Friday was the annual PTA Carnival at Barnett Elementary.  Kids loved playing on the bouncy houses, all of the fun carnival games, and winning tickets to get cool prizes.  Teachers helped with face painting and with the Sandy Candy booth, among others.  A special thanks to the Spanish Hills High School FBLA student volunteers who came to Barnett and helped run the booths for the length of the carnival.  And a HUGE thanks to the Barnett PTA who helped plan, run, and clean up this activity.  Students loved it and it was a big success!

Friday, August 30, 2013 at Barnett Elementary was Day of Caring with At Task Volunteers.  These volunteers choose math-related books that were specifically designed for the age group with whom they were reading.  In 1st and 2nd grades, students did sorting activities based on color and patterns.  In the third and fourth grades the volunteers led Barnett students in an activity of making groups of 10s and 100s out of fruit loops, like occurred in the book that was read to them.

Please look at the Parent Information Guide 2013-2014.

Barnett Elementary will be holding registration this coming Thursday, August 1st from 8am-4pm. We look forward to seeing all the families come in to register, sign up for PTA, and find out your child's teacher if you are in grades 1-6. Please make sure you log in to SIS and update any information that has changed before coming to make the process go a little quicker for you. If you have new neighbors be sure to tell them about this important date.

Monday, May 20, was the final reading assembly for the 2012-2013 school year at Barnett.  It started out with a bang with the Barnett teachers doing the Harlem Shake up on the stage.  Books, money, games, outside toys, backpacks, and HangTime passes were given out for reading tickets, math fact tickets, and brag notes.  In the lower grades, students got to choose from bubbles, as well; in the upper grades, students got to choose from candy and an iTunes gift card, also.

This Spring, the fantastic Barnett Choir Performed their "We Love Our World" Concert. The choir consists of 125 students from 2nd grade - 6th grade. Their choir director Christine Muniz is VERY proud of them, and the hard work that went into practicing for the concert. There were solo's done on the piano, and singing. Fun songs were shared, and some with actions to make your heart smile. Even the Alumni came up to join in a really special song that has been a  Favorite! The Barnett Choir has been going strong for almost 8 years.

The beginning of the 2012-2013 school year at Barnett began with a vision, a goal, for the students. This goal was to get a school wide total of 70,000 days read this year--that means that 80% of the Barnett students had to read 5 days or more this year.  Not only did the students meet this goal, they surpassed it!  They read 79,500 days, which was 104.5% of the original goal!  It was fantastic!

Every year the fifth graders at Barnett Elementary are able to research an important person in United States history, create a speech, come up with a creative costume, and present themselves as that person during a wax museum presentation.  The students this year did an amazing job coming up with creative costumes to try to imitate the person they were representing.  Not only did they look great, but the students put a lot of time into researching their person and competently gave information as about 500 people filed through the lunch room on the afternoon of May 2, 2013.

If you haven't seen the YouTube craze entitled, Kid History videos, you should definitely watch them!  Not only are they hilarious, they are related to the Barnett first grade teacher, Mrs. Patricia Hanson.  Mrs. Hanson was able to introduce her nephews to the Barnett students on Friday, April 26, to shouts of excitement and acclamation.

April 25, 2013 marked a beautiful, sunny, clear day for the fifth grade track meet. Students were able to compete with other fifth graders in the Payson area in this annual event.  Barnett fifth graders placed in first, second, and third places in several of the track and field events.  It was a fun and exciting time for all the students and teachers.