District Champions!!
Hooray for the 100th day! Kindergarten celebrated 100 days of learning and growing together by creating shirts with 100 objects on them. They also wrote about what life will be like when they are 100 years old, jumped for 100 seconds, counted to 100 in a variety of ways, and had a special snack.
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Congratulations to Dr. Melinda Hammerschmidt on the birth of another sweet grandchild!
Jade Elise Hammerschmidt
February 18, 2024
Hats off to Coach Percival and the Lady Jays Basketball team. They work so hard and represent Greenwood well. Tonight, they fell 56-45 to Spokane in Crane. We are proud of our Lady Jays and the heart they compete with and compliment their effort and skills. Thank you to our assistants, Coach (Amber) Percival, Coach Wilson, and Kristy Gilmore. Thank you to MMe and the cheerleaders for the support! Thank you seniors for your contributions and giving your best to GLS and for the young players, we are so excited to see you all competing in the future!
Go Girls Swim!
First Grade Candy Heart Science and STEM Exploration
First Graders discovered that the candy hearts would not dissolve in the liquids that they tried.
Students used clear carbonated drinks, lemon juice, vinegar, sugar water and cooking oil.
The lemon juice removed the message off of the candy hearts.
The candy hearts that were in the vinegar did not dissolve but they appeared to increase in size and their appearance changed.
Students also measured classroom items and stacked candy hearts.
7th graders got to dissect stingrays this week!
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February has been a successful month for Greenwood Debate!
The students competed at their last two ‘regular’ season competitions of the year at Rockbridge High School in Columbia, MO and at Springfield Catholic.
Tristan Khoshyomn was the tournament champion in Original Oratory at the Columbia Classic! He was also a semi-finalist in International Extemp. Gyan Grewal earned two significant trophies, as 5th place overall in International Extemp and 6th in Informative Speaking. Tristan and Mary Gabriel were the 5th place Champ Policy debate team. Gyan and Ethan Duff placed 6th in Champ Policy debate.
The Springfield-Catholic tournament was definitely a great way to end regular invitational season competition for the Bluejays. Tristan was the tournament champion in Original Oratory for the second competition in a row and he also placed 4th in International Extemp. Tristan and Mary Gabriel finished the Policy Debate competition as the 2nd place overall team. Mary also placed 2nd in Informative Speaking. In fact, Greenwood had 3 of the top 6 Informative Speaking entries in the tournament. In addition to Mary, Laila Ozturk finished 4th and Gyan Grewal was 5th in Informative. Amore Pennella was also a semi-finalist in Informative. Minal Khan earned 6th place in Original Oratory and also finished 4th in Policy Debate, with Laila. Ethan Duff also had his best performance of the year, so far, in US Extemp – finishing in 4th place overall and also as a semi-finalist in Original Oratory. Gyan and Laila were also semi-finalists in International Extemp.
The team will compete in MSHSAA and NSDA District competitions in March. Good Luck Jays!
First Grade Helpful Hedgehogs
We are having so much fun celebrating Valentine's Day!
We got to celebrate Mr. Jarvis's birthday yesterday! We are so grateful for him and all that he does for us at Greenwood!
Kudos to Gabriel Parada for an amazing job in the musical In The Heights with Springfield Little Theatre. Dr. Hammerschmidt loved watching such incredible talent! Congratulations.
Go Bears!! Some of the first and second grade boys got a behind the scenes tour by Coach Ford today at MSU.
Jay-Pic of the Week!
Annabelle’s mom and dad, Chris and Jen Wilson, celebrated her being student of the week in first grade by sharing about a family passion they have for horses. Hagale Family Arabians and Crishan Park is where it all began. Students learned about the chores that have to be done to take care of the horses, practicing, competing and their winning family experiences. Family is what it is all about! Students enjoyed a treat and were given an Arabian Horses coloring book.
Second cotillion!
Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day!
We love spirit week! We enjoyed Dress Like a Teacher Day!
