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GREEN RIDGE
R-VIII
P.O. Box 70
Green Ridge, MO 65332
660-527-3315
http://www.greenridge.k12.mo.us
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1st Quarter Honor Roll:
7th Grade Honor Roll – Elizabeth Bauer, Katie Bocanegra, Annabelle Brauer, Megan Burdick, Michael Cockrum, Colton Easter, Collin Heaney, Tim Kondratyuk, Macy Meyer, Mariam Pitsul, Eric Ray,
Artur Rudishina
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Honor Roll
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8th Grade Honor Roll – Madison Brown, Dallas Chewning, Landon Dove, Joshua
Griffy, Mariah Jackson, Chloe Needy, Lewis Roark, MacKenley Scotten, Trenton
White
Updates from 4-5
Elementary
High School
FBLA
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High School
Show Choir
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High School
FFA
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Technology
Department
9th Grade Honor Roll – Dalton Baker, Stacey Billings, Jacob Cantrell, Conner Dillon, Thomas Dove, Ciara Kreissler, Carmen Lewis, Jessica Maher, Daniel Misail,
Ruth Oleynic, Daniel Pakhnyuk,
Bre Anna Peck, Vanessa Upton, Evette Vincent
10th Grade Honor Roll – Jamie Couchman, Hayden Doane, Brady Franklin, Kayla
Lake, Lydia Needy, Spencer Needy, John Olejniczak, Julia Parker, Terrence Richardson, Kaitlyn Swearingin, Joshua Tylar, Jenny Wirt
11th Grade Honor Roll – Jason Ehlers, Ashton Jennings, Hali Niceswander, Alexis
Roark, Nicholas Upton, Jadey Weis, Jourdan Williams
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High School
Volleyball
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12th Grade Honor Roll – Lucas Cantrell, Megan Craig, Kaitlyn Heaney, Lindsey
Hill, Aaron Keele, Robert Nelson, Cameron Netz, Hannah Niceswander, Brett
Thomas
9th Grade High Honor Roll – Caleb Brown, Wyatt Chamberlin, Cole Dove, Libby Dove, Vanessa Hardy, Alhana Leonard, Erin Lesmeister, Geoffrey Lewis, Kelsey
Lewman, Justin McCarthy, Holli Mootz, Amber Rhoads, Molly Turner, Kelsey Twenter, Jacob White
Non-Discrimination
It is the policy of the Green Ridge R-VIII School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, or disability in its
programs or employment practices as required by Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Inquiries related to district programs may be directed to the Title IX/Section 504 Coordinator, Green Ridge R-VIII School District, Po Box 70, Green Ridge,
MO 65332; telephone number 660-527-3315. For more information please review Policy 1310, 1320; Regulation 1310, 1320; and Forms 1310.1 thru 1310.3
found on the Green Ridge web site.
Inquiries or concerns regarding civil rights compliance by school districts should be directed to the local school district Title IX/504 coordinator. Inquiries and
complaints may also be directed to the Kansas City Office, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 8930 Ward Parkway, Suite 2037, Kansas City,
MO 64114; telephone: 816-268-0550; FAX: 816-823-1404; TDD: 877-521-2172.
