News and events

January 5, 2025

Our Character Strong trait for January is PERSEVERANCE. Check out what each grade level is working on:

• Kindergarten

• First Grade

• Second Grade

• Third Grade

• Fourth Grade

• Fifth Grade

Hello Hoover Families,

Happy New Year! From my family and our Hoover family to yours, I wish all of you a year of peace, love, and happiness!

Having the students back in the building for two days last week was wonderful. This is a full week, so we anticipate students will have to build their stamina back up. Please help us by reviewing our rules and expectations with your students so we can have a great week back - Hoover Common Spaces Systems/Procedures. And as always, make sure students get a good night of sleep!

Winter Weather Reminders - There may not be snow on the ground, but the temperature is still cold! Please ensure students wear warm winter coats, snow pants, hats, gloves/mittens, and boots. We will continue to have recess outside unless the air temp is 0 degrees or -10 degrees with windchill. Thank you for your help in keeping all of our students warm and safe!

This week's events:

• Monday, January 6-Friday, January 10 - Winter Transportation Safety Week

• Tuesday, January 7 - CRHS Music Tour - Gr 3-5

• Wednesday, January 8 - School Bus Driver Appreciation Day

• Wednesday, January 8 - Creativity Fest Field Trip for 4th & 5th Gr TD Students

Best,

Mrs. Strusz

P.S. In case you missed the last Hoover Family Updates. Click here to view.

P.S.S. Check out last week's Hoover Howl News video announcement. Click here to view.

• Tuesday, January 14 - Gr 5 CRMS Field Trip

• Tuesday, January 14 - PTO Monthly Meeting

• Tuesday, January 14-Wednesday, January 15 - Gr2-3 Fastbridge aReading

• Wednesday, January 15 - American Indian Ed Groups

• Friday, January 17 - No School - Licensed Staff and Para Educators PD Day

• Monday, January 20 - No School/Holiday/District Closed

• Thursday, January 30 - Gr 5 DARE

• Thursday, January 30 - Reading Family Night

• Friday, January 31 - Gr 3 STEMH SMMN Engineering Onsite Field Experience

• Friday, January 31 - American Indian Ed Groups

Hoover Elementary will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Wednesday, February 26th from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Hoover Elementary.

For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 763-506-2890 or sign up online at bit.ly/HooverGiveBlood.

Hoover Elementary is committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations. This blood drive is our way of giving staff, colleagues and families an opportunity to help save lives.

Blood is a perishable product that can only come from volunteer blood donors. With someone in the U.S. needing blood every two seconds, blood products must be constantly replenished, according to the Red Cross.

We urge community members to donate blood and help ensure that patients in local hospitals have a supply of blood ready and waiting before an emergency occurs. There's no better feeling than knowing that your blood donation may give someone a second chance at life.

According to the Red Cross, donors with all blood types are needed, especially those with types O negative, A negative and B negative.

We are so grateful for the continued partnership that we have with local organizations and Hoover Alumni families who help make the holidays special and memorable for some of our students and their families.

We received an amazing donation from the Coon Rapids Lions Club of 790 books! We will be able to give out these books to our students during our "I Love to Read" month in February and during other fun events. Thank you to the Coon Rapids Lions Club for their generosity!

Once again, our fabulous PTO provided delicious treats to our staff the Monday before winter break to help get our week started off right! We have the best PTO around!

It may be cold and brown outside (and will eventually be covered in white with snow), but inside at Hoover, our students are helping with growing some beautiful and fresh herbs!

Our second students learned how and what an owl eats by dissecting, sorting and charting an owl pellet. Students loved solving the mystery of HOO got ate! Click here for more pictures.

Hoover students and staff celebrated the last four days of 2024 before winter break with a fun spirit week. Check out some of the pictures from the week here.

Please send an extra pair of pants and underwear for your child in case there is an accident (bathroom, breakfast/lunch spill, etc.). The health office loves donations of gently used sweatpants and leggings sizes 5-10. We also appreciate new packs of underwear for boys and girls sizes 5-10.

The health office has free at home Covid tests. Email Darlene.Anderson@ahschools.us and we can send them home with your child.

Wondering if your child is well enough to come to school? Click here for more information.

If your child goes to the doctor or dentist, please request a doctor's note and send it with your child for attendance purposes.

Happy New Year! I hope you all had time to relax and rest up after the holiday season! We have lots happening here at Hoover in the coming months. I will have more details out in the coming days with sign ups for volunteers.

We have lots of field experiences coming up, please make sure to get your paperwork into me at least 2 weeks before the date of the field experience or you may not be able to attend with your child. To attend field experiences, you must be 18 or older.

Have a child that wants to volunteer? We would love to have middle schoolers return to Hoover to help during events as well as high schoolers. They can help at events like the Carnival, movie nights, Bingo Nights, etc. Anyone 17 or under wanting to volunteer just needs to fill out a volunteer application.

Just a reminder that any volunteer 18 years or older must complete the volunteer application and background check each school year. Those 17 and younger only need to complete the volunteer application each school year.

Please reach out Tina Fletcher, Volunteer Service Coordinator, at Tina.Fletcher@ahschools.us or 763.506.2830 with any questions.

Hello Hoover Staff and Families! We wanted to share an update about things we have planned for the year.

Read-A-Thon - February

We’ll host a Read-a-thon in February, and this event will rotate every other year with the Kids Heart Challenge. We’ll do our best to inspire the students as much as the Kids Heart Challenge did. One of our annual commitments is to donate $1000 to the Media Center for book purchases.

Spring Carnival - May

We will host the Spring Carnival in May. This event requires many volunteers, and you know we’ll ask you for help too. Feel free to share any feedback or suggestions through Mr. White.

HundredX - May

Our HundredX Fundraiser will return this school year. This one is awesome as it doesn’t require families and supporters to purchase anything. They simply complete questionnaires regarding their recent shopping trips or business interactions.

Fundraiser Nights

We’ll try to have either a restaurant night or a family entertainment night once a month. This is a great opportunity to bond with Hoover families and earn some funds for our initiatives.

PTO Meeting

Our PTO meeting time changed to 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM. We hope the time reduction will entice participation. The PTO Board will now meet beforehand to hash out plans that may overwhelm new attendees. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month unless there is a conflict or need to change.

Classroom Amazon Lists

If you have an existing list or need one created, please send us an email. We will share them on our social media platforms throughout the year. The links will be housed on our Google site here.

We also have a page on our site that will list school & PTO items. Feel free to reference this page for your weekly updates to families.

Please reach out if you have any questions or feedback. We’d love to hear from you. Thank you for your support; we appreciate you!

Cheers!

Hoover PTO

Hoover PTO Facebook page

PTO's website

Hoover Elementary Facebook page

This month's Parent Press focuses on the importance of teaching coping skills and responding to stress behaviors. These behaviors may include hitting, crying, and non compliance. When caregivers help teach and model healthy coping skills, children have more success when dealing with big feelings and making friends.

Another option is to go to https://www.boxtops4education.com/ to learn more about downloading the app to scan receipts for box tops for Hoover Elementary.

The Anoka-Hennepin School District allows qualifying flyers from nonprofit groups to be distributed at school and sent home with students. These flyers have gone through the district approval process. A virtual gallery of flyers is also available. These events, classes and activities are not sponsored or endorsed by Anoka-Hennepin Schools.

This does NOT change our regular flyer policies or procedures! To have a flyer posted, the organization still needs to go through the process, be approved, and deliver paper flyers to schools in our district.