Ridgecrest Elementary School

Our first graders and their teachers soared into Spring with a very fun Kite Day! "Go Fly a Kite Day" is celebrated the third Sunday in April every year so our first grade classe...

On April 10th, our Librarian and Military Liaison Mrs. Gatzke traveled to Montgomery to attend the Alabama State Board of Education Meeting and receive Ridgecrest’s Purple Star ba...

Ridgecrest hosted its very first ever Pep Rally to help students get excited for ACAP success!! Ms. Travis, one of our 3rd grade teachers, organized this amazing event which was ...

For Read Across America Week, we celebrated with lots of reading! We started off the week with guest readers who are members of the Delta Pi Nu Chapter of DKG and we love when the...

We asked our students to make posters for Black History Month. We had about 70 students participate and our hallways were lined with their beautiful work! All grades participated...

We had the pleasure of hosting our very own Huntsville City School’s Superintendent Dr. Sutton for Read Across America! He came to read to our 5th graders and chose a very fun boo...

This week Kindergarten and PreK put on the 44th Annual Kindergarten Winter Spectacular! Students practiced for months and did an amazing job!! A special shout out to our Kinderg...

You may have heard the jingle of bells or seen some flashing lights as teachers walked by this week!! We had a whole week of dress up days with one of them being Ugly Sweater Da...

Every class in grades 2 to 5 hosted a spelling bee. The winner of the class spelling bees participated in our school-wide spelling bee to find the school winner. Students spelle...

Ridgecrest hosted its first school dance in years!! Students in grades 2 through 5 were invited to attend our very first Sneaker Ball. The theme of the Sneaker Ball was to wear ...

Our special Christmas Angel Candy Edwards loves to treat our teachers and staff!! She arranged for Travelin' Tom's Coffee Truck of Madison County to come to Ridgecrest. Every me...

Santa came to see Ridgecrest students this week!!! He talked to all of our 400+ students as every class came to visit him in the library! Students told him what they wanted for ...

Our Ridgecrest Rockets learned about Veterans and Veterans Day in their library classes this year. Our librarian, Mrs. Gatzke, is the wife of a veteran who served 22 years in the...

Mayfair Church of Christ blessed our Ridgecrest families again this year! They donated 500 care packages for our students to take home for Thanksgiving Break. They included cans ...

Our local Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District donated an AG Learning Station to our Ridgecrest Rocket Library on December 3rd. The bookshelf is full of books about...

Our Ridgecrest Rockets in Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade had a very special visit from NASA author Lane Polak on December 9th! He read his book, Hooray for SLS, and then an...

Our Lighthouse Club hosted a very important visitor last week - the Quarterback of the Alabama Beavers!! The Alabama Beavers professional football team will start playing in Hunt...

We celebrated good behavior with a PBIS Dance Party on October 31st. Our 4th grade team put together a very rad and thrilling blacklight dance party as a reward for students who ...

We celebrated Book Character Day on October 31, 2024 as part of Red Ribbon Week. Students were asked to wear school-appropriate book character costumes and boy did they ever!! W...

This week in the Library, our first graders are getting their detective badges and learning how to investigate crimes against Library Books. They are first learning how to take c...