Lake Ripley Elementary School Update

The school year is going fast according to Lake Ripley Elementary School Principal Chris Olson. He says it’s been a fun start to the school year and the students have been working hard.

Olson says they do standardized testing three times a year which helps them identify students who may need some extra help, especially in math and reading. He says they have something new called WIN time which stands for “What I Need” so the students can spend that half-hour block of time catching up in certain subject areas, working together with a classmate or maybe just doing some reading on their own.

Olson says the SUN room – which stands for Students with Unique Needs – was completed this past summer at Lake Ripley Elementary School in part of the old cafeteria space. He says students with higher needs utilize the room to get individual help in their learning.

Olson says they are grateful to the public for all of the donations they received in their shoe campaign as Tradehome Shoe Company will match those donations to help children at Lake Ripley Elementary School receive shoes, and their parents will be able to select shoes at the fall conferences – just before Thanksgiving. He says the students have had some fun field trips this fall including the first graders who went to the Nelson Farm, the second graders who visited an orchard and the fourth graders who learned about the maintenance of the Litchfield Golf Course; and the 3rd and 4th graders will get to see a preview of the Litchfield High School Drama Dept. production of “Tarzan.”