First Instar to the Right, and Straight on to Learning!
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” –Immanuel Kant By: Kayla Buser & Amy Pollard When the Riveredge School was first dreamed of, it was built upon the natural curiosity children express towards the world around them. Three pillars – […]
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Loving the Land
One of the most unique things about our school is the rare and important partnership we have with Riveredge Nature Center. We simply could not exist without the hard work and dedication of years of Riveredge naturalists to return farmland to the thriving, biodiverse sanctuary that it is today. Unlike most schools – whose facilities […]
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Our Yurts
One of the many unique aspects of The Riveredge School is the classrooms used by our second grade and third/fourth grade classes. Inspired by the success of using yurts as classrooms in a nature-based learning environment at Juniper Hill School in Maine, Riveredge Nature Center erected two yurts to serve not only the school classes […]
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The First Week: a 3rd/4th Grade Perspective
What a week! This week has been unlike any other first week of school I have ever experienced. I imagine that much of our school community felt similarly. Our first day of school tested our readiness for weather, with storms threatening throughout the day (mostly at pick up and drop off, it seemed). It really […]
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Learning from Fisheries Biologists
Riveredge School students had a unique opportunity this week to witness and learn about an effort at Riveredge Nature Center to restore a population of Lake Sturgeon which are imprinted and spawn in the Milwaukee River. On Monday, Wisconsin DNR Fisheries’ biologist, who lead up the sturgeon restoration project, were on site to tag, weigh, […]
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