WOH For Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Exploring the East Coast By Kristen Okabayashi, Principal Thirty-five 8th grade students, teachers, and chaperones traveled earlier this month to Washington DC, Gettysburg, and New York City. This year, we traveled with 10 students and chaperones from Concordia Seattle in addition to our Hope crew. Laden with history, […]
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WOH for Tuesday, May 10, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, May 10, 2022 It’s a Fact! By Erika Alba, Fourth Grade Teacher During our earliest days in childhood, we begin to learn math facts using auditory learning as our parents tell us, “ Now say one, two, three,” and we repeat back, “One, two, free,” like the words to a familiar […]
WOH for Tuesday – May 3rd, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, May 3, 2022 Third Graders Are Awesome People by Mary Norton, Third Grade Teacher I smile at the beginning of the year as they trudge up the stairs from second grade. They haul their backpacks, some are rolling and others carry them on their backs. They stop at the top of the […]
WOH for Tuesday – April 19, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Spring and New Beginnings/Hope by Tim Allen, 6th Grade Teacher He is risen! He is risen indeed, alleluia. As we have just finished celebrating Easter and Christ’s resurrection, I am reminded of all the promises of spring and new beginnings, both in and out of the classroom. […]
WOH for Tuesday – March 29, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 29, 2022 By Dominic Snyder, Seventh Grade Teacher I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months reflecting on the importance of place and where it derives value. We all have those “sacred” spaces in our lives, the places where we feel a sense of belonging, the familiarity of home, […]
WOH for Tuesday – March 22, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Getting Students Engaged in Social Studies – By Anna Zetzsche, First Grade Teacher I spent my undergrad years getting a degree in elementary education with a concentration in the social sciences, so social studies has always been near and dear to my heart. That’s why it was so exciting […]
WOH For Tuesday, March 15, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Prolific Advice I Received From My Teachers – By Thad Franklin, Music Director Lately I’ve been feeling reflective as one of my favorite music teachers, Ron Miles, passed away just a few days ago. I am incredibly lucky to have spent time with him and even luckier to have […]
WOH For Tuesday, January 4, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Prolific Advice I Received From My Teachers – By Thad Franklin, Music Director Lately I’ve been feeling reflective as one of my favorite music teachers, Ron Miles, passed away just a few days ago. I am incredibly lucky to have spent time with him and even luckier to have […]
WOH for Tuesday, March 8, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Joyful Moments in Fifth Grade! Ms. Lucy Kuhn, 5th Grade Teacher Fifth grade is a time of transition from the elementary homeroom to the start of middle school. Some of our students have been at Hope since preschool and others joined just this year at the age range of […]
WOH for Tuesday – March 1, 2022
WOH For Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Lent by Jennifer Neafcy, Assistant Principal Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of the Lenten season in the church year. Not all churches observe the season of Lent, so the meaning of the season and why we observe the season isn’t always widely known. Lent is approximately […]