Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link National Lutheran Schools Week by Jennifer Neafcy, Kindergarten Teacher When I was 5 years old, my parents enrolled me in Kindergarten at Redeemer Lutheran School in Austin, TX. My family was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church, and for my parents, it was the obvious […]
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WOH, Tuesday January 17, 2023
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link Lutheran Elementary Schools Tournament (LEST) Coming Up! by Kristen Okabayashi What is LEST and why are we excited about it? The first LEST occurred in 1962 on the campus of Concordia University Portland, with 4 Portland schools competing in a basketball tournament. Over time, schools […]
WOH, Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link WOH January 10, 2023 Grant for Emergency Supplies by Kristen Okabayashi Thank you to the Hope Lutheran Foundation for their generous grant of $1200 this fall towards Hope School emergency supplies. These funds allowed us to purchase 130 new student kits to replace emergency supplies […]
WOH Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link New Years Resolutions – Family Style by Kristen Okabayashi, Principal At this time of year, many of us seize the opportunity to start afresh with new beginnings. These new beginnings and resolutions are often geared towards us personally, such as focusing on healthy eating, working […]
WOH Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link WOH December 13, 2022 The Magic of Christmas by Anna Zetzsche, First Grade Teacher Most of us can close our eyes and remember the magic of Christmas time in elementary school. We would walk in one morning, and the classroom and hallways would be filled […]
WOH, Tuesday November 29, 2022
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link WOH November 29, 2022 Hope School MAP Scores: State-Wide Comparison by Kristen Okabayashi, Hope Principal Hope K- students recently completed Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) standardized testing in math, reading and language (language is grades 3-8 only). MAP is online and is adaptive, so each […]
WOH, Tuesday November 8, 2022
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link WOH November 8, 2022 Books! Books! And More Books! by Erika Alba, 4th Grade Teacher Building a classroom library is a task that is never really finished. Popular books get worn out quickly and need to be replaced. Student interests change from year to year. […]
WOH, Tuesday November 1, 2022
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link WOH November 1, 2022 Fall Athletics by Mark Goodspeed With a new school year comes an opportunity to begin to recover from the most recent challenging two and a half years. Opportunities for growth, for change, and to start to return to how things “used […]
WOH, Tuesday October 18, 2022
Hope Calendar Link NEST Hot Lunch Link Athletic Fee Link Partnering with Parents by Kristen Okabayashi A hallmark of Hope Lutheran School is our high value on partnering with students, families, and teachers/staff. We realize that students will perform to the best of their ability if we are all working together to be involved in […]
WOH Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Outdoor Education by Tim Allen, 6th Grade Homeroom Teacher Outdoor Education is one of my absolute favorite times of the year as a teacher. After a two year pandemic hiatus, this year we were blessed to be able to return to Miracle Ranch with our 6th graders. They had such a great time, learning in […]
