As a school of choice in Community Consolidated School District 59 the Ridge Family Center for Learning has always operated on a balanced calendar. We have the same amount of attendance days as other schools, but start our year three weeks earlier than the other schools in our district. The 2018-19 school year began July…
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Family Day Starts the 2018-19 School Year
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Family Day starts the 2018-19 school year
Posted on July 30, 2018As a school of choice in Community Consolidated School District 59 the Ridge Family Center for Learning has always operated on a balanced calendar. We have the same amount of attendance days as other schools, but start our year three weeks earlier than the other schools in our district. The 2018-19 school year began July…
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Week of May 9-13
Posted on May 15, 2016Highlights of our week: Ms. Schaus, a medical engineer and Nathan’s Mother, visited our Classroom on Monday morning. She talked about the importance of planning, building and testing projects and then evaluating the project to see if it can be improved and then planning, building and testing the project again. The kindergarteners planned, built and…
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Week of April 25-29
Posted on April 29, 2016Highlights of the week: In addition to activities that you saw in the photos for the week, this week we also began working on a new writing project, that of writing a How To Book! We also spent some time this week working on gifts for our kindergarten Mothers for the Mother’s Tea on Tuesday,…
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Mother’s day tea party is coming
Posted on April 19, 2016The invitations and what your child will need to bring comes home today. Please fill out the invitation and send it back and please buy the item or items on the need supply paper and send them in by the Tuesday of the Tea. The mother’s day tea party has been a tradition for the…
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How strong is a column?
Posted on April 15, 2016We tried to balance books on a paper column shaped like a triangle, a square and a circle. Which one held the most books? Try it at home and find out.
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Tower Building Challenge
Posted on April 15, 2016Our tower challenge today was to build the tallest tower using sticks, plastic cup and the base had to be 1 small square block. After much trail and error, many kiddos were able to stack at least 3 or 4 cups some even 6!
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Publishing Party!!!
Posted on April 15, 2016Wednesday we completed our familiar character books and we were able to read them to the other students at our publishing party. We read a few of the original books we wrote and then our student guest left us wonderful comments about our work. Thank you to 1st grade, 2nd grade, 4th and 5th grade…
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All about Blueprints
Posted on April 15, 2016We continued to talk about how to build houses and the work and planning that goes into constructing buildings. We looked at some famous blue prints and then created our own blue prints. Then we were able to build our structures using our blue prints. I have some very creative kiddos.
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Welcome Chef Koegel
Posted on April 15, 2016Thank you to Chef Koegel for coming to our cooking enrichment group to talk about his job. He brought his tools and we learned all about what it takes to be a chef.
