Dear Greenwood Families,
Happy Monday, and welcome back from break! However you spent your time this past week, I hope it involved fun, family, friends, and festive times! We’re all feeling refreshed and ready to welcome our Gators back!
DATE CHANGE - Next Greenwood All-School Meeting on 3/4 - Kindergarten Hosting
Kindergarten families should have received a School Messenger over the break with this information - please let me know if you didn’t!
We will have our Kindergarten-hosted All-School Meeting on Tuesday, March 4th starting at 9:00am. At these meetings, each grade level is responsible for sharing about a positive attribute that we want our Greenwood community to embrace and embody. Our Kindergarten students will be teaching us about “empathy” at the next gathering! We would like to invite Kindergarten parents/guardians to attend if you are able to do so. (Seating will be up in the balcony.)
From the Greenwood Library - Winter Newsletter
A hard copy was sent home with students before the break, but in case you missed it…check out what’s happening during Library/Media!
Library Media Winter Newsletter 2025
DIBELS Information for Families
Members of the reading teams from Wakefield and Reading recorded an informational video to share about early literacy screening and how to interpret the DIBELS Home Report that is sent home to families. You can find the recording using this link and password:
Passcode: QxDK8E$Y
We have also added this to our website under “Curriculum & Data” → “K-4 Curriculum” → “Assessment.” If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher, principal or curriculum coordinator.
WEF Annual Adult Spelling Bee - Friday, March 14th
It's time again to brush up on your spelling and trivia, plus create clever costumes to compete for extra points! WEF is hosting its annual Adult Spelling Bee on Friday Mar 14th. See linked flyer for more details. And sign up early - tables max out at 14 at the West Side Social Club.
Lunchroom Volunteers
Our faithful volunteers will be delighted to know that the Sign-Up Genius has been cleaned up - no more scrolling through months of old dates to get to current opportunities!
Do you have any free time between 12:00-1:10pm on school days? Looking for a way to help out at Greenwood? Come join us as a lunchroom volunteer! If you’d like to come in and help support students while they’re eating lunch, please see the linked Sign-Up Genius to select time slots all the way up until April break!. Single days, multiple days, one time slot, the whole lunch block…we welcome any and all helpers!
Lunchroom volunteers will help students with those tricky thermoses, hand out napkins and utensils, support students while they sort items into composting/food rescue/trash, and help clean tables at the end of each lunch. Oh, and the most important thing - bring smiles and laughter!
NOTE: You will need to have a CORI form completed before coming in for any lunch shifts - please contact Ms. Paiva about the process or to check if you have a current one on file
Keep the volunteers coming! Kids love to see everyone at lunchtime!
Greenwood School Social Media
We are on Facebook and Instagram, and one of my personal goals this year is to show off the fun we’re having throughout Greenwood! Check us out - @wpsgreenwood on both Instagram and Facebook!
As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with questions.
Thank you for everything you do to support your children and their learning! Let’s have a great week!
Tiffany Back
Principal, Greenwood School