Green Ridge R-8 School District

Mrs. Anderson's Computer Science students have been learning different forms of communication using no written or spoken language. They were given random supplies around the classroom to build a device to answer questions. Then, they were given challenges to overcome.  GR8 job!

Green Ridge Lady Tigers pounced into action during the 2023 season opener against Sweet Springs getting the 4-set victory:  25-18, 23-25, 25-22, 25-14.  Taking charge at the net, senior Nevaeh Washington swung for 15 kills to keep the Greyhounds off balance.  Sophomore Emery Cannon added 6 kills and junior Sydney Gordon finished with 5 kills.  New-comers in the varsity line-up pitched in as well!  Juniors Jellisa Atwood (3 kills) and Abby Warner (1 kill) along with our lone freshman Aliya Edington(2 kills) found ways to put the ball away.   Defensively, Washington led the way in the back-court as well scrambling for 17 digs. Cannon and Gordon each finished with 13 digs.  Senior libero Zakiyah Morse had 10 digs, juniors Mallory Reed and Warner added to the passing game with 8 digs and 7 digs respectively.   Lady Tigers service game helped control the momentum of the sets with Cannon refining her serve method to finish with 5 aces.  Gordon peppered 23 serves total on the night without any errors and finished with 3 aces.  Morse and Reed each chipped in 2 aces.  Senior Alexas Stevens added in well-placed short serves to add to the confusion on the Greyhound side of the net.   While Gordon wasn’t busy hitting, serving and passing, she found ways to run the offense as well finishing with 19 assists!  To balance our 6-2 offense, Reed stepped in using a variety of hitters and connected 5 times for her assists.   A great start to the 2023 season!  Lady Tigers travel to Knob Noster Thursday to take on the Lady Panthers. Show quoted text

Please join us in welcoming one of our new staff members to the Green Ridge R-8 School District!

Please join us in welcoming one of our new staff members to the Green Ridge R-8 School District!

Mark your calendars for our annual fall Title I meeting!

Please join us in welcoming one of our new staff members to the Green Ridge R-8 School District!

Look what is happening on the GR playground today! We are resurfacing the asphalt area in order to create a safer surface for students to play on. Our plan is to repaint the kickball and basketball lines soon. Stay tuned! We have more changes coming for our playground!

We want to give a big shout out to our PBIS leadership team for planning and implementing our PBIS Bootcamp last week. This team has lead the GR8 staff in developing and implementing strategies aligned with positive behavior and supports in our school. Thank you team!

Our new art teacher, Mrs. Maxon, took some pictures of her two HS art classes during a brown bag creative challenge. They got a bag of random items and had 20 minutes to create something original!

Mrs. Thompson's 4th graders used shaving cream, food coloring, and cardstock to make their own tie dye name. GR8 way to build bonds with new classmates!

Ms. Dailey's Firsties acted out "The Three Little Pigs" today. What a great way to practice retelling a story! It also served as a GR8 class building activity!

What a fabulous start for our first graders! Here are Ms. Dailey's First Day pics!!!

Mrs. Bates modeled The Itsy Bitsy Spider with her kindergarteners this week. It is going to be exciting to watch these students bloom this year!

Mrs Donaldson's 7th and 8th grade science classes and high school biology class spent a couple days getting reacquainted with each other while learning how to engineer with constraints.

Mrs. Donaldson's science classes participated in a Windy City Tower Design Challenge this week! This was an introduction to working with others to problem solve.

Mr. Doane's 5th & 6th Grade Science classes participated in a t-shirt temperature check experiment. Throughout the day each class got to go outside and check the temperature of a variety of different types of t-shirts to determine which one would be the coolest and which one would be the warmest to wear outside on a day like today!

Mrs. Warner’s first grade class read "The Three Little Pigs." Then, they created stick puppets and used them to practice retelling the story with a partner. GR8 Work, Firsties!

Please join us in welcoming one of our new staff members to the Green Ridge R-8 School District!

Mrs. Z's class is working on medieval social structure. Keyten is swearing allegiance to Kaden, his liege lord! 🏰

Ms. Treuner's class has already read their first two stories: "Rainbow Fish" and "Do Unto Otters!" They worked on some comparing and contrasting activities today!