Beautiful Weather for a Field Trip

     What a beautiful day we had for our field trip to Notre Dame!  Both tours were great and the kids were very well behaved!  Lunch was wonderful as always and the students did a very nice job cleaning up after themselves and behaving properly in the dining hall.  We are very proud of them even the behavior on the bus was good.  Two former PHS students helped organize our tours of the campus and they were a great source of inspiration for our students. 
     School is winding down but we still have some work to be done.  Please continue to encourage your student to finish the year strong!  We will have our final virtual day this Saturday.  Look for the information to come home Thursday about the final requirements.  These assignments will be due next Tuesday.

  Enjoy this warm weather and these fun photos from Notre Dame!

PROUD!

    We could not be prouder of all of our students this week!  They worked hard on their ISTEP tests and they put on a GREAT performance with their American Revolution Play!  We were all so thrilled with the job that they did from stage crew to individual performances.  We hope that you were able to attend one of their performances.  There is a form going home in the Monday folders with information on ordering a DVD copy of the play!  We sold these last year and the money we collected, after expenses, went to help us get needed supplies for the end of last year and the beginning of this year.  We are planning on doing the same thing this year.  It was a night to remember!  We have a few photos but a lot of them did not turn out very well with trying to video and take photos.  If you got any really good photos please send them our way.  We would love to add them to our collection.
     We have only 21 school days left and they are jammed packed full of activities!  We go to Notre Dame this Thursday and are hoping for a nice weather day!  If you are chaperoning for us look for a letter in the Monday folders about the trip! 
     With the end of school quickly approaching we would love your help in continuing to encourage your students to put their best efforts in to make sure we end this year on a great note!  Thanks for all of your help! 

Performance Week!

     What a busy week we have coming up!  ISTEP starts tomorrow and our play is on Tuesday!  We will be testing each day this week Monday through Thursday.  Please help us by encouraging your children to do their very best!  

     We had our Mock Trial on Thursday of this past week and our kids were great!  The judge said that they were very well behaved and was impressed with our participants.  We are very proud of them.  We can't wait for you to all see their hard work come our on Tuesday for our play.  We need the students at school around 5:30 so we can be ready to go at 6:00pm on Tuesday!  

     Here are some photos of our practice and the Mock Trail!  Have a great week! 

Busy Week/Busy Month

    Well, we are in the midst of one of the busiest times of our school year.  This week we have our Mock Trial and we are working hard at having our play ready by next Tuesday.  Next week is our final round of ISTEP for this year and our play/music program.  The students have really been stepping up and we have seen great improvement in their scenes.  We are excited to see costumes coming in this week and to see the change each time they practice. 
    The play will be performed for the student body on Tuesday, April 28th at 1:45 and then again that evening at 6:00 pm.  This is the music program for our team as well as our play so all students need to attend each of the performances.  We would like the students to report to their homerooms on Tuesday evening by 5:30 so we can make sure we are all ready to go at 6:00.  Thanks for your help with this event.
    Our second virtual make up day is now over and we have had very good participation.  We appreciate all of the parental help with making sure that this was a success.  We have one more in May and our final snow make up day will be a day added to the end of the school year.  The last student day for Riverside students will be June 2nd.  (PHS students last day will be June 3rd).
    Our Notre Dame field trip will be May 7th and we have had a great response and have reached our limit for chaperones.  If you did not send your form and money in yet and you were wanting to go, we can put you on a wait list if we have some seats open up.  Just contact your students home room teacher. 
     Have a great week.

Congrats to Billy Sanchez our 5th grade Spelling Champion

 Practice time

 Last Week's Exploration fun

April is Here!

     Well, it looks like it is finally spring!  We are entering into the crazy busy time of year for everyone.  We are busy working on our play, which we will be presenting on April 28th.  Please talk to your student about what they are doing for their costume if they need one.  This should be a lot of fun! 
     We have some field trips coming up.  We will be going to the Marshall County Court House on April 23 for our LEAD trial.  We have been having speakers in to talk to us about different aspects of our legal system.  LEAD stands for Legal Education to Arrest Delinquency.  This is a great program that ends with a Mock Trial.  Our big field trip is a trip to Notre Dame on May 7th.  We are able to take parents to this trip but per a new school board policy parents must ride the bus with us.  Look for permission slips to come home soon.  We will number the parent volunteers as they come in and will take them first come first served.  (We are able to have 20 parents for our team.)  This is a fun trip but a lot of walking. 
    We are having our Explorations this week and this is something students really look forward to each year.  That will make this week go even faster. 
    We had our first virtual day this weekend with our next one this coming weekend.  Students must have their work completed by Tuesday of this week to count for our first day.  Thanks for your help in making things run smoothly.  We did not get many questions over this first week's assignments and it seems like the students who worked on their assignments over the weekend did a nice job and got their work completed.  We still have some students that need to finish and we hope that by Tuesday they are all done! 
      Next week, Echo is going to be going through an update from Friday evening at 9:00p.m. until Saturday evening.  Due to the Echo issue our PBL students will have until Wednesday of next week to turn in their virtual work.  We will make sure students have the information they need so that they can work on most of their work on Saturday they will just not be able to access Echo.    We appreciate your help and know that we are just an email or Google Doc away to help answer questions. 

    Have a great week!