Dr. Lawrence Yang, Daniel’s dad, visited first graders this week. Tuesday, Dr. Yang talked about Daniel and gave skiing tips to the first graders to celebrate Daniel being student of the week. On Thursday, Dr. Yang and Daniel shared about Chinese New Year. Students learned about customs associated with Chinese New Year, such as wearing red for good luck and respect of elders. The Chinese New Year observance traditionally begins on the evening before the first day of the year and culminates with the Lantern Festival held on the 15th day of the year. The Chinese calendar identifies the lunisolar month as the eleventh month and falls on the second new moon after winter solstice. Chinese New Year is an important holiday where you spend time with family and celebrate.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Broaddus!
Dr. Hammerschmidt's First Grade students and Mr. Tate's International students collaborate each year to support reading and speaking skills for the first graders and GLS International Students. We are looking forward to the second semester.
We are getting eager to see our students!
We can't wait to have more projects like dissecting mystery objects!
Right before break First Grade Helpful Hedgehogs explored and dissected a mystery object found in a desk. Mr. Chris Adams and high school students helped to solve the mystery.
Guesses were an apple, an orange, a muffin or a pumpkin!
It was a pumpkin.
First Grader Harper Popek celebrating reading with her Braum's Reward!
Charlie's dad, Todd Osbern, gave Greenwood a visit today for Student of the Week. He performed magic tricks for the 1st grade class. As you can tell, they had a great time!
We want to recognize our Greenwood girls who worked hard to raise $515 to donate to Kadyn's Krew! Awesome job, ladies!!!
All aboard the Polar Express! Kindergartners listened to the Polar Express book and sequenced the events of the story, then got to enjoy watching the movie with hot chocolate!
The fifth graders had a great time learning about Chinese New Year from some very special visitors! Dylan’s parents and Victoria’s dad and Grandparents shared lots of interesting facts about this important Chinese tradition with us.
Greene Valley State School Winter Holiday Service Project
10th Year First Grade Class and the GLS Junior Class Collaboration
Our elementary got to enjoy some fun visitors yesterday!
Greenwood seniors have their time to shine in the annual Christmas carol!!!
With passports and suitcases in hand, kindergartners have been “traveling” the world learning how Christmas is celebrated in different countries! They also learned about Hannukah, Diwali, Eid, and Chinese New Year.
Mike Hamra, Zack’s dad, visited first grade today to share about how businesses work.
The Hamra Family own Wendy’s and Panera franchises in several states.
Students asked great questions and were treated to Wendy’s French Toast Sticks, Potato Wedges, or Oat Bars!
A Tasty Treat to begin our Friday.
First Grade Snowmen Houses
First Grade Students learned about Snowflakes and how they form when water vapor travels through the air and then condenses on a particle. A slowly growing ice crystal turns into a beautiful snowflake! Each snowflake is unique however they are all symmetrical and have six-fold radial symmetry. The first grade unit of study has included writing creative snow stories, reading snow stories, making snowflakes, glister galore snowmen and creating snowmen houses.
Thank you to our construction crew (the wonderful parents) who helped make the culminating activity possible.
More from the Winter Program!!!
Holiday Vibes!!!
The elementary holiday music performance was a hit!!!
Wishing Ms. Lisa a happy birthday! She does so much for everyone at Greenwood. We appreciate her so much!!!
Congratulations to the group of Greenwood debaters who competed last weekend at the Lebanon Invitational Speech and Debate tournament. 24 schools from across Missouri participated in the competition. The Greenwood team of Mary Gabriel and Tristan Khoshyomn defeated teams from Willard, Springfield Central, Classical Christian Academy, and Parkview on their way to a 2nd place finish overall in Varsity Policy Debate. Tristan also finished 1st in Original Oratory and 2nd in International Extemporaneous Speaking! Tristan earned all #1 rankings from 8 different judges during the competition in Original Oratory and this was his second championship finish in the event in a row. Mary was also a semi-finalist (Top 12) in Informative Speaking.
In the novice division, Kai Schaefer and Anya Soni placed 4th in Policy Debate. Kai was also a semi-finalist in novice Informative and novice International Extemp. Anya was a semi-finalist in novice Informative.
Additional semi-finalist recognition went to Gyan Grewal in varsity Informative Speaking and International Extemp and Mohan Grewal in novice International Extemp.
An amazing team effort is what created this success – special shout out to Amore Pennella for dedication to this weekend’s accomplishments. The team will be back in action this weekend in Bolivar!
Gearing up for Christmas around here!!!
