Mrs Dilmore, Jami, and Natasha deliver all of our class donations to the Animal Shelter…Happy Thanksgiving…

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My classes loved the Mr Wizard webinar…

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Emmy visits Greenwood Lakes to kick off our Community Project with our local Animal Shelter in Sanford. We are collecting items for the shelter during the month of October and November. Click here to learn more…

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We joined educators and space enthusiasts around the world to celebrate World Space Week, Oct. 4-10, 2007. This year’s
celebration commemorates the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, marking the beginning of the Space Age. World Space Week is the largest public space event in the world, with celebrations in more than 50 nations. To learn
more about World Space Week, search for events in your area, and find educational materials related to the event,
visit: Click here to learn more…Greenwood Lakes Middle School is celebrating by having our own “Balloon Launch” on October 5

We encourage our students to “click” once a day to support Literacy, Endangered Animals, Children’s health, and hunger.

The Literacy Site was founded to help promote literacy among children from low-income families nationwide. Partnering with First Book, the site makes books available to children around the country, giving many children their very first book. With the generous support of our sponsors, each click provides 1% of a book. Making books a part of a child’s life is the best way to encourage the love of reading.

Click here…The Literacy Site

We have connected with local daycare centers and elementary schools to promote “Firstbook”. We participated in Jumpstart…”Read for the Record” and Dr Seuss’s 50th birthday. Our participation in the Seuss celebration included making 1,100 birthday cards for the “Cat” to send to Random House Inc. as part of Project 236, a nationwide initiative to get books to disenfranchised students through the First Book project. For each card, the company will donate one book to a needy child.

The goal of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign is to raise public awareness about significant disparities in early education. An early learning gap exists as early as age 3, due primarily to economic inequality. And because of these early discrepancies in language acquisition and literacy skills, one third of America’s children arrive at their first day of school unprepared to learn. Awareness about this issue is crucial, as this early learning disparity serves as a critical precursor to our country’s persistent educational achievement gap.

How Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Works
Through this campaign, Jumpstart asked Americans to support early education opportunities for all children by reading the official campaign book, The Story of Ferdinand, together on September 20, 2007 to break the record for the largest shared reading experience ever, which was set by 150,000 people on August 24, 2006 during the inaugural year of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign. Reading activities on September 20 ranged from personal sessions between an adult and a child to big group events with hundreds of people gathering together for a large community reading session. Keep checking back for a preliminary count of participants!

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We have connected with “America Supports You”…On Sept. 11, Greenwood Lakes Middle School faculty, staff, administration, JRROTC, and students joined with America Supports You, a Department of Defense program recognizing citizens’ support for our military and communicating that support to members of our Armed Forces and their families. America Supports You connects citizens and corporations who are looking for ways to support the military with homefront organizations that are devoted to helping the troops and their families. Mrs Keck, Mrs Dilmore, and Mr Perry organized a “Freedom Walk” and received recognition from Allison Barber, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.Students at Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary will hold a “Freedom Walk” at 8:30 a.m. at the school’s track. Those participating are encouraged to wear a yellow T-shirt, and they plan to create a huge yellow ribbon to remember victims of the attacks and U.S. veterans. Students also wrote letters of encouragement to be sent to our military.To view video

Our “Ultimate Gift” project is based on the book by Jim Stovall, The Ultimate Gift. It tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Jason Stevens. When Jason learns of the death of his billionaire great uncle, Red Stevens, he is eager to receive his portion of the fortune. Like his other greedy, ungrateful relatives, Jason only cares about monetary gain. Red recorded a series of video messages that Jason must follow in order to receive his eventual inheritance. Through a year long journey, Jason discovers the importance of many life-changing gifts, forges meaningful relationships that he never knew could exist, and learns to give back to others in need.

The first Gift is the Gift of Identity and the students created Gift bags, boxes, or baskets full of items that reflected their unique characteristics.

MathLincs: You Be The Teacher Class Projects: “Mrs. Thornburgh’s 6th Grade Class, Mount Vernon, Washington : Probability and Statistics Vocabulary Safari Mrs. Keck and Mrs. Dilmore’s Class, Orlando, Florida : Math Vocabulary Avatars Mr. Toft and Mrs. Smith’s Grade 5/6 Class, Ottawa, CA: Spectacular Vocabulary Podcast , Mp3 Mrs. Condran’s Hi Cap Math Class, Mount Vernon, Washington Probability Video”