For our family, Thanksgiving is only slightly below Christmas in terms of favorite holidays. From the annual touch football game with friends in the morning, to the delicious smells of turkey and pumpkin pie cooking throughout the day, to evening board games with family and friends, Thanksgiving showcases our family’s interests: sports, food, and games […]
School Newsletter
WOH For Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
First Impressions by Mark Goodspeed, PE Teacher and Co-Athletic Director Hello! I’m the new PE teacher at Hope this year and thought I would share more about my first impressions of serving at Hope. It’s been a busy fall season with teaching PE and helping manage five different sports teams but it’s been a […]
WOH For Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018
Creating Community by Sally Heit, Admissions Director The word community has been on my mind these past few weeks; primarily, I’ve thinking about how belonging to a community, whether it is in a group, city, neighborhood, church or school, gives you a feeling of being a part of something bigger than yourself. Life-long friendships […]
WOH For Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018
Teacher Training by Kristen Okabayashi Hope Lutheran School is part of a larger Lutheran district, including about 35 schools in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho. The district office in Portland, Oregon, sets up teacher professional development opportunities each year for all schools at a conference, typically located in beautiful Seaside, Oregon. The topics and […]
WOH For Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018
Kindergarten with Confidence! By Jennifer Neafcy, Kindergarten Teacher Throughout my teaching ministry, I have taught almost every grade from preschool thru 8th grade. While I have enjoyed working with children of all ages, Kindergarten has become one of the grade levels that I have enjoyed the most. What a joy it is to work […]
WOH for Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018
Creating Music by Thaddus Franklin, Music Director In 2nd – 5th grade, we started the year listening to music from the middle ages called Gregorian chant. Many students described the music as VERY boring which was expected. Gregorian chant is monophonic music so it only uses one note at a time and has no harmonies. […]
WOH for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
Emergency Preparedness by Kristen Okabayashi One of the most emotionally challenging parts of my job is emergency planning for the school. I feel that in order to really prepare for emergencies, I have to put myself in the mindset of actually picturing different types of emergencies that could occur here at Hope. While it […]
WOH For Tues. Sept. 25, 2018
Why should I go to Curriculum Night tonight? By Jennifer Neafcy, Kindergarten Teacher Each year, as the school year begins, I look forward to two special evenings with our families. The first one is Back-to-School Night where we get to spend time with all of you in fellowship and getting to know one another. […]
WOH For Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018
Happy 100th Birthday Hope Church! By Kristen Okabayashi This past Sunday, Hope Church celebrated a big birthday, an astounding 100 years of ministry here in West Seattle! Hope Church was originally planted back in 1918 by a Lutheran church on Capitol Hill, who purchased 4 plots of land here on the corner of Oregon […]
WOH For September 11, 2018
Welcome To Hope! By Sally Heit, Admission Director While at my parent’s home in Sherwood, OR this late August, I walked outside and immediately noticed a change in how the air smelled, and it wasn’t just the lack of smoke. It was the smell of fall, which always symbolizes going back to school for […]