Riddle Elementary School

Monday is the kickoff for our Step It Up Fundraiser at Riddle Elementary School. This is a donation-based fundraiser with no product to sell or deliver! Students will be sent home on Monday with GOLDEN TICKET materials, and parents will be emailed information as well. The fundraiser will run through March 21st. More information will be released in the upcoming days.

Mr. Wheeler's third grade class at Riddle Elementary enjoyed their time with Harley from Sarah Bush Lincoln for Healthy kids. The kids loved the SBL Kickstart Mobile coming to the school and it allowed them to learn and practice ways to be more active! Thanks to Harley and the rest of SBL for their involvement. #MCUSD2 #mattoon #riddleelementary #healthykids #sarahbushlincoln

The Sarah Bush Lincoln Kickstart Mobile was at Riddle today. Students enjoyed exercising while jamming to music on the awesome sound system! The students rotated through several stations to complete different exercises.

Riddle Elementary Kindergarten Classes are celebrating Dr. Seuss this week! Other students and staff may also dress up and join in on the fun.

Riddle Elementary is hosting a Blood Drive on Monday, March 14th from 2:00 - 6:00 pm. Check out the images below for more information and check out this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fTXsmcUi7U

Riddle students and staff celebrated Twosday 2-22-22 by wearing tutus, ties, dressing as twins or wearing their favorite sports attire.

Isolde, Fletcher and Delaney from Mrs. Kimery's Multi-age class and Cooper from Mrs. Oakley's class recently read a non-fiction text about Fennec and Arctic Foxes and created a Google Slides presentation. They worked hard to gather facts and photographs to include. They presented their slides to their peers and answered questions throughout the presentation. Pictured: Isolde Veach (Kimery K/1), Fletcher Houser (Kimery K/1), Cooper Knox (Mrs. Oakley's Class) Not pictured: Delaney Stephens

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Students at Riddle Elementary met this month's Healthy Hero Challenge and everyone earned a Healthy Kids water bottle! They are off to a great start toward earning a rock wall! Congratulations to the top mileage earners for January - Camden Hedges and Karter Russell.

Student leaders from Mrs. Poorman's 4th grade class that met their WIGs (Wildly Important Goals) for the week were able to help Mrs. Truesdale's Kindergarten class on Friday. The 4th grade students led math games in small groups to help the Kindergarteners work on their number skills.

The Riddle Kindness Cafe has shared February Fun for our students and families. Please see the flyer for more information.

Kessa Anderson was the Star Student of the Week in Mrs. Hilligoss's class last week. On Friday, she brought in one of her week old baby goats, Charlie, to show the class.

Dr. Myles Hastings came to visit Mrs. Kimery's K/1 Multi-age class for Dental Health Month. The students enjoyed hearing him read the story Sugar Bugs and hearing all of his great information for keeping their teeth healthy! His daughter, Claire, enjoyed demonstrating proper teeth brushing to her classmates!

Mrs. Simpson's multi-age class recently worked with Mrs. Hawbaker's multi-age class to teach them about Canva. Canva is an online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. The students enjoyed their time working together to create in Canva!

Students in Mrs. Kimery's K/1 Multi-age class at Riddle celebrated the 100th day of school on Thursday, January 27th. They enjoyed wearing their 100 day crowns and completing activities such as seeing how many toe touches and jumping jacks they could get in 100 seconds. They also wrote about what they will be like when they are 100 years old.

February Breakfast and Lunch Menu - You can also find the breakfast and lunch menu for each day under Dining in the app/website Menu.

2nd Quarter grades are posted. Please check out the following links for direction on how to access report cards. Accessing Report Cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaWtv2Uq5s Accessing Report Card Skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td08btG1yxs

Mrs. Kimery's K/1 Multi-age Class has been studying compound shapes. They read the story Snippets and created their own "Snippet Houses".

The Kindness Cafe from Mrs. Simpson's multi-age class wrapped up their latest project before Winter break. The students challenged every grade level to bring in the most items for the Coles County Animal Shelter. It was a huge success with the number of item being donated from Riddle students and the community being 1, 112. Third grade was the grade level that brought in the most iems and received extra recess for winning the competition. The Kindness Cafe would like to thank everyone at Riddle and the community who helped with this project!

Mark your calendars for Riddle PTA Community Day at Monical's Pizza on Tuesday, January 11th. Flyers will be sent home with students. Please show the flyer or this image for 20% of your bill to go back to Riddle PTA