Miss Pauling and Mrs. Seibert hosted an astronaut day on Friday. They studied features of outer space all week, then put their knowledge to the test! First they drafted applications to become astronauts. Then, they soared through space completing phonics centers based on their fundation skills. They tested their comprehension with space themed fill in the blanks. During math, they created space graphs and interpreted the data they collected. They also created their own constellation math word problems! For STEM, they studied the properties of light by creating constellations out of paper plates!
Congratulations to the Greenwood Middle/High School 3rd Marking Period Students of the Quarter!
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Today first grade took a field trip to the Whitaker Center. They got to experience so many hands on STEM based projects! The kiddos loved seeing some of their favorite book characters in an interactive display called The Questioneers. They also got to experience different storm simulators, which was a huge hit! They also watched a 3D documentary about journeying to space. It was a great day!
Students in Mr. Moyer's agribusiness class are hard at work prepping for the FFA greenhouse sale! Sale dates are May 5th from 2-7pm and May 6th from 8am-12pm. Stop by to pick up your bedding flowers, hanging baskets, veggies, and houseplants!
Elementary Aluminum Can Day
Friday, April 21st
A group of second graders used little robots called Ozobots to code. Students used color combinations to move the Ozobot on a path from one location to another.
Elementary Pop Top Collection Drive
Spanish 1 students played Guess Who by using their current vocabulay to ask yes and no questions!
Miss Pauling and Mrs. Seibert's friends are working hard on their gardening skills to make the earth a better place! They started by creating mini greenhouses with Mr. Moyer's high school, then moved on to composting! They learned how to make compost by saving nutrient rich food scrapes. They also learned for a successful compost they need a decomposer, so they added red worms! They are so excited for the soil they are creating!
Mr. Moyer's class hosted the first grade students as they are learning about how plants grow.
Today some of our 2nd Graders met virtually with some Middle School students at Newport to learn how to solve the Rubiks Cube algorithm. We had a lot fun making twists and turns to make a daisy, the first step in cracking the Rubiks code.
Second grade became nonfiction authors! They spent time researching a topic that was most interesting to them. Then, they shared their books with kindergarten and first grade.
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Monday is a ROAR Rally! Don't forget to wear your Blue and Gold!
On Wednesday, FFA members were busy visiting elementary classrooms to read books in honor of National Ag Day.
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The Eighth grade English classes studied folklore to write and publish their own tales. Last week they visited the elementary and shared them with a few of our classes during Library.
First grade celebrated the snow flurries on Friday in different ways! First, they had a "snow ball fight" with their current trick words and words of the day from Fundations. The kiddos had to read their words, then crumbled them to play. After playing, they had to pick up a snow ball and read the new word. Then, they made exploding snowmen. They watched the chemical reaction created by baking soda and vinegar inflate their snowmen!
In honor of Women's History Month, Miss Pauling's friends read about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We learned that she fought for equal rights for women and men of all races. To represent her time in the court system, we made our own scales of justice! The kiddos built a scale out of a hanger, cups, yarn, a ruler, and tape. Before building, they had to create and sketch a plan for all of the materials. Then, they made predictions about how many tokens a classroom item would weigh. We then tested how many actual tokens would balance the scale. Lastly, they subtracted to find the difference between the two.
An amazing group of our high school students traveled to Harrisburg to see a stage production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and hear from a Holocaust speaker, Lillian Rappaport. Not only did they choose to participate on their day off, but they represented Greenwood exceptionally well from start to finish. Not pictured are the awesome faculty and staff who accompanied the students today.
