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March 3, 2024

March is the month to focus on reading!  Last week we celebrated Read Across America with some special reading activities.  This week and next we begin the IREAD state testing for our 2nd and 3rd graders.  In third grade we transition from learning to read to reading to learn.  It takes all of us together to develop great readers and at home parents can help right from the start by reading aloud to your child.  For more information on the importance of reading to your child (no matter the age!) and some activities to continue your focus as a family on reading, please visit this website:  https://readaloud.org/21daychallenge.html.   A great way to build a read aloud library at home is to sign up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at  https://imaginationlibrary.com/. Parents can sign up for any child age birth to 5 and the Clark County program will send you free quality read alouds to share with your child on a regular basis to help build a rich vocabulary right from birth.  If you don’t have any children in your household below the age of 5 to sign up for this program, children of any age can sign up for a library card from the Jeffersonville Public Library: https://jefflibrary.org/using-the-library/.  Remember the more you read the better reader you become!

Track Season coming soon! 

Track will be open to any student grades 3-5 interested in running.  The permission slip is due back March 15.  Practices begin April 1 right after spring break. 2024 Girls & Boys Track Information

Car Rider Line

Here are some reminders which will really help in keeping our car rider lines efficient:

• In the morning only- the line will be directed to pull all the way down past the car rider slots to begin unloading cars.  Please have your child ready to exit your car when you stop along the sidewalk.  Please pull all the way down (even when it is raining).
• Right turns only allowed.  Please make a right turn into the lot and a right turn leaving the lot.  This helps the flow of traffic for everyone.
• Reminder that anyone with a student in Prek or Ms. Klink’s classroom should be in the Prek line.  Deliver your other students with your Prek student.  You only need to go through ONE line.

PTO News:

The PTO will be sponsoring a Papa John’s night on Thursday, March 7.  Fliers will be sent home this week and posted on the RIverside PTO Facebook page.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

Lunch Menu     March 2024 – Elementary.pptx

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Wrestling Summer Camp

GCCS Art Show 2024 (Flyer).jpg

Wrestling season changes:

Competition at JHS on March 6 on JHS

March 7 practice at their home school

March 11 MAIN EVENT at JHS

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Mar. 4: Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm;  Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm; Chess til 4:30 pm

Tuesday,  Mar. 5: Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm;  Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm;

Wednesday, Mar. 6: Wrestling Tourney at JHS at 6 pm;  Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm; Chess til 4:30 pm

Thursday, Mar. 7:  Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm;  Chess til 4:30 pm

Friday, Mar. 8:  Consort practice til 4:30; Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm

February 25, 2024

This week is ‘Read Across America’ week.  Our students will be reading with buddy classes on Friday and participating in a few other activities to highlight reading.  This is a great week to take a moment to sit with your student and read a book.  Ask your student what their favorite book is or share your own favorite story from your childhood.  The more you read the better reader you become and that includes listening to read alouds!  Encourage your student to spend time every day practicing reading! On Friday we will wear Silly Socks and shirts with words to read! Check out our full  list of activities:  Copy of 2024 Read Across America Day

February 29- LEAP DAY! (wear green…spring is coming soon!) 

Spring Class Pictures are Mar. 1, 2024 

Yearbook Sales Ending soon! 

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

PTO Activities

Thank you to our PTO for sponsoring a bus driver appreciation day last Thursday.  All of our bus drivers and van drivers received a special breakfast.  Also, our window screens were put up on the primary entrance doors.  They look awesome!  You can help support our PTO activities by participating in their restaurant night this week on Tuesday, Feb. 27 from 10:30 am-10:00 pm at Rapid Fired Pizza located at 1645 Veterans Parkway. Present the  fliers sent home last week and 25% of your order will go back to our PTO.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

Lunch Menu  February – Elementary 2024.pdf

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Wrestling Summer Camp

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Feb. 26: Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm;  Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm

Tuesday, Feb. 27: Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm;  Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm

Wednesday, Feb. 28:  Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm; Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm

Thursday, Feb. 29: Wrestling practice til 4:45 pm

Friday, Mar. 1: Consort practice til 4:30; Rube Goldberg til 4:45 pm; Student Council til 5 pm

February 11, 2024

This week will be Random Acts of Kindness spirit week sponsored by our Student Council and staff Funshine Committee.  Please see the attached flier for more information: Riverside Kindness Spirit Week 2024

Wrestling

Fliers are now available for students interested in wrestling.  All students in grades 3-5 are eligible to participate.  There will be 7 days of wrestling instruction and the Regional and ‘Main Event’ tournaments at JHS.  Final forms must be submitted as well as the registration form filled out (this gives permission to attend).  Mr. Greg Ferraro is the Riverside sponsor.  He can be contacted at:  gferraro@gccschools.com

Elementary league flier – directions and more

Elementary League Sign up –  click here

T-shirt order – here

Chromebooks   Our students use their device every day for assignments. Our students need their device charged and ready every day at school. Routine is key. Please help our students develop a nightly routine of charging their Chromebook.

