Greenfield Middle School

Congratulations to Brooklyn Raike for winning the Write in Red: Red Ribbon Week Essay Contest. Brooklyn will receive a $100 cash prize, and be eligible for one of the five countywide $500 scholarships. Great job, Brooklyn!

Last week's favorite Positive Office Referral of the Week recipient is Rylee Fabin. Mrs. Baldridge reported that Rylee makes sure to include other students in various classroom activities and is always a joy to be around! Great job, Rylee!

🇺🇸 NATIONAL FFA CONVENTION! 🔬💙💛

GMS FFA members traveled to Indianapolis this past week to represent Greenfield on the national stage at the National FFA Convention! Congratulations to our National Agriscience Fair finalists on their outstanding results! 🏆

🥈 Julia King | Food Processing & Products, Division 1 | 2nd in the Nation!

🏅 Liam Penn & Noah Hales | Food Processing & Products, Division 2 | 9th in the Nation!

🏅 Rooker Stark | Plant Systems, Division 2 | 9th in the Nation!

These students represented research projects from the 2025–2026 school year, showcasing their dedication, hard work, and passion for agricultural science.

🌱 Interested in competing in the future?! Any current GMS FFA members in 7th and 8th grade, please message Mrs. Guthrie on ParentSquare as those projects will be starting next week!

We are so proud of these students and can’t wait to see the next generation of Greenfield FFA members take the national stage! 🐅

GMS is celebrating Red Ribbon Week next week! Please encourage your child to dress up to show their dedication to being drug free!

This past Monday, Ms. Lagorio's class visited BTG Legacy Ranch in New Vienna. They enjoyed an afternoon riding horses, taking a hay ride, and walking in a corn maze. Our hosts, Ben and Calyx, provided hot dogs, chips, and delicious hot cider for us. Everyone enjoyed learning about horses, practicing how to lasso, playing with Grub, and snuggling with all of the kittens. Students learned about different jobs related to agriculture and animals, as well. We had a fantastic day!

Congratulations to the middle school students who earned honor roll and/or perfect attendance for the first nine weeks!

Please take a minute to review the October edition of the GMS Paws*itive Press!

This week's Positive Office Referral is Lyric Six. Miss Jaycox reported that Lyric is extremely polite, hard working, helpful to her peers, and always has a smile on her face. Great job, Lyric!

💗 WEAR YOUR PINK! 💗

Let's support McClain High School and help us win the T-Mobile Sweepstakes! Wear your pink tomorrow, and then join us for FREE admission to tomorrow night's football game! 🏈💗

That's right! All attendees for the October 9 varsity football game get in for FREE! T-Mobile is bringing a GREAT time to the game tomorrow night, and we want YOU there for the fun AND to support our students!

Let's fill the stands, show our Tiger pride, and make some noise for McClain!
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Sometimes, doing the right thing isn’t easy, but Colton didn’t let that stop him. He embraced a challenge, trusted his judgment, and chose to do what he knew was right.

Great job, Colton, for demonstrating such strong character and truly standing up for what’s right! We’re proud of you!

Ms. Lagorio's class visited Karnes Orchard on Wednesday. They learned about apple trees and how to take care of them as well as learning the correct way to pick an apple. Students then got to pick their own apple. Each student also interviewed an employee at Karnes Orchard to learn about their job and to see if they might be interested in that job field. A picnic lunch was enjoyed as well. Next week, students will be cooking a variety of foods with apples as the main ingredients, using apples from our local orchard.

Students in Ms. Reed’s and Mrs. Stockdale’s ELA classes participated in a Writers Workshop as they worked on their multi-paragraph argumentative essays. Their topic was, “Are teens too old to trick-or-treat?” 🎃 Students learned how to state a clear claim and choose a side, use evidence from the passages to support their claim, and explain how their evidence supports their reasons. They also worked on organizing their writing into clear paragraphs, including an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It was the perfect day for writing in ELA! ✏️📚🎃

The GMS PTO needs help! All GMS parents are welcome to attend!

On Thursday, Ms. Lagorio's class spent the day at the Highlands Nature Sanctuary, the oldest and largest preserve in the Arc of Appalachia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the beauty and biodiversity of Ohio's wildlands. Students began the day by creating their own tree and leaf identification booklet, which included making leaf rubbings of the leaves found around the Appalachian Forest Museum. This was led by one of the naturalist guides at the preserve. Students then hiked the Valley of the Ancients trail that brought them to a cave they were able to explore. Later in the day they explored a smaller, much more narrow cave, and also got to meet the resident box turtle. It was a fantastic day!

🧱✨ Turning Literature Into LEGO! ✨🧱 8th grade ELA students recently took their learning from the page to the real world with a little creativity and a LOT of LEGO! After studying “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Rise Up” by Andra Day, students explored the connections between the two pieces—including their shared themes, tone, mood, and symbolism. Then came the fun part: building those connections! 🧱 Students designed LEGO creations that physically represented a connection between the two works. The goal wasn’t simply to build something that looked cool—it was to make their thinking visible and explain how their creation connected back to the texts. It was so fun to see how many different ways our students interpreted the same ideas. Their creativity, collaboration, and ability to turn abstract literary concepts into something tangible were on full display! Here are some of their connections! 👇✨

🐄🐖🐑🐐 Brown County Fair Livestock Judging Competition! Our Greenfield School FFA members recently participated in the Brown County Fair Livestock Judging Competition! Members evaluated eight classes of livestock plus a market grid, including market and breeding pigs, beef cattle, sheep, and goats. Congratulations to our top finishers! Knox McNeal — 3rd Overall Junior Livestock Judger 🥉 3rd Place Goats Zach Zint — 4th Overall Junior Livestock Judger 🥇 1st Place Pigs 🥈 2nd Place Sheep Thank you for representing McClain FFA and putting their livestock evaluation skills to work! Great job, Tigers! 💙💛🐯

Congratulations to Paisley Sword who was last week's Favorite Positive Office Referral. Paisley received TWO Positive Office Referrals in the same week for continuously growing in ELA and math. Paisley takes pride in her work, and it's showing. Fantastic job, Paisley! Enjoy that McDonald's gift card!

Miss Williams' 7th grade art students teamed up with Mrs. Dyer and Mrs. Beatty’s 7th grade math students and put scale factor into practice! After learning about scale factor in math, students in art were each given a piece of a puzzle with the task of upscaling the design by 3 to create their own section of a collaborative mural. Students had to carefully map out where each color belonged and bring their designs to life using oil pastels. This project challenged students to use math, problem-solving, planning, collaboration, and artistic skills all at once! It was so fun to watch all of their individual pieces come together to create one big work of art! 🎨✨

Our 7th grade Food Science students got hands-on with pickle production! From collecting fresh cucumbers from a local farmer to creating their own pickle recipes, students experienced the food science process from start to finish. After making their pickles, students evaluated their creations like real food scientists, using sensory characteristics such as taste, texture, aroma, and appearance to analyze their finished products! A little science, a lot of teamwork, and plenty of pickled cucumbers! 🥒🧪