Brent Boswell, the author of Big! Mean! Pig! and Mission Invisible visited Goshen Elementary and talked to the students about reading for information and fun. He played a game where he showed pictures and asked if the picture was real or not real. He told the students they could find all the answers by reading, just like he had done. Mr. Boswell encouraged students to become better readers by reading more and more.
February's Citizens of the Month at Goshen Elementary were Evan Jacobsen, Max Kropf, Lacie Waters, Hayden Young, Bailee Carter, Briella Engelbrecht, Rhett Carter, Gus Carter, Davis Carter, Eduardo Vazquez, Brinley Cottam, Oscar Carreno, Hunter Weston, Bridger Eastwood, Conner Bateman, Ricardo Vazquez, Charity Pieper, Hadlie Carter, Olivia Draper, and Dean Thompson.
The Crystal Apple Award at Goshen Elementary was given to Renee Davis as a small symbolic statement of the district's gratitude and appreciation of all that she’s done, and continues to do, for each faculty member, and more importantly for the students that attend and have attended Goshen Elementary! Renee sacrificing her own lunch time almost every day, to help out students and/or correct their work. Renee always works well past our contract hours.
The fourth and fifth grade students at Goshen Elementary finished their 3 month keyboarding classes. The class was taught by Mr. Randy Bartholomew who had the students working toward goals this year. Students were given candy and money based on the levels they reached in keyboarding. The highest scoring girl student at the school, who passed all the fourth grade levels and had a new level created was able to type 70 words per minutes, is Kiera Nelson!
In sports they call it a three-peat when a team wins the championship three times in a row. Mr. Jason Dickie's second grade class at Goshen Elementary has won the school spirit award three times this year. You will notice the students holding up three fingers in the picture to mark this great event. The Goshen PTA sponsors this friendly competition between classes.