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1st Quarter High Honor Roll:
7th Grade High Honor Roll – Ben Barnes, Madison Billingsley, Jesse Crawford,
Ryan Dove, Walker Dove, Alden Harding, Shirlene Hilt, Lillian Hopkins, Krissy Lewman, Sofia Oleynic
8th Grade High Honor Roll – Stephanie Couchman, Levon Crapse, Katie Gibbs,
Morgan Hetrick, Bailey Jennings, Peyton Needy, Tatyana Oliferchuk, Christina Pakhnyuk
9th Grade High Honor Roll – Caleb Brown, Wyatt Chamberlin, Cole Dove, Libby Dove, Vanessa Hardy, Alhana Leonard, Erin Lesmeister, Geoffrey Lewis, Kelsey
Lewman, Justin McCarthy, Holli Mootz, Amber Rhoads, Molly Turner, Kelsey Twenter, Jacob White
10th Grade High Honor Roll – Chessa Dixon, Jordan Dove, Jessica Ebeling, Axton Harding, Alyssa Haverly, Jake Hoard, Jackson Ingram, Shelbi Mootz, Natalya
Oliferchuk
11th Grade High Honor Roll – Juan Bocanegra, Clare Chamberlin, Ragin Dillon,
James Harmon, Amanda Heaney, Hannah Ingram, Brooklyn Jackson, Andrey Kazakov, Brittany Maher, Esther Onufreychuk, Renata Prado, Jordyn Smith
12th Grade High Honor Roll – Katelin Dove, Jonathan DuBois, Beau Franklin,
Ashley Hampton, Noah Hardy, Brooke Harrison, Alex Hurtado, Tiffany Kruse, Yelena Oliferchuk, Ronald Roark, Misty Smith, Tera Swearngin, Karissa White
2nd Quarter Honor Roll:
7th Grade Honor Roll: Jesse Baker, Elizabeth Bauer, Katie Bocanegra, Megan
Burdick, Jesse Crawford, Ashynn Dixon, Walker Dove, Luis Gonzalez, Collin Heaney, Diana Izoita, Tim Kondratyuk, Krissy Lewman, Macy Meyer, Eric Ray, Artur
Rudishina, Sulamita Vaklich
8th Grade Honor Roll: Madison Brown, Dakota Chewning, Dallas Chewning,
Stephanie Couchman, Landon Dove, Olga Izoita Bailey Jennings, Chloe Needy,
Tatyana Oliferchuk, MacKenley Scotten
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2nd Quarter Honor Roll (cont.):
9th Grade Honor Roll: Dalton Baker, Stacey Billings, Conner Dillon, Tom Dove,
Ciara Kreissler, Alhana Leonard, Carmen Lewis, Kelsey Lewman, Jessica Maher, Justin McCarthy, Daniel Misail, Hunter Niceswander, Ruth Oleynic, Daniel Pakhnyuk,
BreAnna Peck, Evette Vincent
10th Grade Honor Roll: Terry Cardwell, Jamie Couchman, Chessa Dixon, Hayden Doane, Kayla Lake, Shelbe Mootz, Lydia Needy, Spencer Needy, Kaitlyn Swearingin, Joshua Tylar, Jenny Wirt
2nd Quarter High Honor Roll:
11th Grade Honor Roll: Juan Bocanegra, Jason Ehlers, Ashton Jennings, Andrey Kazakov,
Renata Prado, Alexis Roark, Nicholas Upton, Jourdan Williams
12th Grade Honor Roll: Jonathan DuBois, Kaitlyn Heaney, Lindsey Hill, Aaron Keele,
Cameron Netz, Brett Thomas
7th Grade High Honor Roll: Ben Barnes, Madison Billingsley, Ryan Dove, Colton Easter,
Alden Harding, Shirlene Hilt, Lillian Hopkins, Sofia Oleynic
8th Grade High Honor Roll: Levon Crapse, Katie Gibbs, Morgan hetrick, Mariah Jackson, Peyton Needy, Christina Pakhnyuk
9th Grade High Honor Roll: Caleb Brown, Wyatt Chamberlin, Cole Dove, Libby Dove,
Vanessa Hardy, Erin Lesmeister, Geoffrey Lewis, Holli Mootz, Amber Rhoads, Molly
Turner, Kelsey Twenter, Vanessa Upton, Jacob White
10th Grade High Honor Roll: Jordan Dove, Jessica Ebeling, Axton Harding, Alyssa
Haverly, Jake Hoard, Jackson Ingram, Natayla Oliferchuk
11th Grade High Honor Roll: Clare Chamberlin, Ragin Dillon, James Harmon, Amanda
Heaney, Hannah Ingram, Brooklyn Jackson, Brittany Maher Hali Niceswander, Esther
Onufreychuk, Jordyn Smith
12th Grade High Honor Roll: Katelin Dove, Beau Franklin, Ashley Hampton, Noah Hardy, Brooke Harrison, Alex Hurtado, Tiffany Kruse, Robert Nelson, Yelena Oliferchuk,
Ronald Roark, Misty Smith, Tea Swearngin, Karissa White
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Ms. Drum’s Second Grade
During the beginning of the school year Ms. Drum’s second grade class was
busy reviewing skills and learning the new routines. In September, the class learned
about Johnny Appleseed. The class was able to taste different kinds of apples.
