Goshen Elementary School student council members Savanah Seamons (from the left), Ezri Staheli, and Cyera Draper load the last boxes from this month food drive. Goshen School students donated food from home to help build the supplies of the Utah county food bank prior to cold weather setting in for the winter. Students collected over 20 boxes of food.
"I'm thankful to be at a great school like Goshen Elementary." Students in Mrs. Hilary Dyreng's first grade class at Goshen School told a room full of parents and grandparents about Thanksgiving Day and what they appreciated about the world in which they live.
All 400 Goshen Elementary School students stood in formation Friday to spell out "100" in celebration of the school's 100th birthday. The Goshen PTA is planning on creating a collection of student recipes in a commemorative cookbook to go on sale in the spring. The picture was taken high up in the air in a man-lifter operated by Blaine Carter and owned by Leo Finster. The picture of the students was taken by Tina Lundell.
At Goshen Elementary the Crystal Apple Award was given to Patsy Barlow for all her hard work and dedication to teaching. Patsy has been teaching for about 25 years. Her first teaching assignment was in kindergarten at Franklin Elementary in Provo School District. Patsy quit teaching when her first son was born, but returned when her children were old enough to go to school. She is now currently working at Goshen Elementary teaching full day kindergarten. She finds it rewarding to see how much progress each student can make.
Fourth graders, Natalie Spencer and Terrel Jasperson, are acting like super heroes as they help the presenters from The Living Planet Aquarium show students where water is found on the earth. Students learned all about the water cycle and how water is used in Utah through visual models, learning vocabulary words through movements, and answering questions. The students enjoyed having The Living Planet Aquarium presenters come to Goshen and share all their fun educational information!
Devin Johnson is taking his "victory lap' after winning this beautiful, new bicycle for reading in Ken Garff's Road to Success program. Devin is a fifth grade student in Mr. Travis Proctor's class at Goshen Elementary School and is a voracious reader. It is this reading that helped him win the new bike, which was the top prize in the first term's reading contest drawing.