Riverside Intermediate School

Riverside Review

“Responsibility—Service—Integrity” Riverside Intermediate School 11014 Eller Road, Fishers, IN 46038 317-594-4320 (p) 317-594-4329 (f)

January 18, 2019 www.rsi.hseschools.org Attendance Line: 317-594-4328

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To stay informed, please visit our calendar for up to date

information!

https://www.hsecalendars.org/public/genie/752/school/13/ Menu rotation: https://schools.mealviewer.com/school/RiversideIntermediate

Fishers Fusion Dance Team Winter Dance Clinic—take a look for more information on

our CBB!

See other events happening in and around our district in the link below:

This is the link to the new

Community Bulletin Board.

Community Insider link https://www.hseschools.org/happenings/

community-insider.

Cafe News: Starting this year breakfast will be served on 2 hour delays. We will be offering our regular breakfast menu. Friendly reminder please put name of student and id number on all checks and envelopes to ensure the lunch money ends up in the right account. Nick names and first names only make it diffi-cult to make sure the money ends up in the right account. Any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Ashley Edsall (cafeteria manager) at aedsall@hse.k12.in.us or Christina Hodge (cafeteria assistant manager) at chodge@hse.k12.in.us.

ATTENTION PARENTS OF 6TH GRADERS:

The upcoming 7th grade parent night for incoming 7th graders is Tuesday, February 5th in Hawk Hall at 7:00

PM.

Report Cards are now posted!

~REMINDER~

There will not be school on

Monday, January 21st in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

HONOR

ROLL

is posted on

our website. It

can be found

under “Happenings ...

”In The News”

The RSI Art Department needs the following materials to be donated

throughout the 2018-19 school year:

- magazines and catalogs - leftover house paint that is <2 years old and still usable - leftover scrapbooking/crafting/creative odds and ends - pencils - any "spare parts" from around the house that could be in-corporated into creative projects Please do not share anything sharp or made of glass. If you have any questions or would like to know "could the Art Department use this?", please email Kevin Johnson at:

kejohnson@hse.k12.in.us

RSI is committed to the continued development of our amazing MakerSpace during the 2018-2019 school year. Help our RSI students out with a donation to the space so they may have access to materials to construct, apply their ideas to natural forms, and allow us to continue to build an environment of innovation for all.

We need the following materials: PLEASE DROP OFF AT THE OFFICE *Anything you might find in a craft/hobby/dollar store *Masking tape, duct tape, glue, hot glue guns, zip ties, brads, *Anything students could take apart and see how it was made *Random wood pieces of any kind *Extra tools, work gloves, eye protectors, *Clay, playdoh, craft paints etc. *Rinsed out empty plastic bottles, milk cartons *Creative “stuff” for students to re-imagine into something new *Plastic tablecloths or roll of plastic sheeting *Some surprises Thank you for your donations!

HSE Preschool Info

The HSE Preschool of the Natural Sciences will begin accepting registration for 2019-2020 on Tuesday, Jan. 22. On this date, families with chil-dren returning to the program or current families with younger children may sign up for next school year. Remaining spots will available to new fami-lies on Monday, Feb. 4. Children must be 3- to 5-years-old (not kindergarten-age) to enroll in the program. More information may be found at https://pre.hseschools.org/ or you may contact Dr. Kelli Servizzi, Preschool Coordinator at kservizzi@hse.k12.in.us or Jane Meyer, Preschool Secretary, at jmmeyer@hse.k12.in.us.

Don't miss a thing! For Best Buddies notifications please text @riverbb to the number 81010. This is a new Remind group so please make sure to sign up!

What to do if you suspect a disability?

HSE Schools Child Find Procedure: If your child is age 2 ½ through 21, attends any school within the Hamilton South-eastern Schools boundaries or you live in our community, and you suspect your child may have a disability, you should contact us for more information.

· For children at least two and a half years of age, but not yet age-eligible for kinder-garten, you should contact the Preschool Coordinator at Brooks School Ele-mentary School, 317-915-4256.

