Riverdale Local Schools

Congratulations to the HS Quiz Bowl team for finishing Runner-up in the Hancock League this year. Wins over Vanlue, Arlington, VB, and CR on Wednesday night left them 6-1 overall in league play. Upcoming dates are 12/9 NCOESC League Tournament and Hancock Co Tournament 1/11.

Attention all 8th graders and chaperones going to Washington DC: Your next payment of $175 is due by Fri., Dec. 9. You may pay with cash/checks/money orders made out to Riverdale School. Please make your payments to Mrs. Wehrle before or after school, or in between classes!

The elementary newsletter has been sent out via email. Please update your email through FinalForms in order to access it. Also, our fundraiser items arrive tomorrow! Small orders will be sent home with students. All other orders can be picked up tomorrow evening, Thurs. Dec. 1 from 6-7pm or on Fri. Dec. 2 from 9am-2pm. Thank you for your support of Riverdale Schools!

Academic Boosters would like to invite you to help kick off our Christmas food drive on Thursday, Dec. 1. With a donation a food item listed below, you will receive a free popcorn or water at the concession stand at the Girls Basketball game against McComb. All food items collected will be donated to our very own Riverdale Food Pantry. Thank you for your support! Needed food items include: boxed pasta, bags of egg noodles, beef stew (Dinty Moore style), canned fruit & vegetables, plastic jars of applesauce, boxes of cereal & Poptarts, and canned chicken and spaghetti sauce.

Congratulations to these November Students of the month, Megan Reiter, Seneca Connor, Brandt Welly, Rebecca Kremer. Great Job Falcons!

The 12 Days of Giving and Holiday Spirit is quickly approaching! Please take a look at the upcoming schedule and we look forward to seeing everyone's holiday spirit!

REMINDER: Today is a regularly scheduled school day. Elementary students will be dismissed at 2:55pm and MS/HS at 3pm. We hope you and your families have a wonderful Thanksgiving Break.

Our food service team had an extra turkey in the kitchen today. It was a great time serving our students and staff their thanksgiving lunch, Happy Thanksgiving everyone, Gobble, Gobble!

Ms. Lifer's Biology classes learned about macromolecules using a murder mystery lab. Students got to see how proteins, lipids, simple carbohydrates, and complex carbohydrates can each be tested for in a sample.

Mrs. Dapper's STEM class assembling their floats in the "Turkey Float Challenge"

Congrats to the HS Quiz Bowl team for finishing their NCOESC league on a high note. They had one loss to Carey with the game coming down to the last question. The team won 325-60 over Seneca East and 255-225 over Shelby. They will next compete on Nov. 30th at Arcadia.

Special thanks to Riverdale Shop and Ag for helping set up Charlie Brown Christmas at the Forest park!

Mrs. Combs third grade class completing the phonics challenge today, it was awesome and they are amazing. Very impressive Falcons.

Riverdale High School Veteran's Day Assembly, Thank you to the many veterans participating today and enjoying the potluck provided by our NHS. Thank you to Rodney Spade, Retired CSM, Army for giving a great speech as the honorary guest speaker. THANK YOU VETERANS!

The Fortnite Premier 1 and Reserve 1 Esports teams have qualified for the Esports Ohio State Finals! There will be 3 matches and they will start on Monday November 14th at 4:00pm. This is a remote tournament so we will be playing from the computer lab here at school. We will host a stream watch party in room 611 (Mrs. Reinhart's Room) for those that would like to come watch! The stream link will also be shared Monday afternoon via our Facebook and Twitter Page. You can find those link's on our website https://www.riverdalefalcons.org/page/esports.

Riverdale 2nd grade did an outstanding job performing their Salute to America program at school today. They will perform again tonight 11/10/22 at 7pm in the big gym. All are welcome to attend!!

Please join the Riverdale Music Department this Friday in the cafeteria for our annual Quarter Auction! We will have plenty of quarters on hand! There are many items that can be won so please come on out! Doors open at 5:30 and paddles will be up by 6:00!

4th grade student using quaver music to create their own songs.

Brenna Farmer signs her National Letter of Intent to play softball with the Ohio University Bobcats. Congratulations Brenna!

On behalf of the Riverdale Board of Education, Administration, Faculty, and Staff, RLS may not have gotten the results desired Tuesday, BUT we give the greatest appreciation to our community for the amazing support to provide a great education for all Falcons. THANK YOU FALCONS!