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Making Sustainable Books
Ms. Shelby Dunning tries to focus on real-life applications in her Environmental Science classes. The year began with her classes exploring such topics as ecosystems, carrying capacity, bioms, carnivores vs. herbivores, and other topics pertaining to the environment. They then transitioned to environmental problems such as different forms of pollution. The focus in the second […]
Underground Railroad Video Story Project
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad is a wordless picture book by author Henry Cole that is done in beautiful line drawings showing the story of a young girl who helps a runaway slave. Ms. Kayla Swan used the book as inspiration to have her 9th Grade ELA students write their own version of […]
Prudence, an Important Virtue for April
In Sister Diana’s Director’s Corner this month, she discusses the theme of Prudence, which is April’s theme. Throughout the school, we will be nurturing the virtue of Prudence by helping our students think before they act, and consider their choices, as well as their consequences, and how those choices solve a problem or make it […]
March Newsletter: Collaboration And Cooperation Is Key
In this month’s editorial, Sister Diana talks about collaboration and cooperation, and how closely they’re related, pointing to a quote by Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “Ubuntu: We are who we are through one another; our humanity is bound up in one another.” She offers advice on how to help your children understand that we are all […]
Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 3
Mr. Rick Hopp, Hope Hall’s Career Development and Woodworking Teacher, smiles when he talks about how he first got started in woodworking. He was about 10 years old when he snuck into his father’s woodworking shop to start building a boat, unbeknownst to his dad. When his father caught drift of what the boy was […]
Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 2
Mr. Jeff Smith is Hope Hall’s College and Career Transitions Teacher, and he takes a very active role in his students’ preparation for life after Hope Hall. Whether they intend to enter the workforce directly, or plan to go on to college or trade school, it’s important to him that the skills he teaches are […]
Read-a-mania
To encourage Hope Hall Students to read throughout the month and over the February break, Hope Hall is holding Read-a-mania, a month-long reading competition during February, where kids read books, describe what they’ve read to an adult, record the amount of time they’ve spent reading each day, and have the adult sign the log. To […]
Hope Hall’s 4th Grade Studies the Haudenosaunee People
As part of the fourth grade curriculum, Mrs. Rachel Capozzi’s Class is studying New York State history. The current unit focuses on Native American people of the region, particularly the Iroquois Confederacy, known as the Haudenosaunee, or “People of the Longhouse.” The Iroquois did not have a written language, so they often conveyed their history […]
Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 1
Mrs. Michelle Robinson is Hope Hall’s College and Career Transitions Coordinator, and part of her responsibility is helping students prepare for the next phase after High School. To do that, she takes students on field trips to colleges, and brings in speakers to share information about academic and work resources available. Beginning in 9th Grade, […]
February Newsletter: Empathy, an Under-used Value
In the February Newsletter, Sister Diana uses the following quote to illustrate how taking a look at life from a different perspective, possibly even “stepping into another person’s shoes,” can help us develop empathy: “Many astronauts have reported that once they glimpsed Earth from space— a small blue ball floating in the vast expanse, lacking […]