River Ridge CUSD 210

I am SOOOOOOOO PROUD. Of the growth, and the time and the dedication the high schoolers put into solo and ensemble this year. With our current point totals, we are SECOND IN THE STATE for IHSA Music Sweepstakes. Students earn points based on their division ratings at solo and ensemble and large group. WAY TO GO WILDCAT MUSIC DEPARTMENT!!!!!

On Saturday, March 2nd, five members of the middle school academic team traveled to Rockford to compete in the Bergstrom Stateline Quiz Bowl Jr Edition competition. It came down to the final question to break the tie with Rockford Lutheran edging out River Ridge to answer the final question to get the win. Well done Brogan Grube, Samuel Cobine, Brock Turner, Christian Morhardt, and Jason Lucas. On June 15-16 you can watch the exciting River Ridge game on WTVO-TV and FOX 39! Stopped at Culver's for ice cream on our way home.

Galena Kiwanis River Trail Run.

Happy Friday, Wildcats! Check out March's edition of the MS/HS counselor's newsletter, which includes lots of important upcoming dates, a flyer for the junior college information night, and more! https://sites.google.com/riverridge210.org/counselorscorner/home

The FFA Vet Science team placed 2nd in the Section One CDE! Kudos to Laiken Haas and Nick Cobine on making it into the top 10 ranking as individuals. They have a great start to their possible future career as veterinarian's! The members of our 2nd place team included Lu as Holland, Sawyer Fry, Cora Rotchie and Nick Cobine.

Middle School and High School students are learning CPR this week. If your student wants to be certified send $7 payable to River Ridge. The certificate is good for 2 years.

The Introduction to Agriculture class made "dirt dessert" in class today as a part of the soils unit. Oreos, pudding and chocolate chips represented the different soil horizons.

Mr. Downs World Geography visuals

The delivery date for the FFA strawberries has been set for Tuesday March 12th. The truck will be here direct from Florida that morning and we will have the orders organized and ready to go by the afternoon. Please make arrangements to get your berries picked up that day!

Save the date! Elementary Poetry Jam is coming on Wednesday, April 10 6:00 p.m. Look for more details soon!

YAY!!!! We made it to our goal!!! We are at 107 lbs of crayons and counting! Thanks to everyone who donated...now we are going to try for 200 lbs! Thank you for helping us help the thecrayoninitiative.org. Keep those crayons coming!

Congratulations to our NUIC West Boys Basketball 2nd team all conference players Joe Winter and Damon Dittmar. The River Ridge Boys Basketball team was also selected for the Sportsmanship Award for the 2nd year in a row.

3-5th grades had a badminton tournament today and these two happy 5th graders won! Congratulations!

Tickets for tonight's (2/27) Sectional Semifinal are now open to the public Eastland vs South Beloit 7:00 Doors Open at 6:00 https://gofan.co/app/school/IL16255

Don't forget that you can still turn your used crayons in to any 3rd grader. We are well over our half-way mark, help us meet our goal of collecting 100 lbs of crayons for the Crayon Initiative!! Thank you!!

The FFA Chapter ended National FFA Week activities with the traditional hay bale toss. Lucas Holland won in the men's division with a throw of 22 feet and Graci Vanderheyden won in the ladies division with 11'8".

It’s concert time at Highland Community College! Cora Boop, Ian Wachter, and Mr. Dickman are performing on the small ensemble recital!

High school students are beginning new independent projects in Art class.

The FFA officers were busy cooking this morning for the Staff Appreciation Breakfast! They made scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, and biscuits n' gravy.

We had the tug-o-war contest and played musical buckets for our National FFA week activity today! Avery Engle was the last one standing to win in musical buckets. We also did a quizbowl competition where the freshmen trounced the other classes to take home top honors this year.