Monthly Archives: November 2019

Where We Are in Place and Time Expo

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Thank you so much, families and friends, for coming out to support your child and our class as we celebrate the culmination of our second unit if inquiry. We have spent the last 5 weeks learning about what qualifies as a primary source, why primary sources are meaningful, and how interviews can offer valuable insight into the lives of others. The children have worked so hard to pull together their own priceless objects, documents and photographs to share their personal histories with you. I hope you enjoyed learning new and interesting tidbits about these children that many of you have known for years! The dioramas were a fun way to test the knowledge you gained from studying their primary sources. I thoroughly enjoyed your childlike enthusiasm as you made connections between primary sources and dioramas. Thank you for playing along! As promised, here are the results matching child to diorama! Thank you again for supporting your amazing children and our Riverstone community!

Veteran’s Day

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We had a wonderful assembly celebrating our veterans yesterday! Our very own Riverstone 4th and 5th graders honored them with a song and our sweet little first graders personally delivered letters of gratitude to each veteran in attendance. Compliments to our amazing music teacher, Kendall Campbell, for the effort and enthusiasm she put into making this performance a success! Ms. Fitz and I thoroughly enjoyed watching her as she coached our students on effort, posture, breath, voice, and gratitude. Thank you, families, to those of you able to join us at the Veteran’s Day assembly. And a very special thanks to those of you that have served and are serving! I am so grateful to you for your service and your sacrifice.

Tomorrow we welcome you all to our exposition! It will be held from 2:30-3:30 in our room. The students are excited to demonstrate the importance of primary sources in a very personal way as they share their lives with you through their own artifacts, documents, and photographs. We hope to see you there!

Halloween Celebration

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What a fantastic day we had together! Looking back over 22 years of Halloween celebrations, I can honestly say that none of them compared to the fun and enthusiasm that Riverstone delivered this Thursday! The parade was the highlight for me. The middle school and high school students cheered and gave high fives to the primary students as we wound our way through their spooky halls! The science lab oozed mysterious potions that we tried to touch and pop as we meandered through. Jennifer, Carolina, and Kara put on a festive Halloween party for us. The children wound themselves up as mummies, bowled pumpkins, played twister, and took turns getting creamed in an exuberant game of Pie Face! Thank you for our tasty treats and fun games. I hope you all had bushels of fall fun trick-or-treating together!