First Grade students continued the Greenwood Tradition Friday April 19, 2024 with the Inspiring Americans presentation. Students researched an individual who has made a significant contribution that inspires others often in the face of adversity. Original Visual Language poetry was performed outlining how their person overcame adversity to become an inspiration. Students learned to conduct beginning research skills and how to disseminate important information while creating paper bag books. This year students portrayed authors, artist, sports figures, dancers, musicians, scientists, and inventors.
Outstanding job First Graders!
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Congratulations to Tristan Khoshyomn who earned All-State recognition in two events at the MSHSAA State Speech and Debate tournament held at Missouri State University last weekend!
Tristan placed 7th in the state in International Extemporaneous Speaking and 8th Place in the State in Original Oratory. 111 schools and 769 students from across Missouri participated in the competition.
Tristan’s performances were exceptional for a sophomore competing at this high level. Tristan will also be competing this summer in the NSDA National Speech and Debate tournament for the second time in his high school career. The tournament will be held in Des Moines, Iowa in June. Go Jays!
Cammie Parker is our next senior spotlight! She will be attending Missouri State University to study Pre-Veterinary. Thank you for being such a big part of our Bluejay Family!
Katelyn Schaller is our next senior spotlight! She will be attending Rockhurst University to swim and study Biochemistry. Thank you for being such a big part of our Bluejay Family!
5th graders celebrated Victoria Guo’s winning Arbor Day poster on Friday. A yellowwood tree was planted in Victoria’s name. Sorry that Victoria was unable to be there. We have special prizes for her return! Thanks for helping us make our outdoors better Victoria!
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Inspiring Americans!
Third grade celebrated their Night of Notables this week. This is a wonderful tradition where students research, write a biography, create a tri fold, memorize a speech, and present as that person for an evening event!
Night of Noteables from our 3rd grade class!
Today Hannah and Hallie taught a lesson on engineers. Students were divided into 5 groups, worked together to create a plan, and an illustration of a solution to a task. After deciding upon their solution students were given supplies to create the design and challenged to work as a team to construct their design. We love collaborating with MSU Education Majors.
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Join us for Friday Night Lights at the Ballfield!
4th grade had a great time on their trip!
5th graders got to be engineers as we learned from MSU science pre-service teachers. The goal was to protect an egg as it was dropped - some of us were successful! Thank you to Dr. Wood’s science class! We had an egg-cellent time!
Up next is Mollie Scher for our senior spotlight! She will be attending Drury University to study Music Therapy. Thank you for being part of our Bluejay Family!
Abigail Schultz is our next senior spotlight! She will be attending Truman State University to study Biochemistry. Thank you for being such a big part of our Bluejay Family!
We are so proud of them!
Congratulations to our amazing State Science Olympians! Our students have studied, practiced, worked on builds, developed logs, tested, and created binders for competitions over the last 7 months. The 23-24 season ended with our scientists competing against 62 teams and almost 1000 of the top students from across the state on April 6th.
B Division finished 9th in the State. Individual celebrations go to Cullen Burch and Jack Lindsey - 2nd in Air Trajectory, Cullen Burch and Nikhil Nannapaneni - 6th in Crime Busters, Ilyaan Khan and Taaha Khan - 6th in Disease Detectives, Kate Lindsey and Jack Lindsey - 3rd in Ecology, Cullen Burch and Jack Lindsey - 6th in Forestry, Ilyaan Khan and Taaha Khan - 3rd in Microbe Mission, and Dylan Lee and Kate Lindsey - 4th in Write It, Do It.
C Division individual celebrations go to Joaquin Parada and Matthew Whitworth - 6th in Detector Building, Sunny Slater and Anya Soni - 5th in Disease Detectives, Ethan Duff, Gyan Grewal, and Tristan Khoshyomn - 6th in Experimental Design, Gracelyn Rothwell and Kai Schaefer - 5th in Geologic Mapping, Matthew Whitworth and Nathan Wu - 5th in Optics, and Roman Redden and Sunny Slater - 6th in Wind Power.
Wonderful job Ladies and Gentlemen!!
So fun!
