Kindergarten celebrated literacy with Book Character Dress-Up Day. Look at those amazing costumes!
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Congratulations to Dr. Ron Snodgrass for being inducted into the Southwest Missouri Basketball Officials Association Hall of Fame! What a well-deserving honor!
Dr. Melinda Hammerschmidt’s first grade class collaborated with Dr. Chloe Bolyard’s ELE 410, Teaching and Learning in the Elementary Classroom, students who surveyed, planned, and conducted small group lessons. The teacher candidates visited today to meet students and get to know them using icebreaker activities. In May, the ELE410 students will return to Greenwood to teach students a first-grade social studies learning standard lesson!
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 Valedictorians and Salutatorians! We are very proud of these Bluejays for their academic achievements, and can't wait to see what they will accomplish in the future.
Valedictorians: Ansley Arquitt, Jamie Alford, Eleanor Hilotin, and Reagan Winegar
Salutatorians: Caroline Dugal and Nyah Dogwiler
Kindergartners love learning about animals with monthly visits from the zoo! Today’s visit was about nocturnal animals. Students met a tarantula named Ginger and a sugar glider named Boomerang!
Congratulations to Eleanor Hilotin and Keerti Vittalam for being named NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS! This is an incredible honor, There were only 15,200 students named with this honor in the ENTIRE country! Greenwood has two! These wonderful students have worked hard and we are proud of their accomplishment. Congratulations Eleanor and Keerti!
Congratulations to the Greenwood High School Girls Track Teams of 1977, 78, and 79 for being inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame! The ceremony will be held on March 1st at the Oasis Convention Center from 11 AM- 1 PM. For tickets and more information, contact frgraham@spsmail.org.
Did you know that today was a National Holiday? That's right, it's Michael Jarvis' Birthday! We appreciate everything that Mr. Jarvis does for Greenwood, and we wish him the best birthday ever!
Congratulations to the Greenwood Girls Swim Team, who will be sending more girls to state than ever before! Reese Moore qualified in almost every event, but will swim the 50 free and 100 free at state, Katelyn Schaller will swim the 100 back at state, and Sofia Sechler finished 5th at Districts this past weekend, which qualified her for the one meter diving at state. We are so proud of these athletes and wish them the best of luck as they compete for a state championship!
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Third grade has been learning about the Three States of Matter. They learned the vocabulary, identified examples of each, and learned how the particles move in each state. They concluded their unit by making Root Beer Floats! Vanilla Ice Cream= Solid, Root Beer= Liquid, and the Foam= Gas. It was a BLAST!
The LPA Assembly was a blast! There was a performance by the Greenwood Pep Band and the cheerleaders, followed by announcements of the winners for each spirit day this week. Boys and girls basketball, girls swimming, debate team, scholar bowl, cheerleaders, and JForce then gave updates on how their seasons are going; we are so glad we have students that are involved! The King candidates, Nicholas Burri, Trenton Zarechi, and Griffin Litherland, were then introduced, escorted by their awesome mothers. The winner will be announced Saturday night at the dance. Finally, we ended the event with a cup stack and knock-out competition amongst grade levels and a singing of the Greenwood alma mater. We thank all of our students for their participation in LPA week! Go Bluejays!
The Greenwood Band extends a hearty thank you to the Music Boosters Organization for funding 2 new mellophones! The melodious tones of our French horn players will now be heard loud and clear at our pep band performances!
Greenwood students got into "character" for Dress Like a Teacher Day! We saw some Mr. Bonds, Dr. Hammerschmidts, Coach Percivals, and many more. It's great to see such awesome participation during spirit week, and we hope everyone is excited for LPA!
The Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest celebrates handwriting and showcases student’s manuscript and cursive skills. Greenwood Laboratory School grade-level winners qualify to move on to state, then national levels, competing to be named one of nine Grand National Grade-Level Champions. Each national champion receives a cash prize and a special trophy! Congratulations to the 2023 Greenwood Laboratory School Grade-Level Winners:
Kindergarten: Arna Sadhukhan- Mrs. Lowe
First Grade: Zuheir Chowdhury- Dr. Hammerschmidt
Second Grade: Beverley Yu- Mrs. Flanders
Third Grade: Harper Burch- Mrs. Gray
Fourth Grade: Norah Chowdhury- Mrs. Broaddus
Fifth Grade: Channing Bland- Mrs. Martin
Greenwood was honored to host former Director, Dr. Janice Duncan for a reception at the basketball game last night. We appreciate and recognized her 16 years of service, dedication, and passion for Greenwood. She has guided many endeavors and left a tremendous impact on our Bluejays! She has a heart for students and that was always evident. Thank you to Dr. Duncan!
First Grade Students learned about Chinese New Year from Kelsey Lou's mom, Yang, Alice Liu’s mom, Jing, and Joziyyah Fong’s dad, Perry. Students learned about the Chinese Zodiac by figuring out their signs using the year they were born and learned to say Happy New Year, xin nian kuai le! The students received the gift of the red pocket envelopes, lai see, for joy in 2023 and tried traditional dumplings and roasted sunflower seeds.
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Celebrating Greenwood’s Accomplishments at the Springfield Winter Classic
Greenwood Debate participated in one of the largest invitational tournaments of the year jointly hosted by Springfield Central and Glendale this past weekend. Over 35 schools participated from across Missouri – including several large schools from the Kansas City area – participated in the Springfield Winter Classic.
Jamie Alford continued to show that she is one of the state’s best performers in International Extemp – earning 4th place out of over 65 competitors in the event. Jamie also placed 3rd in Informative Speaking. She and her partner, Eleanor Hilotin, also won debates against Lee’s Summit West, Liberty, and North Kansas City before losing a close 2-1 decision against Willard in the quarterfinals. Jamie and Eleanor end their regular season with an impressive preliminary win-loss record of 18-2 on the year. Also advancing to semi-finals in large individual event fields were Mary Gabriel in US Extemp and Fatima Aslam in International Extemp.
The first-year competitors participated at Glendale High School and also proved very successful. Marcus Ryan and Ethan Duff dominated novice US Extemp with 1st and 2nd place, respectively. Marcus and Ethan also advanced to the semi-finals of novice Policy Debate. Also, Carys Argueta and Gabriel Parada placed fourth in novice Policy Debate. Amore Penella and Anna Le both advanced to semi-finals of individual events – Amore in Informative Speaking and Anna in International Extemp. The future of Greenwood Debate is looking brighter than ever!
Next up – several varsity students will compete in our last regular season competition which will be held at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, MO this weekend.
Go Jays!
