Gowanda Elementary lauds top students for October

Ayla Sullivan

GOWANDA – Students at Gowanda Elementary School focused on the core values of Responsibility, Self-Control, Respect and Caring and Kindness during October 2018 and several are being lauded as Students of the Month after being caught demonstrating these traits.

Several first-graders in Mrs. Gellerson’s class were singled out.

Payton Jankowski got caught displaying Responsibility by using and keeping the same five pencils from the first day of school.

Dawson Smith got caught displaying Responsibility by also using and keeping the same five pencils from the first day of school.

Tyler Bettker got caught displaying Responsibility by reading every night.

Pictured from left to right, is Mackenzie York and Mayson Chmielewski.

Lucian Tharnish got caught displaying Responsibility by also reading every night.

Anthony Kobesky got caught displaying Self Control by taking a breath to find his anchor at clean-up.

Peyton Whalen got caught displaying Responsibility by using and keeping the five pencils she had from the first day of school.

Two first-graders in Mrs. Fish’s and Mrs. Tonello’s class were also selected.

MacKenzie York got caught showing Respect for her fellow classmates by walking quietly down the hall doing her morning job.

Pictured are students; Payton Jankowski, Dawson Smith, Tyler Bettker, Lucian Tharnish, Anthony Kobesky. Not pictured: Peyton Whalen.

Mayson Chmielewski got caught displaying Respect by also walking quietly down the hall doing his morning job. Mayson was again caught displaying Respect by making sure that the trays in the cafeteria were stacked properly.

Rounding out the GES honorees are:

First-grader Aryanna Hudson, of Mrs. Stearns’ class, got caught showing Caring and Kindness by taking care of Mrs. Sprawka’s chair without being asked.

Third-grader Emjay Jaskowiak, of Mrs. Fullone’s class, got caught displaying Caring and Kindness by picking up newspapers on the side-walk that blew out of another parent’s car during parent drop-off in the morning.

Fourth-grader Landen Bednarek, of Ms. Morrison’s and Mrs. O’Connor’s class, got caught displaying Respect when he picked up papers an adult dropped on the floor in the nurse’s office on his own accord.

Emjay Jaskowiak

Fourth-grader Ayla Sullivan, of Ms. Joslyn’s class, got caught displaying Caring and Kindness by helping get milk for students who forgot theirs at lunch.