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

PTO News

The next PTO meeting will be Tuesday, February 20 at 6:00 in the library.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

Lunch Menu  February – Elementary 2024.pdf

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Feb. 12:  Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Tuesday, Feb. 13:  Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Wednesday, Feb. 14:  Boys B-Ball Practice til 5; Valentine’s Day celebrations

Thursday, Feb. 15:  Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Friday, Feb. 16: Consort practice til 4:30

Saturday, Feb. 17: Boys Basketball Tourney at CHS at 1:45 pm

February 4, 2024

Midterms for students in grades 3-5 will go out on Wednesday of this week.  Please check your student’s Powerschool account for any missing grades.  Powerschool is a great way to stay on top of how your student is performing.  If you have any questions about a grade, please contact your child’s teacher.  If you need help getting into powerschool, please contact the office.

PRIDE Schoolwide! 

We have been working on the character trait of Dependability for the past month of January.  We are now learning about Efficiency.  Students learn about the PRIDE trait of the month and then put it into practice.  We have special drawings at the end of the month for prizes.  Students who have been caught showing the PRIDE characteristic of the month receive a special buck that goes into a drawing.  Please ask your student how they are showing PRIDE at school demonstrating Persistence, Respectfulness, Initiative, Dependability or Efficiency.  It takes all Roadrunners showing PRIDE and working together to make our school successful!

Student Council Riley Grams on Sale 2/5-2/9

Riverside Student Council will be selling red tie dye bracelets and tattoos! Our goal this year is to send $500.00 to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis.  That money will represent $1.00 for each person that works and attends Riverside Elementary.  Wouldn’t that be awesome!

Riley Gram

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

YMCA

Soccer No Price.pdf

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

Lunch Menu  February – Elementary 2024.pdf

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Feb. 5-  4:45 pm Boys’ B’ball at RES against JJ Blue

Tuesday, Feb. 6- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Wednesday, Feb. 7- 4:45 Boys’ B’ball at FSES

Thursday, Feb. 8- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Friday, Feb. 9- Student Council til 5:00; Consort practice til 4:30

January 28, 2024

Car Rider Reminders

Please DO NOT make U turns in the road in order to turn right into the parking lot for car rider pick up and refrain from using our neighbors driveways for turning around. If you approach from the Oak Park area, you can go past the school and take Higgins, turn left and come back around on Webster to Laurel.

Please stay in line.  Do not pull out and around others once you are in the line.  If you have something to be delivered to the office, please pull into the main parking lot.

We appreciate everyone’s cooperation to help keep everyone safe!

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

January Menu.pdf

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Jan. 29- 4:45 pm Boys’ B’ball at TJ; 6-7 Circle the State practice at RES

Tuesday, Jan. 30- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Wednesday, Jan. 31- 4:45 Boys’ B’ball at RES w/JJ white

Thursday, Feb. 1- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Friday, Feb. 2-  Student Council til 5:00; Consort practice til 4:30

January 21, 2024

Please ensure your child completes the elearning assignments from Friday.  Those should be turned in no later than Wednesday this week. Thank you parents for all your support on the elearning days!

There will be an open house for all INCOMING 24-25 Kindergarten students on Tuesday, January 23.  All students with last name starting A-L will attend from 5-6PM.  All students with last name starting M-Z will attend from 6-7PM.

Congratulations to our Robotics team! 

This weekend our Robotics team competed with the other GCCS schools.  Congratulations to our team for being the Greater Clark Elementary Robotics Team Competition Champions!  Our team consisted of: Luca Smith, Lilly Wheat, Ruby Stewart, Harper Thomas, Olivia Bronson, Josh Toomer, Caliyah Franks, Michael Smallwood, Grace Rector, Gracie Greenfield, Audrey Taylor, Lennon Foster, Iris Stewart, Emma Finley, Hunter Dimmitt, Hadlee Eubank, Maddux Geary. Carter Schwieman, and Stella Martin.  Our team is coached by Grace Wallace.  We would like to give a special thank you to Amelia Thomas, mother of Harper Thomas, for supporting the team with special robotics shirts!

Riverside Student Council & Ambassador Snowman Fundraiser 2024

Thank you for supporting our recent fundraiser for Student Council.  All those quarters really added up towards the purchase of new rugs in our front lobby.  The winner was Kindergarten with $225 raised, 4th grade was in second place with $191 raised. Riverside raised a total of $884.25!  Way to work together Roadrunners!

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

January Menu.pdf

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Jan. 22- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5

Tuesday, Jan. 23- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5; Cheer til 4:30; Kindness club til 4:30; Kdg Open House 5-7

Wednesday, Jan. 24- Boys B-Ball Practice til 5;

Thursday, Jan. 25- 4:45 Boys’ b’ball at RES w/NW

January 14, 2024 

There will be no school Monday, January 15 for Martin Luther King, Jr day.

