Monday/Lunes
MAY 14th/14 DE MAYO

Kinder – 2nd 8:30 – 11:00;
PreK, 3rd-5th 12:20 – 2:30

Monday, May 14th, come join your child in the gardens! Classes will rotate among stations around the school. Volunteers are also needed in the front courtyard, in the butterfly garden behind the school, and in the bird garden by the chicken coop. Please contact Ms. Ayala if you can help!

Come keep Mr. Abbott company in the garden on Saturday mornings and he might just repay you in donuts or something yummy. He’ll be out there again this Sat., May 12th, from 9-1 and appreciates volunteers greatly.

The stucco work was a bit tricky, but now we’re to the fun part of attaching the tiles with goop. Kids can help too (they have been at school and they’re doing beautiful work!). Stop by for however long you can spare. Even 30 mins. is a big help, or stay the whole 4 hours.

Thanks to the Rotary Club and parents for their help last weekend!

Last Work Day:

Sat. 5/12 9:00 -1:00

Thanks to all who volunteered their time over the past two Saturdays to smash tile and add stucco to the raised bed so that it’s ready for the mosaic. The project is coming along! (See the Garden page or Ridgetop Elementary PTA’s facebook page for photos.)

March 3rd from 9-12 will be the next Garden Mosaic Day.

If you have any questions please contact Mr. Abbot at 841-1831.

Please join us for Garden Day on Friday, Sept. 30th! All are welcome to come get their hands dirty with the students as they plant seeds, mulch their gardens, enrich the soil and learn about the drought and purple martins.

Volunteers are needed to help with stations from 8:30-10:45 (am shift) or 12:15-2:30 (pm shift). Please contact Ms. Ayala at cayala@austinisd.org if you can donate some time. It is much appreciated!

Garden Day was a big success! Students learned more about habitats and purple martins, planted pumpkins in a kayak, painted beautiful bluebonnets on the rainwater collection tank and created a new pathway to the butterfly garden. See the Garden page for photos.

Thanks to all the families who showed up for the Garden Work Day this past Sunday! Parents and kids accomplished an amazing amount of work. New picnic tables were assembled, the gardens were weeded and are now ready for spring planting, compost bins are full, and the chicken coop is now more secure. Muchas gracias á todos!

If you are interested in learning more about the Dual Language Program
at Ridgetop Elementary (available for incoming Kindergarten or 1st
graders), please join us at these upcoming events!

Dual Language Tours:

(January is full)
Feb. 25th, 9 am
March 4th, 9 am
March 25th, 9 am

Please call 414-4469 to reserve a place on the tour.

Other Dual Language Events you can attend:

1.13.11 Dual Language Parent Meeting: Movie Night: “Speaking in Tongues”, 5:30 pm, Cafeteria

1.14.11 Parent Coffee: Movie: “Speaking in Tongues”, 8:00 am, Library

1.28.11 Dual Language Learning Walk around campus, 8:00 am

2. 10. 11 Dual Language Program Application Parent Meeting Q & A

Volunteer on Gardening Days:

1.7.10 from 8-9 am.
1.28.10, from 8:30 – 11:00 and 12:25-2:30

Please stop by the office for a visitor pass.

Ridgetop is in the running to win a new garden and garden supplies for the kids. Keep the votes coming!!! They will decide on winners soon! http://root4kids.com/join

Our pergola is under construction

Thanks to our generous volunteers construction of the garden pergola began this week, creating an outdoor learning space.

Thanks to our volunteers we couldn’t do it without you!