Granny smith apples were voted as their favorite. The class also made applesauce.
The class also loves to add money amounts to a $1.00. The class also participated
in a rummage sale, using play money, to purchase items that were donated.
Ms. Drum
(From Left to Right); Leah Sullivan, Ana
Pahua, Nathanael Hilt, and Igor Taushanzhi all wait patiently as Madeline Coffelt
counts out her total to Ms. Drum.
(From Left to Right): Leah Sullivan
shops while Ana Pahua carefully counts
out her payment to Ms. Drum.
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Blaine Ewing holds up his prize that
he bought earlier from the rummage
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Mrs. Harrison’s Third Grade
Our class has settled into the school year and we cant believe how fast it
has gone. We welcome a student teacher, Mrs. Ruehter, into our classroom. We
are working hard to adjust to the third day routines. One of our favorite things
about school is our class pet, Spike. Spike is a 2 year old guinea pig with “spiky” fur.
Students take turns each week caring for Spike among other classroom jobs. Another one of our favorite things to do is read! Students worked very hard to pass
a lot of book tests during September. Each week students can earn classroom dollars that can be used to “shop” in our classroom store. Students can’t wait for
"pay day” and a “shopping day.” We are looking forward to our first quarter
awards assembly. This will be the first time students are able to earn honor roll
awards.
Mrs. Ruehter
Mrs. Harrison
Natalie Hammers
Wyatt Irwin
Olivia Billings
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High School FBLA
The Green Ridge High School and Middle School FBLA Chapters have completed several different fundraisers, attended the District Officer Leadership Conference, prepared a Community Service Project, and are preparing for District
Competition in February. At the beginning of the year our Chapter Officers attended the Officer Leadership Conference in Clinton, MO. All the Officers
learned interesting facts about fundraising, participated in skill-building activities
and even created proper business attire out of newspaper.
In October the High School Chapter had the “Meal Deals” Fundraiser. This
year’s menu was a BBQ Pulled Pork sandwich prepared by R.B. Doane, a Baked
Potato, Baked Beans, a “Greta’s Cinnamon Roll” and a Bottle of Water. The fundraiser was a success with many local businesses and individuals purchasing meals.
On Veterans Day our High School FBLA Chapter hosted a successful Veterans Dinner as our Community Service Project with music and Veterans Day facts.
After the Dinner, the Speech and Drama club presented the play “The Brothers
Grimm’s Spectaculathon,” by Don Zolidis. Everyone had a great time!
In December we set up the CASA Tree. Our FBLA Chapter hangs ornaments from this tree with names of presents for the women and children of the
CASA shelters. These presents are donated to them for the Holidays. Both our
High School and Middle School FBLA Chapters also decorated the Green Ridge
Community Service Building for the holidays as well.
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(Left to Right): Remington Homan and Conner
Dillon help cook for the Meal Deals Fundraiser.
Lindsey Hill was the Green Ridge participant during
the activity of trying to use newspaper to create
formal business attire at the District 10 Officer
Meeting.
(Left to Right): Beau Franklin, Lindsey Hill, Kaitlyn
Heaney, Ashley Hampton, Ragin Dillon, and Alex
Hurtado all pose for a picture on the day of the
District 10 Officer Planning Meeting.
