Ride Blast
February 21, 2020
Dates to Know
2/25 - Ride Spirit Night - Torchy's Tacos 4-8 pm
2/27 & 28 - Go Texan Day
2/28 - Crossing Guard Appreciation Day
3/5 - 2nd Grade Program - Lemonade 6:00 pm
3/6 - Early Release 12:10 pm
3/9-3/13 - Spring Break
Congratulations!
We are so proud of our Ride Challengers! Please take a look at all our accomplishments for the past few weeks! What a great job Challengers!
Robotics – Ride’s Racing Rockets
2nd Place Core Values, 4th Place Robot Design, 9th Place Robot Games
11th Place Project -- Moving on to Championship 12 / 33 teams
Destination Imagination
Destination DI-ing – 1st Place – Fine Arts Challenge
Super Cool Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies – 1st Place – Scientific Challenge
Ninja Chicks – 2nd Place (by 4 pts) – Scientific Challenge and Highest Instant Challenge score.
Dance Thru Life “Kids Challenge” Competition
Ride – 1st Place and Most Spirited Award
Abdullah Shahab – 3rd Place in Regional Spelling Bee ( 1st – 8th graders)
Great Bike Giveaway
Ride Spirit Night
Please join us for dinner and wear your Ride t-shirts. A portion of the profits from all Ride attendees will go to the Ride PTO. Torchy's Tacos in Cochran's Crossing.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 4-8 pm.
Save the Date: March 27 - Spring Fundraiser 5-8 pm
Spring Fundraiser Meeting - WE NEED YOUR HELP
Please join our wonderful PTO at Black Walnut for a planning meeting for the Spring fundraiser.
We would love to see you there. There are so many different ways you can help. So come to the meeting, meet other parents, and see if anything interests you.
Ride Thru The Decades (RTTD) planning meeting, The Black Walnut, February 24, 2020, 9:30am.
Spring Carnival & Fundraiser
Crossing Guard Appreciation Day
Early Voting
Knox Drama Theatre Arts Workshop
Library Volunteers Needed
Sign up opportunities to shelve books are now available
click to see all the come-and-go opportunities
Kindergarten and first grade parents, if you are interested in helping during your child's library time and you are able to do so every other week throughout the school year, opportunities are still available.
NEWS FROM PTO
Please join the Ride Parent Teacher Organization (“PTO”) which meets the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 am. PTO has a new website: www.RidePTO.com.
Integrity - Characteristic Trait
Integrity means knowing the difference between right and wrong and choosing to do the right thing even when it is difficult.
Ways to show integrity:
Be responsible
Be respectful
Be reliable-do what you say you will do
Tell the truth
Try new things even when it is hard.
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Reach goals
Do the right thing
Be a good friend
Make good choices
Take care of yourself
Be dependable
Be honest
Enrichment Schedule
4th Grade - 8:05-8:55 am
3rd Grade - 9:00-9:50 am
2nd Grade - 9:55 - 10:45 am
Kinder - 1:00 - 1:50 pm
1st Grade - 2:00 - 2:50 pm
Lunch Schedule
Kinder - 11:00 - 11:30 am
4th Grade - 11:15 - 11:45 am
1st Grade - 11:30 - 12:00 pm
2nd Grade - 11:45 - 12:15 pm
3rd Grade - 12:00 - 12:30 pm
Recess Schedule
Kinder - 10:30 - 11:00 am
1st Grade - 12:00 - 12:30 am
2nd Grade - 1:30 - 2:00 pm
3rd Grade - 12:30 - 1:00 pm
4th Grade - 2:30 - 3:00 pm