The 5th Grade Annual Parade of State was presented to parents and students this week, and it was a huge success. The students spent January researching a state that they picked and creating a shoe box parade float representing their state. The kids always learn so many fun things about their state and do such a great job on their projects!
The deadline is fast approaching for entries for our First Annual Goshen Art Festival. This year's theme is "Dream Big." Students may create any 2D art project based on this theme, including painting, drawing and photography. All entries are due to the front office no later than this Friday, January 27th. The judging will happen on Monday morning, with an awards ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. Prizes will be given and the grand prize winner's artwork will hang in the halls of the District Office for the coming year. Please encourage your students to submit a project!
The kids (and teachers) at Goshen School were able to attend a fun and exciting magic show put on by the STEM Action Center, where our magician taught us all about what STEM is (STEM is an acronym that stands for Science Technology Engineering and Math) and demonstrated it through some really interesting (and funny) magic tricks, including disappearing rabbits, shrinking heads, traveling PB & J, tables made from kids and magic numbers. Some of our students were able to be his assistant throughout the magic show, and afterwards, the kids couldn't stop talking about it.
This year Mrs. Barber, Ms. Bennett and their 3rd graders, along with Mrs. Openshaw's 5th graders celebrated Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year. This year we are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit. We celebrated by learning about many of the traditions, saying a few phrases in Cantonese, and by enjoying (or not-so-enjoying) a few Asian treats. We ended the celebration with every student receiving a red pocket and gifts from their teachers. Happy Lunar New Year!
Ms. Adams is the 2022-2023 recipient of the Crystal Apple Award for Goshen School. The Crystal Apple Award is given every year to a teacher that shows dedication and commitment to their students and the community, and is voted on by fellow teachers in our school. Ms. Adams made the big leap to Kindergarten this year and has done a FANTASTIC job! Kindergarten is not always the grade that teachers flock to, but she jumped at the chance this year to fill a vacancy and has shown her patience, her knowledge and her skills when working with the youngest of our students.
What do we do in Goshen when it's rainy outside and school hasn't started yet? We challenge Mr. Atkin to a game of basketball, of course! The kids don't mind being inside if it means taking on the principal, and he is such a great sport! We are so lucky to have Mr. Atkin leading our school!
Goshen Elementary was invited to this month's the Nebo School District School Board meeting. To open up the meeting, 5th grader, Jovi Judd let the group in the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Atkin then told the board about some of the awesome things that our school and students have been doing, including our students outperforming 109 more schools in 2022 than we did in 2021 and that Goshen is the 13th most improved school in the state of Utah this year according to the Rise test.
Goshen's 3rd grade teamed up with Payson High School's English class to read 600 minutes in November! Over 90% of the third graders achieved the goal. To celebrate, the high schoolers planned and carried out a celebration, including a cereal bar and prizes. Thank you to Payson High and PBS Kids Utah for the challenge, encouragement, and celebration. And a big thank you to the parents for supporting the 3rd graders in this big goal!
Our students were asked by Goshen City to make ornaments to decorate the Christmas Trees at the city park for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Each grade decorated their ornaments in a similar way, and then on Thursday, walked over to the park to place them on the trees that each grade was assigned. They will be on display for the entire Christmas season, and everyone is invited to come walk through the display and look at the fun ornaments everyone made.
The staff at Goshen School would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to our awesome PTA for feeding us a delicious Thanksgiving lunch today. We were fed turkey, ham and all of the fixings. We really appreciate all of the hard work and dedication from the PTA this year!
THANK YOU!