
No school Monday! Have a great Labor Day weekend! We work and then we play hard at Green Forest!

MAP score reports and student-set goals are going home with students today. Please discuss these with your student. Sign the report and return it to your student’s teacher. Our Mustangs performed exceptionally well! We are so proud and will be celebrating next Friday!

The Salem R-80 School District has asked us to share these expectations of all students at any home football game this year. Please review this list if you or your child plan to attend.


Here are some important dates of events happening in September.
5 – Labor Day (No School)
9 – 4/5 Basketball vs. Northwood
12 – 4/5 Basketball vs. Dent Phelps
13 – 4/5 Basketball @ Oakhill
19-20 – 4/5 Basketball Tourn. @ Green Forest
19 – Picture Day


The kindergartners received the first Book Blessing and Mustang Family Activity this month. Our families have already put them to good use! “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” Emilie Buchwald



Fifth Grade Science collaboration


We are happy campers at lunchtime! Thank you, Theresa and Cary!



Our main phone line still appears to be out. Our other lines appear to be operational. The phone numbers for those lines are 729-9412 and 729-2452. They can also be found on the bottom of our website.

Our phone lines at the school are not operational at the moment due to the weather. To contact the office please call 573-247-3113 or 573-247-0757

A link to the new TeacherEase Parent Portal is now on the website. Click the menu at the top and you can find the link under the Quick Links heading. If you still need your account setup, email Mr. Prugh at cprugh@gfr2.k12.mo.us.

Short parent meeting for 4th and 5th grade basketball this evening. We will meet right after practice at 5:00. Thank you

Green Forest picture day has been moved to September 19th! Order before Picture Day to receive free shipping to the school. Order online at inter-state.com/order and enter Order Code 72577CF.


The first PTO and Fall Title 1 meeting will take place Monday, August 29th at 5:00 PM in the cafeteria.

We discovered that the system charged $.05 more for lunch yesterday than it should have. We have fixed the issue in the system and refunded $.05 into the accounts of all students who were incorrectly charged. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we integrate our new system.

More first day pictures!





We had a great first day at Green Forest!





We can’t wait to have our Mustangs back in the building tomorrow!! We are ready! Doors open at 7:30. Breakfast is served from 7:30-8. School starts at 8!





4th and 5th Grade basketball practice starts this Thursday, the 25th. Practice concludes at 5:00. Parent meeting is scheduled for the following Monday, September 29th, at 5:15.


The office will be closed tomorrow. If you need to contact the school for any reason please email cprugh@gfr2.k12.mo.us or call or text 573-247-3113. Thank you.

Green Forest R-2 will have an Open House on Monday, August 22nd from 6-8 pm. If you were unable to complete registration last week, please plan on completing it at Open House. We had over 100 students registered last week, and we are so grateful to those who attended. Also, the 2022-23 school year will begin on Wednesday, August 24th. We can't wait to see everyone!