
Opening night is less than two weeks away for the River Ridge Middle School production of Secret Garden! In this scene, Colin (Luke Holcomb) talks to Mary (Violet Golden).
The show runs at 6 p.m. on both Thursday, March 27 and Friday, March 28.


It's been a wonderful day of music making at Galena for NUIC conference music festival! Concert starts at 7 tonight! $5 admission for adults and $3 admission for students at Galena Elementary/Middle School!



Dine To Donate is today, March 14! All you need to do is dine at local participating businesses- Woodbine Bend, ETown, Lola's, Small Town Saloon or L & J Bootlegger today and they will donate 10% of the proceeds to River Ridge PTO. Let them make you dinner tonight!


Dear RIVER RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Families!
Our Book Blast event has just a few days left, and the response we’ve had is AMAZING. Thank You!
Already registered? Ensure you have sent at least 10 invitations, so your student qualifies for their prizes and are entered into our drawings!
https://app.booksarefun.com/RiverRidgeES61041
Not registered? There’s still time to get in on the fun, earn books for your student, and have a chance to win a Treasure Chest stuffed with cash. Click the secure link above and invite people who you think would want to help build your student(s) home library.
Remember, 100% of all contributions stay with the school in the form of books for our students, books for our school, and classroom supplies for our teachers.
Thank you for participating and helping us build our students' home libraries!

Congratulations to the FFA Horticulture team on their first place finish last night! Katie Cobine won her third CDE of the year as she placed first overall. Also in the top ten were Natalie Keleher, Sawyer Fry and Ella Dittmar. Nice job everyone, the flower arrangements looked great!










Congratulations, Aizlynn! What an honor!


Thank you to all who could join us for trivia! Here are the winners:


Congratulations to Makenzie Greenwald on being the 3rd quarter STEM winner of the Engineering Challenge. Her tower, built using only spaghetti noddles and marshmallows measured 22 inches high. Nice job!


☀️ ES and MS artwork brightens our hallways with bold and vibrant colors! ☀️
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➊ 6th grade, Line Illusion
➋ 5th grade, Watercolor Portraits
➌ 8th grade, Chalk Form
➍ 5th grade, Watercolor Portraits
➎ 8th grade, Chalk Form
➏ 5th grade, Watercolor Portraits







Congratulations to Laiken Haas on this honor! 🏀


We had a VERY successful day at solo ensemble contest today! The band took first place in our class, and the choir took second in our class! River Ridge is sitting in first place overall in the tournament and the second half of the sweepstakes tournament will take place in Lena in April. A HUGE shout out to our wonderful accompanist Gloria Miner, Mary Steele, and Lana Crandall for playing for us! Without you this would not have been possible! #wildcatsmusicdepartment





The Introduction to Agriculture class is finishing up their unit on soils. They made Soil Dessert to resemble the different soil horizons.





Plants are in the greenhouse! The horticulture class has been hard at work planting the past two weeks. All the greenery makes it seem like spring is in the air!





Austin's Toy Drive has come to an end and boy did River Ridge show up!! Our goal for our school was 300 toys. We reached 627 total toys donated! Since we were the school that had the most toys, Austin and his family will be donating books to our school library (see below).
Way to go Wildcats!!!






Recognize any of the items from the Elementary post and found table? Let us know and we'll send it home!









Congratulations to the class winners of the PE badminton tournament from each class for 3rd-5th grades.
The tournament winners…Jayden and Amia... won the whole badminton tourney! Way to go!



Congratulations, Wildcats, on all-conference awards! 🏀




We are still taking teams! Join us this Friday! Email your team confirmation to mmensendike@riverridge210.org ASAP!


Have you seen the show Crime Scene Kitchen? Foods students investigated what evidence was left behind and then figured out what to make. Groups did a great job looking for clues and completing the baking challenge!











✂️ Recent elem, middle, and high school artwork made with oil pastels, crayons, sand, colored pencils, & tissue paper! ✏️ More artwork is displayed on the wall between the middle and high school hallways (next to the staircase).
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🔴 4th grade, tissue paper landscape
🔵 HS Art 2, geometric sand painting
🟢 7th grade, creature tessellation (puzzle)
🟡 6th grade, shapes composition
🟢 7th grade, fruit basket
🟡 6th grade, scrap paper sunset





