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.
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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.
Miss Pauling and Mrs. Seibert’s first grade classes have been working hard at studying story elements. Their current focus is character traits. What better way to practice than recreating our teachers and pairing them with their perfect traits!
MS Students of the Quarter: (lL to R) Nate Clark, (Wildcat) Emma Johnson, Marek Polcha and Alexa Ehrenzeller
HS students of the Quarter: (L to R) Drew Bratton, Zoey Wilson, Rebekah Brinser, Blake Harper, Emily Clark and Roman Polcha
Our 5th graders proudly displaying their cell projects!
Greenwood's Varsity Competitive Spirit Team was vote best in stunts at the afternoon session of the Competitive Spirit Competition at Central Dauphin High School on Saturday.
Miss Pauling’s first grade kiddos played “headbands” with their glued sound words. They had to give each other clues without saying any words that were on the card.
GREAT day for special visitors and a FANTASTIC day for outside story time for Mrs. Gantt’s kinderkids! FriYay fun!
The Susquehanna Service Dogs visited our school. The Reading Dogs and their handlers, Sue Knode and Karen Johnston will be visiting 1st and 4th grade classrooms throughout the school year to listen to kids read!
STEM Challenge: Build your own Mayflower. How many passengers can it hold? A group of second graders took on this challenge. Take a look at what they constructed. One of the ships held more 257 passengers!
Don't Forget-This Weekend!
Elementary Gratitude Spirit Week
Celebrate and honor Gratitude Month by participating in our fun spirit week!
November 7th - 11th
Miss Pauling’s and Mrs. Seibert’s friends read the book “Big Pumpkin” in which a witch was unable to move a pumpkin because it was TOO big. After, they worked on building and creating different modes of transportation to lift and move a pumpkin.
Mrs. Anderson’s class took on a spooky-sweet Halloween STEM challenge yesterday. Students used various items to build a new home for a gummy frog or spider. We have some creative kinder kids here at Greenwood!
Mrs. Gantt’s kinderkids participated in a candy corn stack challenge!
