Thanks for your support at the car wash!

What great weather, and what a great turnout of carwash customers - thanks to you, we raised $346!

And thank you to St. Elizabeth Seton Church too!

Buy Your Bouquet for Mother's Day!

The Riddlebrook DI team is selling bouquets for Mother's Day. $10 gets you a beautiful bouquet, and the profits are generously being donated to the team, thanks to JR McGilvary & Sons!

You can order your flowers at any Sunday Mass at St. Elizabeth Seton's on May 7th, or post a comment here if you'd like to get more information on how to order!

Thank You New Hampshire Endodontics!

New Hampshire Endodontics... Thanks for your Gold Sponsorship of the Riddle Brook DI Team!

So What's This DI "On Safari" Anyway?

Simply put: It's improvisational acting.

It's a little bit wild and a whole lot dangerous, as our DI team learns when their safari takes a disastrous turn!

Our Riddle Brook team will have 30 minutes to create a six-minute improvisational skit about a safari at the global finals in Knoxville.

Since Thanksgiving, they have been preparing for their improvs at each of the competitions they have been in to-date. Each time it's quite a bit different:

1) They have been researching and studying six different environments, one of which will be selected at random at the finals. This is "where" the safari skit takes place.

2) They also have been researching six different living inhabitants (one from each environment), and one will be chosen randomly. This is "what" is living in the environment.

3) They are also given a "disaster," and have to create an original "innovative device" that helps rescue their living inhabitant from the disaster.

The team must also establish a goal that they hope to achieve on their safari, and demonstrate at least one improvisational technique during their skit.

Oh yes, and at the last moment, they are given a randomly-selected symbol that must be integrated into their skit (they have 60 seconds to figure out how to do this before they begin).

At the regionals in Merrimack, for instance, a deer was on the Great Barrier Reef, and they had to get it back to it's natural habitat. They also had peanut butter stuck to the roofs of their mouths, and had to incorporate the symbol of a women's room into their skit!

Bedford 4th Graders Heading to Knoxville!

Destination ImagiNation® (DI), is the largest creative problem solving organization in the world, with over 250,000 members from over 40 countries and all 50 states. In 2006, over 2,300 New Hampshire students from 150+ schools and organizations made DI one of the states most chosen after-school activities.


We are proud to say that, of all of the teams in New Hampshire, your Riddle Brook 4th graders are going to the global finals in Tennessee, where they will be competing with top teams from around the world!

Your Bedford team – the Silly Safari Searchers – is a group of nine- and ten-year-old girls who have been working together since last fall (under the watchful eye of Coach Mary Pat Norfleet) developing such important life skills as teamwork, creative problem solving, collaboration, project management, resource management, critical and creative thinking, research and presentation skills and, as all challenges must be strictly team-solved, self-reliance. This is the first Bedford team in several years to reach the global finals.

These students have worked extremely hard to get this far, and we want them to be able to enjoy a fantastic experience at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, May 24-27th.

But we need your help to cover the cost of registration, travel, room and board – $1,000 per student! Please consider making a donation to support the Bedford DI team. Our Riddle Brook DI team, under the auspices of Riddle Brook School, is a non-profit organization, and so any contribution is tax-deductible. For more information on DI, please contact Pete Lecours at 603-540-0357, or email at lecoursp@aol.com

Buy & Sell Stuff at Our Yard Sale!

MAY 6TH
7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Riddle Brook School Parking Lot
New Boston Road

Spring is a great time to empty out your spare bedroom, garage, basement, and shed!

Purchase a table for $15.00 - You'll be able to sell all of your stuff AND help out our Destination ImagiNation team! Call Mary Pat Norfleet for information on table rentals at 603-488-1255. First come first serve!

What Exactly Will our Silly Safari Searchers Be Doing?

Destination ImagiNation is a team sport, first and foremost.

When our Riddle Brook 4th graders decided to start a DI team, they selected "On Safari" as their DI segment.

You've heard of spelling bees, quiz bowls, robotics competitions and science fairs. In fact, there is probably a special event for every subject taught at school. Well, Destination ImagiNation is none of those things – and all of those things! Destination ImagiNation is a place where kids take what they know and what they are good at and learn to apply it to solve challenges, working together and cooperatively with a team and pushing the limits of imagination to best not their competition, but themselves.

Destination ImagiNation is a community-based, school-friendly program that builds participants' creativity, problem solving, and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways.

Teams of five to seven members work together to apply creativity, critical thinking and their particular talents to solve a Team Challenge - in our case, "On Safari."

Riddle Brook DI Team Meets Governor Lynch

Governor Lynch attended the NH State Finals on April 8th. He's shown here with a few members of our Riddle Brook team, along with several other DI participants.

Bedford 4th Graders Heading to Knoxille!

Destination ImagiNation® (DI), is the largest creative problem solving organization in the world, with over 250,000 members from over 40 countries and all 50 states. In 2006, over 2,300 New Hampshire students from 150+ schools and organizations made DI one of the states most chosen after-school activities.


We are proud to say that, of all of the teams in New Hampshire, your Riddle Brook 4th graders are going to the global finals in Tennessee, where they will be competing with top teams from around the world!

Your Bedford team – the Silly Safari Searchers – is a group of nine- and ten-year-old girls who have been working together since last fall (under the watchful eye of Coach Mary Pat Norfleet) developing such important life skills as teamwork, creative problem solving, collaboration, project management, resource management, critical and creative thinking, research and presentation skills and, as all challenges must be strictly team-solved, self-reliance. This is the first Bedford team in several years to reach the global finals.

These students have worked extremely hard to get this far, and we want them to be able to enjoy a fantastic experience at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, May 24-27th.

But we need your help to cover the cost of registration, travel, room and board – $1,000 per student! Please consider making a donation to support the Bedford DI team. Our Riddle Brook DI team, under the auspices of Riddle Brook School, is a non-profit organization, and so any contribution is tax-deductible. For more information on DI, please contact Pete Lecours at 603-540-0357, or email at lecoursp@aol.com