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CALENDAR
WEEK OF 4/24 - 4/28
Tuesday, April 25
Orienteering - Gr 5
8:00a Riverside Reporters
8:00a Chorus Rehearsal - All Members
Wednesday, April 26
EARLY RELEASE
8:50a Ropes Photos
Thursday, April 27
8:00a Chorus Rehearsal - All Members
Friday, April 28
RED SHIRT DAY
Boston Trip - Gr 5
8:00a Advanced Band - Gr 4 & 5
9:00a Maritime Aquarium - Gr 2
WEEK OF 5/1-5/5
Poetry Week
Tuesday, May 2
8:00a Chorus Rehearsal -All Members
Thursday, May 4
8:00a Chorus Rehearsal - All Members
Friday, May 5
AFTERS END
8:00a Advanced Band - Gr. 4 & 5
11:00a Poetry Picnic
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QUICK LINKS
To purchase Riverside gear, click
here
Click
here to view the lunch menu
Sign up for lunch duty
here
Sign up for safety duty
here
Volunteer for the PTA
here
View the Rules of the Road
here
Click
here for the Early Morning Program information
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PEEK AT THE WEEK
MISSED AN ISSUE?
SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submissions is 3pm
on Wednesday of the school week
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Please click here and here for relevant flyers from the GPD regarding recent local burglaries.
Register for Town of Greenwich's Spring Youth Programs here.
April 22, 10am-4pm, Julian Curtiss Spring Fling Gift Boutique. Admission is free and open to the public.
April 26 7:30pm at Perrot Library, hear Thomas McQuillan talk about Eliminating Food Waste: Changing Cultural Norms. For more information, click
here.
April 29 9am to 3pm shop the ISD tag sale in their gymnasium.
April 29 9am to noon donate your gently used/new baby gear and new, loose or packaged diapers at St. Paul's Church to benefit Mothers for Others. For more information about what will be accepted, click here.
April 29 ,11am and 3pm The Junior League and Plaza Theatrical Productions present The Wizard of Oz. For more information and tickets, click here.
May 4, 5 to 8pm Greenwich Youth Cheerleading League Registration for Fall. Click here for more information.
May 5 4-10pm and May 6 noon to 10pm North Mianus Pow Wow. Come together as a community and enjoy games, rides, lunch and dinner.
May 14 8:30 - 11am at OG School is the Mother's Day bike ride. For more information, click
here.
May 18, 19, and 20, GHS Theater Arts presents
Annie
in the GHS Performing Arts Center. For more information, click here.
Overtime Athletics Summer Camp at Sono Field House camp information can be found here.
Click
here
to view the community calendar.
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Dear Parents,
We have a number of Innovation Space Open Lab dates (for Riverside students with a parent), 3:15-4:15pm in April-June, available now, with some Monday and Wednesday sessions added. You can sign up
here.
Save the Date -- Wednesday, May 31st we will hold a Family Math Night here at the school with lots of fun and engaging math activities for the whole family to enjoy. We are asking families with a last name starting with A-L to attend from 6-7pm and for families with a last name starting with M-Z to attend from 7-8pm. We hope you can join us. More information to follow.
At the Board of Education meeting last evening, I shared a short video about the Global Cardboard Challenge event held at school in September as an example of some of the ways our students are demonstrating academic,
personal, and interpersonal capacities
noted in the GPS Vision of th
e Graduate, which is a key part of the GPS Strategic Plan (see more information here). Special thanks to Riverside Parent, Mrs. Julie Dozier, for producing the video and taking many of the photos and clips. You can view the video
here.
This Saturday
is an exciting FREE event held at the Westport (Connecticut) Library. The Westport Maker Faire is an exciting mix of projects, ideas, and innovations on a much bigger scale than our S.T.E.M. Fair.
Many call Maker Faires
the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. You can find out more here.
Christopher Weiss
Riverside School Principal
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PENNIES FOR PATIENTS - A "CENT"SATIONAL SUCCESS
The Riverside community raised a record $3,300 for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. This money goes to help research a cure for blood cancers, especially in children. This was truly a school-wide effort, with every grade participating. The highest overall grade level total came from fourth grade, followed by first and third grades. Mr. Ronk's class raised the most in the school: $390.07, second highest class was Mrs. Crawford with $343.29 followed by Mrs. DiDonato.
