1. Mrs. Mary Evers was named this year’s Outstanding Music Teacher for Indiana by the National Federation of State High School Associations. Click here to read more about this well deserved honor!

https://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2022/01/18/local-choir-director-named-states-outstanding-music-teacher-of-the-year/

2. NEW COVID-19 Quarantine Guidance . . . .For those of you who closely follow the guidance that we receive from the health organizations (Centers for Disease Control, State Department of Health and the Hancock County Health Department), we did receive updated guidance a week ago. This guidance makes allowances for schools to bring students and staff back from exclusions quicker than the conventional time frames. This includes individuals who have tested positive and individuals who have been identified as close contacts. You may reference these changes on our website. We began to implement these options with our staff this week, and we will roll out the changes with our student population starting January 18th. See the attached document found in the download section below for more specific details.

3. NWEA assessments for Grade 7 started on January 20th.

• ELA will test Jan. 20-21
• Science will test Jan. 24-25
• Math will test Jan. 26-27
• Make Ups will occur through Feb. 2

4. Mark your calendars for FEBRUARY 14TH = eLearning Day. Students will not be at school that day but they will have assignments to complete virtually. All teachers in GC will be involved in Professional Development that day. Teachers will have specific office hours available that morning to assist. More information will be shared as we get closer to this date.

5. Are you in need of Food Support? Check out the Food Support Resources 2021-2022 document in the download section below to find locations and times for specific food support.

6. NEW FROM SCHOOLHOUSE.WORLD: Free Tutoring Now Includes 1:1 Math Support Schoolhouse.world recently expanded its free, online tutoring to include 1:1 math homework support for middle and high school students. This peer tutoring is available through Zoom in 20-minute sessions from 8 to 10 p.m. ET on weekdays. This is in addition to free, small-group tutoring currently available in SAT reading, writing, and math, with a math focus on pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, and statistics. Support is also available for AP courses including AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Physics, and AP Computer Science. More information on free tutoring services through Schoolhouse.world is available here.

7. COVID-19 tests: You can get 4 free covid home tests per household using this link. https://special.usps.com/testkits

8. COLD WEATHER WARMING CENTER: A Warming Center is available in Greenfield at The Landing, 18 West South St. The Greenfield Christian Church (22 N. East St.) and the Evangel Church (1221 E. Main St.) will serve as backup sites, as will the Hancock Hope House. The Warming Center is for all individuals and families who may be without safe adequate heat. The Center will be open from 7pm to 8am on nights when the temperature is below 30 degrees or the wind child is below 20 degrees, with flexibility for things like precipitation.

Individuals wishing to volunteer at the warming center are asked to call Jim Peters @ 317-372-2304.

9. Water Bottles . . . friendly reminder that all G-C water fountains have been turned off. Students should bring a sealing water bottle with their name on it. We have refill stations available.

By:Gustavo Contreras

Some of us might already know or not but there is a trip to Washington DC planned. Unfortunately the trip is a 8th grade only thing meaning that no 7th grade is going to be able to go. About 140 students are going to the trip and about 240 are staying. For those that are going to be staying we are not taking a break. Bummer right! We are still going to be learning, but the teachers have planned to not introduce anything new. Talking about teachers 9 of the teachers are also going, so be ready to see subs in your classes. We will still be following the same routine and lunch period. Mr.Sincroft also said there might be a possibility that we choose our seats that day, but nothing is set in stone.

FOOD EDITION

•Raspberries are a member of the rose family

•Apples give you more energy than coffee

•Pistachios are actually fruits

•Caesar salad originated from a Mexican city

•Americans eat approximately 20 million hot dogs a year

•Chocolate chips were invented after the chocolate chip cookie

•It can take from 7 to 21 days to make a jelly bean

•Many shredded cheeses and cereals contain wood pulp

•Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds

•German Chocolate Cake’s origin was in the U.S.

•White chocolate isn’t actually chocolate

•McDonald’s fries were cooked in beef fat until 1990

•Hawaiian pizza didn’t come from Hawaii

•Most wasabi is just horseradish that’s dyed green

•Fruit cake is edible even after 106 years

•On Sesame Street, Cookie Monster's cookies are actually painted

Rice cookies

•Pineapples can take two to three years to grow

•Cashews grow on cashew apples

•Lemons float — but limes sink

•A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto

BY ANNA STUDER

WELCOME TO SCHOOL LUNCH REVIEWS! MY NAME IS ANNA STUDER, AND I AM A FOOD CRITIC. I HAVE BEEN TAKING PHOTOS OF MY LUNCH SINCE THE THIRD MONDAY OF SCHOOL. I don’t want to make the lunch ladies look bad, because they have to make lunch for 600 students a day, and the government won't let them make things that they could last year, so imagine how difficult it must be. THEY WORK SO HARD, AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. I HOPE YOU ENJOY!

I HAVE DISCONTINUED THE RESTAURANT REVIEW BECAUSE MY FAMILY DOES NOT EAT OUT ENOUGH FOR ME TO CONTINUE THIS. THE REASON WE DON’T GET MUCH FAST FOOD IS THAT MY MOM IS AN AMAZING COOK, AND I WOULD RATHER EAT HER FOOD THAN GREASY TAKEOUT. I HOPE YOU ENJOY!

I hope you thought my reviews were somewhat accurate! Thanks for checking out the lunch(and also restaurant) ratings by me, Anna Studer, Food Reviewer. See you next week!

History Segment

Monday

January 24th 1939

On this day a large earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 hit Chile killing over 30,000 people. It lasted over 20 minutes and caused the destruction of over 3,000 homes.

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Tuesday

January 25th 1942

On this day the country of Thailand joined WW2 under the axis powers declaring war on England and the US.

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Wednesday

January 26th 2001

On this day a large earthquake hit Gujarat India killing 20,000 people and injuring 167,000.

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Thursday

January 27th 1945

On this day the concentration camp known as Auschwitz was liberated by soviet troops, over a million people where murdered and at the time of the liberation they saved only 7000.

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Friday

January 28th 1986

On this day in history the Space Shuttle known as Challenger exploded 73 second after liftoff killing the 7 astronauts on board this was the first big failure of the space shuttle and would lead to its retirement in 2011.

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