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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

School News

Conference Time Re-quest

ACC Garage Sale

Family Fun Night

Student Council Events

Menu/Schedule of Events

PTO News

Farm2School Lunch

Dear Parents,

PBIS IN THE HOME:

During the month of March, Rip-pleside Elementary will be focus-ing on Anger Management skills. The PBIS team at Rippleside Ele-mentary recommends teaching your child how to respond appro-priately when someone becomes mad.

SCHOOL EVENTS:

Our Family Fun Night is on March 2nd from 4:45—6:05 with a free meal of sub sandwiches, chips, a cookie and water at 4:45—5:15 followed by various reading events, including:

Book Swap

Book BINGO

Live skits

Green Screen Photography Session

On February 19th we had a presentation titled “Be the Nice Kid” for our kindergarten through 6th grade students pre-sented by Bryan Skavnak. Through his heartfelt and some-times goofy stories, Bryan blends humor and inspiration to teach you how to Be the Nice Kid. As an inspiring speaker and writer, Bryan has helped thousands of kids (and their parents and teachers) achieve their dream of being happier and more confi-

dent by revealing how to sur-round themselves with a team of good people. We felt so honored to be able to watch this presenta-tion and appreciate his time to come to Rippleside.

PBIS ON OUR PHONES:

Parents, I want to remind you of the importance of knowing how your child is communicating on their iPhone, iPod or iPad. The Aitkin County Child Abuse Pre-vention Council notes this: “Bullies are nothing new. But Internet accessibility has given bullying a new twist. Cyberbul-lies do such things as:

Send insulting messages and threats

Spread rumors

Post embarrassing photos

Share someone’s secrets online

Exclude someone from an online group

Please be part of your child’s “communication life”. It is very important to help guide our stu-dents to appropriate and kind communication. Many times, children send comments that they normally would never say

to another person’s face. We need to continue to build re-spectful and responsible citizens of Aitkin. Please be a team member with your child with the “mobile world” of technolo-gy.

Sincerely,

Andrew G. Dokken

Rippleside Elementary Principal

Family Fun Night is March 2nd!

Conferences are March 26th. Childcare will

be provided.

Placement input form enclosed. Due March

25th.

Student Council food drive 3/9—3/20

2019-2020 March Issue

From Your Principal, Mr. Andrew Dokken

Childcare Provided

during Conferences

Free childcare will be provided

during spring conferences on

March 26th in the Kid’s Club

room courtesy of our PTO.

THANK YOU PTO!

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Donuts with Dad

Donuts with dad will be on Thurs-

day, March 12th from 7:15—8:25

in the cafeteria. If dad is unavaila-

ble, any family member is wel-

come to attend. Come hungry!

Children’s Dental Services will be at

Rippleside on March 26, 2020 dur-

ing Rippleside conferences from

9:00AM—5:00PM. They employ

Minnesota Dentists and Hygienists

to provide quality mobile dental care

clinics for children and adults up to

the age of 26, and to pregnant wom-

en of any age. Children’s Dental Ser-

vices accepts ALL forms of insur-

ance, and offers free and reduced

rates based upon income. To sched-

ule an appointment please call 612-

746-1530 or toll free at 866-543-

6009

Children’s Dental Services

Students who read 3 or

more of the books in their

Division (Division 1 for 3rd

-5th grade and Division 2

for 6th-8th grade) are eligi-

ble to vote for their favor-

ite. Voting runs through

March 26th. Many books

are available in the Media

Center or the Aitkin Public

Library (some even as au-

diobooks!)

Maud Hart Lovelace

Book Award

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From March 9th—March 20th, our Ripple-

side Elementary students will be competing

against students from Crosby-Ironton High

School in a food drive challenge. Rippleside

held a highly successful food drive last year,

but the advisors thought it would be fun to

turn it into a rivalry challenge. Our very own

Rippleside Student Council has challenged

the Crosby-Ironton High School Student

Council to a pound for pound challenge and

they have graciously accepted with the goal of

raising donations for our respective commu-

nity food shelves. Students are asked to bring

in boxed or canned foods to Rippleside be-

tween March 9th—March 20th. There will be

two weigh in dates before the food is deliv-

ered to the food shelf at First Lutheran

Church. As part of the rivalry challenge, the

advisors of the team that collects the fewest

pounds of food will be turned into a human

sundae. If Rippleside collects 1,100 pounds of

food, student council members will be al-

lowed to shave Mr. Joshua Smith’s head. A

Student Council News! Food Drive Challenge!

