March is Here!

    Well, I hope that the crazy weather we saw last week counts as March coming in like a lion.  I am ready for it to go out like a lamb.  Last week we saw some great progress on our Revolutionary War Play,  The official date of our play is going to be Thursday, April 3rd and our evening performance will be a 6:30.  This counts for their music grade as well as we are tying it all together.  (Our team did not do a Christmas program so we worked with Mrs. Briles to tie both the play and a music program in together.  We will have a dress rehearsal during the day for the other Riverside Students as well.
    Another important date is our night at the Silver Hawks for those students who participated in that reading program.  Our date is May 10th and the game starts at 7:05.  Students who participated will receive a slip with a phone number to call to reserve tickets to the game.  The student ticket is free and other family members can purchase tickets at this time as well.  This is only for the date of May 10th.  Transportation to the game is not provided.  We would love to see lots of families up at the game.  It is always fun to see our students outside of the school setting.
     We will be taking the first part of the ISTEP test starting on Monday.  We will be testing on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of this week.  We will be testing each morning until about 10:00 am.  Please make sure your student is here at school and on time so that they can test in their classroom setting.
     On Wednesday, we will be having Junior Achievement for the Day!  (This day was scheduled way before we missed 10 days of school this winter !) This is a new program and we are very excited to be having community partners come in and help us with this day.  Students will be going through the Junior Achievement program for their grade level throughout that morning.  Each classroom has two community members who have been trained and will be leading these hands-on activities. 
     Achieve 3000 and Riverside READS is still going strong!  Please encourage your students to be working on these weekly.
    We here at Riverside work hard and we also like to have some fun.  Last Thursday we had an ISTEP pep rally and we had a visit from Captain ISTEP and his side kick Test Buster!  It was a lot of fun!  On Friday, we had a Relay For Life kick off!  The sixth grade is doing this project for the rest of the school year.  They have invited the fifth grade to join in on some of the activities they are planning.  Former PHS student and cancer survivor Eric Day spoke to the students as well as the Marshall County Relay for Life director.  After that we had a cutest couple contest with some teacher pairs.  This was so much fun and the kids really enjoyed it.  This week students will be able to vote for the "cutest" couple with their change in jars outside of the office.  All money collected will go toward the schools donation to Relay for Life.
     Have a great week!

Here are some photos from this fun week!