CFB Librarian, Gretchen Biery & husband Randy at the White House, posing with decorations resembling the first dogs, Sunny & Bo.
Riverchase Elementary librarian, Gretchen Biery, was one of 100 people chosen to decorate the White House for the holidays. With over 4000 applicants vying for the volunteer position, Biery was one of 12 that got to work in the White House for four days, decorating the east colonnade and setting up two trees in the library.
Riverchase Art Teacher Kendall Cravens won first place in the annual Dallas Morning News Cookie contest yesterday. She won in the decorated cookie category with her hot chocolate cookie. Look for her to be featured in the Dallas Morning News in December.
CFBISD is hosting a parent education presentation on “Keeping Your Child Safe From Harm – In the Real and Virtual World” on November 2, 2016 from 6:30-7:30 pm at the ESDC in the Texas Room. We are excited to present this very important information to our CFBISD families. We will have both an English and Spanish presentation.
CFBISD is thankful to have a partners like Weekend Back Packs and Metrocrest Social Services which provides take home weekend snacks for our students in need. At the end of every week,
children from several of our campuses are given a backpack full of kid-friendly, shelf-stable foods and a backpack to take them home in. The backpacks are provided by the Weekend Back Packs organization and the food is provided by Metrocrest Social Services. This program is completely free to schools and is provided by the Metrocrest Services at no cost to the students.
Students at Good Elementary, Blanton Elementary, Riverchase Elementary, LaVillita Elelmentary, McCoy Elementary, McWhorter Elementary and Furneaux Elementary are enrolled in the WBP program through a referral. Any faculty or staff member can refer a student whom they think is chronically hungry or food insecure. Once on the program, each student receives a backpack full of food every Friday of the school year. They are also able to receive extra sacks of food for younger siblings at home.
The sack of food that each child receives weekly contains shelf-stable, kid-friendly items. All of these items can be opened easily by a child, and they do not require refrigeration or heating. The WBP program strives to provide a high amount of nutrition in each backpack, and it is currently meeting approximately 60% of the weekend nutritional needs for each child in the program. Food 4 Kids supplies participating schools with nutritious, kid-friendly, self-serve food designed to fill a backpack and feed a child over the weekend during the school year.
The WBP program, which kicked off its first school year as a North Texas Food Bank program ( Food 4 Kids) in the spring of 2004, has expanded to over 350 schools in 11 counties throughout North Texas. Last year, the program served up to 11,000 children a week, with plans to continue expanding the program during the upcoming school years.
Literacy Night at Riverchase Elementary on February 9th was a blast. Kindergarten through second graders who attended were given an invitation to bring a stuffed animal to the library for a weekend sleepover (stuffed animals only).
Students and staff at Riverchase Elementary have started a can tab drive for the Ronald McDonald House. As of January 12, 10,000 tabs have been collected. The campus goal is continue collecting through the end of the school year.
Riverchase is divided into one of three color ‘houses’ for the 2015-2016 school year. Each student earns points for positive behavior such as listening, being prepared, manners, being on time. Point totals accumulate for the month, culminating in a school assembly to learn the house totals. The winning house has 30 minutes of fun with bounce houses, popsicles, sidewalk chalk and basketballs. There is an opportunity each month for houses to win as the points start all over.
