
News and events

January 12, 2025
Character Trait of the Month
Our Character Strong trait for January is PERSEVERANCE. Check out what each grade level is working on:
A Message from the Principal
A reminder that it is a short week with NO SCHOOL for students on Friday, January 17th.
We completed our 4th out of 5 LockOUT and LockDOWN drills last week. We have 2 more Fire/Evacuation drills and 1 Tornado/Shelter in Place drill to complete before the end of the school year.
Thank you for your continued support in helping students get to bed at a decent time so they are rested and ready to learn when they come to school. And sending students in appropriate winter gear every day. This week's temperature starts off very cold and warms up a bit, but still send students with all of their gear.
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:
Tuesday, January 14 - Gr 5 CRMS Field Trip
Tuesday, January 14 - PTO Monthly Meeting - In Person or Virtual at meet.google.com/akx-bbpm-vbj
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
Best,
Mrs. Strusz
P.S. In case you missed the last Hoover Family Updates. Click here to view.
Upcoming Events
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
Reading Family Night - Save the Date!
Please join us on Thursday, January 30th from 5:30-7:00, for our Hoover Family Reading Night. Bring the whole family for a night of reading fun and a light dinner. All students need to be accompanied by an adult. Invites were sent home last week with students. Please return the bottom portion of the flyer by January 24th so we can make sure we have enough materials and food. Reach out to your student's teacher with any questions.
Hoover Elementary partners with American Red Cross to host community blood drive
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.
Hoover Highlights ⭐
Hour of Code
Creativity Fest Field Trip for 4th & 5th Gr TD Students
CRHS Music Tour for Gr 3-5
The CRHS Elementary Music Tour has been happening for over 25 years and provided an excellent opportunity for our students to see what they can accomplish in music when they become high school students. It is also a great first exposure to the three areas of music students will be choosing between as they go into sixth grade.
The power of this day is long reaching. Many of the students that come to perform remember being the student sitting on the floor listening and someday imagining they could be part of something like that! Our high school students are so proud to come back and perform for our elementary students and staff who have shaped them into who they are.
CRHS brought their most accomplished students in choir (Raven Street Project), band (Jazz I), and orchestra (Cardinal Strings) to Hoover and performed for our third through fifth grade students. This 30 minute performance included polished presentations from each ensemble as well as education on all instrumental and voice types represented. Click here for more pictures of the presentation.
Message from the Nurse's Office
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.
Message from the Volunteer Service Coordinator (VSC)
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.
Message from the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO)
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
Message from the Parent Educator
Support Hoover with Box Tops 4 Education
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.
Virtual Flyer Gallery - Opportunities for families from local nonprofit groups
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.
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