Creekview ends year with talent, science exploration and a big show

CARBON SCHOOL DISTRICT
    The Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics were on display. The fish were released. And a talent show highlighted what some of the students at Creekview Elementary could do as school closed.
    All these things and more happened in the last three months of the school year.
    “There have been a lot of year end activities at our school,” said Principal John Thomas a few days before school let out.”The big thing though is the fish release that is taking place soon.”
    That fish release was part of a STEM project the school has been participating in since the holiday break when a large tank was brought into the school and the Division of Wildlife Resources filled it with very small fish that the students could watch grow over the next few months. The release of the fish took place on May 23 at the Carbon County Fairgrounds Fish Pond. Students watched as the fish that had now grown to up to an inch in length swam for the first time in open water. They were also treated to a talk by DWR’s Johnathan Hunt, and Wayne Ludington doing an explanation of how snakes are beneficial and survive in various environments after the release. Misty Matthews from the school also was there with iPads having the students do some scientific recording of the environment around the pond.
    Earlier in the the quarter the school held its engineering night. That is a time for students to show off their STEM projects and displays. This year they also got treated to ice cream made in an nontraditional way by a company from Utah County.
    On May 24 the school had a talent show and it was a big hit with the students. Carbon Superintendent Lance Hatch was a part of the program as well, playing his guitar and singing a song he had written up about the importance of lunch ladies. As he sang it Wendy Hughs, the food service manager at the school, danced in front of the stage. Many couldn’t decide who was more entertaining, the Superintendent with the song he composed with such clever words, or Hughs who made the students laugh and clap.
    But probably outdoing everything was a huge program put on by the staff of the school which was called the Greatest Showman. Those who participated dressed up as circus performers of various types, dancing and making some pretty athletic moves in the process. Thomas acted as the ring master for such luminaries as the Bearded Lady, the Siamese Twins and the Tattooed Man along with many other kinds of old time stereotypical side show personnel and those posing as animals from a circus.