Love celebrating kindness with our friends in Kansas! Buddy benches, role modeling for youngers and going out of our way to be kind on purpose we’re all shared...so great to know kindness is our common language! Rice Elementary Empatico C. August

#Gophers players wave to the kids at the Children’s Hospital!!! A super cool moment. Chills!!!!

How do we learn about decision making and local government? Ask the experts! Thank you Sue Paasch and Ryan Butkowski for your time and knowledge! This is what makes Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools and Rice Elementary so great!@vadnais_tara

Rice Elementary 4th graders are thankful for authors like Jason Reynolds News! We give Ghost a 10/10! Tara Vadnais Rice Elementary

After conducting an inquiry into the newsboys' strike of 1899, 4th graders from RE were enthralled by the AMAZING production of Newsies! Well done GREAT Theatre!! Rice Elementary Nancy Davis Sue Paasch

School is NOT closed for the year. The building is. If you listen closely you can hear the hum of hard working teachers, administrators, and support staff preparing to save the day in ways and means never seen before. Yes, we are brokenhearted, but these broken hearts will lead

Teachers, I want to send signed copies of my I Survived books to your special students. I have fifty books I will be giving away, 10 per week for the next five weeks. To participate, RT. I will choose ten people each Sunday and contact privately.

Your Home. Your World. Connected. Home-to-Home Connections offer children and families everywhere the opportunity to experience peer-to-peer togetherness, all through the safety and comfort of home. 🏡 Sign up today ➡️ empatico.org/at-home/connect #SparkEmpathy #DistanceLearning

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Had to teach students the proper structure of a email, especially when reaching out to your teacher .

What’s happening on the other side of the world? An Empatico connection will help you find out! My class now has friends in Serbia-even though they are remote learning! Thanks for being innovative and adapting to the world we are teaching in, @NGarciaHassell! Rice Elementary

What’s the weather like in Serbia you ask? Connecting with our Empatico partner got us the answer and LOTS more interesting information! Rice Elementary

Proud to share the amazing exhibition projects from the Rice Elementary 5th graders! sites.google.com/isd47.org/re-e… Sue Paasch Kelsey Bean Minnesota IB Schools Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools

Connecting with our Empatico partner class in Serbia to talk about our break out room experience! Love the language connections around the names of the planets! Rice Elementary Sue Paasch

What did you learn today? We learned how to say WE LOVE AMERICA in Serbian! Sharing how we like to receive empathy made the world a little smaller and friendlier across the miles. Empatico makes the most amazing learning possible! Rice Elementary Tara Vadnais

“Stand up if you have ever gone ice fishing!” Looking for ways we are similar and different with our Empatico partner class in Serbia. We just had to ask this from the land of 10,000 frozen lakes! Rice Elementary Tara Vadnais Sue Paasch @NGarciaHassell