Riverview indeed has talent, lots of it! Students shared their talents and skills with the school on May 22nd. Talents numbers included singing, piano, dancing from different cultures to hip hop, and other musical instruments. Well done!
Friday May 4 brought fun surprises to Riverview! Kinnect Dance Company from BYU came to share an assembly and dance instruction with the students. We had a full-school assembly followed by breakout sessions with the dancers. Check out the smiles on these faces!
Winners: W-I-N-N-E-R-S.
The third grade spelling bee was a success this year, and included these winners-
Corbin Jensen- second place, Jacqueline Doty- third place, and Morganne Price won first place. Corbin and Morganne are both in Mrs. Hall's class, and Jacqueline is in Mrs. LaCrua's. The winning word was 'racial'. The competition started with ten kids, two kids from each of the third grade classes. They all had a great experience. Congratulations Corbin, Jacqueline, and Morganne!
Dads and their daughters had a "Minute to Win It" at the PTA-sponsored daddy-daughter evening with fun games! Participants had a great time stacking, throwing, and balancing all within a minute for prizes. Thank you PTA!
Riverview students had a great week of collecting, strategizing, and 'bombing' classroom jars of pennies with their coins. At the end of the week, Mrs. Bufton's class won the upper grade contest with the most amount of money, raising $197.30! Mrs. Jorgensen's class won for the most points- meaning, they had a LOT of pennies in their jars! Miss Nelson's class won the lower grade contest also raising $197.30! Mrs. Miner's class also brought in $150.01. Wow! Mrs. Galt's 2nd grade class earned 3733 points (also many pennies!) and Mrs.
Penny Wars has been so much fun! Look at this class counting up their change! We've made over $2000 for our memorial bench. Thank you everyone for your donations!! We'll announce the class winners after spring break.
Vivian Miner, 5th grade teacher at Riverview, was presented the Crystal Apple Award. She was voted the winner by her colleagues who think she contributes amazing things to educating children. Congratulations Mrs. Miner!
Mrs. Mejken Lacrua is Riverview's Teacher of the Year! This is Mrs. Lacrua's 6th year of teaching. She has always taught third grade and loves it! She has lived in Spanish Fork for 3 years. She has one sone whom she adores. Mrs. Lacrua said, "I love, love, LOVE my job and think of my students as my kids! They bring me such happiness each day and keep my life interesting. I feel so blessed to be in this profession." She taught at Canyon for her 1st year and has taught at Riverview for 5.
Congratulations Mrs. Lacrua!
Our penny war starts this week- Monday, April 2 through Friday, April 6!
Our goal is to earn money for memorial benches for our friends at Riverview that have passed away. We want to remember them with special benches at Riverview. Carol Walker, Carol Condie, Ian Baker-Pierce, Valeria Gutierrez, and Dax Christensen were all a special part of Riverview. We love them and miss them dearly. Help us earn money to remember them and what they meant to us.
It's easy to be a voracious writer when you get to do fun writing projects such as this! Second graders got to chew up some gum, blow some bubbles, and then teach us how to blow a bubble! Mrs. Smith, a student teacher in Mrs. Galt's class helped them with this fun activity!