River Valley Local Schools 197 Brocklesby Rd. Caledonia, OH 43314 (740) 725-5400

Good News from The Valley November 3, 2017

Thank you to First Consolidated for

coming to do fire safety with Liberty

preschool and kindergarten classes.

Congratulations to our RVMS student, Joe

Montgomery, for winning 1st place at the MOAC

Junior High Cross Country Championship!

The FFA has three chapter members who will be

moving on to the Sub-District competition for

Job Interview on November 8th at Tri Rivers

Career Center. Job interview is the most

applicable career development event that the

National FFA has to offer. Students learn to fill

out a job application, are involved in an actual

job interview, complete a follow-up letter after

the interview is complete and are scored on

their application, cover letter, resume, interview

and follow-up letter along the way.

The following will be representing RV FFA:

Sophomore: Jackson Crawford

Junior: Anna Heimlich

Senior: Jillian Russell

We wish them luck at the next level of

competition!

News from Elementary Music…

The 2nd and 3rd Graders at both Heritage and Liberty Elementary are beginning to work on their musical, A Holiday Moosical! The Heritage concert will be held December 13th at 6pm. Liberty Elementary's concert will be held December 14th at 6pm.

The 4th graders have been learning how to play

recorders! Parents can look for the recorders to be coming home soon for their students to practice at home.

The 5th graders have been working hard to

prepare a piece for the Veterans at our Veteran's Day Assembly at both Heritage and Liberty Elementary.

Thank you to United Bank, Caledonia Branch, for

unfolding your United States flag during the

national anthem for the Pleasant football game.

River Valley Local Schools 197 Brocklesby Rd. Caledonia, OH 43314 (740) 725-5400

Great news from RVHS Robotics… Members of the RVHS VEX Robotics team traveled to North Union on October 28th to compete with 40 other teams at their regional qualifier tournament. The RV teams faced very tough competition at the event. RV Team 1181C battled through the tournament to claim their second tournament championship in as many weeks. Team members RJ Clayton, Tyler Peak, and Brenden Andrews went 5-1 in qualifying events and were the number three seed. Team 1181B of Ezra Warwick, David Calhoun, and Nick Manning were also 5-1 in qualifiers and claimed the number one seed but dropped a tough three game match in the semi-finals. Team 1181D of Ty Garrett, Josh Yake, and RJ Reid struggled with electrical problems, but made the finals as the 7th seed and lost in the quarterfinals. Team 1181B of Warwick, Calhoun, and Manning set the highest score of the entire tournament scoring 96 points in a match. The next tournament is November 30th at OSUM.

The 7th grade language arts classes of Traci Lott and Michelle Owings have completed their annual RVMS Wax Museum. Students chose a biography/autobiography of a person of choice, did a good amount of research based on an essential question, chose a presentation format, created that presentation and a costume, and presented at an evening to parents and families. The teachers are also choosing a few exceptional projects to be presented at the next Board of Education Meeting on Thursday, November 9.

During some of those nice days of warmer weather, third

graders at Liberty Elementary took advantage of it by

reading outside.

Check out the pictures below from the 1st grade

students at Heritage Elementary that created a stem

project to determine the best way to make "Solar

S'mores." Students have been learning about the sun

and energy it provides to Earth. Students worked

together to decide what type of plate and covering

to use for the s'more and then together decided

where to place them outside. Shortly later they

enjoyed their very messy Solar S'mores!

River Valley Local Schools 197 Brocklesby Rd. Caledonia, OH 43314 (740) 725-5400

RVHS and RVMS art was asked to paint windows in conjunction with Downtown Marion's Monster March traditional trick-or-treat event. The window display is a competition between local school districts. High school and middle school students, along with Art teachers Holly Ransome and Laura Carey, gathered after school to create fun Halloween scenes at Henry Lumber's New Showroom at 136 South Prospect Street.

River Valley Lady Vikings Basketball

participated in the Westerville Hunger

Heroes 5k Saturday October 28th at

Westerville North High School. Proceeds were

donated to W.A.R.M. (Westerville Area

Resource Ministry) Share Bac A Pac, and

Otterbein University Promise House.

River Valley will be hosting Mark Wood from the

Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Mark Wood is an

Emmy winning composer known for arrangements

of classic rock and contemporary music such as

Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”, Led Zepplin’s

“Kashmir” and the Rolling Stones’ “You can’t

always get what you want”. Mark and his team

are celebrating their 17th year of rocking

schools across the nation. Please join us on

November 17th from 7:30- 9:30 pm at the River

Valley High School Auditorium. Tickets are $23in

advance and $25 at the door. Tickets are

available online at x.co/markwood

or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mark-wood-river-

valley-orchestra-concert-tickets-

37370376803?aff=efbneb.

All Proceeds benefit the River Valley Music

Boosters.

River Valley Local Schools 197 Brocklesby Rd. Caledonia, OH 43314 (740) 725-5400 ;

Please remember to vote on Tuesday, November 7!

Emergency Renewal Levy

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This levy will maintain the current operations of our district.