Greenwood Laboratory School

Congratulations to Cale Leavitt (8th grade)!!!

Aurora is the Hedgehog of the Week! She brought her parents, Victor and Jessica, to share about Portugal. Students learned how to do Rancho dancing while Aurora’s dad played the accordion. And each classmate got a Portuguese flag and a special dessert, Serradura. Thank you, Aurora for a fun and interesting presentation!

Our very own Kai Schaefer is up for the News-Leader's Student of the Month! Let's show our support and vote for Kai!
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2025/11/17/vote-for-springfield-mo-student-of-month-for-november/87270044007/

First and Third Grade students visited the Missouri State University campus. They went to the Department of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, then they went to the Department of Finance, Economics, and Risk Management. Students had a great time learning about new topics from coding to banking! At the end of the trip, each student was presented with a certificate for attending and brought home some fun MSU swag ☺️💙 Thank you MSU!

Wow! Our marching band knocked it out of the park this weekend! We were so impressed with Dr. Sheri Slater and our band marching in the Missouri State University Homecoming parade. Thank you, Dr. Slater, for organizing and making this happen! Thank you to Student Council sponsor Jacob Anderson and Coaches Jay Osborne and Kris Flood for getting our students out to walk along with the band. Thank you to Thompson Cadillac for providing the convertible for administration and our Homecoming Court to ride in! It was a great day for Greenwood and Missouri State pride!

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 National Honor Society (NHS) and Rho Kappa Honor Society Inductees! Thank you to our NHS co-sponsors, Jennifer Holden and Abby Burch, and our Rho Kappa sponsor Tim Pfeil for organizing, along with officers Tristan Khoshyomn, Gyan Grewal, and Harper Pinkston for conducting the ceremony. Wonderful job!

Congratulations to Greenwood graduate Sam Wang for being crowned Missouri State University's Homecoming King!

Today 8th grade American History students learned about the life of an American Revolutionary War soldier from Daniel Piedlow, member of the Ozarks Mountain Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.

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Let's Go Jays!

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Greenwood’s Archery Team hosted the Fall Classic 3D and Bullseye Archery Tournaments over the weekend.  For many archers it was their first tournament and we loved seeing so many Bluejays participating and supporting one another.  Thanks to all the archers and families that made the event a success.  We had several archers with personal bests and our students earned 14 medals.

Debate Team Part 4. Finalists!

The team returned with multiple tournament championships! The teams of Gyan Grewal/Laila Ozturk and Ethan Duff/Tristan Khoshyomn were the tournament co-champions in Varsity Policy Debate. Gyan and Laila have an overall record as a team of 14-0 on the season! Ethan and Tristan’s total record is 20-1. Ilyaan Khan/Taaha Khan also finished 3rd Place in Varsity Policy Debate.
Laila Ozturk was also the tournament champion in Varsity Informative Speaking! Greenwood students were 3 of the top 6 finalists in the event, with Gyan finishing 5th and Connor Manzardo 6th.
Nikhil Nannapaneni was the tournament champion in Novice United States Extemp! Other Greenwood finalists included: Taaha Khan (5th Place International Extemp) and Salma Kaina (2nd Place in Novice Informative Speaking and 4th Place in Novice International Extemp).
Top 12 semi-finalist awards went to: Josie Matkowsi (Varsity US Extemp), Ilyaan Khan (Varsity Informative Speaking), Tristan Khoshyomn (Varsity Original Oratory), Ethan Duff (Varsity Original Oratory), Taaha Khan (Varsity Original Oratory), Nikhil Nannapaneni (Novice Original Oratory), and Vivaan Pawar (Novice International Extemp and Novice Informative Speaking).

Congratulations Blue Jays! 💙

4th graders became geologists this week! They went through the rock cycle using Starburst to create sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks! They also observed several different types of rocks from our dynamic Earth!!!

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GPA is a wonderful organization that supports our students and enhances their experiences and opportunities at Greenwood. The Kindergarten and First Grade class won the membership drive contest and were rewarded with an ice cream party! Thank you to Tad and Amy Pinegar for sponsoring the ice cream social! Thank you GPA!

The library is supporting Care to Learn for its service project during November.
Before the government shutdown, the charity received 15 requests each day. Now, it is averaging 150!
Please join us if you can by providing new, full-size health, hunger, and hygiene items: socks, underwear, deodorant, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, oral hygiene items, body wash, soap, healthy shelf-stable snacks, healthy easy-to-prepare foods, feminine hygiene products, etc.
Donation boxes are located throughout the school and cash/check contributions can be brought to the library.

Hedgehog Student of the Week is Victoria!

Thank you, Maya and her for a wonderful presentation on Diwali!