First Week of March "In Like a Lion?"

    We had a busy week here at Riverside.  On Monday, we were recognized by the Indiana Middle Level Education Association as a "School to Watch" for the second time since becoming a school.  We are the only Intermediate school out of 10 middle schools in the state that were given this re-designation honor this year.  We had several speakers and hopefully you saw the shirts the students wore home on Monday that we were all given as part of the celebration.  We also had an ISTEP pep rally after the ceremony.  We had a special visit from Captain ISTEP and his side kick Test Buster.  We had some fun with them and they passed on some good tips for the students about taking the ISTEP test.
    Tuesday was an unexpected icy day home and then we spent the rest of the week with a weird schedule completing the first round of ISTEP testing for this year.  We feel like most of the students really worked hard on these first few tests.  We have another round of ISTEP testing in May as well.  We just want to encourage the kids to always do their best!
    We are in the full swing of writing the scenes for the students play on the American Revolution.  This takes some work and some compromising and that is something that most people and fifth graders need work on.  As we get further in this process we will let you know the date of our production so you can all come and watch!
    Two weeks until Spring Break and it is finally starting to seem like Spring outside!  Have a great week!