NUIC Conference Music Festival in Durand today!!! Ready for some excellent music making! Concert tonight at 7!
Students put their hand eye coordination to the test with a juggling lesson in PE this week.
The Mobile Dentist will be here April 25th & 26th. This visit covers the required dental exam for Kindergarten, 2nd, 6th, & 9th grades. You can sign up online or there are forms available in the office.
The 7th Grade Science Students are studying cell division: mitosis/meiosis and the formation of cancer cells.
We are teaming up with Mrs. Thorsen to do a book study 📖 with the unit!!!! We started My Sister’s Keeper today!!!
The business department has been playing around with our new CTE department vinyl cutter. This flag was made by the agriculture department and sold at the craft fair to Superintendent Fox...but, she requested we add the school song to it. Business student Sarah Winter designed, cut, and placed the vinyl on it. Look for more fun projects like this in the future!
RRMS Homework Hounds is CANCELED for Monday, March 13 and Wednesday, March 15.
The River Ridge Middle School Track Gear store is now open. Orders may be placed until midnight, March 16th.
Please contact Mr. Vandigo with any questions. Orders may be placed using the following link:
https://seeitsigns-apparel.myshopify.com/collections/river-ridge-middle-school-track-gear
The 7th and 8th grade band had an excellent day at contest on Saturday! They came home with a Division 2 rating their first time going to contest and got to experience a clinic with one of the judges to help further the music making in our classroom!
Full bus headed to Harlem Middle School for IGSMA Large Group Contest!
Mr. Knauer will be taking the Elementary PE classes sledding on Monday, 3/13! Please make sure your students have boots, snow pants, gloves, a hat and coat. We will provide the sleds. Keep your fingers crossed that Mother Nature provides us with snow until Monday.
The 6th Grade STEM class is wrapping up their robotics course! They built a robot with a claw to compete in a competition to see who could pick up more objects, and they learned how gear ratios can alter their speed!
The 8th grade STEM class worked on thier engineering skills today as they competed to build the tallest free standing structure from spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. Cainen Bauer was the winner of this quarters class with a 23" structure.
Schedule your physicals soon!
Congratulations to Arthur Horn for his 2nd place finish at last night's profeciencies competition in Geneseo! His record book was in the specialty animal category with his beekeeping project.
The Ag Mechanics class visited RT&T Repair this morning to learn about career opportunities in the transportation industry. There is nationwide shortage of technicians for both automotive and diesel! Universal Technical Institute sponsored the trip and was there to talk about thier training schools as well.
This is a reminder that IGSMA Large Group Contest for Middle School Band and Choir students is this Saturday! Bus leaves at 7:15 in the morning from the Middle/High School parking lot. Please be here BEFORE 7:15.
We had a great day at solo and ensemble contest on Saturday at West Carroll High School! Band students brought home 5 division 1 ratings, 2 division 2 ratings, and one division 3 rating! With our combined band and choir scores, we are tied for 6th place in the IHSA Music Sweepstakes Competition for Class D schools! Way to go kids!
Students in the Intro to Ag class made Dirt Dessert in class today as a part of the Soils unit!
Congratulations to George Winter for being selected as 2nd Team All Conference in basketball.
The River Ridge Boys Basketball Team was also selected by the coaches in the conference to win the Sportsmanship Award. We are proud of the players for representing the school in a such a positive way,.
Congratulations to Avery Engle on her 2nd place finish in the finals round of the Job Interviews LDE (leadership development event)! She will now be moving on to the district level competition!
