March 2016

Please see the April Newsletter attached below. 

Amy Minson was awarded as Barnett's Outstanding Employee for the 2015-2016 School Year. Amy works is our lunch room manager and is absolutely wonderful. She is always very willing to help out and our school would not function without her! Congrats Amy! 

Second grade had a blast on their field trip to the Lehi Hutchings Museum. We learned all about Utah history. We learned about pioneers, Indians, geology, wildlife, and even dinosaurs! Students even got to experience what being in jail would feel like and hold fossilized dinosaur poo! Yikes! 

We attended BYU Project Youth on last Friday, March 11th. Students had the opportunity to experience what it is like to be a college student for a few hours. They toured campus, talked with college students, and were able to go to different departments and learn what they were about. 

The 1st graders at Barnett Elementary are building their own home libraries, thanks to Mr. Logue. Mr. Logue visits our school every month to bring books to our 1st graders. His goal is to help get books into the children's homes so they can become better readers. Our students look forward to Mr. Logue's visits each month. He reads the story to each class and them gives each child their own book. Barnett 1st graders would like to say "Thank you Mr. Logue for helping us become better readers. WE LOVE OUR BOOKS!"

Barnett 6th graders graduate from NOVA!

For 13 weeks Barnett's  sixth graders have participated in lessons taught by Payson Police Officer Mark Bell. 

NOVA's mission statement is “NURTURING youth to seek out positive OPPORTUNITIES, internalize good VALUES, and to accept ACCOUNTABILITY for their choices in life."

The NOVA program focuses on the following principles:

• Take advantage of good opportunities that come your way.

• Accept responsibility for you choices and actions.

Barnett 6th graders graduate from NOVA!

For 13 weeks Barnett's  sixth graders have participated in lessons taught by Payson Police Officer Mark Bell. 

NOVA's mission statement is “NURTURING youth to seek out positive OPPORTUNITIES, internalize good VALUES, and to accept ACCOUNTABILITY for their choices in life."

The NOVA program focuses on the following principles:

• Take advantage of good opportunities that come your way.

• Accept responsibility for you choices and actions.

Mrs. Lloyd's class had a very special visitor! Mckenzie Madsen came to our class and taught us some sign language! We have been studying sign language and doing our best to learn together but it was exciting to have an expert come teach us lots of new signs! We learned greetings, feelings, adjectives, animals and more! We even learned how to sign, "You are my sunshine" together. We can't wait to learn more!
In the pictures students are signing, Star Wars, I feel happy, hello, and dog!

Mrs. Standish's class refreshed their measurement skills on Thursday, March 10th by creating maps for each other on the playground. Student's were given a starting, ruler, yardstick, paper, and pencil. They then had to create a map using measurements for their peers to figure out where the final location was. It was a great way to kick off our measurement unit! 

Our first graders had such a blast at the Museum of Natural Curiosity on Friday! They enjoyed using all of their five senses to observe and explore the different exhibits. They solved puzzles, played games, explored different types of weather, participated in science experiments, and much more! We never wanted to leave!