Author: Amy Ritterbusch

Happy New Year! I hope you and your family enjoyed the holiday break, however you celebrated. It was a long break, but as usual it went by very quickly at the Colannino household. With the New Year came our first… Continue reading Fiske Community News 1/9/15

Smiling faces and singing voices are what’s most on my mind this week. The singing voices come from students in the Select Chorus. Twenty, fifth-graders willingly give up of their recess time to study, learn and sing under music teacher,… Continue reading Fiske Community News 12/12/14

We’re heading into Thanksgiving break, a time to give thanks for all that we have received in life. As most of you know, it is my favorite holiday – all the eating without worrying about gift giving. For many of… Continue reading Fiske Community News 11/21/14

So we’re on our way to completing the first third of the school year. It’s a time when the exuberance of beginning anew has moved to not only learning students by name, interest, talents and personality, but understanding each student’s… Continue reading Fiske Community News 11/14/14

Our Halloween parade weaved its way through the Fiske neighborhood on Friday morning. Everything from “minion” characters that starred in the movie Despicable Me to a brightly lighted jellyfish. Thanks to all the families that made sure students were in costume to… Continue reading Fiske Community News 11/3/14

I want to follow up on the School Messenger email I sent out Wednesday that described an emergency response at school. First and foremost, the staff member stricken ill is doing well and will be back at school next week.… Continue reading Fiske Community News 10/24/14

So we’re off and running with our second Friday Morning Meeting today. If you are unaware of our format for Friday Morning Meetings, the entire school comes together to hear me read a picture book aloud once a month. (How… Continue reading Fiske Community News 10/17/14

How is leading a classroom, a school, a business, even a household like conducting an orchestra? I posed this question to staff this week at our monthly faculty meeting, focusing on the school angle. They shared numerous connections like: “Students… Continue reading Fiske Community News 10/9/14

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the rain. Here it is, too bad it had to arrive on picture day since pictures are usually taken outside. Oh well, we made the best of the situation inside school. Individual… Continue reading Fiske Community News 10/1/14