Hidden River Newsletter
Week of December 11th - 15th, 2023
Weekly Reminders
- SAVE THE DATES:
Tues., Dec. 12th - Right to Read Movie Night at Central HS at 5:30
Wed., Dec. 13th - Flipside Family Night 4:00-5:00pm in the cafeteria
Thurs., Dec. 14th - Virtual Conferences from 4:00-7:00pm online sign-ups below
Next Week 12/18-12/22 (Spirit Week):
Tues., Dec 19th - Annual Title I Meeting at 6:00 & Winter Music Concert 6:30 in cafeteria
Thurs., Dec. 21st - 6th grade field trip to Skateville 9:30am-1:30pm
Fri., Dec. 22nd - 7th grade field trip to Grand Slam 9:30am-1:30pm
School Information
- Attendance: 651-744-4750 (Sue Roach)
- FLIPSIDE: 651-744-4642 (Teanna Rouillard)
- Main office: 651-293-8860
LOST AND FOUND: The clothing in the "Lost and Found" has been moved to a rack just inside the Grand Avenue doors. Students - make sure you take a look if you are missing something. Family members - feel free to take a look for lost items when you are in the building. We will hold onto the coats for a while, but unclaimed clothing with be donated during winter break. Other unclaimed items (binders, lunch boxes, water bottles, etc) are still located in the "Lost and Found" on the second floor.
Quarter 2 Virtual Conferences At Hidden River - Thursday, December 14th
Please join us for Quarter 3 Conferences on Thursday, December 14th from 4:00-7:00pm on Google Meet. All conferences will be held online via Google Meet, families will need to use the sign-up sheet below to sign-up for conferences. Please note there is only one night for Quarter 3 conferences, email or call your students’ teachers if there are no more conference sign-ups available. Language line will be available for families.
Winter Quarter 2 Conferences Sign-up
HMONG
Niam Txiv thiab Xib Fwb Lub Rooj Sib Tham Online Txog Me Nyuam Kev Kawm Rau Quarter 2 Hauv Hidden River – Thursday, December 14th
Thov tuaj koom peb lub rooj uas niam txiv thiab xib fwb sib tham txog me nyuam kev kawm rau Quarter 3 hnub Thursday, December 14th from 4:00-7:00pm nyob rau hauv Google Meet. Txhua lub rooj sib tham yuav muaj nyob online hauv Google Meet, cov tsev neeg yuav tsum tau siv daim ntawv sau npe hauv qab no los sau npe mus ntsib xib fwb rau cov rooj sib tham no. Thov nco ntsoov tias kev sib ntsib tham txog me nyuam kev kawm rau lub Quarter 3 tsuas yog ib hmos xwb. Yog hais tias tsis muaj chaw seem rau nej sau npe lawm no ces sau email los sis hu xov tooj mus rau nej cov me nyuam tus xib fwb. Yuav muaj neeg pab txhais lus rau cov tsev neeg.
Winter Quarter 2 Conferences Sign-up
SOMALI
Kulamada Onlaynka ah ee Rubuca 2-aad ee Simistarka ee Hidden River - Thursday, December 14th
Fadlan nagu soo biir Kulamada waalidka iyo macallimiinta ee Rubuca 3-aad kaasoo Google Meet ka dhacayo Thursday, December 14th from 4:00-7:00pm. Dhammaan kulamada waxaa lagu qaban doonaa onlayn iyadoo la adeegsanayo Google Meet, oo qoysasku waxay u baahan doonaan inay isticmaalaan xaashida is-diiwaangelinta ee hoose si ay isugu qoraan kulamada. Fadlan ogow inuu jiro hal habeen oo keliya oo loogu talagalay kulamada Rubuca 3-aad, iimayl u dir ama wac macallimiinta ardaydaada haddii aadan arkin saacado ka bannaan kulanka onlaynka. Khadka tarjumaanka ayaa diyaar u ah qoysaska.
Winter Quarter 2 Conferences Sign-up
SPANISH
Conferencias virtuales del tercer cuatrimestre en Hidden River - Thursday, December 14th
Únase a nosotros para las conferencias del tercer cuatrimestre Thursday, December 14th from 4:00-7:00pm. por Google Meet. Todas las conferencias se llevarán a cabo en línea a través de Google Meet. Las familias deberán usar la hoja de inscripción que se encuentra a continuación para inscribirse para las conferencias. Tenga en cuenta que solo hay una noche para conferencias del tercer cuatrimestre. Envíe un correo electrónico o llame a los maestros de sus estudiantes si no hay más cupos disponibles para conferencias. Habrá servicio de interpretación disponible para las familias.
