Save the Date for this year's school events!
Author’s Night: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 @ 6:00PM
Spring Book Fair: Tuesday, April 8 - Thursday, April 10, 2025
Carnival: Sunday, May 19, 2025 @ 12:00 - 4:00PM
5th Grade Party: Thursday, May 29, 2025 @ 4:00 - 7:00PM at the Rookery
Tuesday, April 8 @ 6:00PM
Join us for this year’s Family Author Night NEXT WEEK on Tuesday, April 8! Arrive by 5:45PM, Visit Starts at 6PM!
Enjoy an interactive school visit featuring reading, drawing, singing, and a book signing—and don’t forget to bring your creativity! Come ready for fun, and leave with your very own comic!
Book sales will be available the night of the event! Be sure to grab your copy and Stephen will sign!
Tuesday, April 8 - Thursday, April 10
After School until 7:00PM all three nights!
Save the date for the Spring Book Fair! Stock up for summer reading with our popular Buy-One-Get-One-Free sale. All items at the fair are included!
Please note that classrooms will not visit the Spring Book Fair during the school day, so we do not recommend creating an eWallet. The Book Fair will be open after school for families to visit. Each purchase helps support RLE Media Center!
Sunday, May 18 @ 12:00 - 4:00PM
Save the date for everyone's favorite annual event, the Spring Carnival! More details soon!
Thursday, May 29 @ 4:00 - 7:00PM
The annual 5th Grade Party is almost here!! 5th Grade Students will be bussed from school to the Rookery after school on Thursday, May 29th. The party will be held from 4:00 - 7:00PM. Parents/Guardians will need to pick their 5th Grade students up from the Rookery at 7:00PM
Tuesday, March 25 @ 5:00 - 7:30PM
Another great night at Cheap Skate!
Thursday, February 20 from 4-7PM
We had a great turnout for our third annual Teacher’s Pet Raffle and Ice Cream Social, last Friday!! Kids waited with anticipation to see if they won the stuffed animal they were trying to take home. Thank you to everyone who came out and to the volunteers that helped the event run smoothly! We gave away 500 Dilly Bars and were able to raise $4,739 for our school!
Thursday, January 16 from 5-8PM
The Rice Lake Elementary community SHOWED UP at Zero Gravity! What a fun night, and a great way to spend together and beat the cold weather! Many thanks to our great partners at Zero Gravity Adventure Park in Mounds View - the students had a blast! The school raised over $1,300 during this event!
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 & Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Thanks to all who could make it out to our Pizza T, Dine-to-Donate event! We raised $1,500+ for the school between the two event nights. Thanks to Pizza T for being a great community partner!
Friday, November 22 @ 7-9PM
What a fun night! Thanks to all who could join us for Family Movie Night!
Family Shop Days were:
Thursday, October 10 & Tuesday, October 15
Thank you so much to all the students, families, and volunteers who came out to the Book Fair. Each of you helped make our Book Fair a success. Every purchase and donation helped provide our school library with great new books for everyone to enjoy!
With just your round up change donations the library purchased 41 new books directly from the book fair. And students can see those on the shelves this week! With more new titles to come, thanks to your generosity.
Thank you to the MANY volunteers who helped our Book Fair run smoothly, and special call-out to Kristin Winksy who continues to coordinate, plan, and spend countless hours leading our Scholastic Book Fairs for the school - THANK YOU!
Friday, November 15 - Sunday, November 17
Thanks to Jersey Mike's location in Blaine off Lexington + 108th for donating 50% of sales back to our school! With the help of our student's families and friends, Rice Lake was able to raise $1,026 back to the school!
Monday, September 23 @ 4-8PM
Chipotle donated 25% of sales back to the school for a total for $407.94. Thank you so much for supporting our Dine-to-Donate fundraiser, and giving back to our school community!
September 13 - September 27, 2024
We raised $27,063
on a fundraising goal of $24,000
CONGRATULATIONS!!! AND WAY TO GO!
RLE will use funds to support an outdoor learning space, art residency, and to refresh our beloved fish tank this year!
Friday, September 13, 2024 @ 7-9PM
Rice Lake Elementary - cafeteria
It was great to see so many students and families at school Friday night and welcome everyone back to the school year! A great time was had by all!
Special thank you to Mr. Hellman for stepping in to call Bingo numbers. Thanks also to our many volunteers, everyone who stayed after to clean up the gym, and to those who donated food for the Centennial Food Shelf, Power Pack Program.
Saturday, September 7, 2024 @ 11AM - 2PM
Rice Lake Elementary - west side
What an incredible day as a school community, gathering to celebrate each other and our beautiful new playground!
Thanks to all of your dedication in fundraising, we are excited our students have a new space to play.
Rice Lake’s 2024 Annual Carnival was an absolute hit! From bounce houses to the dunk tank, to face painting and carnival games - students and families enjoyed a rain-free day of fun at the school! We have many people, organizations and clubs to thank!!
Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who signed up to help at the Carnival!
