LEARN: Mrs. Allen's students are working on figurative language activities with partners or groups as part of their IAR prep.
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!
SERVE: Who said parents can't still read a loud to 8th graders? Mystery readers came to Mrs. Chellin's class!
LEAD: Representing Palombi in volleyball
LEARN: Comparing Volcano National Park rocks and water with Grand Canyon National Park. Mrs. Calabrese's student learning how water changes the Earth.
Crazy hair day was a blast today!! Some students(and staff) really went all out.
GUESS WHO LOVES TO READ, too?
LEAD: Elves, warlocks, dragons, half-orcs and students gathered after school today for dungeons and dragons club.
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
How do you make learning fun at Hooper?? By practicing writing letters in shaving cream!!! #makelearningfun
A great Institute Day filled with learning in LVSD#41 today!
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!!!
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!
LEARN: Students in 6th grade are evaluating the credibility of websites.
Some of Mrs. Gutsmiedl’s students dressed to look 100 today!
LEARN/LEAD: 6th grade percussion is learning how to diagram a concert set up.
LEARN: Honors Algebra students explore real-world examples of scatter plots to create definitions of correlation.
LEARN: A bit of friendly competition, using Quizlet live to form random teams, motivates and brings joy while students study vocabulary words for their quiz on the novel, A Long Walk to Water,
in Mrs. Wincek’s 6th grade ELA class.
Hooper Elementary has the unique opportunity to celebrate a former student who will be playing in the Super Bowl this weekend! TJ Edwards, former Hooper Jaguar, Lakes Eagle, and current linebacker #57 for the Philadelphia Eagles, is in Arizona to play the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. Staff and students participated today in wearing Football gear to support our alumni. We even found an old picture of TJ when he was at Hooper
We wish him the best of luck on Sunday!!!
In the coming weeks, District #41 will be conducting vision screenings for students in particular grades based on Illinois School Code. Vision screening is not a substitute for a complete eye and vision examination by an eye doctor. Your child is not required to undergo the vision screening if an optometrist or ophthalmologist has completed and signed a report indicating that an eye examination has been administered within the previous 12 months
