Pennsylvania Department of Education Announces Keystone Achievment Awards

Green Woods Charter School Recognized, once again, for academic excellence!

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October, 2008 Wetlands Adventure!
As a direct extension to their year-long focus on environmental concepts,our 3rd and 4th grade students traveled to the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, New Jersey to learn more about the ocean and marsh habitats. The day began with a beach scavenger hunt where students explored the jetty, sand, and ocean current looking for living things that rely on the marsh and ocean habitats to fulfill their basic needs. Students discovered many creatures - great and small - and learned about the special adaptations each has for life in the marsh and ocean.

This exciting adventure was a culminating activity for our 3rd graders who are finishing up their year by studying birds and the specific characteristics and adaptations each has to help them fly, eat, and navigate. Our amateur ornithologists know that some birds migrate thousands
of miles - many stopping along the shore to gain much needed nourishment.

For our fourth grade aquatic ecologists, this trip was an opportunity to see how the fresh water in the Smith's Run (the stream at our school that they study all year) makes its way to the Schuylkill - the Delaware - and eventually the brackish marsh and the salty ocean. They also get to see, first hand, the many life forms that live at the beach. Third grade teacher, Juli Vitello, commented that the Wetlands Institute educators were truly impressed by the knowledge of our students. "The educators were blown away by what our kids know about the environment."

Green Woods would like to thank the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for granting us the funds to support this incredible learning experience for our students.

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May 4, 2007
Earth Day 2007 was a glorious day at Green Woods Charter School! The weather was perfect, our students were focused on the task at hand and our parents came out, in force, to help us restore the environment that our children utilize each day as an outdoor classroom. Our entire community enjoyed an awesome assembly by award-winning author Jane Kirkland. We raked, hoed, moved boulders, planted, cleaned up, and removed invasive species to help give our native plants a better chance to grow and thrive. We even enjoyed picnic lunches with family and friends. Most importantly, we did it together. Green Woods would like to extend a hearty thank you to Peachy Kleen for helping to sponsor this event. Thanks, too, to our friends and partners at SCEE for providing their expertise to our students, parents, and staff. Our 2nd Annual Earth Day, Day of Service to the Environment was a huge success because everyone pitched in to lend a helping hand. True to this year’s Earth Day slogan, we really were “lean, green, planting machines.”
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September 13, 2006 - Secretary McGinty announced that Green Woods Charter School has been awarded a Pennsylvania DEP Environmental Education Grants award in the amount of $10,000. The funds will be used to purchase materials to support our environmental education curriculum.

July 6, 2006 - Green Woods is selected as one of the Pennsylvania Environment and Ecology Exemplary School District Programs for 2006 by the Department of Education, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Council for Environmental Education....
Exemplary Award Letter from the Department of Education

In May, Robert E. Baker, Jr, Regional Director for the U. S. Department of Education came to Green Woods Charter School to present to us an award for our outstanding teaching and learning and for our commitment to academic achievement, accountability, and innovation.  As part of National Charter School Week, 2006, the President of the United States wanted to send a direct message to charter schools that he appreciates our nation's charter schools, teachers, and administrators.