Greenwood Friends School

This year's graduating students have invested time all year exploring vocational areas of interest. Each 8th grader worked with an outside mentor researching and job-shadowing, and prepared a formal presentation of the experience. Projects focused on film-making, horse care, cooking, and fashion design. Their final presentations were given to an audience of mentors, teachers, family members, school trustees, and advisory council members.

Intermediates designed a travel sticker that represented a city studied during the school year. Then they created valises from cereal boxes and decorated them with all the different stickers to symbolize all the locations they had researched.

Primaries wrote narrative pieces based on journeys they had taken. In conjunction with art class, each student constructed a shoe from cardboard and designed it as a pictorial representation of the travel.

The Pre-Primary class enjoyed their last day of school together aboard the Hiawatha Paddlewheel Riverboat. Everyone had a chance to have a picture taken with the captain.  Afterward, the group gathered for a picnic lunch along the Susquehanna River.

At the beginning of the year, the Middle School divided into five focus groups researching Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The students' final presentations were displayed in the library as a question and answer session was held. The entire school then enjoyed a Spanish Festival and learned about the culture of these regions through photos, music, traditional cooking, and dancing.

The culminating trip for the Intermediates' study of world cultures this year was to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  Students viewed an Egyptian temple, African carvings, and South American Artifacts, as well as pieces from Asia and North America.