RR students and staff are asked to wear purple on Thursday (4/20). Donations for the family will also be accepted.
River Ridge Football apparel store is now open.
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This past Friday the High School Band traveled to Stockton to compete in the IHSA Organizational Contest. The band received a Division 2 Rating at contest after 4 years of not attending the Contest! With our combined scores from Solo and Ensemble Contest, we placed 7th in the IHSA Sweepstakes! This is a huge jump from 12th place last year! Congratulations to all of the music department students!
The Human Knot Activity.
The Careers class is practicing their soft skills.
The 7th grade STEM class is working on putting together their toolboxes this week!
Congratulations to senior, Celia Turner, on being named to the NUIC West All-Conference Academic Team. 🏆
What a day for River Ridge:
Today the River Ridge WYSE team competed in the state competition at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Individual team members include Jamie Schnitzler (1st PLACE STATE in Physics), Nick Schnitzler, Celia Turner (4th PLACE STATE in English), Camdyn Bauer (3rd PLACE STATE in Biology) , Lauren Kloss, Sam Grzeslo (5th PLACE STATE in Physics), Avery Engle, Lynnea Groezinger, Micaela Miller, Cora Boop, Arthur Horn, Isaac Rife, Matthew Johnson, and Evie Walters. Overall place for the River Team is not yet known. Congrats River Ridge WYSE team!
Our Fifth graders have just finished an ELA unit on A Midsummers Night Dream by Shakespeare and invited the 4th grade to enjoy their rendition of the play. Students made their costumes, made the backdrop, learned their lines and even dropped some Shakespearean curses ("You acorn! You bean!"). They enjoyed sharing this drama with their peers and everyone enjoyed the show!
The snow tried to fool us, but summer is coming. Check out what Galena ARC is offering this summer for art classes!
River Ridge - Scales Mound baseball tonight (4/17) vs LeWin is going to be cancelled
The 8th graders helped in the greenhouse today getting plants transplanted into baskets. They were great helpers!
Get ready! The Scholastic 2023 Spring Book Fair is here!
The Fair will be open from April 17th – April 19th 8:00 am -3:30 pm, April 20th 8:00 am – 6:30 pm* and April 21st 8:00 am – 1:00 pm at River Ridge School Library.
*SPECIAL EVENT ON APRIL 20TH!! After Book Fair closes at 6:30 ~ come join us in the Commons for a showing of the recording of the MS Jungle Book performance from March 30th!! More information to come!!
Go to https://www.scholastic.com/bf/riverridgeelemschool to learn more about the 2023 SPRING BOOK FAIR
Remember: the MS Student Council is sponsoring a Daddy/Daughter dance on 4/22 at 6pm. Make sure you get your forms and money turned into the office by 4/21/23.
Students in the Animal Science class made up "feed" rations in class today. They had to balance the ration correctly using roughages, concentrates and proteins and then mixed up the feed after finding out its cost.
Sunshine and wiffle ball makes for great days in PE!
On Monday, April 17th, the River Ridge High School Academic Challenge Team (WYSE) will be traveling to EIU in Charleston to compete at the state level. The Academic Challenge is a competition between schools from across the state of Illinois in the content areas of English, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Graphics, and Computer Science. To get to this level, the team won Regionals at Highland Community College and placed 3rd in Sectionals in Dekalb at NIU. Team members include: Nick Schnitzler, Micaela Miller, Jamie Schnitzler, Celia Turner, Avery Engle, Lauren Kloss, Sam Grzeslo, Arthur Horn, Isaac Rife, Matthew Johnson, Cora Boop, Camdyn Bauer, Lynnea Groezinger, and Evie Walters. Good luck River Ridge WYSE Team!
Nice weather is here and we love seeing the kids outside playing, please be aware of ticks!
Please nominate a River Ridge senior for this scholarship!
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Last call for 22-23 yearbooks! Orders are due tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12. Payments can be made via RevTrak or sent in to Mrs. Laity.
We hope you're enjoying the last day of spring break. Here's a reminder that the traffic pattern will be different tomorrow at school due to construction.
No vehicle traffic is allowed around back to elementary. That means no buses, no tardy students, no early pick ups.
All elementary students, including preschool, will be dropped off and picked up at the Commons.
Tell your friends, tell the grandparents, tell your partners!
