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 Announcements
PTA MEETING & ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Tonight!
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
6:30 PM
GREENWOOD CAFETERIA
Meet Greenwood's new families & faculty.
Vote on the 08-09 Budget.
Teacher Wish List & Committee Report
Bring the whole family. 
Also
Tonight...Fourth
Grade will be selling Auntie Annie's Pretzel
Making Kits. Each kit contains enough
materials to make 10 salt or cinnamon sugar
pretzels, plus there is a coupon for a free
pretzel at a retail store! Great buy for
only $15. All proceeds go to LTN
fundraising!
And this
week...They will
also be on sale before school by the office
until we run out. You can contact Kate or
Suzanne Coulter to put "dibs" on your kit at
883-7693.
Please read
dismissal pick-up routine to be implemented
tomorrow, Tuesday.
*Dismissal Changes--In an effort to help
expedite the dismissal process, the elementary
faculty and staff would like to implement the
following procedures, beginning Tuesday,
September 9:
*Siblings and/or carpools will be seated
together, allowing parents to make one
stop.
*Students will be loaded into vehicles only in
the covered sidewalk area. The first five cars
in line will pull up as far as possible under
the covered sidewalk area. A teacher will call
out the names of the students to be loaded and
those students should quickly come to their
cars. When those five cars are loaded, they will
pull through the driveway and the next five cars
will pull into the loading zone.
*Students are expected to be seated on the
sidewalk in their designated area to be
listening for their family name or carpool name
to be called. In the event of inclement weather,
the children will be seated on the floor in the
foyer of the school.
*Families will be given family identification
cards that should be placed on the right side
dashboard of the car. Please make additional
identification cards to replace lost ones or to
give to other family members who may be picking
up your child.
*Parents are still welcome to park and walk to
pick up students. Please make sure a teacher
sees that you have picked up your child.
*Thank you for being flexible and for helping
the teachers to expedite the dismissal process
in the safest manner. We will give this method a
try and keep our fingers crossed that it works!
Sept. 6-11
Ozark's Celebration Festival (MSU
campus)
 Remember
September 11
Sept. 11 Individual Pictures
Day--9:40 a.m. (see more details below)
Sept. 12 Sally Foster Sales ends
Sept. 15 You can begin to drop
things off at the deLeon garage for
rummage sale
The bake sale is scheduled for
Tuesday, September 9
at Hill Hall. We will be
selling baked goods from 12:30
(after our lunch) until 2:30ish.
Leftovers will be sold after school
to Greenwood students and if
anything is left, we will continue
sales to Greenwood during lunch on
Wednesday.
Kids should
wear Blue Jay blue or Light the
Night T-shirts if they have one or
the other.
Jill Martin put up the posters in
Hill Hall. Thanks so much, Jill!
She, Stacey Cornella, Alison Miller,
Tanna Johnson
and Lisa deLeon (and she is bringing
her little red wagon!) are helping
with the bake sale. Come to
school about 12:00 so we can get
things organized and ready to go
right after the students get done
with lunch.
Continue baking and freezing! All
goods will be sold for 50 cents.
Wrap in Saran Wrap or into baggies
sets of one 2x2 brownie or 3
cookies, 1 or 2 slices of sweet
breads, such as pumpkin, zucchini,
poppy seed, etc. The college
students really LOVE Rice Krispie
treats, too! We need
individual packing so we can keep
things sanitary and give out the
goods quickly. You can begin
to send things to school on Monday
or bring them on Tuesday.
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Picture
order forms were in the Home Connection
envelope last Monday. Fill out the form
and return to school. We will keep
them in a safe place until picture day,
Thursday, Sept. 11. Our scheduled
time is 9:40 a.m. If your child
does not have their order form and money
when the photographer is here, their
photo will be delayed, and delayed
photos may or may not be returned prior
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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.
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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 $1011 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. 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.
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. 17 3:05-4:45p.m. Equalizers
Math Club meeting: snacks and drinks
provided for by Cary Cummings and Alison
Miller
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.
Sept. 27, 6-8:30 p.m. Tour de Forks:
PTA
Sponsored social function for parents
only. $30 per person, casual wear,
held at the Randy Bacon and Figment Art
Gallery, 600 College Street. I
plan to be there with my husband so I
can socialize with you and get to know
you better! I hope you plan to be there!
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.
Oct. 22 Sally Foster purchases
are delivered to school for your pick
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Tests/Projects |
this
week:
Spelling test on Friday--List 2,
located on Spelling City site and
written in your child's planbook. |
Just so you know...