VS.

traveling trophy will be passed between schools

for future competition.

To help raise awareness for the food drive, the

Rippleside Student Council will be hosting a

“Dress for the Drive Week” on March 16th—

20th. Dress up days will be:

3/16—Comfy Monday

3/17—Twin Tuesday

3/18—Wacky Wednesday

3/19—Throwback Thursday

3/20—Futuristic Friday

Dance for Hunger—2nd Annual!

The culmination of the food drive will be the

2nd Annual Dance for Hunger, which will

take place on March 20th for Rippleside

5th and 6th graders. The dance will be held

in the Rippleside Cafeteria from 6:00—8:30

and entry to the dance will be two food

items. Aitkin Grad Blast will be selling con-

cessions for students throughout the dance.

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Mar 2nd—Family

Fun Night

Mar. 9th—20th—

Student Council

Food Drive

Mar. 12th—Donuts

w/Dad

Mar. 13th—No

School

Mar. 16th—Comfy

Monday

Mar. 16th—PTO

Meeting 5:30

Mar. 16th—20th—

4th Grade Cartoon-

ing

Mar. 17th—Twin

Tuesday

Mar. 18th—Wacky

Wednesday

Mar. 19th—

Throwback Thurs-

day

Mar. 19th—

Farm2School Lunch

Mar. 20th—

Futuristic Friday

Mar. 20th—5th &

6th Dance for Hun-

ger

Mar. 20th—5th &

6th Grade Dance

Mar. 25th—Quarter

3 Ends

Mar. 26th—Spring

conferences

Mar. 27th—No

School—Teacher In-

Service

Mar. 30th—April

3rd—5th Grade Art-

ist in Residence

Mar. 31st—Student

to see Musical at

H.S.

Schedule of

Events

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Rippleside Elementary

PTO News

Monthly Meetings

Golden Gobbler Award!

The next PTO meeting will be

Monday, March 16th at 5:30

P.M. in the Media Center at

Rippleside. Meetings are typi-

cally held the third Monday of

the month. There will not be

childcare this year, but feel free

to bring your children to the

meeting.

The Ripplside PTO has creat-ed the Golden Gobbler Award in an effort to recognize the many wonderful workers who make up Rippleside Elemen-tary. Each month parents and Rippleside employees will be able to nominate any employ-ee (Teacher, Paraprofessional,

Custodian, Bus Driver, Secre-tary, etc) of Rippleside that they think has done an exceptional job. This month the Golden Gobbler is Daryl Smith!Congratulations!

PTO Funded:

Thank you for helping raise funds

for Rippleside!

Family Fun Night

Pi Day Activities for 3rd Grade

Heggies Pizza Fundraiser

Heggies Pizza Fundraiser will run February 24th—March 10th. A

bike will be given away to the top seller! Even if you are not the

top seller, you still have a chance to win a bike! Anyone who sells

over 25 pizzas will be part of a drawing for a second bike, as well

as having an ice cream party with Mr. Dokken. Distribution is the

same day as conferences, March 26th. Distribution will be held

from 4:00—7:00 in the cafeteria. Pizzas need to be sorted and

will NOT be available for early pickup before 3:00PM.

Thank you to New life Church

for donating money to the

PTO this month! It is ap-

preciated!

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PBIS MONTHLY THEMES FOR 2019-2020

April – Personal Responsibility for Self and Others May – Staying Strong

Aitkin Public Schools Primary Business Address

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Phone: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555 E-mail: someone@example.com

YOUR LOGO HERE

Aitkin Public Schools

Rippleside Elementary 225 2nd Avenue SW

Aitkin, MN 56431

www.isd1.org/rippleside Phone: 927-4838

Fax: 927-4608

“Empowering students to

be life-long learners.”

The Ripple Effect: Catch the Wave

We are respectful

Always responsible

Very safe

Excellent attitude

March focus: Anger Management

Farm 2 School Lunch

Date: March 19, 2020

Menu: Pork Chow Mein with rice and chow mein noodles, mandarin or-anges, sherbet and a for-tune cookie!

Provided by: Pork pro-vided by Willowsedge Farm

Adult Guest Price $4.15

Child Guest Price $3.55

RSVP by March 12th on http://home.isd1.org/rippleside.html or call the Rippleside office at 218-927-4838.

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