Carnival Planning committee: Jenn Stein, Erin Yankowiak, Marla Urban, Kelly Vulcan, Kris Quale, Megan Ramey, Megan Schornstein, and Sheena Sayre
Local establishments who helped to feed our volunteers: Wiseguys Pizza & Pub (located in Centerville), Kwik Trip (located in Circle Pines at Hodgson & Lake), and Bruegger's Bagels located in Blaine)
Karissa & Reed for donning the Hawk costume for a second year in a row! What troopers!
Midwest Roofing Siding & Windows, Inc for their paid sponsorship of the Dunk Tank! This helps the PTO save money to help invest in other things for the school - THANK YOU!
Mr. Lundberg, Ms. Philgreen, Mr. Hanlon, Ms. Barlett, Mrs. Gerst, and Mr. Carlson for their willingness to participate in the Dunk Tank!
Centennial Swim Team and North Star Swim Team for sponsoring the Duck Pond carnival game!
Rehbein Transit, Inc for sponsoring Cake Walk and Pop Toss carnival games!
Centennial Volleyball for sponsoring the Set-In-Net carnival game!
Centennial Baseball for sponsoring the Baseball Toss carnival game!
Centennial Soccer Club for sponsoring the Soccer Kick carnival game!
Centennial Youth Cheerleading for sponsoring the Pom-Pom Toss carnival game!
Centennial Girl Scouts for sponsoring the Cookie Toss carnival game!
The Rookery Activity Center for sponsoring the Plinko carnival game!
Kids Abilities - Hugo for sponsoring the Fish Pond carnival game!
Centennial Library for providing information about the free summer reading program!
Centennial Wrestling for providing the Push-Up contest fun!!
Cub Scouts for providing Archery!
Professional Karate Studios for providing demos!
Centennial Youth Hockey Association for providing hockey shoot-outs!
The Centurions - CHS Robotics team for providing robot demos!
Tom Schoolmeesters / DJ Skoolz for awesome music out on the field!
Centennial Theatre Dept. for providing musical karaoke!
Our Food Truck vendors who are donating 10%+ of their sales back to the school: Hoot Owl Concessions, Rollin’ Nolens BBQ, Burro Loco, D&D Goodies, and Mansetti’s!
Centennial Pep Band for playing upbeat music for carnival goers!
Amazing face painting by Linda John, who you will find at the White Bear Lake MarketFest on Thursday nights throughout the summer!
Lino Lakes Ambassadors: Carley, Katie, and Libbie!
Jump City Party & Tent Rentals for providing the inflatable fun, tables, chairs and tents!
Many, many, many organizations, companies and RLE families for donating items for the silent auction!
Friday, September 15, 2023
This annual event is a FREE event to welcome back our Rice Lake Elementary students and families for a fun night of gathering, games and winning prizes!
We collected several bags of food for the Centennial Food Shelf, Power Pack Program
Friday, October 6, 2023
Thank you to students, teachers, staff and volunteers who helped make the first annual Bubble Run a great success! It was a great event and the kids all had a blast!
Final numbers and winners from our Amazing PTO Fundraiser!
We are so proud of our school and can’t wait to celebrate with all the school wide prizes.
Take a look at our winners!
Grand Total: $27,850
Grade Level Winning Class Pizza Parties:
Pre-k: Ms Ann Kelling
Kindergarten: Stone
1st Grade: Philgreen
2nd Grade: Nelson
3rd Grade: Gemuenden
4th Grade: Caldeen
5th Grade: Cashman
In addition to these prizes, students earned an All-School Pajama Day, Extra Recess, a Whole School Movie Day.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
We had a blast at Zero Gravity with 172 classmates, jumping all night! Thanks to Zero Gravity for the donation of $1,718.28!
Way to go Hawks!!
Thursday, February 8, 2024
What an awesome night at Cheap Skate! Thanks for all who could attend! We hope you had the best time! Special thanks to Karissa for being our Hawk last night!!
This was a great fundraiser for the school - we purchased 222 skate passes and raised $1,551.78 for the school!!
Way to go Hawks!!
Monday, Aprill 8, 2024
Author Erin Soderberg Downing joined the RLE community for an engaging presentation on the process of writing and sharing her books with us!
Thank you so much for joining us, Erin!
Tuesday, April 16 - Thursday, April 18, 2024
After school from 4:00 - 7:00PM in the Media Center
Thank you so much to all the students, families, and volunteers who came out to the Book Fair last week. Each of you helped make our Book Fair a success. Every purchase and donation helped provide our school library with great new books for everyone to enjoy!
If you missed the book fair, you can still shop online through April 28th.
Our library still earns rewards on every purchase and there is free shipping on book orders $25+. Visit our Book Fair website and click “SHOP NOW”
Thursday, April 18, 2024, from 4:00 - 6:00PM
RAFFLE DRAWING: Thursday, April 18 @ 6PM sharp
What an incredible night at Rice Lake! This trifecta event with our Spring Scholastic BOGO book fair, Teacher’s Pet Raffle and Ice Cream Social was a lot of fun for all!
We raised over $2,500 during our Teacher’s Pet raffle ticket sales and passed out 500 dilly bars to students and family members! Book Fair totals will be shared soon!
Thanks to all who donated, volunteered and showed up for the fun! Special thank you to our friends at Dairy Queen off Lake & Lexington for supplying our sweet treat tonight!
Those who won “pets” and weren’t able to make the event - Mr. Carlson