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LEARN School Board Members Michael Conway, Joe Dunne, Joanne Osmond, Debbie Walsh, Kurt Hansen, and Ed Liberman attended Lake County School Board's Spring Division meeting last night. Presenter Dr. Courtney Orzel discussed how districts can tell their own story while building a strong community thru effective board/superintendent relationships. It was an informative evening! Dr. Zimmer and Dr. Keim-Bounds were also in attendance.
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LEAD: Choir concert with fabulous solos and alumni participating!
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These 5th graders are showing off some serious jump roping skills.
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LEARN: 8th-grade art classes are making slime today and a de-stressing activity during IAR testing week!
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LEARN: Mrs. Allen's students are working on figurative language activities with partners or groups as part of their IAR prep.
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LEARN: Ms. Kaplan’s 8th graders “invested” in the stock market this week as a part of a simulation to understand why it crashed in 1929! Students had to figure out when it would be best to buy or sell their stocks. This simulation is a great way to transition from learning about the Roaring 20s to the Great Depression!
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SERVE: Who said parents can't still read a loud to 8th graders? Mystery readers came to Mrs. Chellin's class!
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LEAD: Representing Palombi in volleyball
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LEARN: Comparing Volcano National Park rocks and water with Grand Canyon National Park. Mrs. Calabrese's student learning how water changes the Earth.
![Water changes](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/3939113/large_1677959347000.jpeg)
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Crazy hair day was a blast today!! Some students(and staff) really went all out.
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GUESS WHO LOVES TO READ, too?
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LEAD: Elves, warlocks, dragons, half-orcs and students gathered after school today for dungeons and dragons club.
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LEARN: 6th graders made an acrostic poem using the words, “Desert Sand”, one of the main settings in the novel we read, called a A Long Walk to Water
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How do you make learning fun at Hooper?? By practicing writing letters in shaving cream!!! #makelearningfun
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A great Institute Day filled with learning in LVSD#41 today!
![Leader in Me Core 2 TRaining](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/3829029/large_SjL4DGl0H170jV5Up4X7bQ.jpeg)
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Hooper students and staff collected goods and sent them to a military unit overseas. We sent several boxes of love that traveled 7,561 miles. Great job!!!
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Mrs. Schweier had all of Hooper students decorate Valentine's Day cards for senior citizens in our local nursing homes. What an amazing job these Jaguars did!
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LEARN: Students in 6th grade are evaluating the credibility of websites.
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Some of Mrs. Gutsmiedl’s students dressed to look 100 today!
![100](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/3772914/large_BzWmkR_pblKPtIlXY-hTbA.jpeg)
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LEARN/LEAD: 6th grade percussion is learning how to diagram a concert set up.
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