So many things to be thankful for!!! Definitely thankful for this school and community family! Check out the transformation of our GR8ful Tree! Heard one student say, “This is the best day of my life!”
Thank you, Mrs. Brock, for all your work on our Food Drive! A big thank you to all who donated!!!
In Mrs. Lamar's kindergarten classroom the students have been working hard on writing sentences. They celebrated becoming authors today by enjoying some pumpkin roll and reading their stories to the class!
Mrs. Miller and her students were the Pumpkin Pie Crew today! Yum!!!
From Mr. Hendrix: "AG 1 students are in their dairy cattle unit right now, and they have been exploring how to make butter! Today in class, we put the steps together and made some fresh butter to put on our rolls."
From Ms. Schmidli: "5th grade has started reading Hatchet, the wilderness survival novel by Gary Paulsen. To better relate to the main character, students worked together to complete a survival scenario where they had to decide which supplies were most important for survival and why."
From Mrs. Anderson: "In coding we took a day off of computers to work on team work, problem solving, and reflection to improve our work. Students made a paper tower, answered a series of questions, brainstormed ways to improve, and then made a bigger and better tower."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Business Tech learned about rapid prototyping and sunken cost with a fun paper airplane activity."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Personal Finance Class 1: Students competed against each other in a Stock Market Game to see who was the best at investing."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Careers Class was challenged to write as many words that related to careers class in 2 minutes. Then, in their groups they were each assigned a word and had to pick a song that made them think of that song. After we created our playlist, we listened to the song and groups told us how the song relates to class and the word they chose."
Mrs. Hammers, Mr. Edington, and Mrs. Sleeper were busy today handing out gobble grams students made for all the teachers to show gratitude! They even had the speaker going with a turkey call!!! GR8ful to be a Tiger!!!
These entrepreneurs have been studying real world money skills. Today's authentic assessment---a hot drink cart for staff! Yum!!!
GR-8 is in session this week on, Monday, November 20 and Tuesday, November 21. Thanksgiving break will be November 22-27. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Green Ridge Boys Basketball team beat Crest Ridge last night in an outstanding contest that saw several lead changes. The Cougars jumped out to an early 9-2 lead, but the Tigers fought back to take the lead at the half 24-20. The Cougars led 38-37 at the end of the third quarter, but the Tigers made 7 of 9 free throws down the stretch and ended up on top 59-54. Weston Crawford led the way with 21, followed by Lucas Mason with 18, and Mark Pavlioglo with 17. The Tigers played a complete team game, and it was a nice start to the season. The Tigers play on Monday and Tuesday at home, against Kingsville and Hermitage. JV boys will start the night with 2 quarters at 5:30 on both evenings. Go TigerNation!
From Ms. Dailey:
"We tested how and why trees don’t fall down when it’s too windy by making umbrellas held up by pipe cleaners and straws. Then, students cut holes and slits into the umbrellas to mimic leaves and branches and how wind flows through them."
Some 1:1 support in Mrs. Davis's class!
From Mrs. White:
"American Literature students have been studying excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience.” Today they participated in an interactive computer activity where they were able to perform the following activities: fishing, cutting wood, building a cabin, and hunting for food, along with some other tasks. This gave them a better picture of the isolated life Thoreau lived while isolated on Walden pond."
From Mrs. White:
"My Applied Communications class has been discussing using effective communication skills during job interviews. Today they performed practice interviews with their peers. Hopefully this activity will ease some anxiety when interviewing for future jobs."
From Mrs. Thompson:
"After finishing our simple machines and kinetic and potential energy unit, we built balloon powered cars. This was a tough task for the students, and it really tested their patience, independence, and team building skills. AND they did fabulous! Every single one of their cars worked! They may not have gone as far as they wanted them to, but they worked! They got to show their creativity with the supplies they chose to use, and we had several groups helping other groups!
Congratulations to Sophomore, Callie Knoernschild on her outstanding audition Saturday, November 11th.
On Saturday, Callie, along with Senior, Isabel Knoernschild, traveled to Warrensburg to audition for the All-District Band. Callie earned a spot in the French Horn section and will head to All-State auditions on Saturday, December 2nd.
Congratulations Callie and Good Luck on December 2nd!
