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Posts Tagged ‘Academic Excellence’
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Our Grade 2 students took a break from practicing their scenes for their upcoming performance of Midsummer’s Nights Dream to work with our Grade 11 students to create backdrops for the play. The Grade 2 students had a great time in the High School art room with the “Big Kids” and Jim Harper, our High School Art teacher.
Contact Rachel Pusch if you’re interested in joining us for our Grade 2 production of Midsummer’s Night Dream on Friday, February 10!
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB, Visual and Performing Arts
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
“Timbuktu, a center of caravan trade for almost 1000 years, is located north of the Niger River in which landlocked country?”
Grade 4 student, Ryan S, knew the correct answer, and as a result, became Riverstone’s National Geographic Bee Champion! Last Friday, Grade 4 and Grade 5 class representatives battled to be the school-wide champion. When all was said and done, Ryan S. answered the final question correctly and Maggie L (Gr 5) became our runner-up. To follow up his win and qualify to compete at the Idaho state competition, Ryan took a 70 question written test on Monday that has been mailed to the national office for scoring.
This event was organized by the Academic Excellence group of the Student Council. They requested information, announced the Bee at the assembly, and organized the actual event, including setting up the stage, keeping score and keeping the time. They did a great job!
Congratulations to all involved in the competition. And in case you were wondering…the correct answer is Mali.
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB, Leadership by Example
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Our Kindergarten artists spent this past week “reading” art. The students were asked to use their knowledge of the visual world to interpret and describe what they saw in artwork. They were given the opportunity to share the artwork they were reading and the story of what they saw with the entire class.
Our Kindergarten artists are doing this as part of their How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, Telling a Story. Don’t they look completely comfortable sharing with their classmates?
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB, Visual and Performing Arts
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Our Grade 9 Science students were given the challenge of making an edible object in the form of a cell with all the parts to scale. The boys made cookies and the girls made cakes. After the students gave presentations about their cells, they ate them! Yum!
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Ms. Fitz and her students were taking the first step in the National Geography Bee Competition as they completed their preliminary testing. Next week, the Grade 4 and 5 representatives will compete to represent the school. Watching them congratulate their classmates for answering questions correctly and commiserating over incorrect questions was heartwarming. We wish our class representatives the best of luck next week!
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Our Grade 1 students are learning about animal classification in our unit of inquiry, Who We Are. What better way for the students to learn about the classification system of animals then to see and touch them in real life? Middle School Science teacher, Mr. Pedersen, has the perfect room and expertise just for this! The students saw, touched, and handled animal hides and molds of animal tracks, including some endangered species items such as a green sea turtle shell and hair piece made from a green sea turtle, as well as a sperm whale tooth, carved elephant ivory, a 12 foot python hide, kangaroo hide, many skulls, and more!
The students were also able to touch live animals which included a 30 inch corn snake, bearded dragon, leopard geckos, Russian Tortoise, and box turtles. The students saw various types of animal classes and compared and contrasted how they are alike and how they are different.
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB, Students
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Grade 6 and 7 students learned about wind, kite craftsmanship, and Afghan culture during their last few Design Technology classes. Gudiparan Bazi means Kite Flyer in Afghan and kites were a perfect way for students to begin the Design Tech process for the year.
The creation of the kites proved to be very challenging, but the fact that there was no wind to fly the kites during class was even more challenging!
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Grade 8 music students recently shared their final presentations and performances about Jazz. Students discussed and performed works from throughout the 20th century that represented different styles of Jazz. The performances were the result of each students research into their chosen piece. They used this research to create an engaging presentation for the audience. They also used the results of this research to create an arrangement of their piece that could be performed by the classes. They really got excited about costumes and even wore choir robes to represent one era of Jazz history!
As part of the Middle Years Programme, students in Grades 6-9 are enrolled in a semester each of music and art. Riverstone’s art and music teachers are subject area specialists and, as you can see, do a fantastic job of exciting kids about their subjects!
Tags: Academic Excellence, IB, Students, Visual and Performing Arts
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Congratulations to senior Davis G. for being honored as this week’s United Dairyman’s Distinguished Student! Davis was interviewed by KTVB Channel 7 anchor, Doug Petcash, and will appear in Thursday night’s 10 PM broadcast. The interview may be watched on Channel 7′s website within a day or two of the broadcast as well.
Since 2002, Idaho’s dairy farm families began recognizing well-rounded senior students who excel as leaders in academics, athletics, volunteerism and extracurricular activities. Each week throughout the school year, four students from each Idaho market (Southwestern, Eastern, North and South Central) are selected as “Distinguished Student Award” winners. Yearly, four students from the winners are selected as “DSA Students of the Year.” Weekly winners earn their schools a $100 scholarship and yearly winners’ schools receive a $5000 scholarship thanks to each student’s achievement.
To date, Idaho Dairy Farm Families have awarded over a half a million dollars to Idaho’s schools! Learn more by visiting the DSA website.
Tags: Academic Excellence, Athletics, Community & Service, Leadership by Example, Students
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Professor Steve Shropshire, a physics teacher at Idaho State University (ISU), gave Middle School students a physics demonstration on the last day of school before the winter break. Professor Shropshire travels around southern Idaho every year to promote physics, thanks to a grant from the ISU College of Arts and Sciences. As you can see, physics is fun!
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