Ridgefield hosts third annual Take Your Parent to School Day

Ridgefield — The Ridgefield School District held its third annual Take Your Parent to School Day in January, allowing parents to participate in classes. At South Ridge Elementary School, Principal Jill Neyenhouse explained how problem-solving and critical thinking are now interwoven into the school’s curriculum, and parents worked together in groups to solve alphabet equations. In Sara Eastham’s second-grade class at Union Ridge Elementary School, students demonstrated how they made notes as they read books, making pages with words they didn’t know and/or important plot points. At View Ridge Middle School, David Jacobson’s history class brought parents and students into a “four corners discussion,” in which a statement is read and everyone chooses a position in a different corner of the room underneath signs reading “agree,” “somewhat agree,” “disagree” or “somewhat disagree.”