Mark your calendar for Spring Picture Days! 🌸📸
Riddle Elementary families are invited to an open house this Thursday from 6:00 -7:30 PM. Pizza will be provided for all attendees! 🍕
Reminder: No school on Monday, February 19, 2024 in observance of Presidents Day.🇺🇸📆
This year's Read Across America Dr. Seuss Dress Up Days will be March 4-8, 2024. This is the dress up schedule for Franklin Preschool, Williams Elementary, and Riddle Elementary. Which day is your student most looking forward to? 📅📖
Students at Riddle and Williams Elementary participated in an art activity creating valentines for people in senior care facilities. State Senator Chapin Rose is the sponsor for this annual heartwarming activity. Residents of assisted living and long-term care facilities in the 51st Senate District will surely enjoy a handmade card today. 💖 ✉️
🧑🏫 Join our teaching staff! Open teaching positions include: 🏫
✅ Math
✅ Industrial Arts
✅ ELA
✅ Health/Physical Education
✅ Science
Apply online:👇
mcusd2.org/apply
Riddle Elementary Art students Jansen M. and Maddox L. took an origami concept to the next level by creating an American Flag. The students first learned how to fold paper into individual pieces that would form a paper box. On one of the cold inside recess days, they gathered some paper and successfully achieved their goal of creating an origami flag. We are so proud of their work! 🇺🇸
The first Riddle vs. Williams Youth Basketball competition was held on Thursday, February 1, 2024. Riddle came out on top in both the boys and girls games. 🎉
Youth Athletics is offered to our 4th and 5th graders at both Williams and Riddle Elementary Schools. Basketball season runs through February 15th and serves as an introduction to the sport, during which students learn and improve on the basic skills. 🏀
Mark your calendars for Read Across America Dr. Seuss Dress Up Days March 4-8, 2024. This is the dress up schedule for Franklin Preschool, Williams Elementary, and Riddle Elementary. 📅📖
Due to inclement weather producing slick road conditions, Mattoon CUSD #2 Schools will be closed Monday, January 22, 2024. This includes all sessions at LIFT Central Illinois. There will be no e-Learning.
A decision will be made by noon determining whether practices and other extracurricular events will be postponed. Coaches will notify the students.
As a result of this emergency day, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 will now be a student attendance day.
Due to the inclement weather producing slick road conditions, the decision has been made to cancel all extra curricular games, events, and practices for Monday, January 22, 2024.
Thank you for your ongoing support and please be safe.
All practices, games, and other extracurricular events for this evening (Tuesday, January 16, 2024) will proceed as scheduled.
A reminder for our students: There will be no school on Monday, January 15, 2024, in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In December, every Riddle fifth-grader had the opportunity in art class to create a porcelain clay bowl on the pottery wheel. Each student glazed their bowl and they were ready to take them home before Holiday break! 🥣
Pictured are students in Mrs. Poorman's class. 🏫
LAMBOS BP Gas Station in Mattoon recently donated the proceeds from its community pump, #2 to the Mattoon Elementary Youth Sports Program. The check that was donated was in the amount of $525. These funds will be used to help build the program by purchasing equipment and uniforms for athletes. ⛽
Using the pump, will continue to support our program. 🤝
We have been made aware that we cannot currently receive external calls throughout the district. We are working with the phone company to resolve this as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Pictured are the Riddle Elementary Art winners for the month of December. Each student had the opportunity to creatively decorate an evergreen tree. Fifth-grade student leader Jaynah T. and fourth-grade student leader Jansen M. announced the contest winners over the school intercom. 🎄
Winners front row left to right: Kamrynn B., Freya L., Reese C., Kale P., Edward P.
Back row left to right: Ella D., Kyleigh J., Abel A., Ke'Ara B., Kamiah B., Jaynah T., Maddox L., Jansen M. 📷
Wishing you a very happy new year! Thank you for an amazing 2023. Teachers will return on the 3rd and students will be welcomed back on the 4th. See you then!🎉
A big thank you to all those who helped with this year's Penguin Patch Holiday Shoppe at Riddle Elementary School. The student's loved being able to purchase gifts for their friends and family at the event. 🐧🎁
In November, Mrs. Dowd's 4th and 5th Grade Special Education Class at Riddle Elementary took a field trip to learn about the different artifacts from local veterans and their families that were on display at the museum in the train depot. 🫡
While there, they learned about Mattoon’s connection with several important historical figures, such as US Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Lawrence Riddle, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. 🇺🇸
