Weekly Update

• Important Dates
• Student Celebration - Bergen Rust- HRHVS/HROA Athlete of the Month!
• NEW TEACHER/DIGITAL TECH COACH, CHRIS DIRKS
• Staff Highlight --> Ms. Kohner, HROA Student Achievement & Enrichment Specialist
• Elementary Enrichment - Photos
• Middle School Enrichment - Check it out!
• HROA Community Enrichment - Swimming in January & Makers Space in January
• Are you BILINGUAL? You can earn high school credit!
• State Testing Opt Out Forms
• Resources (check out the yellow buttons near the bottom of the page)

March 16th: END OF TRIMESTER 2

March 17th: No School - Teacher Grading Day

March 20th: 24th: Spring Break

- 2nd in the team in goals (68) with 33 steals, 13 assists, & led the team in rebounds.

- 1st Team All State, 1st Team All League in the 6A Mt. Hood Conference, & 1st Team All League in the 5A Central League.

- An emotional leader on the team often serving as the team's hype person, leading with optimism & confidence.

- Always willing to play any position in order to do the best for the team as a whole & brings an incredible intensity to wherever she is in the pool.

- An accomplished ski racer & an incredible, dedicated student.

CONGRATS BERGEN!!!

I have been teaching for 8 years in High School math and Alternative Education. Most currently, I have taught Geometry and Algebra 1. I am excited to be part of the HROA team and support through teaching and digital technology. This program allows for a diverse group of learners to be successful and I look forward to meeting and working with all of them!

I am from the Hood River area and attended Parkdale Elementary, Wy'east Middle School, and HRVHS. I attended Linfield University and was lucky enough to get a job back in the valley right after school. My wife, Ellie, works for Mid Columbia Children's Council and is the health and nutrition manager for all of the local Head Start programs. Our son Marcus is almost 2 years old and loves to be outside in the sunshine playing in the water!

If you've participated in HROA's Friday community enrichment activities, you've met Ms. Kohner! We can thank her for the community enrichment activities, as well as supporting our middle and high school students with necessary academic supports. Ms. Kohner loves to work with students and with her history in Special Education and Reading Intervention, as well as assisting students learning English, she is a tremendous asset to HROA. To top that, Ms. Kohner has passionately worked to establish relationships with a wide variety of community partners in order to provide HROA students exceptional enrichment opportunities beyond academics. HROA is committed to building a strong program that connects students and families with each other and our staff, and Ms. Kohner is the one that makes it possible!

This will be at least an 8 week Enrichment with Ms. A. (6th-8th graders) beginning on Thursday, January 13, 2023 from 9-10 AM. Each week we will work on one of 8 mission activities that will explore NASA, the moon, what it's like to be an astronaut, and other activities. It will focus on teamwork, learning about careers, learning science and engineering, and communication. It should be lots of fun! Please let Ms. A. know if your 6th-8th grader would like to participate.

Learn to swim or improve your swimming skills!

Groups will be formed based on your ability level.

Classes taught by Hood River Valley Park and Recreation Swim Instructors

When: January 6th, 13, 20, 27

Where: Hood River Pool

1610 May Street.

Different times for different age groups

K-3rd graders- | 1:00pm - 1:30pm

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4-7th graders | 1:30pm - 2pm

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8-12th graders | 2:00pm - 2:30pm

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Waiting for a sibling who is in a lesson?

We will have an art activity set up in the party room.

Have fun and be creative! Learn skills used by engineers and designers!

3rd through 6th Grader: 11:30-1 pm at the HROA Building

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7th-12th graders: 1:15 to 2:45 at the HROA Building

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High School Science Students: Earn Special Lesson Credit for participating!

Intro to the design process, safety, and tool use.

Backpack Challenge

Special Guest: James Andreassen, Product Graphic Designer for Slingshot Sports. Work with a professional backpack designer!

Focus on the design thinking experience, going through

empathizing, brainstorming, getting feedback, prototyping, and iiteration.

Blueprinting and an introduction to circuits. Build an LED flashlight!

Use circuits to create light-up greeting cards.

Hello Bilingual or Multilingual High School Students!

If you speak a language other than English fluently, did you know that you can receive up to 2 high school credits by taking a test and showing your knowledge of your second language?

Please sign up for a meeting with Ms. Amanda to take the test in order to receive credit. You will need to be proctored in person, so plan to be in the building for anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour. When you sign up for a meeting with Amanda, put down that you are scheduling to take the "BYU FLATS Test".

Here is the link to schedule: https://calendly.com/amanda-phillips-hroa/hour-meeting-mon-tue-thurs-fri

Districts and public charter schools must provide parents with the ODE-developed annual notice at the beginning of each school year. School districts and public charter schools must use the 30-day notice and opt-out form provided by ODE to communicate with all parents about state testing requirements and their right to opt-out for high school students by December 4, 2022 and for students in Grades 3-8 by February 4, 2023.

Forms for opting out of the state testing:

ENGLISH FORM

https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Documents/Annual_Notice_English.pdf

SPANISH FORM

https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Documents/Annual_Notice_Spanish.pdf

Monday - Thursday: 8:00am - 4:00pm

Friday: 8:00am - 3:00pm

HROA Main Phone: 541-387-5100

hroainfo@hoodriver.k12.or.us

1011 Eugene Street

Hood River, Oregon

97031