Congratulations and thank you to all for making this such a success!
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STARelief AND PET ASSISTANCE
Ms. Sturman's first grade class along with student council will be collaborating to help with an animal relief organization called STARelief and Pet Assistance, based in Stamford, CT. The organization provides funding and supplies to help pet owners who are struggling financially and cannot maintain optimal pet care. They are looking for the following wish list of donations:
- Flea and tick control -- all weights (Advantage, Frontline)
- Friskies, Purina cat food
- Scoop-able cat litter (any kind)
- New or gently used towels
- Gift cards: Walgreens, CVS, Stop-n-Shop, Shoprite, Amazon, PetSmart, Petco, Pet Valu
Each classroom will be collecting any of the above items, and Ms. Sturman's class is putting out a cash collection box in the front of the school through
Monday, May 8th. Please help if you can!
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K-5 MATH PARENT WORKSHOP
Tuesday, April 25th 6:30-7:30pm at Julian Curtiss School, learn ways to help your child with math by learning great strategies and experiencing math in a whole new way. Click here for more information and here for the flyer in Spanish.
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TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK WAS A SUCCESS
The teachers and staff had a great week! They enjoyed a smoothie day, a luncheon with a Taco Truck, gift cards from each class, wonderful cards from the kids, and incredibly decorated bulletin boards with lovely notes from the kids!
An enormous thank you goes out to all of our Class Parents for all their efforts to make the week a success. A huge thank you to Chamisa Wilkinson and the Bulletin Board Committee for creating the inspiring and beautiful bulletin boards and to Julia Romeo for all her help working with the kids for the messages on the bulletin boards.
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EARTH WEEK
It has been an AWESOME Earth Week at Riverside. The kids have been very enthusiastic about making their lives greener in so many ways. Please go online with your child to complete the participation form here
. Doing this together makes a great opportunity to discuss the ways which your family can help the environment on Earth Day, and EVERY day!! Start with one small change in your family and grow from there. Happy Earth Day - Get out and enjoy it!
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ARE YOU GOOD WITH NUMBERS?
The PTA is looking for an assistant treasurer to join our team for the 2017/2018 school year. If you are organized, good with numbers, and want to be an important part of the PTA, please consider volunteering for this position!
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PTAC ESSENCE AWARD 2017
The PTAC Essence Award recognizes an outstanding PTA member of the Greenwich Public School system who, through exemplary achievement, has inspired others, demonstrated selfless spirit and made a significant difference in our school community (individual school or district wide). Parents, teachers, staff, students, principals, administrators or members of the Greenwich community may submit nominations. There are so many amazing volunteers in our school system and we hope you will take the time to nominate them so they can be recognized for their contributions. The application consists of an essay of no more than 500 words. Click
here
for more information and here f
or the application. Application deadline is April 28th.
The award ceremony will take place on May 31st and 10am
at the Board of Education Building.
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RIVERSIDE RUN -- REGISTER NOW!
The Riverside Run is coming up fast!
Race Day is Saturday, May 13th at 8:30am
with a Kids Fun Run at 9:30am
. Register here.
TODAY, Friday, April 21st is the last chance to get your name printed on your race bib! Don't miss the chance to take home this unique keepsake.
Kids K-5 can participate in the Grade Level Challenge with a prize for the grade with the highest percentage of runners registered.
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AFTERS UPDATE
We are coming to the conclusion of our Spring Afters session. We hope that it has been an enjoyable year for everyone involved in Afters programs at Riverside. Thank you for your ongoing support and see you in September!
As a reminder:
Wednesday
classes finished this week (April 19th final class).
Monday and Thursday
classes finish next week (April 24th and 27th
final classes).
Tuesday and Friday
classes will utilize our make-up dates and conclude the first week of May (May 2nd and May 5th
final classes).
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EMS PTA
The Eastern Middle School PTA is seeking new help on the nominating committee next year. It's a great position and involves helping the PTA to identify new members from Riverside School for EMS board positions. Please contact Jennifer Cavanaugh ([email protected])
or Amy Adorney ([email protected])
if you are interested.
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