JUNIORS and junior families, are you ready for our virtual College Information Night? Ms. Brzezinski will present info on how to conduct your college search, financial aid, and more! See the flyer below for more information and feel free to pre-save the Google Meet link now so you have it ready to go on Wednesday evening!: https://meet.google.com/aao-ibxa-dwv
Congratulations to Arthur Horn and Ty Spahn on winning thier categories at the District FFA Profeciency Interviews! They are now ranked in the top five in the State in thier record book categories. They will compete in the State Competition on March 23rd.
The 7th grade business students finished up the third quarter by making keychains using the Cricut to cut the vinyl designs that they created themselves. Each brought their own unique flair to the project. Here are some samples of their work.
The Ice Cream Truck Fundraiser is coming soon. Please place your orders by Friday, March 8th by noon. The Science Club thanks you for your purchase!
Reminder to Science Club Members who are attending the trip to Chicago on Wednesday, March 6th. The bus will leave River Ridge at 7:00 am.
Please be at the school around 6:45 to load the bus.
Contact Mrs. Klippert if you have any questions.
Sending a big thank you to the Jo Daviess County Juvenile Justice program for bringing Gincy's It's Cool To Be Kind assembly to us today! Our 2nd-5th graders sang, danced and shared their writing about how important it is for all of us to be kind to each other! What a great message and what a great assembly!
Liam getting creative in Art class😊
Reminder that the FFA Banquet is this Thursday at 6:00 here at the high school. Students should wear official dress. Familes are encouraged to come, please bring a dish to pass. The Chapter will provide the main dish, as well as milk and place settings. See you there to celebrate your students accomplishments!
I am SOOOOOOOO PROUD. Of the growth, and the time and the dedication the high schoolers put into solo and ensemble this year. With our current point totals, we are SECOND IN THE STATE for IHSA Music Sweepstakes. Students earn points based on their division ratings at solo and ensemble and large group. WAY TO GO WILDCAT MUSIC DEPARTMENT!!!!!
On Saturday, March 2nd, five members of the middle school academic team traveled to Rockford to compete in the Bergstrom Stateline Quiz Bowl Jr Edition competition. It came down to the final question to break the tie with Rockford Lutheran edging out River Ridge to answer the final question to get the win. Well done Brogan Grube, Samuel Cobine, Brock Turner, Christian Morhardt, and Jason Lucas. On June 15-16 you can watch the exciting River Ridge game on WTVO-TV and FOX 39! Stopped at Culver's for ice cream on our way home.
Galena Kiwanis River Trail Run.
Happy Friday, Wildcats! Check out March's edition of the MS/HS counselor's newsletter, which includes lots of important upcoming dates, a flyer for the junior college information night, and more!
https://sites.google.com/riverridge210.org/counselorscorner/home
The FFA Vet Science team placed 2nd in the Section One CDE! Kudos to Laiken Haas and Nick Cobine on making it into the top 10 ranking as individuals. They have a great start to their possible future career as veterinarian's! The members of our 2nd place team included Lu as Holland, Sawyer Fry, Cora Rotchie and Nick Cobine.
Middle School and High School students are learning CPR this week. If your student wants to be certified send $7 payable to River Ridge. The certificate is good for 2 years.
The Introduction to Agriculture class made "dirt dessert" in class today as a part of the soils unit. Oreos, pudding and chocolate chips represented the different soil horizons.
Mr. Downs World Geography visuals
The delivery date for the FFA strawberries has been set for Tuesday March 12th. The truck will be here direct from Florida that morning and we will have the orders organized and ready to go by the afternoon. Please make arrangements to get your berries picked up that day!
Save the date! Elementary Poetry Jam is coming on Wednesday, April 10 6:00 p.m. Look for more details soon!
YAY!!!! We made it to our goal!!! We are at 107 lbs of crayons and counting! Thanks to everyone who donated...now we are going to try for 200 lbs! Thank you for helping us help the thecrayoninitiative.org. Keep those crayons coming!
Congratulations to our NUIC West Boys Basketball 2nd team all conference players Joe Winter and Damon Dittmar. The River Ridge Boys Basketball team was also selected for the Sportsmanship Award for the 2nd year in a row.