Amanda Heaney helps decorate the
Community Service Building for the
Holidays.
(From Left to Right): Hayden Doane, Kaitlyn Heaney,
Alex Hurtado, and Ashley Hampton are all helping pack
the meals for the Meal Deals Fundraiser.
Jr. High Students helping decorate the Community Service Building for the Holidays.
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High School Show Choir
We have had a great start to the school year here at Green Ridge and
are excited to say that our show choirs are back!! Harmony, which is a class
that meets during the school day, has fourteen members and is planning to go
to two or three competitions this year. We have a great group of singers and
performers and are looking forward to the year being a great success. “A
Brand New Year” seems to be the theme of our show for Harmony, which includes great songs from the musical Memphis, “13”, Hairspray, and a few others.
Our girls will also be performing as Mystique makes a comeback. The girls
have fun upbeat songs that talk about….what else….Boys! We also are building our show choir program by starting a 5th/6th Grade show choir called “1st
Edition”. This group was formerly known as “Shine”, but the students agreed
that we needed a new name for a new start. We currently have 36 students in
this group! What a great start! We are also organizing a 7th/8th Grade Show
Choir and will begin rehearsals in November as “New Sensations” If you are
interested in joining this group, see Mrs. Westphal by the end of October.
We have been raising money for the show choir program by selling
suckers to help offset the cost of costumes, music and supplies needed for performances. We are selling Halloween suckers as well as the Yummy Lix suckers
that come in tons of flavors! Suckers sell for only 50cents each and all the
money goes directly to the students in the vocal music department. We will be
raising all the money for costumes collectively as a group, so that each member
does not have to purchase their own costume.
I have been very excited about all the talent that I have seen here at
Green Ridge and am very excited to be teaching in this district. I have found
students to be talented, respectful, and eager to learn. Support our groups by
purchasing a sucker and come to see us perform this year. We will be having an
exhibition night where all our show choir groups will be performing their full
shows for competition. With all this great talent, we are bound to have an EXCELLENT YEAR!
Mrs. Melissa Westphal
Vocal Music Director
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Green Ridge High School Show Choir
performing at State Fair Community College
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High School FFA News
The FFA started off this year with a softball game and watermelon
feed. We attended Bradford Field Day in Columbia and Highway Clean-up in
September. Many of our first year members attended the Green Hand Leadership Conference in Eldon. The Ag Science 2 students competed at District
Grasslands Contest in Concordia. Team 1: Kaitlyn Heaney, Brady Franklin,
Luke Cantrell, and Jordan Dove took 8th place. Team 2: Axton Harding, Lydia
Needy, Josh Tylar, and Spencer Needy took 3rd place. Team 3: Katie Swearingin, Jessica Ebeling, Tim Callahan, and John Olejniczak took 11 th place. Ben
Scotten and Trenton Dove competed individually. We also had a hayride at
Trenton Dove’s house.
Justin McCarthy and Conner Dillon
helping during the Highway Clean-Up.
The Green Ridge High School FFA Chapter 2011-2012
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Jessica Ebeling and Cherri Aple helping during the Highway Clean-Up.
(Left to Right): Karissa White, Jordan Dove,
and Lindsey Hill in the “clean-up attire” before
participating in the Highway Clean-Up.
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The Technology Department
The Technology Department has added several new items this year to our
school district. We have added several new systems, Smartboards, and printers to
the special education department due to the stimulus funding and grants that the
district received last year, which are not available on a regular basis.
Mr. Ransdell and Mrs. Twenter also wrote a Vocational Enhancement Grant
for the business room which replaced all computers, printers, and chairs. The
Business lab was able to upgrade to new software with a Windows 7 environment. These systems were upgraded with the Vocational Enhancement Grant as
well as additional grant funding, so there was no cost to our district.
