ORIENTATION – Orientation was this last Tuesday at HOA. We got to learn about the new options at HOA this year including Homeschool Track, on-site electives, attendance policy changes, and our TWO online curriculums. We would love to see more families involved in our homeschool track, so if you know of any families that are currently homeschooling but would like face-to-face opportunities for their students FOR FREE, please have them contact me or Kristina in our main office. We still have seats open for students who are looking for online curriculum, so please send any interested friends or family members our way as well. Thanks!
On-Site Electives - On-site elective offerings at HOA this year are PE, art, music, and band for 5th-6th graders and will be offered on Mondays. We will have PE for sure on Tuesdays, other days will be scheduled once we have a PE teacher in place.
Attendance – Monday Agenda, Friday Feedback, Monday Agenda, Friday Feedback…Two emails per week, one on Monday, called Monday Agenda, and one on Friday, called Friday Feedback. I will send out a reminder email today to submit your Friday Feedback (don’t worry, today is just for practice). If you have any concerns about this, please email me as soon as possible.
TWO Online Curriculums – Accelerate Education and OdysseyWare are our online curriculum offerings this year. It has been exciting seeing my inbox begin to fill with assignments and quizzes today. Yay! I have gotten a few questions about projects already, awesome! If you don’t have the supplies listed for a project, please contact me. We may have the supplies here. If we don’t you have the option of purchasing them on your own, or we can modify the assignment with materials you do have, as long as the focus of the lesson doesn’t change. I am very flexible on this.
September
14-15 Elementary Curriculum Support (NO face-to-face class yet) Come in for online support.
15 Back to School Night! Mainly for new families or those who have questions. 6:30-8:00
21-22 Elementary Curriculum Support (NO face-to-face class yet) Come in for online support.
28 3rd,4th,5th Face-to-face class 9:00-11:00, Monday on-site electives, PE, art, music, bad
29 6th Face-to-face class 9:00-11:00, PE
CLUBS – Stay tuned for clubs at HOA. Right now we have two clubs in the works, our Spanish Club and Coding Club. I will let you know when these are starting.
GARDEN - We are looking at getting any interested parents together who would like to help get a garden at HOA started. We already have a small group of parents interested (so don’t worry, it’s not just you!), but wanted to open it up to all of the elementary parents. Please reply to this email and let me know if you’re interested. We are looking at meeting sometime in the next two weeks to start talking about it. So exciting!
Volunteer Applications - I want to encourage you to sign up to volunteer at HOA through the school district website. Background checks are good for two years, but if your child attended a different school last year, you will want to add HOA to your account by contacting the district office. We are putting together a walking field trip to Downtown Hillsboro in the next few weeks, so if you’d like to chaperone, please do this asap.
Homeschool Consultant – Many of you met Angela Lorenzo, our Homeschool Consultant, at orientation or yesterday when you came to pick up your computers. She is here to help you in any way that she can. Her email is [email protected]. You are welcome to email her with curriculum questions any time. Thanks so much for all your help Angela! You are awesome!
If there any changes that need to be made to enrollments, or if you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to email me anytime. The best way to get ahold of me is through my school email. My office hours are Monday through Thursday 7:30-1:30, Friday by appointment only. I would love to see you! It has been so fun getting to know you all and I’m looking forward to what this year will bring!