· For students who are eligible for kindergarten through age 21, you should contact

your child’s teacher, school counselor or building administrator to discuss your concerns and explore the steps to be taken. If your child is not enrolled in public school, you should contact the counselor or building administrator in the building your child would attend if enrolled.

https://www.hseschools.org/academics/intervention-acceleration/exceptional-learners Response-to-Instruction (RtI) RtI is a general education initiative designed to provide high quality instruction and interventions matches to student needs, and using learning rate over time and level of performance to make important educational decisions. The RtI model is based on a three-tiered model of service delivery with a focus on early intervention and pre-vention of academic and behavioral concerns. Data collected during this process provides valuable information regarding students’ educational progress and re-sponse to interventions. Students who do not demonstrate a response to well-implemented, scientifically-based interventions at the Tier 3 level would be referred for an educational evaluation to determine eligibility for special education. RtI is a component of HSE’s Child Find Process.

Indy Snack Attack

Riverside Intermediate School is excited to announce the continuation of a program that will benefit students right here at Riverside. We will be partnering with Indy Snack Attack - a local non-profit organization designed to help kids fight hunger. Indy Snack Attack will provide RSI students in need with a disposable sack full of snacks to take home every Friday to help get them through the weekend. The sacks are filled with individually wrapped non-perishable snack items. Examples of non-perishable snack items are: packages of cheese and crackers, cook-ies, Goldfish crackers, granola bars, pudding cups, Pop Tarts, instant oatmeal, microwave popcorn, fruit cups, raisins and express mac-n-cheese. If you would like your student to receive a snack bag each Friday, please contact our 6th Grade Counselor, Jennifer Smith at jensmith@hse.k12.in.us Riverside Intermediate will be holding a snack food drive later in the year to help out our fellow students and Indy Snack Attack. For more information about Indy Snack Attack, go to www.indysnackattack.org or email questions to indysnackattack@yahoo.com. Thank you for your help in supporting our students, neighbors and community!

It’s that time of year…Lice love the fall

and winter…well actually they love the

coats and hats and scarves! It is a good

idea to periodically check your child’s

head for nits or bugs. Children do not al-

ways know they have them- symptoms

vary from case to case. For more detailed

information check out this Website: http://

www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/.

Healthy Hawks – Get Your Run On! Healthy Hawks is the RJH & RSI training team for the Geist 5K, 10K, and Mini Marathon. This is a train-ing team for students, but teachers and parents are welcome to run/train with us. All ability levels are wel-come; runners, walkers, or anywhere in between! We start training February 5 th with a goal of finishing strong on race day, May 18th. Students who want to run the 5K (3.1 miles) can sign up for training once or twice a week (Tues and/or Thurs). Students who want to run the 10K (6.2 miles) will train twice a week (Tues and Thurs), with four Saturdays included for longer runs. Students wishing to run the Mini Marathon (13.1 miles), will train Tuesday and Thursday, and will have an additional training run on Satur-days. There will be an information/sign-up meeting on Wednesday, January 23rd at 6:00pm in the Junior High LGI Room. This meeting is incredibly important for families, and will go over training, registration, and running wellness. Forms will be available for those who cannot attend the day after (January 24th). If you have questions contact Johanna Kitchell (RJH teacher) at jkitchell@hse.k12.in.us.

Safe Visitor Badges Per HSE Policy, visitors must have their Safe Visitor Badge scanned to check-in to the building. Please download the SafeVisitor App (available for iPhones and in Google Play for all other phones) or have your badge available when you come into the school. Looking up names can lead to the wrong person being signed in. Upon leaving, please give your printed badge to the office staff for quick check-out.

Youth Mentoring Initiative YMI - Youth Mentoring Initiative has been serving the Fishers community, in partnership with HSE schools, since 2008. YMI partners with our schools to come alongside counselors, teachers, and parents by providing an-other caring adult to support and encourage the success of each student. YMI is a FREE program, as we are a non-profit organization and exist due to donations, grants, and the support of our community. Our Mentors are adult volunteers that come to mentor once a week, for one hour, during the school day. Mentors meet one-on-one with students and provide them with a caring and consistent presence in their lives; become a reliable friend; a role model; and simply someone they can count on. Do you have or know a student that could benefit from having a Mentor? Follow these steps to get them enrolled in the program: Go to www.ymionline.org

Click on BE MENTORED

Click on RECOMMEND A STUDENT Are you interested in becoming a Mentor? Follow these steps to get yourself enrolled in the program: Go to www.ymionline.org

Click on BECOME A MENTOR

Click on THE MENTORING APPLICATION PROCESS

CO-PARENTING TECH TIME, WORKING THROUGH DIFFERENCES

Let me start by sending my respect to all those single parents out there. There are millions of you, and I know you have unique challenges. I grew up with just my mom, so I have always been particularly attuned to the realities of single parents and their children.

