The Storm Surge

10/13-10/17: ATLAS Fall Interim Testing 📝

10/17/25: Camp Stormy Payment Due 💲

10/17/25: RIS Recognition at Homecoming Game 🏈

If you would like for your child to attend Camp Stormy we NEED the Camp Stormy Application turned in ASAP! If you need a new copy please call 479-968-2650.

10/21/25: RIS Talent Show at the Center for the Arts 🎵

10/21 & 10/23: Parent Teacher Conference 4:00-6:00PM

10/24/25 - 10/27 Fall Break (No School) 🍂

Your child should be coming home with a Camp Stormy T-Shirt Order Form. Please be sure to have money and sizes turned in by October 15th!!

YEARBOOKS ARE ON SALE NOW ! You can also customize for $8 and get 4 free icons. Payment options available. Click the link to order: https://tinyurl.com/RIS-Yearbook

Support our RIS Quiz Bowl team by either purchasing a $12 splash certificate or a $27 one. These will be able to be used at any time or any splash wash across the state! Thank you!

📌 All meals applications completed before July 1, 2025 will expire by September 24th, 2025.

➡️ Apply online here:

https://linqconnect.com/public/meal-application/new

➡️ Or download the application from the RSD website here:

https://www.rsdk12.net/documents/free-and-reduced-meals-application/828510

Contact the RSD Child Nutrition Office at 479-498-8836 for more information.

Our RIS Library reading olympics Challenge is happening now!

Students will read books books of their choice within the Olypic Event and track their progress toward their Reading Olympics goal.

Each time a student reads a book within the challenge they will add it to their RIS Reading Olympics Challenge paper. Along the way they will earn recognition for their efforts and celebrate their achievements at the finish line!

Start Date: August 13, 2025

Due Date: November 21, 2025

• What does it mean to Self-Direct?

  Self-Direction is the ability and learned skill to cast a vision of future goals and then take intentional steps toward who, where, and what we want to be. Instead of focusing on things to control or avoid, we emphasize our responsibility to make positive choices related to our emotions, attitudes, and actions.

  
  

  Why focus on Self-direction?

  • Self-direction strengthens relationships. Self-direction helps to grow social skills and develop meaningful, positive relationships with others.
  • Self-direction teaches personal responsibility. Learning to self-direct teaches students to take responsibility for their own actions.
  • Self-direction helps us to regulate emotions: Self-direction empowers students to regulate their impulses and emotional responses to situations and circumstances in their life.
    
    

  Self-Direction in Action:

  • Practice goal setting and action planning. When we establish goals and develop action plans, we learn to take intentional steps to successfully achieve goals.
  • Monitor and adjust. Provide students with regular feedback and opportunities to self-assess progress toward goals to make adjustments and improvements in their behaviors.
  • Reflect and evaluate. Facilitate discussions and reflection to prompt students to examine what they do, think, and say against their goals and vision for their life and learning.