The Debate Blue Jays continue to excel this year! Over 30 schools from across Missouri competed in this year’s Willard Invitational last weekend. Greenwood had 3 of the top 8 teams in Varsity Policy Debate. Mary Gabriel and Marcus Ryan were the undefeated top seed after preliminary rounds of competition, defeating teams from Glendale, Rock Bridge, Bolivar, and Classical Christian Academy. Mary and Marcus went on to finish 3rd overall. Marcus was also a semi-finalist in United States Extemporaneous Speaking. Greenwood also had the 2nd seed in the varsity division after preliminary rounds – and it was a team of freshmen! Abby Ryan and Laila Ozturk were also undefeated in the preliminary rounds (including wins against Glendale, Hickman, and Rock Bridge) and lost a close 2-1 decision to Glendale in the quarterfinal round. Such an amazing accomplishment for first year high school competitors! Laila was also a semi-finalist in Informative Speaking. Gyan Grewal and Ethan Duff also advanced to the quarterfinal round of Varsity Policy debate, seeded 7th after preliminary rounds, including a key victory over Springfield Central in Round 4. Additionally, Gyan was 6th place overall out of 55 total competitors in Informative Speaking. The team will be back in action next weekend at Republic High School. Go Blue Jays!
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Doak, the therapy dog, came to visit our elementary wing today. Doak has been trained by Manden Matz, the parent of Katelyn, and visits her school three days a week. Students got to learn what makes Doak so special and we were thrilled we got to meet him!
Mrs. Gray loves traditions, and classroom pumpkin carving is one of her favorites! Our 3rd grade parents came in to help carve some creative pumpkins. Check out these masterpieces!
Fall is great time to learn using pumpkins. After reading the book, “How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin” by Margaret McNamara, the 2nd graders made predictions and found actual measurements for their pumpkins. The book taught us that although you won’t know how many seeds are in a pumpkin until you open it up, there are some clues that can help you. The number of lines on the outside gives you a clue because each line has a row of sees on the inside. The longer the pumpkin grows, the more lines it gets. It’s skin gets darker, too.
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First Grade Pumpkin Character Book Reports. Students read a book then wrote a book report that included: a synopsis of the book, characters, setting, point of view, quotes, and the student's reaction to the book. Students then created a Pumpkin Character 🎃
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Kindergarten partied at the pumpkin patch!
First grade students were invited to the Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure Lab.
Dr. Xiang Guo, Victoria and Olivia's father, and Yingying Li, their mother, organized and helped with the ongoing collaboration field trip for first grade students and the IT department. First grade parents presenting to the class included Dr. Jason Speer, Emelia's dad, Dr. Lawrence Yang, Daniel's dad, and Dr. Raju Mainali, a future GLS parent. Dr. Guo additionally took the GLS first graders to the boardroom where students got to meet the Dean of the College of Business, Dr. David Meinert and Dr. Elizabeth Rozell, Associate Dean of the College of Business, and several of the College of Business executive advisory council members! Thank you for a wonderful learning adventure.
First grade students were invited to the Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure Lab.
Dr. Xiang Guo, Victoria and Olivia's father, and Yingying Li, their mother, organized and helped with the ongoing collaboration field trip for first grade students and the IT department. First grade parents presenting to the class included Dr. Jason Speer, Emelia's dad, Dr. Lawrence Yang, Daniel's dad, and Dr. Raju Mainali, a future GLS parent. Dr. Guo additionally took the GLS first graders to the boardroom where students got to meet the Dean of the College of Business, Dr. David Meinert and Dr. Elizabeth Rozell, Associate Dean of the College of Business, and several of the College of Business executive advisory council members! Thank you for a wonderful learning adventure.
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First Grade students have been studying plants in science. Thursday students took a field trip to the Gardener’s Orchard and Bakery. An informational hayride provided a tour of the crops that are grown at the farm. Students saw strawberry plants, peach and apple trees, flowers and PUMPKINS! Thank you GPA for providing such a wonderful and fun learning opportunity.
Congrats to our volley jays for getting a their first ever WIN in the district tournament! Keep it going ladies!!
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Dr. Amy Yen, celebrated Esther's student of the week by bringing dolls that are the size of the babies she cares for in the Neonatal Unit at Mercy.
Students listened, asked questions and were able to explore the tiny items used for the care of the babies. Esther treated everyone to Scooby-Doo Doughnuts!
Science exploration the students made a prediction of what the two plants had in common. Students examined an onion and Rosemary plant.
Then completed their lab by recording data about the things they had in common and the things that were different.
Candy Corn Math Games
Crazy Hat or Silly Socks Day First Grade
Third grade did a cool STEM project for science. We created catapults to see how far we could launch candy corn! As a group we used various classroom items (popsicle sticks, rubber bands, paper clips, tape, clothes) and worked as a team. It was so much fun!
Second graders are learning about landforms. The first part of our experiment was building landforms out of the salt flower dough.
In the second part of the experiment, second graders were investigating what can cause water to move over a landscape. After building landscapes, with different landforms, they placed an ice cube on top of the mountain. Second grader's observed what happened and recorded their observations.
