We are excited to announce that we will once again be participating in the Kids Heart Challenge this year! This event is a fantastic opportunity for our students to learn about heart health, engage in physical activities, and raise funds for the American Heart Association. Our event will take place for the whole month of February (1st-28th). http://www2.heart.org/goto/GSDkidsheart
Over the weekend, a group of FFA members attended the ACES Leadership Conference in Harrisburg. Members attended workshops focusing on elements of leadership and had the opportunity to interact with FFA members from across the state!
The second episode of the Wildcat's Roaring Pawdcast, Winter Happenings, is now live! In this episode, two of our high school seniors, Rebekah Brinser and Roman Polcha, reflect on books they loved reading in elementary school and why reading is so important to them today. Tune in to hear from last year's Read-A-Thon winners, find out which musical the Greenwood High School will be performing this spring, get informed about Kid's Heart Challenge, and learn unusual facts about Groundhog Day. You can listen to this episode and our pilot episode on the Spotify app. Don't miss out on stories that make our school ROAR! Happy listening!🎙️💙💛
We are officially one school week into our Read-A-Thon and our GWDES students are rocking it! As a whole, we have read over 37,000 minutes so far! Below you will see the current leaderboard. Way to go GWDES!!
Our Read-A-Thon is off to a great start! As a whole, our students have already logged over 11,500 minutes in two days! We hope to log more than 85,000 minutes! We are also doing a fabulous job with our donations. Please continue to share your links with family and friends and ask them to support our Read-A-Thon. Below you will see the detailed list of prizes that students are competing for! It is not too late to join the fun! Read-A-Thon runs now through February 7th. Help us be successful by registering your child for the Read-A-Thon by using this link: https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/QbWuPF
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Get ready Elementary Wildcats! Monday is a ROAR Rally!!!
Ready...Set...READ!!! Our 2nd Annual Read-A-Thon will kick-off on Monday! Parents should see papers coming home with their K-5 students today! Please take a moment this weekend to create an account for your child. This will not only allow you to track their minutes at home, but will also allow us to track them at school. Please share the Read-A-Thon information with as many friends and family members as possible, both near and far! All funds raised will be split between our school fund and Mini-THON. Thank you in advance for making this another successful Read-A-Thon!
Eight 8th graders represented Greenwood at the MAA, AMC 8 Mathematics Competition. Bucknell University hosted this competition, provided breakfast for our students, and presented a fun mathematically based origami activity while we waited for scores.
It's that time of year where we gear up to welcome our 2025-2026 incoming Kindergarten Class. Please help us to spread the word!
7th graders dropped their trash bag parachutes from the top of the gym bleachers.
Congratulations to the Middle/High School 2nd Marking Period Students of the Quarter! 12-Roman Polcha, Rebekah Brinser
11-Aaron Duffy, Danica Zurenko
10-Marek Polcha, Abby Brightbill
9-Caden Oxenrider, Abbie Roush
8-Drake Kerstetter, Katelyn Duffy
7-Levi Morgan, Izabella Walker
6-Landen Haas, Liberty Broadbent
It's not too late to join the fun! In conjunction with our Read-A-Thon, Greenwood Elementary will be hosting a Parents Night Out. Join us Thursday, January 30th from 6-8PM for snacks, games, and reading! All sign-up forms are due THIS Friday, January 24th. If you lost your form or have questions, please reach out to Danielle Bailey at dbailey@greenwoodsd.org.
ROAR Tour 2025 was a huge success! Our elementary students spent the morning traveling throughout GWDES, working with students from other grade levels, showing us how to ROAR! They played games and practiced ROARing in the cafeteria, LGI, classroom, at recess, when using tech, and on the bus. In the afternoon the 9th Grade Class Officers, and other High Schoolers from grades 9-12 came to lead us in our first Elementary School Pep Rally! Our High School friends shared their memories from elementary school and how they shaped their current passions. Our Elementary students even had a chance to step up to the mic to share their passions like art, gymnastics, soccer, engineering, reading, and being outside. To say it was fun would be a huge understatement. I couldn't begin to count the smiles and Its good our gym is made of block because our cheering could shatter glass.
💙💛Congratulations to our 4th graders for taking home the spirit stick! 💙💛Thank you to all the staff and students who made this day happen. It was the best day with many memories made. 💙💛
We kicked off our week at Greenwood Elementary with an awesome surprise! Students and staff flooded the STEM room to help make the big announcement: 🎉Our very on Mrs. Book was selected as the PPL STEM Educator of the Year!!!!📣📣📣
This comes with a $1,500 award for her classroom. We are so proud of Mrs. Book and grateful for her passion to Dream, Create, & Innovate!
In a few weeks Mrs. Book will be attend the Pete&C Conference in Hershey to share her love for STEM and how we built our classroom at GWDES!
If you aren't familiar, STEM is a class where students explore science, technology, engineering, and math, with the mindset of an innovator.
Students embrace imagination and curiosity to solve everyday challenges and have a whole lot of fun in the process.
💙💛Congratulations Mrs. Book!💙💛
Today is the Elementary ROAR Tour & Pep-Rally! Dont forget to show your school spirit by wearing Blue & Gold!
First grade integrated our science standards into our reading lesson. We started our investigation on animal habitats by researching penguins! We read both a fiction and nonfiction story. After reading, we discussed why each story fit into the correct genre. Then, we broke into groups to discuss penguin traits and characteristics plus habitats and ecosystems. To finish up, students were tasked with creating a safe shelter for a penguin to utilize in the wild. We loved the way the students used small openings in their structures to keep out predators but still allowing penguins to move in and out freely. They also included slides to help the penguins move faster across the ice, as we learned many penguins prefer sliding on their bellies to walking!
Don't forget about our STEM Night tomorrow, January 9th! We are so excited for our kiddos to showcase their skills in coding, robotics and more! Join us from 6:00-7:30pm.
7th graders in Mr. Brinser's Science classes created parachutes out of small kitchen garbage bags (and tied to washers) to demonstrate their understanding of Terminal Velocity. Parachutes will be dropped from the bleachers in the gym next week- check back after next week to see some parachutes in action!
🎉 🌟 Hey Greenwood Families! 🌟 🎉
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Greenwood Elementary presents hour of STEM! This year we have expanded upon coding to include make and take items, unplugged activities and video game-like STEM projects! We are excited for our students and families to come play and learn alongside our staff. We hope to see you January 9th from 6:00pm-7:30pm.
