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Please join us for this fun STEAM Course, “All About Sound: A STEAM Investigation” In this 3-week course, students will learn about the properties of sound, music, and have workshop time to create their own musical instruments.
This is an activity for grades K-12 and will be offered in person at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee.
STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. The end results are students who take thoughtful risks, engage in experiential learning, persist in problem-solving.
The Schedule for the event is as follows:
March 3: Week 1- All About Sound: A lesson about the basics of sound and the relationship between sound and music. Students will be given instructions on creating their own musical instruments. Students will take home their materials and create their instruments. Materials at home may also be used.
March 10: Week 2- Sounds Around the World: A lesson about traditional musical instruments from all over the world. Also this week: Students will present the instruments they made at home.
March 17: Week 3- Share/Present: Penny Whistle Class! Students attending week 3 will be in for a special St. Patrick’s Day treat! Students will be given a penny whistle and learn how to play it!
Does your family need to meet with an RVA teacher? Would your family like to have some work time at the Learning Center? If so, please join us at the Mosinee Learning Center during Tutor Time.
This is a designated time for RVA families to work on schoolwork, check out the Learning Center space, and have any home-mentor or student questions answered.
Possibilities include:
Student work time
Buzz Q&A
Issues with homework
Other
Please join us for PreK - 2nd Grade Story and project time!
In addition to reading the story together, PreK-2 students will also be engaged in literacy, writing, math, social, fine motor, and gross motor skills.
The Agenda includes:
Greeting/Calendar Time
Letter of the week
Sight word of the week
Pattern of the Week
Read Book/Discuss
Small-Group Project
Kindly visit the Calendar of Events to RSVP for this event!
Do you plan to apply for a job? Do you know how to write a resume? If not, this event is for you! This is a course is offered for grades 8-12, and RVA parents!
In this event, we will go over the basics of resume writing.
Students will be provided with some template options to begin writing their resumes.
The course will focus on language, content, and information to highlight to show your best self prior to an interview.
Resume writing can be tricky - but is SO very important! Come and check out this event if you would like to have a stellar resume!
This course is available in-person at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee and online in Mrs. Mukerji’s Zoom Room. If attending in person, please make sure to bring your Chromebook.
Please join us for a fun “Philanthro - Party”. The word philanthropy refers to charitable acts or other good works that help others or society as a whole.
This is an all-ages event for students to come together and work to create Valentine’s Day cards for the local nursing home and hospital.
This is an excellent opportunity to work on your required RVA community service hours AND make connections with other students and have fun.
This will be a social event as well - refreshments will be provided!
“When Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree, he’s determined to get it out. But how? Well, by knocking it down with his shoe, of course. But strangely enough, it too gets stuck. And the only logical course of action . . . is to throw his other shoe. Only now it’s stuck! Surely there must be something he can use to get his kite unstuck. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes, and yes. And that’s only the beginning. Stuck is Oliver Jeffers’ most absurdly funny story since The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. Childlike in concept and vibrantly illustrated as only Oliver Jeffers could, here is a picture book worth rescuing from any tree.”
Please join us in reading this fun children’s book, “Stuck” by Oliver Jeffers. In this light-hearted book, Floyd will struggle to get his kite out of a tree with hilarious results!
In addition to reading the story together, PreK-2 students will also be engaged in literacy, writing, math, social, fine motor, and gross motor skills.
The Agenda includes:
Greeting/Calendar Time
Letter of the week
Sight word of the week
Pattern of the Week
Read Book/Discuss
Small-Group Project
Kindly visit the Calendar of Events to RSVP for this event!
Calling all RVA students ages 8-13! Would you like to meet other students your age? Do you like to play games? If so, then this is the event for you!
Students ages 8-13 are invited to the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee to play games and meet other students.
Please join us for the 1st annual RVA 100 Cup STEAM Challenge! In this very fun activity, students will be challenged to a variety of building challenges - all with cups!
This is an all-ages activity.
STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. The end results are students who take thoughtful risks, engage in experiential learning, persist in problem-solving.
