Observing Patterns

Submitted by becky.manning on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 21:41

Mrs. Mathews' 4th grade class observed patterns to show Earth's rotation around the sun as they looked at changes in length and direction of shadows at different times during the day.

Attributions
Darlene Mathews

Second Graders Visit Harward Farms

Submitted by becky.manning on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 17:11

Second Graders recently had the opportunity to attend Farm Field Days at Harward Farms and had a blast! 

This field trip is a fun and engaging way to learn a lot about farming, nutrition, life cycles, animals, planting and growing crops, and more!  The second graders loved the baby animals and the talking tomato the most. A big thank you to Harward Farms for inviting us and to all of the amazing presenters.

Attributions
Lyndsie Jordan and Katriel Berbert

Second Grade Science

Submitted by becky.manning on Sun, 04/16/2023 - 12:31

Students in Mrs. Southam's class did a science inquiry lesson on habitats. They looked for patterns of living things and wrote down their observations. Each group found out that the animals were separated into categories based on their habitats. They found similarities between the animals that told students more about the environments that the animals lived in. 

Attributions
Mary Kate Southam

March Students of the Month

Submitted by becky.manning on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 17:07

These Maple Ridge students were our students of the month for March. They were recognized for being generous. We are proud of them! (Not pictured: Reese Robinson, Kai Cook, Thea Eppich, Maddie Puntsag, Willow Wilson, Boston Hill, and Lorelei Peterson)

Maple Ridge Classified Employee

Submitted by becky.manning on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 10:29

Mrs. Gatley, one of our wonderful front office secretaries, was recently recognized by Craig Harvey of Horace Mann as our Maple Ridge Classified Employee of the year. Mrs. Gatley is one of a kind! She works with parents, students, and teachers and staff every day. You can often find her fixing up skinned knees, tying shoes, answering phones, laminating, copying, providing a listening ear, tutoring students, problem solving, even hairstyling! Mrs. Gatley does it all and Maple Ridge would not be what it is without her! She takes such good care of all of us! Congratulations Mrs. Gatley!

Maple Ridge Reads!

Submitted by becky.manning on Wed, 03/29/2023 - 20:18

Mrs. Sanders’ 4th graders have been doing a lot of reading since March was declared reading month at Maple Ridge. They have been working on identifying theme, main idea & details, and summarizing.

Have you been reading? Splash Summit Reading calendars are due tomorrow! Turn them in if you got 500 minutes of reading this month!
 

Attributions
DeAnn Sanders