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Students and parents! Our first annual Community Service Fair is next Tuesday, November 14th, from 3-5 pm! The fair, located in the High School PAC, will host around 15 community service partners who have community service hours available for our students. Grade 8 will be dismissed from class 3:00-3:30 pm to attend the fair and grade 9 will be dismissed from class 3:30-4:00 pm to attend the fair. We strongly encourage all students in other grades to come by from 4:00-5:00pm. Parents are welcome to attend at their convenience from 3:00–5:00 pm, after checking in at the front office. Estudiantes ¡y padres! Nuestra primera feria anual de Servicio Comunitarios es el próximo Martes, 14 de noviembre, de 3 a 5 pm! La feria acogerá alrededor de 15 socios de servicio comunitario que tienen comunidad servicio horarios disponibles para nuestros estudiantes. El grado 8 saldrá de clase de 3:00 a 3:30 p. m. para asistir a la feria y el grado 9 saldrá de clase de 3:30 a 4:00 p. m. para asistir a la feria. Recomendamos encarecidamente que todos los estudiantes de otros grados vengan de 4 a 5 p.m. Los padres pueden asistir cuando les convenga de 3 a 5 p. m., después de registrarse en la oficina principal.

This year's Book Fair is going to be epic! More Books. More Choices. More Fun. Start exploring together on our school's Book Fair homepage: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/arkansasartsacademy

See what's happening at AAA Elementary in this week's newsletter! https://aaa.edurooms.com/engage/arkansas-arts-academy-elementary/newsletters/aaa-elementary-weekly-newsletter-nov-6-2023

Check out this week's edition of The ARTicle! 11/6 - 11/10 https://www.smore.com/qkfsh

If they're here today, they achieve tomorrow!

Arkansas Arts Academy High School Flu Vaccine Clinic When: November 9. The nurse will begin at the Elementary campus at 8:30am and will travel to the HS once the Elementary is complete. Who: Arkansas Department of Health (Students without a completed consent form will not receive a flu shot) Paper copies of consent forms have been given to students, digital copies are posted in students "Class of" Google Classrooms and a digital copy was sent via emails to parents/guardians. All consent forms are due back Monday November 6 to the front office or nurses office. If you have any questions please reach out to Nurse Katie at kmilligan@artsk12.org or Dr. Langley at elangley@artsk12.org

Thank you to Flintco Construction and Arkansas Arts Academy Board member Mark Evans for their generous donation of $500 to support our technical theatre program. We are so lucky to have wonderful community partnerships. Click the links below to find out more about Flintco Construction! https://flintco.com/ https://www.facebook.com/flintco

Arkansas Arts Academy HS Book Fair

IMPORTANT DEADLINES Nov 3 - ACT National Testing- ACT has a buy one get one free offer for students who plan to take the National test in December. See the link below to the information for students to register by November 3rd (TODAY) for the December 9th test. https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/registration.html

Tomorrow evening is the El Dia de los Muertos Community Event! Make plans to join the celebration! The event begins in the HS Commons, there will be dance, choir and theatrical performances; culinary students will sell Mexican cuisine; student art work as well as art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos. https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/arkansas-arts-academy-hosting-dia-de-los-muertos-event/ Stay for the procession! At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to El Dia de los Muertos Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, choir, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by AAA chamber orchestra, advanced percussion, and the Rockhoppers will perform. The event is free and open to the public.

Happy Halloween from Arkansas Arts Academy! Students from Mr. Belin’s dance classes rocked downtown Rogers with their performance of Michael Jackson’s THRILLER at the Goblin Candy Crawl! If you missed this performance, you can see them at the El Dia de los Muertos Community Celebration this Thursday, November 2nd from5-8:30 pm. The event will begin in the HS Commons where students will offer dance, choir and theatrical performances, display works of art, host a Latin cuisine fundraiser as well as offer art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos. At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by the AAA chamber orchestra, advanced percussion, and the Rockhoppers. The event is free and open to the public.

The cold weather table below is what our teachers use to determine whether our elementary students are going outside for activities (recess, PE, class time). I emailed it out yesterday, but some parents had difficulty viewing the table.

Check out our after-school musical theatre classes with Alex Fry!

Attention SENIORS and SENIOR parents!

Check out this week's edition of The ARTicle. Happy Halloween! https://www.smore.com/dx1k8

Good Day NWA! Arkansas Arts Academy students highlight El Dia de los Muertos Event! Make plans to join our community celebration as AAA partners with the City of Rogers for an El Dia de los Muertos event, Thursday Nov. 2 from 5-8:30 pm. The event will begin in the HS Commons where students will offer dance and theatrical performances, display works of art, host a Latin cuisine fundraiser as well as offer art making and arts integration stations with connections to the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos. At 6:30 pm a procession will depart from the high school campus to Downtown Rogers. Dancers, marionettes, choir, and a percussion band will lead the audience to the Rogers Historical Museum where the public can pay respects at the oferenda, designed and built by students in Spanish classes. The procession continues to the Frisco Plaza where performances by AAA choir, Equilibrium and dance ensemble, chamber orchestra, percussion, and the Rockhoppers will perform. The event is free and open to the public. To see the news highlight visit https://www.nwahomepage.com/video/ar-arts-academy-to-celebrate-dia-de-los-muertos/9127045/

The elementary PTA movie night at 7:00 tonight is now in the gym at AAA Elementary! Come watch Hocus Pocus 2 with us!

@artsk12 high school is honored to be selected to be chosen by the ADE/DESE to participate in BX3. A coaching program designed to help school behavior teams develop tiered systems of schoolwide positive behavior supports. Creating action plans for student behavior interventions

Join us on Monday, October 30th for "Scholarship Search 101" in the High School library from 6 - 7 pm. The University of Arkansas will present! Parents and students are welcome.

REMINDER: Savannah College of Art and Design is coming to AAA on October 31st! They will offer a presentation providing information on their college and the admissions process, as well as portfolio reviews. Students, to sign up for the presentation, which will take place during 10th-12th grade advisory (11:30-12:20), please use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/SCADpresentation. To sign up for a portfolio review, which will take place from 1 - 4 pm, please use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/SCADportfolioreview. Students are encouraged to sign up quickly, as there are a limited number of spots available. SCAD has also asked that students prepare a fully completed portfolio for the review. Both the presentation and portfolio reviews are available to seniors and juniors, although preference will be given to seniors for portfolio reviews if spots fill up. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ms. McDowell at mmcdowell@artsk12.org.