Students who attend in-person at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee will have individual and group challenges to encourage collaboration, communication, leadership, problem-solving, and listening skills. All materials will be provided.
Students who attend online will be given the challenge rules and encouraged to complete the challenge with family members! Students will be encouraged to upload their towers to a Flipgrid to share! Supplies will not be mailed out, families must supply their own cups.
Please join us for this very fun creative poetry event! Blackout poetry is when you take a written piece of text from a book, newspaper, or magazine and redact words, in order to come up with your very own poetry! It combines art with language and is perfect for students who have just started learning about poetry, struggle with poetry, or would like to explore a new side of poetry by writing with an artistic twist!
This event is aimed at grades 3-12 and will explore sensory language, creative writing, handwriting, spelling, and motor skills to create fun poetry! Students will take home their poem project to show parents when finished! This will be a project to hang on the fridge - for sure! This event is offered for 3-12 grade students with an interest in art, poetry, writing, and creativity!
For students attending in-person, please know that materials will be provided but if you would like specific articles, materials, or art supplies, please bring them along.
For students attending online, please have a magazine, newspaper, or other pieces of writing that can be marked on, markers, and your imagination!
Calling all RVA Families!
You are invited to the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee for a Pizza and Sharing Party! Please choose your favorite curriculum project, or just let us know some of the success you have had this year! It is a great opportunity for students to get to know one another and to celebrate each other’s success!
Have you thought about joining the United States Army? If so, then this is the meeting for you! Come and meet Staff Seargent Richard McGuire, a United States Army Recruiter, who will be meeting with students both in-person and online to answer any questions they have about the Army or joining the Army. This activity is aimed at high school students in grades 9-12.
The event will be held in the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee and online in Mrs. Mukerji’s Zoom Room from 12:30-1:30 on January 24, 2022.
If you are interested in this career path, be sure to attend!
Please join us for this fun writing event! Choose Your Own Adventure, or Secret Path Books is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. Students will make their own story using google slides. Click here to view an example.
This class will be offered to RVA students both in-person and online. Please make sure to RSVP if you will be attending at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee or online in Mrs. Mukerji’s Zoom Room.
Students will learn the basics of google slides
Needed supplies: Chromebook
This event will be capped at 40 students, so RSVP as soon as possible.
Calling All RVA parents! Are you unsure how Buzz works? Do you know how to check your student’s grades? Do you know what the to-do list is? If you answered no to any of these questions, then please come to our Buzz Parent Course!
This course will be offered both in-person and online. Please make sure to RSVP if you will be attending at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee or online in Mrs. Mukerji’s Zoom Room.
In this course parents will learn:
What the difference is between Buzz, Genius, and Skyward
How to log into Buzz
Information about the student to-do list, what-if feature, calendar, and more!
How to help your student turn in assignments
Q&A Session
And more!
Dissecting an owl pellet is an exciting way to learn about the different ecological roles organisms play in their environment. PLUS, it is really cool to find tiny rodent skulls!! Join us for an interactive experience that will challenge your student to think critically about these ecological roles and to make evidence-based predictions of their own. Taught by Linda Roehrborn Rodriguez Wildlife Biologist Owner of Discovery Education Station
This event will be held online in Mrs. Hopperdietzel’s Zoom Room as well as in person at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee!
Planning to attend? The deadline for Signing up is December 10th to allow time to order supplies.
Join us here: Zoom Room
Regional Event Coordinator: Leatha Hopperdietzel
leatha.hopperdietzel@ruralvirtual.org
Please join us for this very fun event! Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
This class will be offered to RVA students both in-person and online. Please make sure to RSVP if you will be attending at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee or online in Mrs. Mukerji’s Zoom Room.
Students will learn the basics of stop motion animation using their Chromebooks and be shown examples. Students will then work on creating their very own Stop Motion video!
Needed supplies: Chromebook, any small toys (legos, dolls, clay), paper, pencil, etc. that the student would like to use in making their own video.
