Schedule for Battle of the Books- All competitions will be done on Kahoot in the library during their library class time. The top 2 teams from each grade will move onto the District Battle of the Books competition in February.
4th Grade- Wednesday: Super Chicken Nuggets, The Four Howling Wolves, The Huskies, and the Stellar Stars.
4th Grade- Thursday: The Pineapples, The Three Amigos, The Fighting Children, Bob's Chicken Wings Returns, and The Wolf Pack.
4th Grade- Friday: The top 3 teams from Wednesday and the top 2 teams from Thursday.
3rd Grade- Wednesday: The Readers, The Falcons, and the Crew
3rd Grade- Thursday: Shooting Stars and Toon Squad
3rd Grade- Friday: The top 2 teams from Wednesday and top 2 teams from Thursday.
Reminder: There is no school for any WBSD7 schools on Monday, January 17th.
We would like to remind families of the policies we are following per our Return to In-Person Learning Plan related to COVID-19 positive individuals:
Positive COVID-19 Diagnosis
ISOLATE: Stay home and away from others for at least 10 days after symptom onset and be fever free for 24 hours (without the use of medications) and have improvements in symptoms. If asymptomatic (without symptoms) isolate for 10 days beginning on test date.
If you have COVID-19, you must self-isolate regardless of vaccination status, previous infection, or lack of symptoms.
Recently the CDC updated their COVID guidelines for isolation time for positive individuals, however, at our recent school board meeting, it was decided we would continue with our current plan.
For more information and to read the plan, please visit our District Website https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1413803/1.7.22_Amended_Return_to_In_Person_Plan.pdf
A representative from the American Heart Association stopped by and talked to our students about the importance of keeping a healthy heart. She gave us some tips for maintaining a strong heart and explained an upcoming Kids Heart Challenge fundraiser that Mrs. Bauska will be doing in her P.E. classes. More information can be found at this link by searching for Rickard in the school search bar. https://www2.heart.org/site/SPageNavigator/khc_resources_search.html
Before winter break, Mrs. Norby's 1st grade class celebrated how countries around the world celebrate Christmas and holidays in December. By "traveling" to different countries, students were able to learn about important traditions and complete a project for each country. At the end of their adventure, they ate a meal with food from all of their countries!
With the unfortunate increase in violence, threats, cyberbullying, and disruptive social media “challenges” in schools throughout the country, the Williston Basin School District #7 would like to take a moment to remind families and students that our District takes a zero-tolerance approach to any misconduct of this nature. Please see the attached notice from the Interim Superintendent, Lori Olson, and the Director of Student Services, Wyndy McGinley.
CANCELLATION:
Due to flight cancellations, our guest speaker Sgt. Rich has been cancelled this week. We will be rescheduling him for a later date and will communicate that as soon as we have that information.
Williston Basin School District #7 is proud to partner with CHI St. Alexius Health Williston for our Partners in Health Program. Our Partners in Health Program will provide WBSD7 with opportunities to provide beneficial resources including expert reviewed health articles and blog posts, Staff Wellness Days, informational forums, and more.
Our first featured article is "Gather Around for the Benefits of Family Dinner." Did you know that having a regular family dinner can result in higher grade point averages and self-esteem for children and teens?
For this article and more, check out our Partners in Health page: https://www.willistonschools.org/page/chi-stalexius-health-partnership
WBSD#7 Parents,
Please join us this Monday, January 10th, at Williston High School at 7pm for a Workshop on Cyber Safety and Security. At this high energy, fast paced presentation you will learn about every app, how to monitor your child’s activity and see real time how to navigate the most popular social media apps. Sgt. Rich has spoken to over 1 million people worldwide and has been featured on NBC, FOX, CNN and Good Morning America!
For more info, check out www.AlwaysConnected.org
The Battle of the Book teams have been officially set! Nine teams from the 4th grade and five teams from the 3rd grade will compete at the end of January to be crowned the Rickard Champion. Both the first and second place winners from each grade will move on to our District competition in February. Those four teams will compete against other 3rd and 4th grade teams from around the District to be crowned District Champion. From there, the District Champion will move onto Regionals, where they will go against teams from Stanley, Watford City, and Trenton! Make sure you look below for specific dates for the competitions. Reminders will also be sent out to students before each of their teams competes! Battle On!
Rickard Competition: January 26-28 during school hours
District Competition: Feb 7-10, from 6-8pm at Bakken
Regional Competition: TBA
Our students have been learning about New Year's Resolutions and how to make SMART goals in the future. Here are some of the projects relating to this around our Rickard hallways!
School is back in session, and winter is in full swing with temperatures ranging anywhere from 35*F to -27*F in the next 10 days. Remember elementary students still go outside for recess until temperatures reach -10*F.
If you are in need of winter gear for sizes 4T and up, please contact Allison Stensland at (701)572-1580 or allison.stensland@willistonschools.org.
Our Rickard family would like to welcome all parents, students, and staff back to school in the upcoming new year! We are so excited to continue to make Rickard a safe and welcoming place for everybody who enters. Let's make 2022 an awesome year!
January's SEL Word of the Month: Choices
Mrs. Conlin and her 2nd grade class also partnered with Thrivent Financial to sponsor some students by shopping for them and wrapping gifts! Pictured is the whole class with their final gifts and student learning how to wrap!
Mrs. Vasquez and her 2nd grade class also partnered with Thrivent Financial to sponsor some students by shopping for them and wrapping gifts! Pictured is the whole class with their final gifts.
REMINDER: Tomorrow's dress-up theme is "Ugly Sweater!" Wear your tackiest and ugliest sweaters you have!
Our whole Rickard family would like to make a huge shoutout and thank you to our PTO that does so much for our school and students. We are so thankful for their constant support to make sure our students and staff are successful. From providing snacks to our treat trolley to sponsoring our Rickard Staff Holiday Scavenger Hunt to purchasing needed supplies for our classrooms, we can not thank them enough for their hard work and dedication to making Rickard a safe and positive school environment for all to come into. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
A message from the Director of Student Services and the Interim Superintendent.
Rickard's Kindergarten and 4th Grade classes worked together to decorate gingerbread houses on Tuesday. The students frosted and placed a multitude of decorations onto their houses and created wintry scenes complete with teddy graham snow angels and Santa's. And no gingerbread decorating would be complete without sneaking in a few treats to taste! 🍬🍭
