Rio Calaveras Elementary

MANY, many THANKS to all the students, staff & parents who helped make this another successful event!  We hope all who attended enjoyed the evening and were able to experience

CULTURE  ♦  ENTERTAINMENT  ♦  FOOD

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SPECIAL THANKS & RECOGNITION to the following:

§ Chavez High School VAPA & Mr. Art Coleman

§ Chavez Filipino Club

§ SECA Key Club volunteers

§ Health Careers Academy Key Club volunteers

§ LDT (Legionarios Del Trabajo) Dance Troupe

§ Ballet Folklorico de Frank Zapata

§ Young Eagle Spirit Dance & Drum Group

§ New School Aikido

§ Rudy "Mr. Goodface" & Raymond our emcee's for the event

§ Rio's band & orchestra groups and Ms. Anderson

§ Rio's 2nd graders

§ Rio fashion show students

• Casa Flores
• Swagat Indian Cuisine
• Manila Express
• WinCo Foods
• Dream Ice Cream
• TL Noodle
• China Palace Restaurant
• Thanh Thanh Sandwiches
• Ro's Master Tech
• 1st-grade parents / Tokunaga Family / Arenzana Family / Ornelas Family / Barnett Family

Thank you to all the students & parents who participated in the Teacher & Staff appreciation week. We hope our Rio Teachers and Staff know we are thankful for all that they do!

The 41st annual John F. Kennedy International Games were held at Cesar Chavez High School on Saturday, April 27th from 7:30 am - 4:00 pm.

CONGRATULATIONS!!  Rio athletes took home individual medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Rio's Team placed 5th overall among 25 SUSD schools that participated. Rio Calaveras represented Canada.

Thank you to all who came out to support our Rio Calaveras Team at this great event! Rio students trained diligently, with the help of their coach, Mr. Cook.

The games were inspired by President John F. Kennedy's national physical fitness program. SUSD launched the event as a way to raise cultural awareness of other countries and to inspire physical fitness.

We hope you enjoyed participating in our 9th Annual Bunny Hop on Thursday, April 18 from 3:30 - 4:30 PM.

All canned goods received were donated to the Stockton Food Bank. Thank you for supporting this great cause!

This year, we featured a new obstacle course and for each lap of the course completed, a raffle ticket was earned. Raffle gift baskets were donated by each grade level. Thank you, Rio teachers and staff for your continued support!

Our sessions each Monday have concluded. We shared & discussed many topics on how to help ourselves and our children build positive relationships and tools to manage stress as we navigate this path of life. Thank you, to all the parents who joined us in these informative and interesting conversations each week in the staff lounge. We hope you found resources and information that will help you now and in the future.  BIG, BIG Thanks to our Rio counselors, Ms. Richards and Mr. Moua, for bringing this program to Rio!

Thank you to all who supported our BOGO Book Fair! Many took advantage of this great deal and our Donuts with Dino-mite Dads and Muffins with Mommasauruses event had a great turnout! All proceeds generated will benefit Rio students.

Special THANKS to our Volunteers...

Many, many thanks to all our volunteers for your continued support. We would not be able to bring this event to our school without the help of our wonderful volunteers!

Rio's 2nd Annual Spaghetti Dinner was held on Friday, March 1st from 5 - 8 PM. Angelina's Spaghetti House catered the event. We were very lucky and honored to have DJ Rudy "Good Face" as our emcee for the event!

Attendees enjoyed and went home with great prizes from the Raffle, Silent Auction and Live Dessert Auction, such as:

• Disneyland 1-day hopper tickets for a family of 4
• Squaw Valley Ski Lift tickets for 4
• $100 GC from Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant
• Various themed baskets
• Children bicycles
• Chromebook
• Nothing Bundt Cakes
• Other great desserts

Congratulations to the 5 top selling students who will receive a private pizza party:

Roen T. - 8th Grade, Eric S. Jr - 7th Grade, Christopher S. - 5th Grade, Oliver H. - 4th Grade and Cameron M. - 3rd Grade

Thank you to all the families who supported our Spaghetti Dinner Event!

Thanks to all the families that joined us for Family STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) Night on Monday, January 28 from 4 - 7 PM.

• Star Lab participants learned about the night sky
• 1st grade hosted a "plant your own sunflower" using Mr. Le's seeds from Rio's garden
• 2nd grade activity table combined art & math
• 5th grade showed off their STEAM projects in Mr. Pham's classroom as well as presented various FUN hands on science projects
• 6th grade shared coding on computers
• 7th & 8th grade played with their robotic inventions
• UOP's Tribenzene Chemistry Club conducted fasinating science experiments

We hope you had a BLAST!

Thanks to all the Families who joined us for Family Literacy Night!  Students and their families enjoyed listening to stories read by our guest readers, shared hot cocoa and cookies and many students went home with books and other great prizes that were raffled during the event.

A VERY Special THANK YOU to our Guest Readers

• SUSD Superintendent, Dr. John Deasy
• SUSD 2018 Board President, Mrs. Angela Phillips and
• SUSD Police Department

The stories they read and shared with us made the event that much more memorable!

Thank you to all who supported our book fair event. Your support has raised additional funds that will benefit our students' supplemental programs that help Rio students succeed!

Special GRATITUDE...

To all the teachers, staff, and parent volunteers who helped run the book fair. We could not have done this without your continued dedication to our students, THANK YOU!