Co-parenting, married or divorced, can be extremely challenging in these tech-heavy times.

I’ve come across several divorce lawyers who have included screen time in their parenting plan contracts. It’s no surprise. Being the more lenient parent as a way to curry the favor of the child has been used for eons in divorced couples. Now, more often than not, the goodies are screen-related. Most psychology frameworks emphasize the importance of parenting from a “united front”. This is when parents come to a consensus behind closed doors and then present the consensus to the child. I wanted to provide a couple of communication tools that can help parents find a compromise when they do not see eye-to-eye.

But first let me say that my husband and I have had, and continue to have, different views about screen time rules. In fact, it was one of these differences that was a major impetus for my starting to research screen time many years ago—and then to start shooting what would become Screenagers. My husband, like many other parents, had the mindset that our kids “need to learn to manage screen time for them-selves.” While this premise makes sense, the intense draw that screens have can often be too hard for youth to resist.

How to improve co-parenting around screens

First and foremost, try to ground your conversations about screen time in data. Many of the past three years of TTTs include scientific studies. For example, if you search “sleep” on the TTT page, you will see my writings on what science tell us about the sleep needs of kids and teens.

Researchers continue to learn more about the adolescent brain and how it undergoes massive restructur-ing during those formative years. They have been learning more about why getting at least 8 to 9 hours of sleep is essential to physical, mental and academic well being. Having a shared understanding of the sci-ence may mean that a compromise around what time electronics are shut off, and kept out of the bed-room, is achieved more easily. We have lots of conversations about sleep in my family so ensuring screens go off at a certain time has worked well. Most nights.

How to ask for what you want from the other parent

So often we use “You” phrases such as “You let them use too many screens,” “You don’t understand how it’s impacting them,” “You are too lenient,” or “You are too strict.” A more effective approach to finding a compromise is by using the “DEAR MAN” method.

D—Describe the situation, just the facts. For instance, “Timmy is having a hard time waking up in the morning because he is playing video games late into the night.”

E—Express how you are feeling and your understanding of it. Use I statements. For example. “I am wor-ried and concerned about him being able to pay attention in class.”

A—Assert yourself by asking what you do or do not want. Be direct. You might say, “I want video games to be off by 9 pm each night.”

R—Reinforce how the change you are proposing can have benefits for everyone involved. “I think Timmy will do better in school, and we will have fewer fights in the house if the games are off at 9 pm. I think this can also help our relationship because get so angry at each other about this issue most nights.”

M—Stay mindful by staying on course and not bringing in other issues.

A—Appear confident. Doing so makes it harder for the other person to dismiss your request.

N—Negotiate with the goal of making both parties as satisfied as possible. For instance, if you want Tim-my to turn the game off at 9 pm and your husband thinks it should be 10 pm, why not 9:30 pm?

When parents have disagreed for a long time about screen use, the conversation around the rules and consequences can escalate quickly into the red zone. I’ve found what I call the “I Heard You Say” method to be extremely effective in helping get a positive result for all parties involved.

Ask the other parent to explain something that has been a sticking point around parenting. Such as: “Can you help me understand why you believe Timmy does not need a set time for games off dur-ing the week?”

Before they start, let them know that you want to repeat back to them what they are saying, so as to ensure you understand it correctly.

Then, a few sentences in, try to repeat back as accurately as you can what they have just said. It is actually much harder than it sounds.

When they seem to be done, ask is there anything else? The goal is for them to feel really heard. So, calmly invite any more points they want to add.

See from their perspective: Say something such as “ I can see by what you are saying why you feel the way you do.” Hopefully, this is true, that you can get a tiny bit into their shoes.

