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 Announcements
If you forgot to send your
Sally Foster orders last Friday, please send
them this Monday.
September
15 - October 15 Hispanic Heritage Month
Click Here for
detailed schedule of events.
Sept. 17 3:05-4:45p.m. Equalizers
Math Club meeting: snacks and drinks
provided for by Cary Cummings, Letitia
Black and Alison
Miller
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Talent Show in the Greenwood Cafeteria,
sponsored by the junior class American History
Class in order to raise money for their upcoming
trip to Washington D.C. for the Presidential
Inauguration.
Sept. 20 Saturday Together Green
Volunteer Days Meet at Valley Water
Mill to do volunteer work; 8:30-12:00; noon-1:00
Barbeque lunch provided. I would like to
encourage you to come and help with cleaning up
the Water Center with me. Please let me
know if your student and you can come to join in
this community service opportunity! 
| We earned $406.00 with our bake
sale! Thank you, everyone for all
the baked goods.
A special thank you to the mom's who
helped supervise.
They were Jill Martin, Stacey
Cornella, Tanna Johnson, Alison
Miller, and Lisa deLeon.
We couldn't have been so successful
without the support of our parents!
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You can
start dropping items off at the
deLeon's the week of the 15th,
so start cleaning and boxing
things up, getting them ready
for the sale. Riley deLeon
is going to be pricing items,
but if you are so inclined, you
may label prices on things
before you hand them over.
Where?
162 W. Stone Meadow Way,
Springfield
Remember, the garage sale is on
Friday and Saturday, the 26 and
27 from 8:30-1:00 p.m.
Volunteers are needed. Contact
Lisa.
thlions66@sbcglobal.net
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Dear
Elementary Teachers and Parents,
The 11th grade
American Government class will be
hosting a Talent Show in the Greenwood
Cafeteria on Friday, September 19, 2008
at 6:00 p.m. in order to raise money for
their upcoming trip to Washington D.C.
for the Presidential Inauguration. The
Talent Show will be open to grades K-12,
with a focus on the elementary students.
Admission will be $5 at the door and
additional donations are welcome. There
will be a sign-up sheet in the office.
The deadline for signing up is Monday,
September 15, 2008 and there will be a
brief dress-rehearsal on Thursday,
September 18, 2008. All rules of
Greenwood’s dress code and appropriate
language are required and a description
of each performance must be submitted
for prior approval. The success of the
show is dependent on student response so
please encourage your kids to sign up!
If you have any questions, please
contact:
Steve Hinch, Talent Show
co-chair
SHinch@MissouriState.edu
417-836-4742
Myra Milam, Talent Show co-chair
mmilam@gotsky.com 417-839-2129
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At this writing, we
are up to $1437 on
the electronic webpage! Keep
it going.
IMPORTANT:
When you collect money, please keep
it until October 1. If you can
at that time, add it to the
electronic funds page with your
credit card. If you
don't want to do that, then please
convert all cash into a check made
out to LTN and put into the white
collection envelope with your name
and parent signature on it. I really
don't want any cash handed into me,
if possible because then I have to
write checks for each amount myself.
Join our Light the Night Team!
go to:
http://register.lightthenight.org/LTNRegistration/app
and
JOIN!
Choose Join Now, then search for
team captain, Shae Johnson, and you
will be on our team page.
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Coming
Events |
Sept. 26 and 27 8 a.m. - 1
p.m. Light the Night
Leukemia Garage Sale at deLeon's garage.
If you would like to volunteer to help,
please contact Lisa! We need volunteers.
Saturday, Sept. 27
PTA Tour de Forks, 6-8:00 p.m., Randy
Bacon Gallery, RSVP by Sept. 19
M-F, Sept. 29 – Oct. 3
Spirit Week
Oct. 1 All LTN money handed into
Mrs. J either electronically or in check
made out to LTN and put into signed,
white collection envelope.
Friday, Oct. 3 Greenwood
Homecoming
2:30 p.m. Grades K-12 pep assembly, gym
5:30 p.m. Athletic Boosters Chili
Dinner: Tickets on sale in the
office Sept. 22
7:00 p.m. Soccer Game, Plaster Stadium:
Homecoming queen crowned at halftime
8:30 p.m. Post Game Pie & Cake Social,
Greenwood Gym
Tuesday,October 7, 6-9 p.m;
presentation 7-8 at Expo Center Richard
Louv, author of Last Child in the
Woods--a must read for all educators
and parents.
