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.

Flats River Run ( community building and love of activitiy)

What a great run. Despite the cold Riverside Students were out in full force for the Flats River Run.

Monsters Continue to Grow

The grade 5/6 and grade 1/2 class are continuing their monster making. The classes have been working through how to draw sections of their monsters. Check out some of the great artists we have at Riverside School.

Reading Buddies - all about leadership and community

The grade 3/4 develop and model leadership and literacy skills with the grade 1/2 class. Using Kagan structures students are filling buckets of their school mates.

Happy Birthday Ms. Klaudt- (community building)

Happy Birthday Day to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday Ms. Klaudt, Happy Birthday to you!

Talk about a great way to build community. Today the Riverside community wished Ms.Klaudt a happy birthday by giving her a marble- you need to ask Ms. Klaudt why marbles and how many.
Thank you students and staff for playing along with the day.

Grade 3/4 getting ready for their Mold Gardens

We have worms in our room and now we are creating a Mold Garden! What will Miss Hall come up with next. It will be fun to see what grows the most mold and is all mold green?

Getting Started on Some Projects- Monsters

This year the grade 1 and 5/6 class have a half an hour of time to explore and create. This first project is about Monsters- Last week we read stories and watched a video about monsters. This week we were learning draw and create our monsters. Cannot wait to see what the next steps are to this project.