ART SMART- (creative expression)

Fridays are great days for being creative. Grade ones are exploring their Art Smarts. Look at the smiles!

Pizza with the Principal for November - citizenship and TRIBES

Congratulations to Madea, Elle, Skyla and Mason for being great role models for our citizenship and TRIBES. These students have been working very hard on their academics as well as their personal best. It is such a pleasure to get to know you better! Keep up the great work!

A library is more than a place to return and pick up books- ( creating learning environments and learning opportunities)

Thank your Mr. Albano for helping us create a space for learning not just returning books. We have a learning lounge now not "just a library".  Students are spending more and more time in the learning lounge and it is not just because of our wonderful selection of books. We have a maker space now! Mr. Albano is finding challenges for our students. Students are also exploring litereature with challenges as well. Where has reading taken you is a challenge to fill the world map with pins that locate the settings in our stories. Students also recommend books for other students. With Ms. J in the learning lounge after lunch, Mr. Albano in during the morning and Mrs. Rae as our guest reader to grade one class. Our learning lounge is also a place for small groups to gather to do work.



What is Celebration of Learning? ( crating partnerships and community, sharing success)

Celebration of learning is what we used to call student led conferences. After a lot of thought and discussion we really figured out that the purpose was for the students to celebrate with their parents what they have learned so far in the year. It is so wonderful to see students being able to explain and demonstrate their learning.

It was a Minion Kind of Halloween (learning can be fun- MI afternoons- citizenship, leadership and fun)



Safety Patrollers of the Month- (Responsibility, leadership)

Congratulations to Thomas, Elle and Desiree for being our safety patrollers of the month for September, October and November. Have a great time at your pizza party with the other patrollers from the city.
Your commitment to keeping our students and community safe is greatly appreciated.

Tigers surprise the Patrollers

Today at Lunch the Medicine Hat Tigers stopped by to eat lunch and have a great game of floor hockey. What a nice surprise for our hard working kids.

What do teacher's do in their free time? Read of Course! (Love of Learning)

What are teachers at Riverside Learning about this year. Our books have arrived. Teachers will be reading these books and participating in google classroom activities. We are looking forward to the learning as well as the new ideas that we can use to help develop the three E's that Alberta Learning is working towards.

Monsters Continued ( creating learning opportunities, leadership, following directions, fine motor skills, creativity)

First we would like to thank all the parents who helped us with so many supplies for this projects. The students have come up with what they think a monster would look like, they have drawn it, wrote about it, talked about and are now starting to create it.. Here is a snapshot of what some of them are up to.

The skills that these students are learning will be with them forever: how to cut fabric (yes it is harder than paper), how do we pin the pattern on the fabric, what if I do not follow the steps- will everything go wrong? Life lessons in the making. Great work so far grade 1,5,6.

MI Afternoon- What can we learn from Literature (leadershiip, working in groups, building community)

Today was our very first MI afternoon of the new school year. We were read Ben and the Buccaneers by Joel. Joel was representing Cenovus Energy. Cenovus is a partner in Literacy and today we were sharing with them how Literature can spark many interests, questions and debates. We would like to thank Cenovus for their generous support.

Pizza with the Principal (citizenship, TRIBES)

TRIBES is a big part of our school culture. Four students were acknowledged for being exceptional TRIBE members not just in their classes but also in our school. Destin, Serena, Grace and Masen all caught being attentive listeners, showing mutual respect and doing their personal best. What a wonderful way to spend a lunch hour; getting to know four students really well. Love it!

Welcome to our Community (volunteers help our community)

Riverside School would like to thank Mr. Albano and Mrs. Rae for volunteering in our Library. This is a big task and we are very thankful for all the expert help that you are giving our community.

How do teachers do it? ( adapting for more small group time with teacher when we have large classes)

The staff at Riverside is very talented and always looking for ways to give students individual attention during math. Daily Five is one way to have students directly with teachers while other are working by with a partner (depending on the rotation). Students have fun, students learn independence, teachers give lots of formative assessment and during all this time the Students are learning Math and Language Arts.