Winter Quarter 2 Conferences Sign-up
KAREN
ခွါထၢၣ် ၃ မိၢ်ပၢ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်လၢ အီန်လဲအဖီခိၣ်(Virtual)ဖဲ Hidden River ကၠိ - Thursday, December 14th
ဝံသးစူၤ ဟဲထီၣ် ခွါထၢၣ် ၃ မိၢ်ပၢ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ဖဲ မုၢ်လ့ၤဧိၤနံၤ, လါမးၡး ၉သီ ဖဲ ဟါ ၄း၀၀-၇း၀၀ နၣ်ရံၣ် လၢ Google Meet အဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်. မိၢ်ပၢ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ကိးခါဒဲးကဘၣ်တၢ်မၤအီၤလၢ အီန်လဲအဖီခိၣ်လၢပကသူ Google Meet, ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ် ကဘၣ်ဆဲးလီၤပာ်စၢၤမံၤဖဲ လံာ်ဆဲးလီၤမံၤအ ဖီခိၣ်လၢကဟဲထီၣ် မိၢ်ပၢ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤ သ့ၣ်ညါလၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ကအိၣ်ထဲဒၣ် တဟါဧိၤလၢ ခွါထၢၣ် ၃ မိၢ်ပၢ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်, ဒီးနကဆဲးလီၤမံၤအဂီၢ် လံာ်ဆဲးလီၤမံၤ အပူၤတၢ်လီၢ်မ့ၢ်တအိၣ်လၢၤဘၣ်န့ၣ် အံမ့လ် မ့တမ့ၢ် ကိးနဖိအကၠိသရၣ်သရၣ်မုၣ်န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်. ပှၤကတိၤ ကျိာ်ထံတၢ်လၢလီတဲစိအပူၤ အိၣ်ဝဲလၢဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ.
Flipside - After-school
There is no Flipside on Thursday Dec 14th due to conferences!
We will be having a Flipside Family Night on Wednesday, Dec 13th from 4-5pm. All Flipside students all welcome to come along with their families. There will be class displays, student performance and snacks.
Winter/ Spring session registration will be coming soon! If you have any questions please contact Flipside Coordinator Teanna Rouillard teanna.rouillard@spps.org or 651-744-4642
Classroom Updates
FRENCH IMMERSION MINNESOTA STUDIES (6TH GRADE)
FRENCH IMMERSION GLOBAL STUDIES (7th-8th GRADES)
We are still on unit 3, “Resources and Scarcity (Human-Environment-Interaction).” This week, students are working on the consequences of oil spills in the ocean by sinking tankers or accidents on oil platforms and their consequences on the marine ecosystem, the flora and fauna coastline. Next week, we will move on to natural gas resources. This quarter's summative oral will be on natural resources and scarcity, probably before Winter break.
For any additional information, please contact Ms. Payia Yang: rachel.payia-yang@spps.org
French Immersion - 8th Graders
8th grade French immersion students will take the proficiency test on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 in the library at 8:30 am. The make-up day test will be on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The proficiency test determines the level of language proficiency a student has achieved, regardless of how the language was taught or when it was learned. District staff will be present to proctor students.
For additional information, please connect with:
Lisa Showers, French Language & Immersion TOSA: lisa.showers@spps.org
Halina Solachava-Chamutouskaya: halina-solachava@spps.org
Rachel Payia Yang: rachel.payia-yang@spps.org
Health Office
Eye Screening in January
7th grade students have a vision screening in January by Phillips Eye Institute’s Early Youth Eyecare (E.Y.E.) Community Initiative, part of Allina Health.
The screening is not considered a full eye exam. You will receive a recommendation to have your child seen by an eye doctor for further evaluation if they do not pass the vision screening. E.Y.E. can assist with scheduling the examination, as well as provide interpreter services, transportation and financial assistance with exams and glasses. If you have questions or do not want your child to participate in the vision screening, please contact Mary Green, RN, LSN (school nurse) at 651-888-7657.
Staff Spotlight
Mr. Graf
What is your role at Hidden River? 6th & 7th Grade Social Studies Teacher
If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? Time Travel, because it would allow me to travel back in time to any moment in history.
What is your favorite season? Fall
What are your interests or hobbies? Football, Basketball, Golf, Travel, Food, Gardening, Reading, The Outdoors, and Spending Time with Family & Friends
What do you like most about Hidden River? What I like most about HRMS are the students and staff. The day-to-day interactions with the students and working them are something I truly appreciate.
Ms. Thorson
What is your role at Hidden River? 6th Grade Readers and Writers
If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? To never be sick - it would be great to not have to deal with that!
What is your favorite season? Fall
What are your interests or hobbies? Theatre, hiking, camping, canoeing, board games
What do you like most about Hidden River? The silly students and how much the staff cares about them
Keep Connected 360 - Family Engagement
Keep Connected 360
We are excited to share we have partnered with Search Institute and Change Inc. to offer a pilot program to Hidden River families this year. Keep Connected 360 offers resources to families, including tips, ideas, activities and learning opportunities to support strong family relationships.
Week 10 Talk Starters - Expand Possibilities (Inspire)
This Week’s Focus: Inspire family members to see possibilities for the future. This is a great way to EXPAND POSSIBILITIES through family relationships.
When you have a few minutes, ask other family members a question or two. Enjoy the conversation!
- Who is someone in movies, television, entertainment, or on social media that you think of as a positive role model? What makes them a good role model?
- Who is someone outside your family who you particularly admire? What do you admire about them?
- How does someone in your family inspire you?
- What is a quote, song, writing, picture, or saying that lifts your spirits and gives you hope for the future? Share these with each other in your family.
- Who has inspired you to think about your future? How did they do it?