After school this week, Mrs. J
has PTA meeting on Monday, some professional
training to attend on Tuesday, North Central
faculty meeting on Wednesday, she is attending
the LAD Fair annual meeting on Thursday. Then on
Saturday, she is teaching Project WET (Water
Education for Teachers) to Springfield teachers
at the Tefft Center. (I was thinking I was doing
it last weekend, but it is this weekend!)
Please let me know if and when at
link is not working on my website.
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Math:
On Thursday, Mrs. Murphy began teaching
math using the Everyday Math materials
and curriculum. Expect to have for
homework each night a math journal page,
"Math Box" and a Study Link page.
Lessons covered this week have to do
with angles, triangles and quadrangles
(Lesson 1.3), Parallelograms (Lesson
1.4), and Polygons-concave, convex and
properties of (Lesson 1.5)
Go to
Math Links for more information.
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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 we
will continue
lesson
two in
Vocabulary Study book.
Only half of the list is
posted now.
I will post the rest of the
list on Monday morning.
I don't have my vocabulary
book with me this weekend.
Sorry!
Click Here for spelling
list. Choose the top
link "find a list", then
enter "Shae Johnson" and you
will go directly to list
two. 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.
Students should also have a handwritten list of the
spelling words in their
daily planner, too.
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Writing:
All
About Me Bag is due on
Wednesday this week.
Mrs. Murphy modeled her "All
About Me Bag" last week and
gave each of the children a
large envelope. The
objective is 1. so she can
learn more about each of the
students, and 2. practicing
presentation skills.
Students should include in the bag 3-4 pictures or
artifacts that reflect
something they would like
her and the rest of the
class to know about them.
The presentation should not
be more than one minute
long.
On Wednesday
this week and Monday next
week, Jill Martin and Brenda
Bradshaw's language arts
methods students are coming
to our class to do some
one-on-one "cold" writings
with our students.
Then in a few weeks, after
they have analyzed the
writing and planned a
one-on-one lesson for the
student, they return to
teach a lesson to that
student.
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Research:
We
continue researching to
find out more about
presidential candidates,
voting, the issues, what
makes a good presidential
candidate and more.
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Missouri History:
we continue to
research information about who can be
president, what qualifications are
required to be president, what the job
entails, and study the issues of both
candidates. On Monday, 9/15,
groups will be presenting their findings
to the class in the from of a news forum
with the candidates.
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.
NOTE: 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. Right now,
I am thinking it will be on next Tuesday
since none of my contacts have gotten
back to me yet. 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.
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 know that the battles
fought with children about eating
eventually become eating disorders after
kids leave the family.
(the battles never end. They start
out
at the conscious level and later move
to the subconscious level.
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Love and Logic Stories
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With most kids
back in school, parents are
inevitably going to hear some kids
complain about their teachers. The
Insider's Club article below
presents a simple technique for
parents to use when this happens.
Try it this week!
Make the Time Fit the Crime
Eleven-year-old Quigley was
incensed. "My teacher’s never fair.
Just because the bus driver got mad
at us on the field trip, she’s not
letting me go out to recess for a
whole week!"
"Well, you shouldn't have been
acting up on the bus. I told you not
to sit with Jake. You know what
happens when the two of you get
together. He's a bad influence on
you."
"Yeah, but recess doesn't have
anything to do with the bus! I could
understand if I was bad on recess,
not getting to go to recess. She
doesn't like me. You need to go to
school and tell her it's not fair!"
Quigley has some wisdom here. Kids
are more likely to learn from
consequences when they can make a
reasonable connection between their
behavior and the punishment.
Consequences need to match the time
and place of the misbehavior.
Fortunately, Mom knows that
Quigley's having to live with the
unfair punishment is far less
damaging than her pleading his case
with the teacher.
"Yes, Quigley. It probably isn't
fair. Would you like to hear what
some other kids have tried at times
like this?" She then used the Love
and Logic technique, "Guiding Kids
to Own and Solve Their Own
Problems."
Mom knew that his dealing with his
own problem with her advice would
make him stronger. Her solving it
for him would make him weaker and
more dependent.
You can learn about this technique
on our audio CD, "Four Steps to
Responsibility," just one of the 6
CDs in The Life Saver Kit. The Life
Saver Kit is a complete collection
of great parenting techniques.
Thanks for reading!
Jim Fay
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