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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
The strings are tuned and Ms. Maher’s Grade 1 students are back to learning violin this year. The students are getting reacquainted with their “fiddles” and fine-tuning the skills they began last year in Kindergarten! On the program this year? “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” It’s just a small part of the many ways our children experience music at Riverstone. Stop by and listen Wednesday mornings in Ms. Maher’s class from 8:30 – 9:30 AM. Chances are…your ears will direct you to the right classroom.
Tags: Elementary School, Music, Students
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
From Kari Boazman: “Sadly, today was our last day of Ooey Gooey Science Camp. We made two different types of ice cream, one in an ice cream maker and one in plastic baggies with ice. We also made bubble snakes and bubble prints. Our finale was to make Mentos volcanoes.
Thank you so much for sharing your children with us! We had a great week of science experiments.”
Tags: Summer School
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Yesterday was a big day for our grade 5 students with their Exhibition in the morning and their Moving Up Ceremony in the afternoon! Parents and elementary school students were entertained and educated as grade 5 students shared what they had learned while tackling the topic, “Celebrating Different Cultures Through Holidays.” Through skits, dances, news broadcasts and more, students taught us about Icelandic Independence Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Oktoberfest, Egyptian Day of the Dead, Japanese New Year, Cinco de Mayo, and Bastille Day. To quote Trent K, “It was a lot of hard work! But fun!”
The Exhibition is a culmination of the PYP experience in which students collaborate with others to identify, investigate, and offer solutions to real life issues. This year’s theme was an extension of their collaborative study with students at Colegio CIEDI in Bogotá, Colombia. At the end of the day, grade 5 students celebrated “Moving Up” to Middle School in the fall. Congratulations!
Tags: Elementary School, IB, PYP
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Coming soon: The list of Riverstone students’ College Acceptances 2010.
Andrew
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
School resumed today with a new buzz of excitement as the Elementary and middle schoolers got to see their new facilities for the first time.
Here are a few photos taken by parents as children arrived first thing in the morning.
Thak you to everyone who helped make this all possible. There is no going back to modulars now!
Andrew
 So, which way do I go?  Ah yes, here it is!  MIddle School getting directions.  happy faces!  Some of the logistics team.  Where am I?
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
It seems that our new Video Conferencing facilities are getting a lot of good use!
High school students talking to Wessleyan’s Director of Admissions via Video-Conference.
A first for Riverstone, this was also Wesleyan’s forst video-conference meeting of its kind.
 A first for Riverstone and Wesleyan!
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Did you know that as a student or parent of Riverstone International School, you can get an automatic educational discount for apple products. Just shop on line, click o educational discounts, enter the name of the school……and off you go!
Happy Shopping!
Tags: Boise, IB, Mac, school
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Kindergarten through grade 5 took part in the latest musical extravangaza at Riverstone.
Playing to a packed audience, the students took us on a trip from the USA to the UK, France and Australia before returning to the USA. he show ended with the unveiling of the new Riverstone School song:
We are Riverstone, Chorus:
We are one, but we are many.
And from all the lands on earth we come.
We share a dream and sing with one voice.
I am, you are, we are Riverstone.
We are all grateful to Damon Brown and the faculty for all their hard work in producing the extravaganza.
Tags: Boise, IB, Musical, school
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
We are blessed with so many talented students at Riverstone. Aled Roberts is a very gifted musician who has secured a place, on early decision at New York University. As part of his International Baccalaureate Diploma examination, Aled recently performed at the Ester Simplot center in Boise. Rather than hearing it from me, here is an extract from a message I received from one of our parents, Tony DeAngelis:
Andrew,
I wanted to make you aware of Aled Roberts’ wonderful Senior IB Recital this past Sunday at the Ester Simplot Performing Arts Center! Not only did Aled show that he is an accomplished musician and composer (performing a difficult and well rounded program of Beethoven and Debussy on both violin and piano, and showing off a string Quartet and Piano Trio of his own composition), but in addition, showed that he is a wonderful role model for the younger Riverstone students in the audience, who have musical aspirations. This was no mere “senior project”, but a professionally performed recital that included some of the best classical musicians in and around Boise, including Jill Rowley, one of the principal violinists of the Boise Philharmonic! It is no surprise that Aled was accepted to New York University for musical composition, one of the preeminent musical programs in the world I would add. I also want to give Kudos to Alison Steven for guiding this program from inception to completion. Riverstone really has a gem in Alison and I think she makes our school stronger, not only artistically, but academically as well.
Tony
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Community and Service
It was exactly one year ago almost to the day, that I first visited Riverstone,
Of all the great things about the school, I have often said that the one thing that really stood out at that time was the sense of community.
This was brought home to me this weekend with all of the community and service activities occurring with our students, teachers and parents: The Middle School disco; the Staff Auction Dinner and Rake-Up Boise (ably organized by RIS senior, Lauren Henken).
Community and service are integral pillars of Riverstone and, indeed, the International Baccalaureate Organisation. We believe passionately that the world will be a better place if everyone had a strong sense of community and if everyone recognized the value of service to that community and the world in general.
After all, attending a school like Riverstone is indeed, a privilege and it is right that the gifted should give.
I think therefore IB
Andrew Derry
Tags: Add new tag, Baccalaureate, Community & Service, Education, IB, IBO, international, Service
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