Greenwood Friends School

View the artistic creations of GFS students on our website by clicking here or by selecting the Student Art Gallery link in the News and Pictures menu. The gallery currently features art from all three trimesters of the 2007-2008 school year.

Greenwood welcomed our youngest students and their families to our school for a visit last week. The children and parents got to meet with Barb and tour the school before preschool starts. It's hard to believe the summer's over!

Middle school students staged Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Alvina Krause Theatre in Bloomsburg. 

GFS Intermediate students looked for flora and fauna at Ricketts Glen State Park while studying the local watershed.

Students on the Intermediate Team slept overnight at the school.

Students partook of a potluck supper and a run through the sprinkler before bidding parents goodnight.

The after-hours agenda included science, craft, and scrapbooking activities led by parents Rejena Girton and Lee McDonald. Students also watched a movie, ate s'mores, played games, and listened to stories.

Before heading home the next morning, students made pancakes.

Primary students gathered for a "good-bye to the school year" around the peace meditation circle and shadblow tree. They have spent many happy recess times sitting on the stones.

Next step is to dedicate the tree to our friends William D. Ravdin and Mary Ravdin. Mary died in 2005. Bill continues to help the school with fund-raising and marketing projects.

GFS middle schoolers presented the findings of their Susquehanna watershed study at PPL Montour Preserve's education center near Washingtonville on May 24. The Middle School hosted a symposium at the center, followed by hands-on activities for adults and children.

The students divided into four groups to undertake their study, which covered water quality, local resources, land and wildlife, and lifestyles of the people living in the watershed.

In the photo below, teacher Craig Muller shows younger students a three-dimensional relief map of the watershed. 

Primary Team students saw the largest collection of African mammals and bird eggs in Pennsylvania. They also learned various ways early Native Americans used indigenous plants.

Those were among students' experiences during a field trip to the Oakes Museum at Messiah College in Grantham.

The museum features "Smithsonian quality" exhibits of mammals, birds, eggs, fish, seashells, minerals, insects, and fossils from around the world.