News and events

February 23, 2025

Our Character Strong trait for February is HONESTY. Check out what each grade level is working on!

• Pre-Kindergarten
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Fifth Grade

Hello Hoover Families,

About one more week to order your spiritwear. Our Hoover Spirit Gear site is now open again! It will close on March 2nd, and the products will be delivered to students/staff the week of March 17th. This will be the final time to purchase Hoover gear this year, so if you haven't bought your student grade-level t-shirts for field trips/experiences and Track & Field, this is your last chance. Other great spirit gear items must be purchased for students, staff, and families!

We have 30 out of 45 spots filled for our first 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.

This week's events:

• Monday, February 24 - Gr 5 DARE w/Officer Platz
• Wednesday, February 26 - Educators Rising - Shadow Day (Hoover will be hosting students from Buffalo High School)
• Wednesday, February 26 - Hoover Blood Drive (12:00-6:00)
• Friday, February 28 - Gr 3 STEMH Conquer Ninja Gym Offsite Field Experience

Best,

Mrs. Strusz

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

• Monday, March 3 Gr 3 STEMH Respiratory Expert Onsite Field Experience

• Monday, March 3 - Gr 5 DARE w/Officer Platz

• Tuesday, March 4 - American Indian Ed Groups

• Thursday, March 6 - End of Trimester 2

• Friday, March 7 - No School for Students - Staff Planning/Grading Day

• Monday, March 10-Friday, March 14 - No School - Spring Break

• Monday, March 17 - No School - Staff PD/PLC Day

• Tuesday, March 18 - Hoover Monthly PTO Meeting

• Wednesday, March 19 - Gr 5 DARE w/Officer Platz

• Friday, March 21 - PTO Family Bingo Night

• Wednesday, March 26 - Gr 3 STEMH The Works Offsite Field Experience

• Thursday, March 27 - Gr K STEMH Children’s Museum Offsite Field Experience

• Thursday, March 27 - American Indian Ed Groups

• Friday, March 28 - Spring Pictures

There is still time to register and get started! We have a week left, and there are many fun individual, classroom and school-wide prizes to earn!

***Hoover Read-Athon Update***

Way to go, Hoover!!! We surpassed the 50% mark! That means we earned a schoolwide Stuffed Animal Day AND our fabulous PE Teacher, Mr. White, will spend the day on wheels (roller skates or rollerblades)!! We are ONLY $775 away from hitting 75% of our goal. If we do, Mr. Kelley gets to be squirted with SILLY STRING! Lastly, when we hit 100% of the goal, Mrs. Strusz turns into an "ice cream sundae"---sprinkles, whipped cream and cherries!!

 Every registered student receives a bookmark

 25% classroom registered: Hat Day

 50% classroom registered: Pajama Day

 75% classroom registered: Popcorn Party

 100 % classroom registered: Sweet Treat Party & Teacher receives Favorite Treat

Link to enroll students: https://www.getmovinfundhub.com/register...

Link for our Community Supporters:

https://www.getmovinfundhub.com/.../678966f36cf008.57044900

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Last day to order is March 2nd!

We had another year of talented submissions to the Yearbook Cover Contest. Thank you to all of our student for their creative ideas. Click here to see our winners. Congratulations!

Fourth grade students show off their creativity and building skills this month during MakerSpace time with Ms. Walker. Check out the awesome builds!

Mrs. Garcia is working on her Masters degree and was recently honored with the Excellence Award through the college's Masters program. Way to go, Mrs. Garcia!

Hoover students demonstrating growth at the top 1 percentile and top 5 percentile were identified and recognized at a school assembly on February 7th. Growth was measured by comparing performance on two of the same assessments in any of the three examined areas (math, reading and language acquisition). We recognized 31 students! From this group of students, for each elementary school, the top 5 students from this list in each area (math, reading, and language acquisition), were invited to be publicly recognized by the school board at Blaine High School on Wednesday, February 19th. Congratulations to our Hoover students---we are all so proud of the hard work and dedication you bring every day!

Our 5th-grade students had a 5-Day experience at STARBASE the past two weeks. We will share pictures next week of all the fun learning activities they were engaged in. For those who knew Ms. Chesney (was a 5th-grade teacher at Hoover), she is now a STARBASE teacher! Some of our Hoover students were able to have her lead them in their learning while at STARBASE.

Thank you to all of our first, second and third-grade students/families who participated in this year's Dental Sealant event. We are grateful to partner with this amazing organization that brings resources right into our building to provide dental hygiene care for our students. We always enjoy our friendly competition with Mississippi Elementary. Click here to see a recap of the program and who took the "crown" this year!

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.

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.

Can you believe February is almost over?! This second half of the school year is just zooming by!

Thank you for all the wonderful donations for the staff conference meal! Conferences bring long days to our staff so these meals are greatly appreciated by them!

We still have some volunteer openings for this month that we could really use your help with!

• Hoover is hosting a blood drive on February 26th and we are still looking for 2 volunteers to assist at the canteen table. We will have students rotating out for the first half and we are mainly looking for someone to support them if they need help from noon to 3. We are looking for someone to take over the canteen table at 3 and be here until 6 at the canteen table. If available, please sign up HERE.

As always, you can find all volunteer opportunities at this link. We have items for spring pictures, kindergarten registration and more posted at that link.

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.

Read-a-Thon - February I Love to Read Month

Our Read-AThon is live and will run until March 4th. We have registration rewards, reading incentives, and individual prizes. The goal is to get families to register and record their reading minutes. Each student will receive an “I Love to Read” pencil to celebrate the start of this fundraising campaign.

Bingo Night - March 21

Bingo Night seems to be a family favorite event, so we are doing it again after we get back from Spring Break. Save the date for March 21!

Spring Carnival - May 2

We are entering planning mode; can you believe it!! It is the time of year that we start to solicit donations for our raffle and find the best deals for game prizes. We need a bunch of volunteers for this event, and we’d love your help too.

HundredX – May 12 through June 10

Our HundredX Fundraiser is back this school year. It's great because families and supporters don't have to buy anything. They only need to complete surveys about their recent shopping or business interactions.

Dining Nights

We have two upcoming dining nights on the calendar, Monday, February 17 at Smashburger and Wednesday, March 5 at Chipotle.

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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

It may be cold, but in Minnesota we play outside all year long! In this month's Parent Press, we focus on having fun in the frigid weather with simple ideas to make winter fun.

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.