Winter Pep Rally

Article and pictures by Nadia Boyea

Tuesday, November 22nd, high school students gathered together to celebrate the opening of the new gym with a Winter Pep Rally. The JV and Varsity basketball, wrestling, volleyball and cheerleading teams were announced.

There were sports-related activities that students from each grade could volunteer to participate in. Each grade level had a different team of students in these challenges. Upperclassmen and Lowerclassmen also joined together to compete against each other.

Volunteers from Grades 11 and 12

Hula Hoop Competition (Grades 11&12 above, 9&10 below)

Each grade showed their enthusiasm with cheering and class posters. There was a number displayed at the beginning of the pep rally to text to vote for your favorite class sign; congratulations to the Seniors for winning with your “Kiss our class goodbye” poster! Thank you to Nurse Mackey and the Seniors for putting this all together for us!

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It's that time of year! Greenery Sale has started. #GHSBlog

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Pizza Symposium this Monday! #GHSBlog

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Real World Applications in Math

Statistics Through Project Based Learning

Article by Nadia Boyea

If you were to walk into Ms. Gannon's third period class, you would find Juniors Emily Vetere, Alyssa Latta, Nicole Torrey and Senior Abbey Vincent working on hands-on projects for their class, Statistic Through Project Based Learning. This class is made up entirely of projects, all specific to what the students want to explore.

Currently the class is working on creating programs for the calculators. Their most recent finished project was creating a speaker from a styrofoam cup (link below).  When asked what the rest of the year holds, Ms. Gannon explains that, “ depends on the student's interests. Some of the previous projects have been analyzing data from a school lunch survey and even making a chair from corrugated paper, a material commonly used to create cardboard boxes.”

Ms. Gannon is most looking forward to exploring topics with the class that they might not have already learned about, such as coding and STEM. She says the most important part of this class is seeing where the math the students have previously learned is applied in the class. She finds that learning to work as a group and problem solve is also very important to this class.

This course is open to anyone who would like to join. It is not a Regents course but it is a math course that is an option if you would like to continue taking math. Ms. Gannon says there is no part two of this course but she welcomes students that aren't Seniors this year to come back next year to talk about problem solving.

Styrofoam Cup Speaker : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/path-to-stem.html

Other Projects : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/projects.html

Statistic through PBL Page : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/stats-pbl.html

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Greenville Middle School Presents "The Mad Tea Party" November 18, 2016 at 7 p.m. November 19, 2016 at 2 p.m. Greenville Middle/High School Auditorium Tickets: $5.00 Call 518-966-5070 ext 665 For advance ticket sales beginning November 14th Tickets also available at the door! #GHSBlog

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A Day Well-Spent at the Constitutional Convention

By Natalie Wysokowski

On Monday, October 31st, not only were students celebrating Halloween, but a select few were also spending their day acting as political delegates for Mr. Albright's U.S. History and Government class. This is not the first year the Constitutional Convention has taken place, and it's surely not the last. Several students engaged in this all-day event – Nicholas Bucci, Lacie Hotaling, Donal O'Flynn, William Connolly, Jared Spring, Shelby Doren, Maddie Balta, Kaitlyn Stanfield, Madalyn Krasney, Justice Adair, and Gabby Morse. According to Mr. Albright, the purpose of this project is “to help students understand the construction of the constitution.” It's an interesting event that allows students to form their own class government while the “delegates” work together in groups to make decisions such as classroom rights (having the right to eat in class, wear hats, etc.) and understand how to amend the constitution and the overall process of an election. It's a great social opportunity for students as well as an awesome method to expand their knowledge of the development of the U.S. Constitution and its representatives.

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Local law enforcement, and Middle/High Student Council

Police Breakfast:

By Shelby Doren

On October 25, 2016, Greenville held a breakfast to honor local law enforcement. The breakfast was organized by the Student Council. Following the breakfast, Greenville Student Council held a Q&A. Students asked questions like, ”what is the worst part of the job?” and  “what is the schooling you had to go through to get to the position you’re in?” Afterwards, we thanked them for coming and for their service.