See Flyer for details.
Saturday, Oct. 11 MSU Homecoming
Parade – See the Greenwood float!
Thurs./Fri., Oct. 16,
17 Fall Holiday: no school
Oct. 22 Sally Foster purchases
are delivered to school for your pick
up.
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Tests/Projects |
this
week:
Spelling test on Friday--List 1.3,
located on Spelling City site and
written in your child's planner.
Science test on Wednesday, 9/16
Water Education Unit Objectives
next
week:
Spelling test, List 1. 4
Unit 1 test is scheduled for next
Tuesday. Study Guides will be
handed out to the students this
Wednesday.
Chapter 1 Missouri history test on
Wednesday; review will be on Tuesday.
No study guide is given. Study
notes taken in class, Memory Masters and
worksheets, and textbook. |
Just so you know...
After school this week, Mrs. J
has a meeting with the Sierra Club on Thursday
for a project our class will be helping to
review, Math Equalizers Club on Wednesday, and
teaches eMINTS on Thursday.
Please let me know if and when at
link is not working on my website.
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Math:
Math lessons this week include 1.6
Drawing Circles with a compass; 1.7
Circle Constructioins; 1.8 Hexagons and
Triangle Constructions; we will learn
about radius, diameters, chords, and how
to make arcs with a compass.
Go to
Math Links for more information.
Check daily planners for more assignment
details.
Unit 1 test is scheduled for next
Tuesday. Study Guides will be
handed out to the students this
Wednesday.
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Language Arts
Reading:
Students should be reading
at least 30 minutes per
night!
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Word Study:
This week
lesson 1.3 in
Vocabulary Study book.
Click Here for spelling
list. Choose the top
link "find a list", then
enter "Shae Johnson" and you
will go directly to list
one. You can bookmark this
site as one of your
favorites. Each week
we have a listing, the new
one will be posted.
Try the games and
activities, too, to give
practice learning the words.
Test will be on Friday.
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Writing: On
Tuesday afternoon, students
will be doing a pre-writing
activity together with Mrs.
Murphy, and then they will
have some time to get
started on a rough draft.
The topic is to tell about
where we went on our field
trip and what they learned
about water and water
treatments. They
should include their
thoughts, emotions, as well
as knowledge they gained. I
am looking for 3 paragraphs
with topic sentences and
lots of supporting details.
This should be a
hand-written rough draft.
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Research:
Today and
tomorrow we are having our
news forum presentations.
The candidates, Sen. McCain
and Sen. Obama are being
"interviewed" on specific
issues by reporters.
The object of this research
was to get the students more
familiar with the issues in
the presidential campaign.
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Missouri History:
We begin
working with our Missouri history
materials on Wednesday when we take look
at the parts of our book, go on a
scavenger hunt, then in Lesson one, we
learn how to read this book. We
will learn together how to answer Memory
Master questions found at the end of
each lesson. So
you know, all answers must be in
complete sentences, written in such a
way as to incorporate the question into
the answer. No pronouns should be
used. As I told you at the parent
meeting, writing answers in this manner
will allow the students to have another
form of note taking to be used for
review when tests come up.
Watch assignments in
planner for more details. |
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Science:
We continue our water
education unit. This week, we will
concentrate on learning about potable
water, point source and non-point source
pollution, home water
conservation. We will perform a
home audit. I am
in the process of planning a field trip
to the water sewage treatment and the
drinking water treatment plants in
Springfield. The trip may be this Friday
or next Tuesday. Either day, the
trip will be in the morning. More
details and cost of transportation will
follow as soon as I know when we can
take the trip.
Test is scheduled for next Wednesday,
September 16. Objectives listing
serves as the study guide.
Water Education Unit Objectives |
Love and Logicisms , Wise Words About
Kids
by Jim and Charles Fay
Wise parents don't
allow words to gain
shock value.
Lectures and threats make
the problem worse. Wise parents
take
the fun out of swearing by
encouraging the use of the "dirty" word
in some other place.
When kids insist on swearing around
their parents, their parents fall back
on the *"energy drain" principle:
Swearing drains
energy from the family, but there's
nothing
like your kids cleaning the toilets
or staying home from the amusement park
to charge it up!
*If you have questions about the "energy
drain" principle, stop by the room, and
Mrs. J will explain it to you. It
really works in lots of situations!
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Love and Logic Stories
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