkin 10/24 – 10/28.
Favorite Pumpkin will be announced on 10/28

 

Cultural Fair- Volunteers Needed

We are hosting our annual Cultural Fair at the Recker campus on November 7th from 9:00-1:30. We typically ask for parents to come in and volunteer to run a table based on your family’s culture. We would love for families to host a table to share artifacts, foods, and stories that reflect your family’s culture. This is such a fun and informative event for our elementary students.

Here is our sign-up link and thank you so much for considering!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e45adac22abf94-cultural2

Paper Drive

Our annual beginning of the year PAPER DRIVE is in full effect starting Monday, October 10th– December 9th. The class with the MOST points will receive a teacher reward for participating is $100 classroom fund. Write your teacher’s name on the paper and send it to the front office.

 

White Ream of Paper =1 point

Don’t have time to run out to the store? No worries!! San Tan Charter School partners with Amazon Smiles! Amazon Smiles is fast and easy… Shop Amazon as normal and 0.5% of your purchase supports educational enrichment right here at San Tan Charter School!

Visit:  smile.amazon.com/ch/56-2610311 to start shopping now! You can ship your order directly to the school and add a “gift receipt” with your child’s teacher’s name on it!

School Address

3959 E Elliot Rd
Gilbert, AZ 85234

 

Recker Academic Success Kit (RASK)

We are asking families for $30 per child to purchase our “Success Kit”. In the success kit, will be the following items.

      Agendas

      School Communication Folder

      Data Tracking Kit

      School T-shirt

We will be taking payments with the following link: Make Online Payment

Guest Teachers

We need guest teachers to fill in when our teaching staff is out ill. If you would like to guest teach for us, please email Ms. Richardson at srichardson@santancs.com to get back on the list for this school year.

 

Family Engagement Committee

At San Tan, we do not have a PTO, we have the Family Engagement Committee! The FEC will be helping with school events, parent groups, fundraising initiatives and organizing parent support within the classroom.

If you are interested in joining, please email at fec@santancs.com

 

EF 2023-2024 Trip Offering

We have two major trip offerings for our 2023-2024 school year. One trip is domestic and one trip is international. These trips are open to ALL STCS families.

Domestic Trip- Eastern Seaboard

Travel from Boston to New York to Philadelphia to Washington DC to Colonial Williamsburg and see all the historical sights

http://www.efexploreamerica.com/2586452nh

International Trip- Scotland and Ireland

Travel from the highlands and the emerald isle

https://www.eftours.com/tour-website/2551191PV

Helpful Links

Fall Field Trip Offerings 

Social Media Links 

Facebook- San Tan Charter School Family Connection

Facebook-PreK-6 Recker Campus

Facebook-7-12 Power Campus

Facebook- Mrs. Laramie Principal Recker Campus

Instagram- Mrs. Laramie Principal Recker Campus

Instagram-STCS Recker Campus