Riverview Families,
While this Monday is a day off for students, our teachers will be hard at work continuing their own personal learning around reading development and instruction. This school year over 60 hours of professional learning will be dedicated to this very important topic. So far our teachers have spent ample time learning about:
- How the brains of children work when they learn to read.
- How regular assessments, checks for understanding, data analysis, and having multiple tiers of support are essential for planning effective instruction and generating consistently positive outcomes.
- How oral language, phonological awareness, and phonemic awareness are important factors in reading develop and how to develop these skills in all of our learners.
- How our students best learn to "decode" by understanding phonics and the relationship between written letters and the sounds they produce to create words.
- How best to teach our students the 44 phonemes (sounds that make up words) in the English language and the roughly 250 graphemes (letter arrangements) that are used to create each of those phonemes (ex. f, ff, and ph are all graphemes that produce the same phoneme).
- How to help our learners read fluently, with a quick pace, maximum accuracy, and with good expression.
- How to help our students understand morphological concepts (base words, prefixes, suffixes, Anglo-Saxon roots, Greek roots, Latin roots, etc.) that better prepare them to make meaning from the words they encounter from text.
- How to help our students build their vocabularies so that when they effectively decode a given word, they can attach meaning to it and better understand what the author is trying to communicate.
- How to help our students better comprehend what they are reading through skillfully teaching them how to identify main ideas and elements of a story (plot, character, setting, conflict, theme, etc.), author's purpose, inferencing, summarizing, questioning, and predicting.
- How to build our students' writing skills so they can better communicate their amazing ideas on paper and digitally.
- And so much more!
The learning journey we have been on this school year has been challenging, enlightening, uplifting, and mostly reaffirming. Our teachers have worked tirelessly and collaboratively to apply these best practices into daily lessons and routines so that our students can get the very best possible instruction possible. I have tremendous love, respect, and admiration for our teachers because being an expert at all the things listed above is only one part of the multitude of things we expect our teachers to be great at! And they do it all every day with positivity, enthusiasm, poise, professionalism, and with the best interests of their learners always on their minds. I am extremely proud of the work we are doing at Riverview and across our district. We deeply appreciate the time we have been given to grow our own professional skills so that we can have an even greater impact on our students.
Thank you for your continued support and partnership. Best wishes for a great week!
Shawn Peck
Principal
The RVE Science Fair is open to all students in 1st-5th Grades!
All interested students are encouraged to participate! Science fair projects at the 1st and 2nd grade levels consist of models, demonstrations, or collections. Projects for the 3rd - 5th grade levels consist of demonstrations or experiments utilizing the scientific method and follow certain guidelines.
Why should you participate in the Science Fair?
The science fair is a fun and creative process! You will learn about science in a way that is interesting to you. You can also showcase what you have learned to the Riverview community!
Important Dates:
Friday, January 31st: Registration forms are due
Tuesday, February 25th: Science Fair projects are due
Thursday, February 27th: RVE Science Fair (AM presentation to RVE, PM presentation to families.)
Saturday, April 26th: Regional Science and Engineering Fair (Mankato, optional and must qualify to attend)
Once registered, students will be enrolled in the RVE Science Fair class on Seesaw. There they will receive science fair updates, as well as fair and project guidelines from science fair coordinator, Mr. Clausen. He will be available for students to review the progress they are making with their projects and to answer any questions. If you have any questions please email him at bclausen@farmington.k12.mn.us.
If your child - or a child you know - is ready to start kindergarten in fall 2025, now is the time to enroll! Enrolling now ensures you’re in the loop for all upcoming events and communications and it gives schools a chance to plan so they are fully prepared to give your child the best start possible. Enroll today at bit.ly/kindergarten-enrollment. We can’t wait to welcome our new learners this fall!
Visit the RVES Spirit Wear School Store for lots of ways to show your school spirit. You can order online and pick up at school. Everything is super easy and all profits from sales are used by the Riverview PTP to support students and staff. Thank you for your support!
Please email spiritwear@rvesptp.org if you have questions or to arrange a pick up time at the school store.
Riverview CARES
- Cooperation
- Assertiveness
- Responsibility
- Empathy
- Self-Control
About Riverview: A Learner Centered Community
The mission of Riverview Elementary School, a learner-centered community that transforms the future of learning, is to ensure each individual continuously grows emotionally, socially, and academically to have a positive impact in their communities through:
- Honoring the diverseness of our communities
- Learning experiences driven by passions, sparks, and interests
- Reflection on the learning process and real-life experiences
- Collaborative relationships, trust, and open communication
Our Objectives:
- Each learner continuously demonstrates academic and personal growth.
- Each learner develops the skills to understand how they learn best.
- Each learner possesses the skills to advocate for themselves and others.
- Each learner continuously explores personal interests and passions to drive their learning.
Read more about our Strategic Framework here.
Email: speck@farmington.k12.mn.us
Website: https://rves.farmington.k12.mn.us/
Location: 4100 208th Street West, Farmington, MN 55024, USA
Phone: 651-460-1600
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rve192