Falcon Ridge Elementary School

🦊✨ August Students of the Month! ✨🦊 Celebrating our amazing Foxes who lead and shine! We’re so proud of you! 🧡💙

📚🦊 Challenge Accepted! Mrs. Griffin’s 5th graders are turning pages and crushing the Beanstack Reading Challenge! 📖💥

Who deserves a High Five this week? Do you know a student, teacher, staff member, or someone in our Etiwanda community who has gone above and beyond Send your shoutout and a photo to dosocialmedia@etiwanda.org by 9 a.m. Friday, and we may share their story with the Etiwanda community!

Let’s celebrate the people who make our schools such special places!

☀️⚡ Science in action! Mrs. Simmons’ 4th graders are putting their thinking to work as they explore energy and the power of the sun! 🔬🧪 Learning, experimenting, and discovering together! 💡🦊

🦊🫘 Mascot mayhem at Falcon Ridge! Wanda is undercover as Finn the Fox, while Mrs. MacChesney has discovered our newest reading buddy, Bennie the Bean! 😂📚 The secrets are out! 👀🦊🫘

📊✨ Our amazing teachers are turning student data into action! At our staff meeting, they collaborated, analyzed, and identified next steps to support every student’s growth and success. 💙🦊

🇺🇸 Our 5th graders in Mrs. Griffin’s class explored Patriot Day from different community perspectives—including firefighters, police officers, pedestrians, and more. A meaningful way to learn about September 11th while honoring the courage and service of those who helped others. ❤️🤍💙

Miss Cross’s second graders made place value hands-on as they grouped Cheerios into tens, hundreds, and thousands! They counted, problem-solved, collaborated, and even got creative when they ran out of cups. ❤️ Math + teamwork + Cheerios = learning that sticks! 🦊✨

Celebrating the AMAZING instructional aides in Mr. Starke-Birakos’ class! Our students are so fortunate to have a team that brings patience, dedication, compassion, and heart to their work every single day. We are grateful for all you do! 🦊✨

Celebrating our AMAZING Instructional Aides! Our aides bring patience and dedication to our school every single day. They work incredibly hard to support our students and help them learn and thrive. We are so grateful for all they do! ❤️👏

🧇 Waffle Bar for our amazing Falcon Ridge staff! 🦊💙 140 waffles, delicious toppings, and lots of love! A huge thank you to Ms. Bowman, Mrs. Larrondo, Mrs. Leahy, and Ms. Geni for helping make it happen! ❤️ So grateful for our incredible staff!

🎉 Friday Fun at Falcon Ridge! 🦊 We kicked off our Friday Flag with Mrs. Cota-Kwinn’s 5th graders teaching our school-wide PBIS expectations in a fun game show-style presentation! 🎤 And of course… it was Crazy Hair Day! 🤪 What a great way to start the day! 🦊

Do you know a student, teacher, staff member, or member of our Etiwanda community who deserves to be recognized for going above and beyond?

Give them a High Five! Send your shoutout and a photo to dosocialmedia@etiwanda.org by 9 a.m. Friday, and we may share their story with the Etiwanda community.

Let’s celebrate the people who help make our schools great places to learn, grow, and thrive!

E-Bike Safety & Security for All Etiwanda Families

Does your child already have an e-bike, or are you thinking about getting one? Join Megan Lamb, Co-Founder of E-Bike Sense, for an informative conversation focused on e-bike essentials, safety, and security.

This is a great opportunity for families to learn practical tips to help students ride safely and responsibly.

September 2, 2026 | 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Day Creek Intermediate MPR

Open to all Etiwanda School District families.

RSVP by scanning the QR code on the post.

📚🫘 BEANSTACK CHALLENGE #1 STARTS TODAY! 🫘📚 Foxes, it’s time to READ IT! LOG IT! ROCK IT! 🦊📖 Log your reading minutes in Beanstack and get ready for tomorrow’s surprise… 👀 Find Benny the Bean on the playground at 7:45 A.M. Find his picture, bring it to the office, and win his favorite snack—JELLY BEANS! 🍬

💙 Our Proctors ROCK! 🦊 Even in the heat or wind, our amazing proctors are out there keeping our students safe, supervising playgrounds and hallways, and going above and beyond every day. We are SO lucky to have you!Thank you Lupe, Adriana, Lisa, Loretta, Geni, and for all you do for our Foxes.

🦝🔎 Where’s Chester? Our Kinder students went on a school-wide adventure, following clues and searching different areas around campus for Chester Raccoon!

🌟 Shout-out to Ms. Stuenckel and her first graders! They used Thinking Maps to show the many ways to make 10, then took their thinking off the map to share, explain, and learn with different partners. Math thinking in action! ➕🔟🦊

Learning in Motion! 📚✨ Mr. Cimenski's 5th graders were up, moving, and learning with Kagan’s Quiz-Quiz-Trade strategy! Students partnered up, quizzed one another on key definitions, shared their thinking, and then traded cards to meet a new learning partner.

Who deserves a High Five this week? Do you know a student, teacher, staff member, or someone in our Etiwanda community who has gone above and beyond?

Give them a High Five! 💙Send your shoutout and a photo to dosocialmedia@etiwanda.org by 9 a.m. Friday, and we may share their story with the Etiwanda community!

Let’s celebrate the people who make our schools such special places!