30 • The Beacon June 19, 2025
RIVER VIEW
RVES Preschool Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade
ELEMENTARY
RIVER VIEW
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Wow, what a great year we have had!
This semester has been full of fun events and activities. Both kindergarten and first grade had their music and art nights. We focused on Cooperation in March with a school wide donation drive for the Coshocton County Animal Shelter. In May, we had the always popular track & fi eld days, our annual Talent Show, and the Awards Assemblies. Our students have done amazing things this year and we loved celebrating their successes!
To our students, teachers, parents, families, and other community members, we want to say a big THANK YOU for helping us have an amazing year! We hope everyone has a fantastic summer! Don’ t forget to complete the Summer Learning Adventure with at least 20 activities to earn a prize in the fall when we return to school.
- Mrs. Herron & Ms. Kopec
The Comings and Goings of RV Preschool
The River View preschool program has had a semester full of fun learning opportunities. In January, Natural Resource Specialists from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers came to talk to the kids about ice safety. In March and April classes got to watch chick eggs incubate and hatch in their classrooms with the help of the OSU Extension Office. We ended the year with our annual preschool Mother’ s Day event, celebrating those who mean the most to our youngest students. Now, our preschool program is gearing up for our 2025-2026 school year! We are accepting applications for the coming school year for all of our classrooms, which include 4 day income-based classes, a 5 day community class, and either 2 day or 4 day preschool partner classes. The digital application is available on our website or you can call the elementary office and talk to Rachel Barnett.
Track & Field
Celebrating Our TeachArtsOhio Grant Artwork! We have had a great year with our TeachArtsOhio grant through the Ohio Arts Council. This grant has provided us with a resident artist, Anne Cornell, who spent the year working with small groups of students. This year they focused on our CharacterStrong word of Empathy. They used simple colors and shapes to complete various projects, and every student received their own sketchbook to keep once the year concluded. Starting off the year, they discussed names and the respect that can be shown when using someone’ s name. Students got to choose an animal they feel their parents could have named them for to create their fi rst work. They created name tags with their own personal tagline on the back that refl ects something about how they feel.
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Their next project focused on understanding how others feel and included a self-portrait as seen through the eyes of their classmates, again using a simple palette of three main colors. In February and March, we had two music and art nights in which families worked with their children to create a color block utilizing the three colors mixed in unique ways. All of these pieces, the nametags, self-portraits, and color blocks, have been woven together into an art wall. This art wall is titled“ You Know How I Feel,” and is displayed in the elementary cafeteria for everyone to see. Thank you to Anne Cornell for all of the work she has done with students over the past many years here at River View Elementary and before that at Conesville and Keene elementaries! She will be moving on to other endeavors in the coming year and we wish her the best of luck in all she does!
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