NEW NEWS************************************************************
PARENT CONNECT Parent Connect meetings are next week. These monthly meetings are designed to connect parents with one another and provide a safe place to share your online school wins and dilemmas. We often have guests and topics that offer parent support and resources. Angela Lorenzo, our Parent Coach / Homeschool Consultant will facilitate these meetings. Our focus for this Parent Connect will be writing support at home. The 3-6 grade teachers brainstormed support tools, resources, and ideas to support parents and student writers at home. We will share a slideshow with suggestions, tips and tricks, and loads of resources. Please join us via Zoom, the dates, times and links are below:
3-6 HOA Parent Connect 10am
Time: Feb 18, 2021 10:00 AM
3-6 HOA Parent Connect 6pm
Time: Feb 18, 2021 06:00 PM
STORYTIME WITH MRS. FREUDENTHAL Our awesome Assistant Principal, Shannon Freudenthal, is hosting a story time on Fridays for students in grades 3-6. I have attached the flyer with information about it.
HOA PARENT RESOURCE GUIDE 2020-2021 Here is our updated Orientation Slideshow. You can access it anytime to find important email addresses or information about our program. For our families that have been with us since the Fall, nothing major has changed, we've just added more info.
WEEKLY MEETING IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM Our weekly optional class meetings will be on Mondays from 9:00-9:30am. For security reasons, we are not able to email out the meeting link but ask that students access the class meeting directly from the link on the banner in our Google Classroom, which will be available 5 minutes before the meeting starts. I want to reiterate that this is an optional meeting, and therefore, is not required. You will need your student’s HSD credentials to connect with our classroom, directions are below:
1. Go to Classroom.google.com
2. Join class (+ in the top right corner)
3. Enter code:
4. Click: "Join"
HSD CALENDAR
https://www.hsd.k12.or.us/cms/lib/OR02216643/Centricity/domain/4/documents/calendars/Revised%202020-2021%20District%20Calendar.pdf
SUPPORT FROM COUNSELING REFERRAL TEAM We have a fantastic Counseling Referral Team to support you and your student's year at HOA. All requests for support should go through the Google Doc link below. Sara Stollberg is our Wellness Counselor and will primarily provide behavioral and emotional support for families, Ken Ollis is our K-12 Academic Counselor, Annette Snyder is our 9-12 Academic Counselor, and Angela Lorenzo, Homeschool Consultant, will be helping families by supporting the at-home environment with a homeschooling lens. Once a request is submitted, either by a parent or teacher, the team will come alongside and support you.
DISTRICT MUSIC AND PE Open the link below to find your student's PE and Music classes, housed in Google Classroom!
Team 3-6 HOA 2020-2021 Facebook Group If you are on Facebook and would like to join our Team 3-6 private group
ATTENDANCE Per the Oregon Department of Education, HOA is required to take daily attendance during school days. Things that count for attendance include:
1. a student logging in and working in Odysseyware,
2. a student sending a teacher a message in OW,
4. a student attending a Google Meets with the class or teacher, and
5. an email, phone call, or Google Meets from a parent to the teacher.
COUNSELOR CORNER Our K-8 counselor, Ken Ollis, has a new virtual office! You can find that link here, bit.ly/ollisoffice . In addition, his Google classroom is up and running. The classroom will house all counselor lessons and assignments (they are optional), as well as a bunch of other useful information for students and parents. The lessons are not live and can be accessed at your convenience. The class code is: jkmp7zj. Please help your student join the classroom so they can start checking out the lessons. Mr. Ollis's office hours will be Monday-Thursday 3:00-3:30, the link will be available in his virtual office. Please note, the virtual office (bit.ly/ollisoffice ) and the classroom (Google) are two different places.
DROP-IN OFFICE HOUR Well, half hour. I will be opening up the class meeting link in our Google Classroom from 9:00-9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students can drop in to say hi or ask for help/clarification on assignments.
NEXT WEEK ************************************************************
Monday, February 15
No School
Tuesday, February 16
9:00-9:30 Drop-in Office Hour in my Google Classroom
Thursday, February 18
9:00-9:30 Drop-in Office Hour in my Google Classroom
10:00 Parent Connect Meeting (grades 3-6) on Zoom
6:00 Parent Connect Meeting (grades 3-6) on Zoom
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I hope you all have had a great week!