Greenwood Honor Society is selling t-shirts to raise money for the Hertzler family as Peyton receives medical treatment for a spinal tumor. All proceeds will go towards travel expenses for the family as they travel regularly for treatment.
Here is the link with the order form as well as instructions for submitting it. Please email Mrs. Heather Brummer with any questions!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NiAgCx8EqIwspalCV--5NyQiLymqlaUHtM-l43IcM4/edit
First graders worked cooperatively and used their reading skills to follow recipes to make Friendship Bread and homemade butter. They watched a liquid change to a solid right before their eyes! Both were delicious!
Miss Pauling’s and Mrs. Seibert’s friends built turkey traps with their families over the past week. Today they wrote about the steps to catch the perfect turkey using their own trap as the model. They then shared their traps with visitors from around the building.
Our Book Fair is returning and will be held December 5th through 12th for grades K-6. Mark your calendars now! Students can shop during their regularly scheduled library class or at other times throughout the week. Flyers will be starting to come home with students very soon!
1st grade joined their 5th grade buddies to make pumpkin pies! They worked on skills like units of capacity, fractions, properties of a circle, time management, and reading and writing! We loved this real life experience! Any unused food items were donated to the food bank.
Ms. Johnson’s kinderkids enjoyed practicing high frequency words with Play-Doh!
This week, students in Food Science explored the characteristics of oils. They tested which oil is best for deep-frying fresh cut french fries. Canola oil was the fan-favorite! Olive oil, however, is not recommended.
Elementary Picture Retake Today
November 17th
Congratulations to Greenwood HS's "Students of the Quarter" during MP 1 at Cumberland-Perry Career & Technical Center.
Jillian Fogelman - Healthcare Pathways
Logan Taylor - Diesel Technology 2
Travis Weibly - Computer Programming 3
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
Greenwood MS/HS
Thursday, November 17th
Some teachers may have reached out to you already. Please feel free to reach out to a teacher if you would like to set up a meeting for this Thursday - 5:00-7:00pm. Teacher emails are found on the website.
Students from Miss Miller's 3rd-grade class were manner detectives while reading "How Rude" by Clare Helen Welsh with Miss Roth. Students then played a
game reading about different manners that determine if they would move forward or backward on the game board.
When Mother Nature gives you a beautiful day…Mrs. Gantt’s kinderkids act out the story they have been reading! We go up. We go down, down, DOWN.
During library classes with Mrs. Bailey, students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade read Creepy Carrots and have been designing and creating fences to keep their creepy carrots from escaping!
Happy Veterans Day! Veterans visited elementary classrooms today and shared their experiences about serving our country. Elementary students honored our veterans during our annual Veterans Day Program. Thank you to all the veterans for your sacrifice and service to our nation.
7th Grade Students in Mr. Brinser's Science class used self-constructed tracks and carefully measured distance markers to test and calculate the speed of their Matchbox cars for today's science lab!
Greenwood FFA members participated in the Perry County Land Judging competition on Wednesday, where they studied soil horizons, soil textures, Pennsylvania crops, and more. Skylynn Daughenbaugh took 2nd place and Jonathan Bradshaw took 3rd place overall.
For the past few weeks, the third graders have been learning about the Native Americans and the Pilgrims. Each day, we read more about the Pilgrims from a book called "...If you Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620" by Ann McGovern. This week, we read about what the Pilgrims ate while on the Mayflower and tried it for ourselves.
Yearbook price increasing soon! Order by 11/11 to save! greenwoodsd.org/yearbook
Seven Hospitality/Tourism Class members participated in the Hospitality Bootcamp on 11/9 at the Holiday Inn, Grantville. The students made homemade pasta, mozzarella, and chocolate truffles. They also learned about dinner etiquette and interacted with industry members.
On Monday, November 7th, 32 students attended the Sports and Marketing Day with the 76ers where they worked with other schools to problem solve a case study and participated in a career panel with various employees of the team.