You are not necessarily agreeing with them (although you might). Saying that you understand their perspective does not mean you are agreeing with it. You just now better understand it. As hu-mans, we truly crave being understood.

The final part takes a lot of willpower, but it’s worth it. You would say something like, “Let me sit with this awhile and let's talk in a couple of hours. Then, I would love to say what I want for Timmy. ”

This break can be so powerful because you are really reinforcing to the other parent that you un-derstand them better. If instead you go right into opposing views, you will undo some of the work you just did.

Parents, at times, will be in such conflict over tech time, that trying to present a united front will be im-possible. Kids are perspective. It can be really crazy making for children and teens if parents try to pre-tend they are united and yet all sorts of clues point otherwise. When this is happening, time for more open conversations. Often professional counselors can be essential when things have become especially toxic.

Stay in touch with the Screenagers community on Facebook, Twitter and at www.screenagersmovie.com.

Look for find event listings on our site.

** We would love to hear what goes on in your household around how you work through differences. Please please join the conversation below as I often get ideas from my readers ’ input.

For this Tech Talk Tuesday here are few conversation starters:

1. You can ask–What do you appreciate in the different things we bring to parenting around screen time? 2. Explain the “I Heard You Say” method and then practice it with them. 3. Explain what DEAR MAN is and have them fill in a scenario about something they want to change

RSI PTO Meetings

2018-19 (all meetings are held in the

RSI Media Center 6:30-7:30)

September 5th

October 3rd

November 7th

December 6th

February 6th

March 6th

April 10th

May 2nd

BOXTOPS! Send in your BOXTOPS FOR

EDUCATION!

(See attached flyers!)

Please contact Jennifer Harmon

if you are

interested in helping with the

Spring

Carnival Silent Auction. Much of

the work can be done online.

Please email

jennifermeyerharmon@gmail.com

Riverside is raising money to fill a gap in funding associated with phase 2 of its playground. Sky Foot-

wear, a local company, will donate $2.50 to Riverside for every pair of fun, fashionable, and fantastic socks sold

AND they will donate a pair of socks to a local homeless shelter. Riverside is happy! The homeless shelter is

happy! The receiver of the socks you purchase is happy! Everyone wins! Please consider a gift of socks

and be sure to use this link to purchase: https://www.skyfootwear.com/discount/rsplays. Select which-

ever socks you like, and make sure our promo code (rsplays) shows up in your cart before you check out! (It

will automatically be applied if you follow this link!) Attached is the flyer!

Playground Update!!

Riverside Intermediate School and the PTO are celebrating a $2500 grant from the Walmart Community Grant program! The Walmart Neighborhood Market on Ambleside Drive in Fishers recommended our playground for the grant. The funds will be used to help build the next phase of our playground. Phase 2 will be built across the path from the current playground. We have worked with the school’s occupa-tional therapist to ensure it is suitable for students of all abilities. It will include a basket swing, a rope climb-ing dome, percussion stand, sand & water station, and spinner bowls! The equipment will be reduced if we are not able to raise all the needed funds (approximately $92,000). To help, support our sock fundraiser (https://www.skyfootwear.com/discount/rsplays and see attached flyer) or

make a donation through the PTO website at http://rsi-pto.com/campaigns/playground.

YOUR ORGANIZATION NUMBER HAS CHANGED. NEW NUMBER IS FP515

Dear RIVERSIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PTO (FP515), The Kroger Co. Family of Stores is committed to bringing hope and help to the local neighborhoods we call home. Our stores are on a mission to not just part of, but to help create a stronger community. We recognize that every community has unique causes that need support. RSI, Thank you for being such an important organization in our community. We have recently upgraded our system, and as a result it RSI has a new account number. We recommend updating this change. Please reference the new number when contacting us for assistance. The previous number will continue to be associated with your organization, however, it will not be visible to members when enrolling. Please link your rewards card to your organization. Community Rewards is easy to use, The more you shop with us, the more money your organization will earn! We are committed to carefully protecting our customer's personal information. In order to meet their expectation of privacy, we have adopted a simple policy to never share a customer's personal information. Our privacy policy applies to Community Rewards participation as well. Thank you for being such an important organization in our community, Community Rewards Staff