The old systems, chairs, and monitors were relocated to the New High
School Lab shown here. Now, teachers can sign up to take their students into
this lab to work on enrichment activities, research papers, Scholastic Reading Inventory, etc. Mrs. Twenter has her students in the lab working on the Descubre
Supersite, which has flash cards, tutorials, listening, speaking, writing, and reading
activities to supplement every chapter.
With today's new resources that come with textbooks, this lab is a wonderful addition to our school district. The best news is that it was completely set
up with the original systems from the business lab. As the world continues to get
more technologically savy, Green Ridge is keeping up with the latest trends.
Essie Onufreychuk working on homework,
in the new high school computer lab
(From Left to Right): Julia Parker, Jake Hoard,
Jourdan Williams, and Shelby Wheeler socialize
while sitting in the new computer lab.
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Green Ridge “Pink Out”
(Left to Right): Ashley Hampton,
Ragin Dillon, and Lindsey Hill are all
“decked out” for the “Pink Out
Day.”
The Most “Over-the-Top” Pinked out students
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Libby Dove spikes the ball over the net during
the “Pink Out” Volleyball Game.
Libby Dove passes the ball to her teammates
during the “Pink Out” Game.
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“Pink Out” Volleyball
The Green Ridge Volleyball team hosted a "Pink Out" game with Tipton on
Thursday, October 6th to raise community awareness about cancer as well as raise
funds to further research. The Art Club and the National Honor Society joined the
volleyball team in raising awareness by extending the "Pink Out" into the school
day. Students were invited to wear pink throughout the day and prizes were awarded
to the craziest pinked-out students, faculty, and staff.
The volleyball team tie-dyed pink t-shirts for playing jerseys and sold them at
the action after the game. The team also sold pink t-shirts for the event through advance sales. For every person wearing pink to the game $1 of their admission was
donated. We also took donations for digs through pledges and after the varsity game,
an auction was held for donated items and the player’s jerseys. Through t-shirt sales,
an auction (auctioneer Kenny Ray, alumni), and donations, the team raised $1975.00.
High School Volleyball
Green Ridge Volleyball team
celebrating their win to become
conference champions!!
Green Ridge High School Volleyball
Team 2011-2012
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Counselor’s Corner
National Honor Society
The Green Ridge Chapter of the National Honor Society recently inducted twelve new members. Our new members are Chessa Dixon, Jordan Dove, Jessica Ebeling, Alyssa Haverly, Jackson Ingram, Brittany Maher, Shelbi Mootz, Lydia Needy, Natalya Oliferchuk, Essie Onufreychuk, Joshua Tylar, and Jenny Wirt. Our new members joined with our existing members to
total 26 members for this school year.
The chapter tries to complete a service project for the school or community once a month.
In addition, each member is required to complete five service project hours individually per
quarter. In October, NHS teamed up with FBLA to gather canned goods to donate to a local
food pantry by “Trick or Treating for Canned Goods.” Our November activity will be collecting items for veterans. If you know of a project that would benefit the community or have a
project for individual service hours, please contact Debi Pond at 527-3315.
News from the Counselor
Senior Scholarships
There are several state and nationwide scholarships available to senior students. Students/
Parents can pick up the scholarship list, as well as applications, outside the counselor’s office.
To make things more accessible to parents and students, the scholarship list is also posted on
our school website. Go to greenridge.k12.mo.us, click on Documents and News, Counselor’s
Corner, then Scholarships for Seniors.
Opportunities for Underclassmen
Throughout the year, there will be several opportunities for underclassmen including summer
learning experiences, essay contest, leadership events, and poster contests. These opportunities will be posted outside the counselor’s office as well as online. Don’t miss out on these
exciting opportunities!!
Red Ribbon Week
Green Ridge R-VIII celebrated Red Ribbon Week during the last week in October. Activities
for the week included trivia contests, a motivational speaker, and prizes for wearing a Red Ribbon Week ribbon. It was exciting to see all of the students participate in the theme days and
wear their ribbons to show their commitment to being drug free!
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