The Greenbush PTA sponsored a guest storyteller to celebrate Reading Week 2009. Leeny Del Seamonds is a master story performer and award winning storyteller. She dazzled the students with her original and World tales. |
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Four of Mrs. Anderson's 4th grade students participated in Toshiba Exploravision, a national science competition. Kevin Yang, Maya Turnbull, Tayla Silva and Emily Smith are pictured here with principal Mrs. Buonanno and their certificates of achievement.ExploraVision encourages K-12 students of all interest, skill and ability levels to create and explore a vision offuture technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations resultfrom creative thinking and problem solving. |
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 The 4th grade Art Studio students have been very busy learning about several different cultures and the products that exemplify some of their ingenuity and talent.
We started with the Chinese and the art of paper making. Students became acquainted with Ts'ai Lun the Chinese inventor of paper as they learned the general process and made paper of their own.
Next we visited the Japanese, who have a very interesting way of recording the size and species of that big catch through the Japanese art of fish printing called Gyotaku. These prints are so beautiful that they are often framed and proudly hung for all to see. Our students produced beautiful prints as well with the help of rubber fish models and water base ink.
Finally students took a brief trip to Mexico to visit some of that countries ancient people the Aztecs and Mayans. Students hand built clay pots on which they recorded some of the ancient designs these people used.
As you can see the projects turned out very well and hopefully the students will take away more than the products from this wonderful art enrichment class. |
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This new D.A.R.E. curriculum challenges students by having them participate in active learning. The benefit to the students is the strong foundation of decision-making skills that they apply to real life situations about the use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. These important decision-making skills are acted on through a spiraling set of group and paired activities. The students are actively engaged as they learn how to cope with the pressures associated with adolescence.
The new D.A.R.E. elementary curriculum has been shortened to nine lessons and a culmination. Topic areas are more specific to the needs of this age group, with an emphasis on student progression. While practical, the lessons are also fun. Students make the lessons come to life while practicing new skills.
Each lesson is structured with Goals and Objectives—in order to meet the National Health Education Standards. The format of instruction provides practical information throughout the lessons and allows the students to learn from each other. |
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 Greenbush fifth graders participated in Tar Wars, a tobacco-free education program offered by the American Academy of Physicians. Dr. Ray spoke to the students about the short-term effects of tobacco use, the financial implications, the reasons people smoke and tobacco and advertising. The students are participating in a poster contest that emphasizes the positive effects of being tobacco-free. Dr. Ray will be back in one-two weeks to judge the contest. Thank you Dr. Ray! |
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Congratulations to Abigail -First Place
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Mr. Chander, vice principal at John F. Deering School, visited Mr. Allen's fifth grade class during Reading Week 2009. He read, Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller. |
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The students in Mrs.Satchell's kindergarten class celebrated learning wonderful new vocabulary words with a recent "exquisite extravaganza"! Parents, students, and many staff members gathered with fancy "accessories" to see how our youngest students are increasing their knowledge of words. They read several "Fancy Nancy" books by author Jane O'Coonor, which encourage the use of "rich" words in daily language and writing. The children learned over 50 new words! As Fancy Nancy says, "Oh la la.....it was an extraordinary day". |
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The 5th grade Art Studio Projects are visual products of a very brief look at one of histories most interesting art periods. During our 3 forty-five minute classes, we explore some of the famous Dutch and Italian mid to late Renaissance artists and their magnificent paintings. Small art exercises, bits of history and vocabulary word searches, round out the student's experience as it's laid out on a story board for all to see. |
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The Greenbush PTA sponsored Rick Adam's Be Cool, Be Safe program on February 9th. This program was designed to help empower children to tame tempers, prevent violence, stop bullying, build positive self-images, and celebrate differences. |
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#21 Delroy James, the star forward of the URI basketball team, visited Greenbush School for Reading Week 2009. He read to many of the classes. |
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To learn more about the Greenbush Solar On Schools Initiative click on the presentation below. |
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Congratulations to the Greenbush students, parents and staff, who together raised $3,698.00 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Rhode Island. It was clearly shown again this year by your generosity that the Greenbush family continues to help
find a cure for the #1 disease killer of children ages 1- 20…leukemia.
Not only did our students learn about Leukemia, Lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease, they learned a valuable lesson about helping others and learned some valuable math skills at the same time.
Sincerely,
Debra Heroux |
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