Arkansas Arts Academy -

Parents/Guardians:
Please complete your Free & Reduced-Price Meal Application BEFORE Open House and you will be entered into drawing for $100 Gift Card! Winner will be announced on Tuesday, August 12th.
It only takes a few minutes.

Apply online: https://family.schoolcafe.com/AAA
Prefer paper? Please return original signed application*
Print here:
https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/525/District/5832361/Free_and_Reduced_Meal_Application_25-26.pdf

Submitting early helps prevent meal charges and will save you time at Open House. Apply today!

For questions contact Emily Karnes, CND, ekarnes@artsk12.org

FREE BREAKFAST FOR ALL STUDENTS STARTING 2025-2026

Every public or charter school student in Arkansas can now receive ONE FREE BREAKFAST each school day upon request. This benefit is regardless of income or eligibility for other meal programs.

A healthy breakfast helps students stay focused, energized, and ready to learn.

This statewide initiative is part of a broader effort to address food insecurity and improve student readiness across Arkansas. We encourage families to take advantage of this opportunity.

Start the day strong, eat school breakfast!

Now accepting Free & Reduced-Price Meal Applications for the upcoming school year! It only takes a few minutes to apply.

✅ Apply online today: https://family.schoolcafe.com/AAA
📄 Prefer paper? You can also print a copy from our district website or pick one up from our administration office.

Submitting your application early helps prevent meal charges and supports our schools in receiving important funding. Apply now!

💃🏻🎉 🪩Back to School Bash is TONIGHT in the K-6 gym! Fun, pizza, music, dancing & friends! Join us to kick off the new school year! $5 student entry! Don’t miss it!🪩🎉🕺🏻

Kindergarten artists explored the word arrange today! Using a variety of stones collected from the shores of Lake Superior—different shapes, sizes, textures, and colors—they created their own unique arrangements. Along the way, they noticed details, tapped into their natural sense of design, and discovered that arranging is an artistic behavior! They also began practicing the artistic process—working respectfully together, valuing ideas, and creating as a community of artists.

Thank you for a great first day! 🎉
We loved seeing students learning, meeting new friends, and getting back into routine.

Reminders for tomorrow:
Arrival (doors open 7:30): No parent walk-ins.
K–3 → Gym before 7:50
4–6 → 4–5 hallway before 7:50

Dismissal: Enter from 13th St. → Subbert Ln. (no 12th St.).
Have School Dismissal App open & click blue button to scan QR code.
Need help? Email rcarethers@artsk12.org or use hazard lights in car line.

Thanks for keeping things safe & smooth! 🚗💨

Click here to apply: https://bentoncounty.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=369 Email ekarnes@artsk12.org or call 479-877-1792 #ArkansasArtsAcademy #JoinOurTeam #ChildNutrition

Parents, For the 2025-2026 school year, all students will be able to get breakfast at no charge! Please remember the cost for lunch will be $4.00, unless your family qualifies for free or reduced-price meals. To determine eligibility, we encourage all families to complete a free and reduced-price meal application. These applications will be available starting July 1st. #SchoolMeals #ChildNutrition #BackToSchool2025 #FreeBreakfastForAll

Summer EBT information. The deadline to apply is August 25, 2025. For more information follow link: https://humanservices.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/DCO-PUB-600-Summer-EBT.pdf

AAA Families! Have you considered hosting an international exchange student? We are proud to partner with the STS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing memorable cultural exchanges between American families and young people from other parts of the world. 🌎 STS Foundation Student Exchange gives American families the opportunity to share their lives and culture with exchange students from around the world by welcoming them into their homes for 5 or 10 months. If you are interested in hosting an exchange student, contact Alisha Plummer, STS Coordinator alishap.stsfoundation@gmail.com. To learn more, visit the STS Foundation website https://stsfoundation.org/

Check out this cool summer camp offered by Mr. Kyle Cornelison! For students in Kindergarten through 6th grade!

Check out this weeks edition of The ARTicle! 5/19/25 https://aaa.edurooms.com/engage/arkansas-arts-academy/newsletters/the-article-5-19-25

Student safety is AAA's top priority. Due to the forecasted weather for today, Monday May 19, 2025, we are releasing students early. The elementary school will begin dismissal at 1:30 and the high school will begin dismissal at 2:00. Attached are the early dismissal bus times.

