February 2013

Students at Barnett Elementary have again filled up the Principal's 200 Club Board for the month of February! The board has been filled up with the names of students have who won Brag Notes the past few weeks.  Brag notes can be earned by making good choices, working hard in school, and being a good friend or helper just to name a few things. Once the board is full of student names we have a drawing for books and prizes. Thanks for making so many good choices Barnett Bulldogs!

Wednesday, February 6, was the day of the Barnett Science Fair. For the first time ever, the whole school was open to participate from kindergarten up to the required sixth graders.  There was an unexpected amount of submissions from grades K-5, with a lot of quality projects running the gamut of grades.  

Here are the results listing:

K-2
1st - John Humphries 2nd grade
2nd- MaKenzie Mitchell 1st grade
3rd-Carson Cox 1st grade
3rd- Yaretzi Salmeron 1st grade

Thursday, February 7, Mrs. Beth Knudsen's class left the school to travel to Brigham Young University to see their Theater for Young Audiences performance of Henry V.  While there was some disappointment from the boy students on the lack of fake blood during the many battle scenes, it was an enjoyable time out of the building for class unity building, and the play taught some important lessons, such as having unity and standing up for what is right.  Mrs.

As a reward for consistently exceeding our school monthly goal for reading, the school was favored with an assembly by the magician, Paul Brewer.

On Friday, February 8th, the kindergarten classes learned about and celebrated  Chinese New Year.  Pablo Gomez and his excellent assistant Cindy presented a short video about this special event.  After the video we all made our way to the lunchroom where we were treated to some yummy Chinese food, catered by Panda Express.  We also made Chinese lanterns and had a fun visit with a panda bear. This was a fun learning experience for our students.

Anyone can be a writer, you can be any age. To be a good writer you have to be a good reader. Keanna Vaitohi and Christian Castellon  did a Zombie rap with author, J. Scott Savage, and got zombie posters. He told the story of the characters "the 3 monsterteers." The author is a lot like the main character. He talked about how everyone is different, and amazing. We must use our differences to do great things. Never give up, turn differences in to strengths.

Students at Barnett Elementary have been working hard this month to earn Brag Notes. When a student earns a brag note their name is added to the Principal’s 200 Club Board. Brag notes can be earned by making good choices, working hard in school, and being a good friend or helper just to name a few things. Once the board is full of student names we have a drawing for books and prizes. Here are the winners for the month of February. Thanks for making so many good choices Barnett Bulldogs!

Please see the February 2013 Newsletter attached below.