News and events

November 11, 2024

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

• Kindergarten

• First Grade

• Second Grade

• Third Grade

• Fourth Grade

• Fifth Grade

Hello Hoover Families,

The district is collecting feedback from parents/guardians through a survey on two topics. The first part of the survey relates to your perceptions on social emotional learning and the second part is in regards to parent-teacher communication. The anonymous survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. You can access the survey using the link below through Friday, November 15th. Your insight is very valuable and will be used to inform decisions across the district. Thank you in advance for your time.

SEL/Parent-Teacher Communication: Parent/Guardian Survey link: https://survey.anoka.k12.mn.us/2024-25SELParentTeacherCommunicationParentSurvey.htm

This Week's Events:

• Monday, November 11 - Veterans Day Assembly (3:00-3:30)

• Monday, November 11-Tuesday, November 19 - PTO Texas Roadhouse Gift Cards & Rolls Fundraiser
• Monday, November 11-Friday, November 22 - Hoover Winter Food Drive

• Tuesday, November 12 - PTO Monthly Meeting - In Person and Virtual Option (6:45-7:30)

• meet.google.com/akx-bbpm-vbj

• Thursday, November 14 - American Indian Ed Groups

• Friday, November 15 - Math Family Night RSVPs Due

Best,

Mrs. Strusz

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

• Wednesday, November 20 - PTO Dining Night: Texas Roadhouse

• Thursday, November 21 - Math Family Night

• Friday, November 22 - End of Tri 1

• Monday, November 25-Friday, November 29 - No School for Students

• 11/25 - Staff PD Day - No Students

• 11/26 - Staff Planning/Grading Day - No Students

• 11/27 - Conference Conversion Day - No Staff and Students

• 11/28-11/29 - Holiday/District Closed - No Staff and Students

The winners of this year's Veterans Day Poster contest are:

• Grades K-1 - Ari in 1SG
• Grades 2-3 - Leah in 3BB
• Grades 4-5 - Isabel in 5EH

Thank you to all of the beautiful submissions from our Hoover students who showed their appreciation by honoring all of our veterans. Congratulations to our winners! All poster submissions can be viewed in our Hoover main hallway.

Thank you to all of the 4th and 5th grade students who entered this poster contest. This year's winner was selected by the Coon Rapids Fire Department. And the winner is...Elhanan Y from 5KF! Elhanan won $50 in cash and gets an opportunity to be picked up from Hoover in a fire truck!

Click HERE to see the "Read more, and get step-by-step instructions for logging in to view your student's test score." link referenced in the picture above.

• TOP 3 classes with the most donations will earn a popcorn party!!

• Questions? Please reach out to our Brianna Havelka, School Social Worker at Brianna.Havelka@ahschools.us

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.

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.

A huge thank you to our volunteers for all your support these first couple months of school! I don't know what we would do without you!

We had a change in our fundraiser distribution schedule. It was moved to Monday, Nov 11th. We are hoping to get some volunteers to come assist with sorting and distributing starting at 4:45pm that day.

Skillbuilders volunteers needed! Our program K-Skillbuilders has been changed to Skillbuilders now that we are able to use it for not just Kindergarten, but also grades 1 and 2. We are looking for volunteers to come in weekly to work one on one with students. There is a video training required which can be done on your device at home. Please email Tina Fletcher at tina.fletcher@ahschools.us if you are interested.

We have other volunteer opportunities available and the sign ups for fundraiser distribution, Skillbuilders and all our other events can be found HERE.

4th grade just had their first field experience this year and there are many more to come for our school! Those 18 years or older wanting to chaperone these events must have a volunteer application and background check in at least 2 weeks prior to the event or they may not be eligible to attend!

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.

Fall Fundraiser

Thank you for sharing the fundraising information with our Hoover families and supporting this event!! Our top three classrooms were KSB, 4MR, and 2MT. We’ll reach out to you separately regarding your classroom reward. The pickup date for those who chose to ship items to the school is November 4, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.

Restock the Classroom - December/January

We’ll sponsor another “Restock in the Classroom” with a January delivery goal. This time we’ll ask for donations from families and our community supporters in advance so we can do more for you!

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

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.