Education Director's Newsletter
March 2022
March Calendar of Events
March 1: Tuesday Talk @ 8:30AM
March 2: Board Meeting
March 3: Literacy Night
March 8 Coon's 5th grade fieldwork-Snowshoe school at Schweitzer
March 9: 8th grade fieldwork-Snow shoe school at Schweitzer
2022-2023 Lottery
March 15: K-4th Music Concert at Anthem Hayden-5:30 PM
Sanford's 5th grade fieldwork-Snowshoe school at Schweitzer
March 16: 3rd grade fieldwork at Mobius
March 17: St. Patrick's Day Skate Night at Skate Plaza
7th/8th grade choir fieldwork at Wellspring Meadows
March 18: Full Moon Hike &. Chili Cook-off
March 22: 5th-8th Concert at Anthem Hayden-5:30 PM
March 23: 7th/8th grade choir fieldwork at Creekside Inn - Koelsch Home
March 24: 100th Day of School!
March 31: Free Dress Day
ATTN: School pictures have been rescheduled for April 25th.
What's Happening in Middle School?
Come join us for Literacy Night!
- Literacy games for all ages
- Book readings
- Free books
- Annual Title I Parent Meeting
- Academic informational booths
- Photo booth
- Taco Works taco truck
- Cotton Candy
- Carmel Apples
- School tours
Students are engaged in learning everyday at HCC
Counselor's Corner
If you currently have an 8th grader at Hayden Canyon Charter School it is time to start planning for High School. The following local high schools have planned a parent information night for incoming freshman as follows:
Post Falls High School: Parent Night March 14th @6pm in the high school auditorium. 9th grade enrollment appointments are June 13-24 OR last two weeks of August. Parents must call to make an appointment.
Lake City High School: April 6th, in the gym, @ 6:00pm, 5:30-6pm come see school programs, and sports in the commons.
Coeur d’Alene High School: April 6th, in the gym, @ 6:00pm, 5:30-6pm come see school programs, and sports in the commons.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at ssanford@haydencanyoncharter.org
HCC Parent Crew Update
- Valentine's Day Grams sold very well! We netted just over $800 and that money is going to fund the middle school dance in April.
- Our first Read-A-Thon starts this week! It will run March 2-9. We'll be handing out flyers at pick up on Monday Feb 28th, please look out for those.
- We're needing some volunteers on March 3rd for Literacy Night to run booths. We've secured Taco Works, so they'll be set up outside for anyone wanting dinner. Click here to sign up to help or to donate.
- We'll be rolling out spirit wear with our 2022-2023 design! More info coming soon...
- Our next Crew meeting is March 7th and we're still looking for help on the Spirit Committee Come to the meeting or our first PC Hangout (March 10, 6-8pm at MacKenzie River Pizza) to learn more.
Dress Code Reminders
Tons of great things have been happening at HCC!
Kindergarten: Kindergarteners are becoming weather experts. These kinders have zoomed with a scientist, give daily weather reports over the school intercom, and are so proud to become authors with their weather narratives. During labs they have been investigating bird nests to answer the question “why do birds lay eggs in the spring?” In addition to becoming weather experts, they are learning all about kindness. They read the book Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, made cards, and collected supplies for Kinderhaven kids.
First Grade: First graders have been living it up at school. They have tried to make a statue's shadow move using flashlights, investigated how the earth’s position and rotation affect day and night on different hemispheres, and have been playing math games with buddies to reinforce math skills. First graders have had lots of visitors recently as well. They have had guest artists, 7th grade reading buddies visits, 3rd graders teach them about MLK, and have zoomed with expert scientists. First graders have the Discovery bus visit once a month, during their last visit they experimented with circuits.
Second Grade: Second graders went on a nature scavenger hunt to find natural items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. They are in the process of becoming paleontologists and completed fossil digs in class. In math they have been working on counting money as well as addition and subtraction strategies within 1,000.
Third Grade: Third graders used M&Ms to learn about tally and plot lines as well as fractions. During independent practice centers, third graders practice the art of cursive, reading comprehension, readers theater, and more. Third graders worked towards answering important engineering questions of how to make a windproof house and had to create a model of it.
Fourth Grade: Fourth graders are finishing up their research for their animal defense informative reports. They made animal designs and wrote arguments on ecosystem survival and created animal system models group posters. In math they have used Frayer models to explain our understanding of adding fractions.
Fifth Grade: Fifth graders learned all about fungi and bacteria as they did swabs, grew bacteria in petri dishes, built mold terrariums, and analyzed fungi under a microscope. They have also been doing case studies about food webs and have grown lima beans in the window as well as proving or disproving if air has weight. One of our 5th grade teachers won a Plant the Moon grant. Students joined a live symposium with NASA scientists, Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, astronauts and Deputy PI for the MOXIE experiment in NASAs Mars 2020 Rover, many others were on the zoom as well.
Middle School: So much going on across our MS classes, here are some snapshots: In one math class students learned about simple probability, compound probability, as well as dependent and independent probability. They then used their knowledge of probability to play BUNCO. Students had a real life connection to math and science when the Project Manager HCC’s new construction talked about the math and science of the construction world. He also talked about careers in construction with a college track and without a college track. Sixth graders have begun their expedition called Crack the Code. In various science classes, students made aquifers, had to grow wheat grass using various “land”, participated in a windbreak lab using edible food, practiced force and motion by propelling cars, and collaborated to gather information and create an anchor chart.
Invent Idaho: In January HCC sent over 40 students to Invent Idaho Regional. Ten projects qualified to move on and those students are headed to the state as they continue to compete in Invent Idaho.
KUDOS!!!
Congratultaions to Ruby Krajic, who competed at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow last week, she won the junior soloist division! Way to go Ruby!!!
Congratulations and thank you to Peytra Parris and Rain Moyer for being an excellent representation of CREW while working on the CYT production of The Little Mermaid. It was excellent!
Thank you Sheriff Goodman for talking with our 7th and 8th graders about digital usage and safety.
Thank you Kelley Esseltine for all of your work setting up meaningful expeditions and guest speakers for our students.
Congratulations to all of our talented gymnasts who competed in Gym Fest last week!
Hayden Canyon Charter- An Expeditionary School of the Arts and Sciences
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Website: http://haydencanyoncharter.org
Location: 13590 North Government Way, Hayden, ID, USA
Phone: (208) 477-1812
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