This morning's final Herd Hero Celebration was extra special with a visit from Al-Picasso and an amazing collaboration between Mr. Walter's and Ms. Jules' students. We also owe a huge thank you to our wonderful announcers, Kaiden and Sophia, who will be going to the high school next year.

For all that attended and participated in the AAA Night @ the Museum event last night, THANK YOU! It was a SPECTACULAR evening!✨ We could not have had better weather for outdoor performances, and our students were FANTASTIC! If you were unable to attend, here are some incredible images taken by our digital arts teacher Taylor Lenon, and his students, Scott Hansen and Corrisa Arnold! Special THANK YOU'S to: Dr. Allison Roberts and Rob Plant for greeting museum guests and ensuring all students and parents found their stations to perform. Mark Shields and his talented ukulele students!🪕 Amy Kessler & Rebecca Cannan, and their amazing dancers who masterfully choreographed connections with works from the Museum's collection of Impressionism and Modernism. 💃🏽Joy Schultz and her artistic students who offered an art-making station for museum guests.🎨 Garrett Jones and his amazing orchestra. Opening with the theme to Star Wars was EPIC! 🎻Leo Walter and the beautiful performances from his piano students. 🎹Justin Mackey and his talented troupe of actors.🎭 Max and Dr. Patrick Sallings for their incredible guitar and jazz band performances on Walker Landing.🎸 Katie Bouwhuis for her collaborative and organizational support. ❤Trevor Dane with Hugs From Friends and Tyler Parker for assisting with the HFF station.🏅 Our news friends Stacy Moore and Lindsay Semph with BrightBeam who are assisting AAA share our story. 📢 And the incredible Crystal Bridges Team! 🖼Thank you, Matthew, Mallory, Megan, Macy, Michelle, Marissa, Emma, and Amanda, for working with AAA teachers and students and making this partnership and event a success!

AAA Night @ the Museum is this Thursday Evening, May 15th, from 6-8 pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville. 🎇This event is a celebration of our partnership with the Museum. Join us for a spectacular evening as AAA K-12 students activate the Museum galleries and grounds with performances that have connections to the Museum collections. Performances include: • Elementary and High School Dance💃 • Elementary & High School Guitar🎸 , Jazz Band & Orchestra 🎻 • Theatre🎭 , Piano 🎹, Visual Art🎨 and a collaborative station with Hugs From Friends . Everyone is welcome and the event is FREE!

Hello Parents, National Teacher Appreciation Week was May 5-9, and we appreciate everything our PTA and parent volunteers did to make the week extra special for our teachers. Last year during Teacher Appreciation Week we played a week-long Survivor game with our staff that was a huge hit! Our school leadership team wants to do that again but with a Wicked theme this year. We are making a special effort to express heartfelt appreciation for our teachers and staff. So this week, May 12-16, our school is doing an amazing Teacher Appreciation Themed Week with lots of contests and treats each day. We're sure it will be fun and exciting for the students as well. We have creative ideas and special privileges for many of the prizes and treats, but we could use support with these two areas: 1. We need to obtain a good pool of $5-10 gift cards for the contest prizes. These could be to any place you think teachers and staff might like, and having a variety is part of the fun. If you would like to donate one or more, please drop them off at the office this week. 2. Small prize donations: These could be anything, like candles, candy, school supplies, etc. Last year, we had some fantastic handmade items donated too. Again, please drop off to the office this week. 3. If you are willing to donate money, our leadership team will use the funds to purchase larger prizes for the end of the contest. If you have any questions, please email Dr. Erin McGarrah at emcgarrah@artsk12.org Thank you, everyone, for stepping up and helping us make this an extra special Teacher Appreciation Week!

Join us for AAA Night @ the Museum! Next Thursday Evening, May 15th, from 6-8 pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville. This event is a celebration of our partnership with the Museum. Join us for a spectacular evening as AAA K-12 students activate the Museum galleries and grounds with performances that have connections to the Museum collections. Performances include: • Elementary and High School Dance performances • Elementary & High School Guitar, Jazz Band & Orchestra • Theatre & Piano performances. Everyone is welcome and the event is FREE!

Thank you so much to the Children & Family Advocacy Center for visiting the elementary campus to discuss body safety with our 6th graders today!

Arkansas Arts Academy welcomes everyone to our A3 Gallery on Thursday, May 8, 2025 during the Rogers Lowell Chambers Art on the Bricks to see our Elementary Students perform Slow Dance Social: Swaying through the Digital Current. 4:30-7:30 p.m.