8th grade helped Mrs. Donaldson plant 15 apple trees, each a different variety, in what will become our school apple orchard. The funding for this project was provided via a grant from our Central Missouri Electric Cooperative. The kids enjoyed learning about the different varieties, the process of grating and of course getting dirty planting. Finding a snake in the grass was an added science bonus! Mrs. Donaldson looks forward to showing students how to tend to these trees as we watch them grow and produce fruit, together, in the years to come.
Thank you, Central Bank, for bringing Reality Check (a budgeting exercise) to Green Ridge sophomores and juniors on Tuesday, 3-12. We were fortunate and thankful to have many volunteers who assisted with the exercise in budgeting!
From Miss Schmidli: "We took four students from each grade, 3rd-6th, to Lincoln today for the annual Kaysinger Conference Math and Spelling Bee. We came home with lots of hardware. The following students placed top 3 in math; Fredrick Porter - 2nd, Timothy Orlov - 3rd, Waylon Walters tied for 1st, and Ethan Twenter and Artum Verbovshchuk tied for 3rd. In spelling Jackson Davenport placed 2nd. Green Ridge placed 1st in math as a school and got to bring home the traveling trophy!! We celebrated their hard work (and Mrs. Harrison’s last math bee) with some ice cream!!"
From Ms. Atkin: “I wanted to tell everyone the awards from the Kaysinger Math Contest tonight.Â
All tests and awards are by students grade level. Very proud of all of them!
Algebra Test:
Lane Fox-1st Place
Hunter Nguyen-2nd
Wyatt Brosch-3rd
Jack Hoos-4th
Wyatt Crawford-5th
Word Problems Test:
Wyatt Brosch 1st Place
Exponential Functions and Logarithms:
Lane Fox-1st Place
Geometry:
Max Tyler-5th Place
Trigonometry:
Lane Fox-1st Place
Hodgepodge:
Lane Fox-1st Place
In the teams test the freshmen: Wyatt Crawford, Jack Hoos, Hunter Nguyen, and Max Tyler got 1st place. The sophomores: Callie Knoernschild, Ava Morris and Rylee Donaldson got 4th place. And the Senior team: Raul Ramirez, Wyatt Brosch and Lane Fox got 1st place!
The “Best in Class Award” went to Wyatt Brosch in 3rd place in the Sophomore class  and Lane Fox as Top Senior!”
Congratulations, Tigers!
SFCC held MSHSAA District Solo & Ensemble Festival on their campus on Saturday, March 9th. Green Ridge had 11 entries, 2 of which are going on to participate at the MSHSAA State Solo & Ensemble on MU campus on Saturday, April 27th.
District Silver:
Conner Garrigus, Vocal Solo
Gavin Bottom, Vocal Solo
Isabel Knoernschild, Vocal Solo
Kaelyn Ray, Vocal Solo
Savannah Nilson, Clarinet Solo
Callie Knoernschild, Horn Solo
Isabel Knoernschild, Clarinet Solo
Kenda Grose, Horn Solo
Josie Porter, Flute Solo
District Gold:
Miley Hayes, Trumpet Solo
Isabel Knoernschild, Callie Knoernschild, Josie Porter - Vocal Trio
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one else is watching.” -C.S. Lewis
See this young man here? Layton found quite a bit of money in a library book today, and he turned the money in to Mr. Doane. He was rewarded for his honesty with a book and pen from the Book Fair! “Honesty” happens to be our character word for March. So proud of Layton for being a GR8 citizen and role model!
Blaise used his tiger bucks on a coupon for lunch with Mrs. Hammers. They had a lovely lunch full of interesting conversation.
You still have time to purchase a book from the Book Fair! Tomorrow is the last day!!! There are hundreds of amazing books to choose from!!!
Attention Kindergarten Families!!!
During our Professional Development day, GRHS teachers were challenged to write a note of gratitude to some of our amazing students that inspire us. Just look at this list of kids!!! We are all thankful for the inspiration we get from our students!
3rd Graders were getting ready to get their hands dirty with a clay project in Mrs. Maxon's art class!
Mrs. White's American Literature class was providing some GR8 feedback about our PBIS rewards system and ways to improve and encourage our secondary age students.
Lots of positive message in our GR8 hallways! The word of the month is "Honesty."
Ms. Kelley's students were working on a new spelling list yesterday!
Mrs. Piscopo's class did a great job sorting the days of the week and peer checking!!!
Mrs. Piscopo has trained up some GR8 calendar time helpers! It is amazing to watch them lead their class in daily routines!
Mrs. Lamar has some great calendar time routines. Student of the day helpers still rock it when there is a substitute teacher!
From Mrs. Hilt: "Third graders rereading to each other about Fredrick Douglass."
From Mrs. Hilt: "Third graders used geoboards to figure out perimeter."
Junior High Choir practicing a beautiful piece this morning!
