Hidden River Newsletter
Week of May 8th - 12th, 2023
Weekly Reminders
- SAVE THE DATES:
Wed., May 10th - Flipside Family Showcase Night from 3:30-5:00
Next Week: (5/15-5/19)
Thurs., May 18th - Books for Bingo (Family Literacy Night) 5:30-7:30 (details here)
What's in the Newsletter?
- School Information
- Classroom Updates
- Otters Read & Recommend
- Summer Quest
- Flipside
- Bike/Walk to School Day Highlights
- Family Feedback Form
School Information
Personal Electronics: If your student chooses to bring personal electronics to school please remind them to store items in a safe location (binder, locker, purse/backpack, trusted adult). Hidden River is not responsible for any lost or stolen items. Full personal electronics expectations here.
Become a Language Development Tutor: Hidden River Middle School is looking for tutors for the 2023-24 school year. You can take action in our community by giving your time and talent to help multilingual students strengthen their skills! As a Language Development Tutor, you’ll mentor middle school students and provide support in and out of the classroom to help them understand lessons, navigate assignments and build their confidence. Full-time positions are available with opportunities to begin in July.
Perks as a Tutor:
· Receive a paid stipend every two weeks
· Earn up to $4,546 for college tuition or student loans. Tutors 55 and older may gift the award to their child, grandchild, stepchild or foster child.
· Free health insurance and child care assistance for those who qualify Ready to put your passion in action? Learn more at ampact.us/language. Questions can be sent to join@ampact.org or call 866.859.2825
Classroom Updates
ELA 8 - Ms. Messar
Host Families for French Students - Summer 2023
Summer Quest - Summer 2023 Learning Opportunities
The Summer Quest Program for grades 5-8 students is from June 26-July 28 at Washington Technology Magnet School. During Summer Quest students explore high interest STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) topics. All students are assigned three core classes (Literacy, Math, Leadership) and self-select two electives.
Elective choices include Agriculture/Cooking, Coding, Physical Education, Art/Design, Robotics, Theater Arts, Piano, Guitar, Band/Orchestra, Digital Music and Project Scientist for Girls. Instrumental music classes are for students who are interested in beginning or continuing instrument instruction.
All students can participate on a field trip to Northern Star Base Camp for team building and fun. There are other course specific field trips.
Registration and other information are found at 2023 Middle School (Grades 5-8) Summer Learning Programs and Registration.
FLIPSIDE
Flipside invited you to Family Night Showcase! On Wednesday May 10th we invite all our of Flipside classes to join us in an end of year celebration and invite families to come see what students have been working on this year!
Join ComMUSICation for a special event on May 21st 2pm at the Ordway Theater! Get your Free tickets here: https://ordway.org/events/no-one-stands-alone/
SUMMER REGISTRATION STILL OPEN!! Registrations due May 19th for summer Flipside camp! Come join us for fun outside, learning new skills, and fun field trips! Registration forms in the main office please return paper forms to Flipside Coordinator Teanna Rouillard or return via email to teanna.rouillard@spps.org
Registration packet can also be found below https://www.spps.org/cms/lib/MN01910242/Centricity/Domain/10148/Summer%20Registration%20fillable.pdf
Flipside - Summer Camp Info
Bike/Walk to School Day Highlights
Thanks to all the students and volunteers who participated in Bike/Walk/Roll to School Day last Wednesday at Hidden River! Our bike racks couldn't even handle all the bikes (almost 40 of them!). We will also keep the form open to match "biking buddies" up, so if you are still interested in biking this spring, let us know by filling out this form and we'll see if someone else in your neighborhood is biking to school also.