{"id":7458,"date":"2017-01-03T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2017-01-04T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T19:42:17","slug":"golden-elementary-wraps-up-2016-with-fun-educational-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=7458","title":{"rendered":"Golden Elementary wraps up 2016 with fun, educational activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before winter break, Golden Elementary School teachers and students celebrated the season with creativity, community building and learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa hires Golden elves<\/strong><br \/>\nFourth grade gifted and talented education (GATE) students dressed for elf success to interview for key positions on Santa&#8217;s team at the North Pole. To expedite the hiring of so many helpers at Christmastime, parents with the right &#8220;credentials&#8221; interviewed the elf candidates for openings, including &#8220;candy chef&#8221; and &#8220;toy maker.&#8221; Mrs. Hanna and Mrs. McDonald helped students learn to prepare letters of application, and secure stellar reference letters written by their parents. This project-based learning experience culminated in a fun day for everyone involved. Santa had a very qualified staff this year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7461\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-1-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-1.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7462\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-2-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-2-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-santa-hires-elves-2.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kindergarten winter wonderland<\/strong><br \/>\nKindergarten students became magical reindeer to demonstrate how cultures around the world celebrate winter holidays. Students from Mrs. Dimopoulos&#8217; and Mrs. Johnson&#8217;s classes performed songs from around the globe, including &#8220;I Have a Little Dreidel,&#8221; &#8220;Mele Kalikimaka&#8221; and &#8220;Feliz Navidad.&#8221; The amazingly cute reindeer delighted the audience, and got the holidays off to a wonderful start!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-kindergarten-reindeer-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7460\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-kindergarten-reindeer-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-kindergarten-reindeer-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/golden-kindergarten-reindeer-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before winter break, Golden Elementary School teachers and students celebrated the season with creativity, community building and learning. Santa hires Golden elves Fourth grade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-golden-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}