AVID Newsletter

Huge shoutout to Selco Bank for providing some school supplies to our first grade classrooms the beginning of this year! They organized the school supplies into beautiful displays and we are so grateful...and impressed!

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Slater had their first AVID and Title I Family Night and it was a huge hit! Students showed off recent work related to personal goals and their future plans. Families learned more about Slater's AVID goals and Title I information. Thank you so much to all the families who came to support the school and those awesome Slater Bulldogs!

Each week, we will feature a collection of staff members from each school at random!

When you see these amazing people, make sure to tell them THANK YOU for making our district the best place to be!

Focus: Inquiry

Elementary @ Slater - 7:30-9:30

Secondary @ BHS - 10:00-12:00

AVID Elective Workshop @ District Office - 1:00-3:00

Mission: Empower all students through high expectations to embrace learning and achieve personal success.

Vision: Embraced – Educated - Empowered

Photo of the Month!

Miss Ellibee’s Kindergarten class learned about 9/11, the heroes who helped our country, and what patriotism means. Her students also learned about first responders and the important role they play in our community!

We remember. We help. We care. Mrs. Davis's Kindergarten remembered 9/11 by working together, helping others, and by being kind just like those who help keep us safe.

Mrs. Crawford's 1st graders all completed their 1 minute monthly reads. ALL students gained 2 or more words per minute!

CONGRATS, first graders!

Miss Johnson's first graders celebrated Constitution Day with a fun and patriotic craft!

Mrs. Baddeley's class partner reading their phonics books. Every student was able to read most of their book to their partner!

Ms. Murphy's class started the year off in science with making slime! They learned how a scientist mixes things and tries things until they get it right. After making the slime, they wrote about how the slime looked and felt.

Introducing Mrs. Burns’s second graders and their future selves! We have future nurses, veterinarians, a speed runner, teachers, a truck driver, military, a paleontologist, and a babysitter to name a few!

Miss Weil's class has been practicing the Cube method to solve word problems.

C – Circle the numbers and units in the problem so you know what data you have.

U – Underline the question to focus on what you actually need to find.

B – Box the key words (math action words like total, each, or difference) that give clues about the operation.

E – Evaluate and eliminate extra or unnecessary information that does not help answer the question.

Mrs. Fenton's class dove deeper into different reading genres and recorded their reactions on a graphic organizer.

Students in Mrs. Davis’s third grade have been working on learning how to collaborate with classmates. One way is by working with a partner to complete a puzzle! Students have been enjoying this task and learning so much by working together!

Students in Mr. Weible's 4th grade class were working on writing numbers in expanded and word form with groups.

Officer Beers came to 4th grade and talked about address safety. Thank you, Officer Beers!

Students in Miss Howes’s fifth grade class learned about the importance of our community first responders during the week of the 25th anniversary of the remembrance of September 11th. Students were tasked with writing a letter of appreciation to our local law enforcement officers and fire departments at the City of Burns, City of Hines, Harney County Sheriff's Office, and the Oregon State Police. This group of students wrote to our State Troopers and received letters back from them!

Arieyuh, Aubrie, and Shiloh in Mrs. Marshall's 5th grade class, worked on their quality work samples explaining the different ways corn is used, citing evidence from the text, and explaining their reasons.

Ms. Hildebrand started a recycling club and these awesome volunteer students help collect recyclables each day!

In SEL with Ms. Henshaw, Mrs. Davis's third-grade students practiced kindness, communication, collaboration, and empathy by acting out kind actions and working together to identify them. This engaging SEL activity builds the interpersonal and collaborative skills students need to create a positive learning community.

4th graders participated in Cross the River: a Teamwork/cooperative game with Ms. Tibbetts during PE.

Tucker and Jordan collaborated to sort words, discuss their thinking, and use problem-solving skills to build complete sentences in a small reading group.

These 4th graders in Mrs. Knox's group were working hard to highlight the main idea and important details in order to write a story summary.

Mission: Our mission is to provide staff and students with a Safe, Respectful, Responsible, and Professional Environment to learn.

Vision: Hines Middle School empowers students to grow into Honest, Mature, Scholarly leaders.

Miss Hughes's 6th grade AVID class has great collaboration on creating the longest paper chain using only the materials given to them!

Mr. Moss's 8th grade AVID Elective class have begun the tutorial process!

Mrs. Moss's 6th grade Social Studies students participated in a socratic seminar on the topic: Are flat maps were fair and accurate? Students were given a spherical shape (a mandarine), peeled the fruit, then asked if the spherical shape became disfigured when flattened. Students were divided into the different teams, gathered evidence, then debated.

Bringing History to Life: Miss Doty's 8th Grade Social Studies Authors in Action!

In 6th grade Science, Mrs. Cate's students collaborated to build Gravity Cars that can travel as far as possible, using the Engineering Design Process.

Photo of the Month!

Mrs. Sorenson's 8th graders completed an engineering design challenge to answer the question "How can I design a profitable phone case that protects a phone when dropped?". As students completed the challenge, many conversations came up about how their cases in real life had (or had not) protected their phones and the purposes of various materials (screen protection, shock absorption, aesthetics). The winning group had a simple, inexpensive design that protected a model phone from drops, selfie accidents, and "rage quits".

The new sixth graders loved their first attempt at cooking with Mrs. Bull and building lifelong skills!

Miss Nonnenmacher's students enjoyed playing Holey Tarp in PE; an AVID Relational Capacity game.

Student work from Mr. Tiernan's Graphic Design and Printmaking Classes at HMS.

Mission: Empowering students to learn, grow, and lead.

Vision: To foster a community of learners where curiosity, critical thinking, and academic excellence equip students for success through an AVID framework.

In Mrs. Bauer’s 11th grade AVID class, students participated in a partner activity focused on effective communication and active listening. One student described an image while their partner attempted to draw it without seeing the original. Students had to use clear, detailed instructions, ask clarifying questions, and listen carefully to accurately recreate the image. This activity helped students strengthen their communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while demonstrating the importance of giving and receiving clear information.

It’s all about Dolly for the Juniors! Mr. Ellibee's Junior Leadership students are finally done with their Hilander Dolly for HOCO week!! 🥳

Mrs. Banks's English 11 completed a unit on Native American origin stories. Some origin stories explained how people came from the Sky World, others discussed how people came from the Malheur Cave (Paiute creation). The pictures shown derive from the Kiowa creation story where the people came into the world through a hollow log. Students were to pick a specific quote from the short story, "The Way to Rainy Mountain" and focus on the imagery that that particular quote evoked.

In Miss Toney's AP ENG 12, students participated in the Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis- Cereal Box Rhetorical Analysis.

Seniors in Mr. Young's U.S. Government were acting as Congress under the Articles of Confederation. Students had to endure the struggle of the limitations of our nation's first attempt at a Constitution.

Photo of the Month!

Ms. Kokesh's Art 1 students practiced pencil value scales and completed three flower drawings with decreasing levels of support: a value map, contour lines, and finally an independent full-value drawing. They then practiced the grid method and will apply these skills to create a graphite portrait of a celebrity of their choice.

Students in Ms. Smith's Biology class participated in a collaborative STEM design challenge in which they were given a written prompt outlining the project’s requirements, constraints, and expectations. Working in groups of three, students were challenged to design, budget, build, and test a water tower capable of holding the equivalent of 10,000 gallons of “water,” represented by 100 pennies.

Mr. Horrell's construction students were working hard!

Mrs. McKrola’s Senior Health class created posters highlighting the three areas of health: social, emotional, and physical. Students included examples of each type of health and shared ways they personally work to stay healthy in each area.