On January 4,1896 Utah was the 45th state to join the Union.  The fourth graders at Goshen Elementary are learning about Utah history this year.  To celebrate Utah becoming a state each fourth-grade student rung the old school bell at the end of the day.  Students were interested to find out that Utah has been a state for 116 years.

For a final project, students in Mrs. Monica Valerio's class wrote and prepared what they would perform to show a frozen picture of the beginning, middle, and end of their literature circle books.  A narrator would tell what was happening in that part of the book.  The students who were frozen would tell how they felt about the situation from a characters point of view when a person in the audience tapped them.  This was a great opportunity for students to share what they learned from books they were reading in class.

Each year at Goshen Elemenatary students celebrate the holidays by reading some of their favorite holiday books.  For Christmas, it is called "Books and Candy Canes."  Parents were invited to the school to come and read to students while they enjoyed a good story and a candycane.

Goshen's Citizens of the Month for November are Kash Strasburg, Skylar Black, Easton Thomas, Shane Pyne, Andrew Ewell, Keelee Bingham, Seiji Valerio, Dillon Ewell, Hope Williams, Elmina Clinger, Colton Shelly, Darian Piper, Audrey Sexton, Samuel Hanning, Selena Nieto, Edward Deeb, and Myra Ogden.  The theme for this month was fairness.  These students have been found being fair in class and outside at recess.

This is the second time this year that the students in Mr. Jason Dickie's second grade class has been honored for winning the school spirit contest, Each class counts the number of students who wears a school shirt, or a shirt primarily blue or yellow, the school colors.  There is a lot of school spirit in Mr. Dickie's class.