If students are attending in person, supplies will be available here at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee. However, if students would like to make a video about a specific stub
This event will happen on two days. Please RSVP for each day you or your student plan to attend.
January 17 - Students will install the chrome extension and learn the basics of stop motion
January 21 - Students will have the opportunity to share their videos
This event will be capped at 40 students.
Calling parents and home mentors! Come and attend the Mentor Network meeting in person at the RVA Learning Center in Mosinee. It’s a great time to make connections, ask questions, and have a small moment of relaxation in your day. We look forward to seeing you here!
“Windy Girl is blessed with a vivid imagination. From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions, about dances and sharing and gratitude. Windy can tell such stories herself–about her dog, Itchy Boy, and the way he dances to request a treat and how he wriggles with joy in response to, well, just about everything.
When Uncle and Windy Girl and Itchy Boy attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers in their jingle dresses and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Now Uncle’s stories inspire other visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group, and traditional dancers, grass dancers, and jingle-dress dancers–all with telltale ears and paws and tails. All celebrating in song and dance. All attesting to the wonder of the powwow.
This playful story by Brenda Child is accompanied by a companion retelling in Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain and brought to life by Jonathan Thunder’s vibrant dreamscapes. The result is a powwow tale for the ages.”
Please join us in reading the children’s story, “Bowwow Powwow” by Brenda J. Child.
In addition to reading the story together, PreK-2 students will also be engaged in literacy, writing, math, social, fine motor, and gross motor skills.
The Agenda includes:
Greeting/Calendar Time
Letter of the week
Sight word of the week
Pattern of the Week
Read Book/Discuss
Small-Group Project
Kindly visit the Calendar of Events to RSVP for this event!
“Full of scientific rhyming fun, Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See? features appearances by some of the world’s greatest scientists! From Albert Einstein to Marie Curie and Ahmed Zewail, from Charles Darwin to Chien-Shiung Wu and Grace Hopper... and more!”
Please join us in reading the fun children’s story, “Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See” by Chris Ferrie.
In addition to reading the story together, PreK-2 students will also be engaged in literacy, writing, math, social, fine motor, and gross motor skills.
The Agenda includes:
Greeting/Calendar Time
Letter of the week
Sight word of the week
Pattern of the Week
Read Book/Discuss
Small-Group Project
We will focus on the life of Albert Einstein and also talk about a biography and what a biography is. Students will have the opportunity to write a biography or autobiography of their own!
Kindly visit the Calendar of Events to RSVP for this event!
Please join us for this very fun creative writing event! This event will be held on multiple days to ensure all students have the ability to participate.
Students in grades 1-5 and will explore sensory language, creative writing, handwriting, spelling, and motor skills to create a fun story based on the prompt, “If I lived in a snowglobe”. Students will take home their story and project to show parents when finished! This will be a project to hang on the fridge - for sure!
Students in grades 6-12 will learn more advanced writing techniques including sensory language, creative writing technique, mood, tone by writing a creative story based on the prompt, “If I lived in a snowglobe”. Students will take home their projects at the end of the meeting.
If a student would like to write or begin writing prior to our meeting - they are more than welcome to do so! Please bring your RVA Chromebook if you can!
Welcome to our in-person event venue, tailored for students of the Rural Virtual Academy in Wisconsin. Join us for academic workshops, study groups, and social events in a safe and engaging environment. We look forward to providing a welcoming and enriching experience for all Rural Virtual Academy students.
Our Learning Center is moving from Mosinee to Rothschild, just 2 exits up Hwy 39; a few miles north of its current location in January 2025!
With a theater, restaurants, multiple hotels, trampoline park, mini golf, grocery store, shopping mall, and so much more within walking distance, we are excited about the future possibilities of our new learning center and hope that this location will be more convenient for our families!
Our new location will be at:
1480 County Road XX
Rothschild, WI 54474
Current Location through December 2024 • 888 Hwy 153, Suite 140 • Mosinee, WI 54455 • ph: 888-801-2666
We’re moving a few miles north! January 2025 our new location will be: 1480 County Road XX • Rothschild, WI 54474