Book Swap

The Rock Island Public Main Library (401-19th Street, RI) is having a BOOK SWAP! The book swap will take place: Saturday, March 3rd, 2012  ~  9:30-10:30 a.m. Why buy NEW when you can SWAP! Here’s How It Works: ~Take home as many books as you bring ~Trade gently used books for something you haven’t read [...]

Respect at Ridgewood

This year we have been working on Respect. Respect of adults, peers, and our school community. We have implemented several Respect initiatives throughout the year. We have seen wonderful results. ~Staff members submit daily Student Accomplishments about students in their class.  To date, we have read hundreds of Student Accomplishments during our morning announcements. ~We [...]

PTA Vendor Fair

Make sure to mark your calendar for a fun event.  On Saturday, April  21st, our Ridgewood PTA will hold its first Vendor Fair.  The fair will be from 11:00-2:00 p.m. There will be lots of vendors with their products and an opportunity for you to win prizes submitted from each vendor. Hope to see you [...]

St. Jude’s Children Hospital Pop Tab

As you know two of our students, Jacy Betzel and Jacob Johnson, organized a building-wide class contest for the collection of pop tabs.    This quarter winning classes were: 1st Place:  Mrs. Kerker’s Grade 6 2nd Place:  Mrs. Lawrence’s Kindergarten 3rd Place:  Mrs. Anderson’s Kindergarten 4th Place:  Mrs. Kerker’s Grade 6  J   The contest [...]

Thank you PTA & HyVee!

We would like to thank our PTA & HyVee for their wonderful support of our students during ISAT testing.  Mrs. Tanya Meirhaeghe of our PTA, worked with HyVee to select daily nutritious snacks for our grade 3-6 students. Our PTA paid for all of the snacks!  

Good Things Happening at Ridgewood…

As you may remember, we wrote a Lights on for Learning State of Illinois grant this fall. The grant would have given us funds to provide many after school programs for the next 3 years.  With the budget constraints at the State and Federal level, we did NOT receive the grant. However, our staff has [...]

PTA’s new fundraiser… Vendor Fair

At last month’s PTA meeting it was decided to hold a Vendor’s Fair in April. Watch for more information. It should be a great fun!

PTA Box Top Winners!

Thank you for sending in your General Mills Big G Box Tops during our recent contest! We collected 3,623 Box Tops!  Each Box Top brings in 10 cents, earning us $362.00. Please have your family and friends continue to save them.  We will have another collection-contest during 4th quarter.   Our 2 Box Top Contest [...]

ISAT TESTING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER…

Students in grades 3-6 will be taking our State ofIllinois ISATtesting in reading and math.  Grade 4 students will also take a science test. Testing will be completed from February 27th through March 9th.  PLEASE make sure your children get enough sleep, eat a nutritious breakfast, and attend school. Please do NOT schedule doctor appointments [...]

Thank you for sending us your pop-top tabs!

As you know we have been collection pop-tabs for the children of St. Jude Children’s CancerResearchHospital.  Recently, in an effort to encourage everyone’s participation, Jacob Johnson and Jacy Betzel  proposed and organized a Class Contest for our St. Jude’s Hospital Pop Tab collection.  Starting on February 1st and ending in May, classes filling up classroom [...]