Hamilton Intermediate News

Hello Ranger Families,

What a wonderful and purposeful start to the fall season! Our students embraced September's Start with Hello Week, focusing on building a welcoming community. It was inspiring to see them reaching out and connecting, particularly through fun activities like "Get to Know You Bingo," which helped students build new friendships and strengthen existing ones. This month, we pivot to an important academic and life skill: Begin with the End in Mind. Our Rangers are now focused on setting clear goals, making smart plans, and understanding how the choices they make today support their future success—a true demonstration of turning dreams into reality. We look forward to celebrating the students who best exhibit this trait as our October Leaders of the Month. Finally, a huge thank you to everyone supporting our Stay in the Game attendance initiative! A wonderful group of our parents, students, and staff had an absolute blast attending a Columbus Crew soccer game, an exciting reward that highlights the importance of being present and engaged. We're looking forward to a great October, filled with goal-setting and continued success!

Go Rangers!

Kelly Altiers
Principal

Our 4th graders lit up the classroom (literally!) while learning about electrical energy and circuits. With just a battery, bulb, and wire, they made the connection—science can be shocking and bright! ⚡💡

Students in Mrs. Bellinder's homeroom are putting Habit 2 of Leader in Me into action by creating personal goals that help them “Begin with the End in Mind.” They are learning the importance of setting a clear vision for success and making plans to reach it.

Mrs. Hyland’s LEAD period class practiced Habit 7: Synergize. Students worked together to complete a fun challenge—building the tallest tower they could using only the supplies found on their desks. Through teamwork and creativity, they discovered how combining ideas and working together leads to greater success!

Our classrooms have been busy using their Leader in Me skills to create classroom mission statements! Each mission statement reflects the goals, values, and focus that students and teachers have set together for the year. These statements will serve as a guiding light, helping each class stay focused, work as a team, and lead with purpose throughout the school year. (Mrs. Miller's LEAD period pictured)

We are so proud to share that over 500 of our students completed an online pledge to be at school ALL day, EVERY day, the RANGER way through our collaboration with the Statewide Stay in the Game Program!

Thanks to our students’ commitment, we officially have the most pledges in the entire state 🎉—which has earned us a special visit from none other than the Crew mascot, Crew Cat! 🐾⚽

Stay tuned—more details coming soon about this exciting event!

All of our Intermediate students have been working hard in Music with Mrs. Laing this month to read and perform rhythms on hand drums. Pictured is Mrs. Fullen's homeroom, showing great leadership by following procedures and staying on task to accomplish this goal. Way to go, Rangers!

The Intermediate Lighthouse Team has been chosen! Thank you to the nearly 150 students who applied—there were so many fantastic applicants. We are excited to build our school leadership team and create opportunities for all students to develop their leadership skills this year.

The Lighthouse Team has been brainstorming ways to make our building run more effectively, be more welcoming, and provide every student with a chance to lead. We discussed two important ideas: everyone can be a leader, and everyone has genius.

Mr. Keller and Mrs. Smith can’t wait to see the great ideas and positive changes our team will bring to our school community!

On Patriot Day, the Intermediate welcomed community helpers from across our district, including the Hamilton Township Fire Department, Obetz Police, a school board member, a township trustee, and the mayor. Students recognized and thanked them for their dedication to serving and protecting our community.

Are you currently serving in the Military? Are you a Veteran? Hamilton Local Schools is looking to identify our Military connected Families in the District. Please fill out only 1 survey per Family. This form is from the Parent/Guardian perspective. We are looking for immediate family members that CURRENTLY live in your home, or recently have lived in your home (older children), NOT distant relatives or grandparents. Please use the QR to the right or click on the QR to be taken to the survey.

Our team of 4th–6th grade girls has already begun meeting after school to build confidence, set goals, and support one another—all while preparing for a celebratory 5K at the end of the season. The program focuses on leadership, teamwork, and making healthy choices, and our Rangers are off to an amazing start.

We look forward to cheering on our Girls on the Run team as they continue their journey this fall. Stay tuned for more updates and ways to support them as they work toward the big 5K celebration!

Our September Leader of the Month habit is Be Proactive. Being proactive means taking responsibility for your own actions, choices, and attitude. Instead of reacting to problems or blaming others, proactive leaders focus on what they can control and make positive choices. Students who are proactive show initiative, make good decisions even when no one is watching, and set a great example for others. Teachers will nominate one student from the class that exhibit these leader traits to be a September Leader of the Month.

This month, our Leader of the Month trait is Begin with the End in Mind. Students are learning the importance of setting goals and making a plan to reach them. By thinking ahead and making choices that support their future success, our Rangers are practicing how to turn dreams into reality—one step at a time!

Students in every LEAD class signed their name to an Attendance Pledge, promising to come to school ALL day, EVERY day, the RANGER way! We are proud of their commitment to making school a priority, building strong habits, and setting themselves up for success. Thank you for supporting your child in keeping this important pledge!

Students with perfect attendance earned a ticket to our building-wide raffle! Prizes included extra time in Art, Gym, or Computer, visits from the Fire or Police Departments, breakfast and games with the principals, and even more surprises.

Students and teachers recently attended a Columbus Crew game as part of our connection with the Stay in the Game program, which promotes strong student attendance. The match ended in a 1-1 tie, but the real win was celebrating our students’ commitment to showing up ALL day, EVERY day, the Ranger way!

👏 Huge shoutout to our students and parents for your excellent attendance — keep it up!

Quack-tastic news! 🦆 The LEAD class in each grade with the highest attendance percentage will get a special visit from Mrs. Altiers… floating in on her inflatable duck raft! Not only that, but the winning class will also earn the prestigious Golden Duck to display proudly for the week. Let’s keep showing up and waddling our way to victory!