Kayla Thurman

Librarian and School Technology Coordinator

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our staff brought @nickbruel’s book “Who is Melvin Bubble” to life today in our second annual teacher play! The students LOVED it!! @GoshenHillcrest

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

This girl is incredible! She created directions for our students to use to learn how to check out an eBook and it made it to the top 4 for the #STLP23 state competition!!! #Victoryintheclassroom @GoshenHillcrest

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

I’m so proud of these @GoshenHillcrest gators for competing in the newscast category today at the State #STLP competition at Rupp! #STLP23 #Victoryintheclassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our @GoshenHillcrest students are having a blast in the library this week celebrating meeting their Read-A-Thon goals with Captain Reader!! Our K-2 students read over 125,000 minutes in five weeks!!! Way to go gators!!! #Victoryintheclassroom #GoshenReads

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

1st place!!! Our gators won the fifth grade Battle of the Books competition tonight! I’m so proud of them!

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Students at @GoshenHillcrest are having a great time at our library “book tasting” this week! They’re enjoying having time to explore a variety of books to see what they like best! #GoshenReads #victoryintheclassroom

[Goshen Elementary at Hillcrest @GoshenHillcrest]

PGA champ, @JustinThomas34 is cheering on our gators as they work hard to finish up their Read-A-Thon! Our students were so excited to hear from him! #victoryintheclassroom #GoshenReads #HometownHero

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Local Meteorologist, Matt Milosevich, heard about the amazing reading our gators are doing for their read-a-thon and gave us a shoutout!!! #Victoryintheclassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our third grade STLP students are building school club websites today! They’re learning about web design and content creation! #victoryintheclassroom @GoshenHillcrest

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Thank you OCEF for providing our @GoshenHillcrest library with a pyramid grant! Students are using the iPads provided by the grant to record book recommendation videos to share with other Goshen Gators! #VictoryInTheClassroom #GoshenReads

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

It’s Book Swap Day!! Our students always love getting new books to enjoy! @GoshenHillcrest #GoshenReads #VictoryInTheClassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Wow! Our @GoshenHillcrest library wall of “Goal Getters” is filling up quickly! We are so proud of our students for setting and achieving reading goals! #GoshenReads #VictoryInTheClassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our students are enjoying making video book recommendations for others to view in our library! #GoshenReads #VictoryInTheClassroom @GoshenHillcrest

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Mrs. Bastyr’s first grade class is sharing their non-fiction writing with a gallery walk in the library! Wow! We’re so impressed with these first grade writers! #VictoryInTheClassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

In the library today, a few of our @GoshenHillcrest 5th graders are creating trailers for their favorite books! They’re loving all of the creative features @canva provides! #VictoryInTheClassroom #GoshenReads

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our @GoshenHillcrest 3rd graders were excited to learn about their Battle of the Books competition today! They’re already working hard to read all 10 books! #Victoryintheclassroom #GoshenReads

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our @GoshenHillcrest readers are starting out the new year by creating reading goals! They’ll track their progress with these bookmarks! I can’t wait to see what challenges they choose to complete! #GoshenLibrary #Victoryintheclassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

Our @GoshenHillcrest KinderGators are joining the #HourOfCode fun today! They’re programming to get a fuzzy through a maze! #VictoryInTheClassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

We’re kicking off #HourOfCode week in the @GoshenHillcrest library with 5th graders programming their own Space Invaders games! #VictoryInTheClassroom

[Kayla Thurman @klathurman]

5th graders in Mrs. Wildnauer’s class are learning how to annotate texts digitally using Kami! #Victoryintheclassroom #TeamOldham