Bill Vest, supervisor of the Nebo Child Nutrition Program, is presenting Leslie Jacobsen with a jar full of money.  Leslie, who is the head cook at Goshen Elementary School, has been treated for cancer.  The money was donated by school lunch workers at other schools in Nebo, as well as teachers and fellow workers at Goshen to help her with her treatment.  Leslie Jacobsen is seated across the table from Bill Vest, and is surrounded by her fellow workers, Debra Hudson, Tiffany Nelson, and CNP manager Donna Woodland.

William Matheny found out in a good way some of the hidden benefits of eating breakfast at school.  Everyone knows about the nutrition and satisfaction in a good breakfast, but few people know that you could also win a bicycle.  William, who is a kindergarten student at Goshen Elementary School, ate breakfast at school every day during the annual National School Breakfast Week, celebrated during the week of March 12-15 at the school.  His name was entered into the drawing each day for a brand new bicycle furnished  by the Child Nutrition Program at the district.&

For the month of February Goshen Elementary students were challenged to "click-it" and wear their seat belts whenever they were in a car.  Each day they marked off a card if they wore their seat belts.  At the end of the month students were awarded for wearing seat belts during the school's health and safety week.  Students also got to experience what it would feel like to get in a wreck going five miles an hour wearing a seat belt.  Pictured is Vanessa Sandoval and Lita Matheny on the Click-it Trailer as they crashed into each other.

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.

Everyone knows the first book printed with movable type was by Gutenburg.  He printed the Holy Bible.  Who read the first e-book on-line at Goshen Elementary?  You may not know that it is Jose Vazquez.  Jose was selected for the honor because he checks more books out of the school library than anyone else (his mom tells him she wants him "to read and read some more") and because he has a computer at home.  Goshen Elementary has just acquired a "shelf" of e-books for their library.  The number one advantage is that students can read them on their iPads and

     Mike Christensen used to have grandchildren at Goshen Elementary.  Then he would come on a regular basis and help in the classrooms where his grandchildren learned.  Now the grandchildren are grown, but Grandpa Christensen still comes every Tuesday to help the rest of the students at Goshen Elementary.  He's been doing this for 8 years.     With Grandpa Christensen's beard of white, when he wears his Santa hat at Christmas time, quite a few heads turn in his direction to see if he is really Santa Claus checking for good boys and girls.&