ARIZONA
Sacaton
Elementary School is located on the Gila River Indian Community, south
of Phoenix, Arizona. It is about fifteen minutes from St.
Peter's Indian Mission School.
The school
serves 410 students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. Children
from Sacaton Elementary go on to Sacaton Middle School for grades fifth
through eighth.
The school
is involved with the "Success
for All" Reading Program.
Librarian: Linda Harmeyer
Read about
Sacaton Elementary in The Arizona Republic online: http://www.arizonarepublic.com
Sacaton
site visits:
May
9, 2001
We made our final visit for the year to Sacaton School yesterday. All of
the children in grades Pre-K through 2nd got to select either one or
two RIF books. We also gave out and assembled the dinosaur visors. The
kindergarteners were on their way to a field trip to the dinosaur exhibit
at the Mesa Southwest Museum right after our program, so the visors
were very appropriate and much appreciated!
Karen
Drake, Librarian
Chandler Public Library, Arizona
November
27, 2000
We visited Sacaton Elementary School and brought new books, read stories
(even some scary ones!) and distributed RIF books to the pre-K, Kindergarten
and 1st graders. It was somewhat hectic because a number of the teachers
forgot we were coming, due the long holiday weekend, so we were a little
behind scheduled. It all worked out though. I asked the kids if they
remembered when we came to see them when school started and some of
them did. I asked if they remembered "Dr. Loriene's scary stories" and
most of them did! One little girl wanted to know if the boy(Owen Hunter)
who plays guitar was with us again. It was a good day. We are still
trying to work with St. Peter's for a December visit. We have to visit
them before the end of the year to distribute the 1st of the RIF books
there.
Tara
Anglin, Librarian
Chandler Public Library, Arizona
