North Ridge Elementary School

❓Did you know that when LEGO first launched its bricks in 1973, they proudly advertised that you could build over 1,000,000 different creations using just six basic 2×4 bricks? 🧱✨ Decades later, a professor at the University of Copenhagen dug deeper and discovered there were actually over nine million possible combinations when you allow for sideways building and more complex connections! 🤯🔍 💭 Inspired by that same spirit of creativity, our third grade mathematicians took on a challenge of their own: How many different combinations can you make using five one-inch pattern blocks laid side by side? 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 The total wasn’t quite in the millions 😄 — but the collaboration, strategic thinking, and perseverance were absolutely priceless! 🧠🤝💡 We love watching math come to life through curiosity, hands-on exploration, and teamwork! 👏📚✨

Congratulations to Mr. Marty Wurth, KWAY's Teacher of the Week! We are so thankful to have you on our North Ridge Team!!

Muddy grass, no problem! There are so many places to play on our amazing playground!

North Ridge students 'wrapped up' the December Reading Challenge in a big way - all participants who returned their challenge received a small prize. These 5 students received the grand prize for their grade!

Minute to Win it Games were the highlight of Mrs. McCaslin's class party! Such a fun way to celebrate the holiday season!

The staff at North Ridge is wishing you a happy Friday on this cold December day! Each Friday in December we have been dressing up in some "Underground" dress-up day gear to see if the students notice. Today's theme is Festive Christmas Sweater Day! Have a great day! Go Go-Hawks!!!

We had a special guest stop by North Ridge today to check in with Coach Twait. Thank you to UNI Head Football Coach-Todd Stepsis for stopping by North Ridge! It is safe to say the 2nd grade gym class students were super pumped! It was great to get a picture of coach by our Go-Hawk mascot that we partnered with UNI to create! #Go Go-Hawks #Go Panthers!!!

Our art students are hard at work creating an oil-pastel/chalk based Christmas themed painting. Great work everyone!

We invite you to tonight's Christmas on Main in Waverly! We encourage you to stop by our W-SR both located at the new Palace Theatre from 6:00-8:00 pm.

North Ridge Santa Sing-December 22, 2025

Our third graders put their creativity and problems-solving skills to the test as they explored the world of engineering through a hands-on paper bridge challenge. Using only paper and their imaginations, students worked together to design and construct bridges, strong enough to hold a whole bunch of pennies.

Recess is more fun with SNOW! ❄️ Kindergarten and first grade students had a blast playing and building in the snow today!

Recess is always fun… but it’s even better with SNOW! ❄️ Our kindergarteners and first graders had a blast building, exploring, and playing in today’s winter wonderland.

4th graders discovered the mechanism by which their muscles control their bones to move their bodies. They the constructed a model of a human finger that actually moves!

Happy 67th day of school from Mrs. McCaslin's class! Today we wrote: 67 words, our numbers to 67, and what we would do with $67. It was a fun day!

Paper engineering in 4th grade! Students made pop up cards after inspiration from author Robert Sabuda

Recess is always fun… but it’s even better with SNOW! ❄️
Our kindergarteners and first graders had a blast building, exploring, and playing in our North Ridge winter wonderland.

I Spy with my little eye Mr. Wurth's kindergarteners learning to sound out words!

Take a look at our third graders' hearts in action! We loved spending time with the Bartles residents while putting puzzles together.