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.
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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.
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.
We are excited to be hosting our Fall Parent-Teacher Conferences today and Monday, November 24th. We hope to see you at North Ridge Elementary!
First graders had fun exploring sun and shadows this week!
Members of our awesome North Ridge staff took part in a bus trip with other Cedar Valley educators through the Leader Valley in Cedar Falls. The team wen to the Des Moines area to visit 4 incredible Leader in Me schools doing great things, including 2 elementary and 2 middle schools. The team had a great day and is excited to bring back their learning to North Ridge to benefit our students, staff, and families through our Leader In Me program. Thank you to Music Teacher-Rachael Nelson, Art Teacher-Jess Meier, 1st Grade Teacher-Christy Amundson, and Teacher Associate-Judy Pentecost for attending!
🍿✨ It was an exciting day of learning for our 3rd graders! Students explored the fun science and facts behind popcorn thanks to a wonderful partnership with WSR Middle School FCCLA students and Iowa State University Extension. Hands-on learning, teamwork, and tasty fun — what could be better? 🌽👏
We are spreading kindness today in third grade by making and sharing friendship pins.
Please help us STUFF our turkey! We had a fantastic time creating it together!!!
Help North Ridge Ned earn his feathers! For every 50 items donated to the food drive, Ned gets a feather. Our goal is to surpass the 800 items donated last year!
Mrs. Cook with Ag in the Classroom came to visit third grade today to teach us a lesson about corn gene pools.
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! All Third Graders are winners! Happy Halloween!