Birthday Reminders- (from the Student Handbook)

In compliance with the GCCS Wellness Policy, cookies, cupcakes and other sweets are NOT ALLOWED to be brought in for Birthday celebrations for students.  You may bring in any type of healthy food such as fruit, low fat muffins, cheese or vegetable items or trinket/birthday goody bags for each student in the class to recognize their special day.  In addition, birthday invitations are not allowed to be distributed at school. These policies are listed in our student handbook.

Car Rider Line

Here are some reminders which will really help in keeping our car rider lines efficient:

In the morning only- the line will be directed to pull all the way down past the car rider slots to begin unloading cars.  Please have your child ready to exit your car when you stop along the sidewalk.  Please pull all the way down (even when it is raining).

Right turns only allowed.  Please make a right turn into the lot and a right turn leaving the lot.  This helps the flow of traffic for everyone.

Reminder that anyone with a student in Prek or Ms. Klink’s classroom should be in the Prek line.  Deliver your other students with your Prek student.  You only need to go through ONE line.

Parkview Showcase.pdf

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

January Menu.pdf

PTO News

Our PTO meeting for January will be Thursday, January 18 at 6:00.

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Jan. 15- no school

Tuesday, Jan. 16-Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Robotics til 4:45, Kindness club til 4:30;Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm

Wednesday, Jan. 17-Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Robotics til 4:45;Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm

Thursday, Jan. 18-Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Robotics til 4:45;  Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm, Kindness club til 4:30;

Friday, Jan. 19-  Robotics til 4:45

Saturday, Jan. 20: Robotic Competition at River Valley Middle School 9-12

January 7, 2024

I Have a Dream Performance

This week the GCCS Elementary Music Department is coordinating a district wide 2nd Grade choral program “I Have a Dream”.  Songs performed will be in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. The performance will be on 1/9/24 at 7 pm in the Charlestown High School Gymnasium.  We encourage all our second grade students to attend the evening performance.  The performance is open to the public.

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf

Riverside Student Council & Ambassador Snowman Fundraiser 2024

When: January 8-12, 2024

Who: There will be papercut out of a snowman (3 round balls) & the goal is to cover each snow circle with cotton balls to build the

snowperson. Each snowman will be done by each grade level.

Cost: per cottonball: 25 cents

Winner: Whichever grade level builds the most snowballs to build their snowman gets an ice cream party.

Why: Student Council wants to work on adding some new RES rugs near the doorways to make our school a safe and nice looking place.

Boys Basketball Team

Congratulations to the following boys who will represent Riverside on the Boys’ Basketball team this year:  Noah Longest, Jayce Owens, Isaiah Brooks, DeShaun Walker, Isaac Valois, Ian McCormick, Deion Bishop, Cameron Greene, Chaston Lucas, Jailen Taylor, Finneas Heckenkamp, DeAndre Givens, and Ezra Williams. The team will be coached by Coach Mode.  Practices will begin this week Monday through Thursday until 5:00.

January Lunch Menu

January Menu.pdf

PTO News

Our PTO meeting for January will be Thursday, January 18 at 6:00.

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child.

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Jan. 8- Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Robotics til 4:45, Kindness club til 4:30;

Tuesday, Jan. 9- 2nd Grade Field Trip to CHS 9-12, Boys Basketball Practice til 5,  Robotics til 4:45, Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm, 2nd Grade I have a Dream Performance at CHS 7pm

Wednesday, Jan. 10- Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Robotics til 4:45

Thursday, Jan. 11-Boys Basketball Practice til 5, Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm, Kindness club til 4:30

December 31, 2023

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Students return this week on Tuesday, January 2.  Final grades for Quarter 2 are available in Powerschool. Paper copies of report cards will be sent home this week.  It’s a brand new year and time to make brand new goals!  Let’s make this the best semester ever! 

Yearbook Sales Open

You can now put in your yearbook order online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/83507K.  Our yearbook this year will be $17.  Online ordering will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024.  Paper flyers will be available in January.  Yearbooks will come in sometime in May.

Inclement Weather Plan-2023-24.pdf 

PTO News

Our staff would like to give PTO a great big ‘THANK YOU’ to our PTO for the surprise breakfast on the last day before break!  Our PTO meeting for January will be Thursday, January 18 at 6:00. 

Student Handbook

Please review the student handbook with your child. 

RES – APPROVED 23-24.pdf

Student Rights and Responsibilities 2023-2024.pdf

Upcoming Events:

Monday, Jan. 1- No School

Tuesday, Jan. 2- School resumes, 3rd grade boys basketball Tryouts til 5, Robotics til 4:45

Wednesday, Jan. 3- 4th & 5th Grade Boys Basketball Tryouts til 5,  Robotics til 4:45

Thursday, Jan. 4- 4th & 5th grade Boys Basketball Tryouts til 5, Boys Cheerleader practice til 4:30 pm

Friday, Jan. 5-  Kindness club til 4:30; Student Council til 5:00;  Robotics til 4:45