Hózhó Academy Newsletter

Dear Hózhó Families,

End of Year Testing - We will be administering various tests throughout the next couple months. Please look at the dates below to know when your student is testing. You can support your student by ensuring that he or she:

• has a good night's sleep the night before
• gets breakfast at home or school
• arrives on time

April 1st & 2nd - Grades 5, 8 and 11- New Mexico Assessment of Science Readiness (NM-ASR)

April 8th & 9th - Grade 11, SAT Test

April 14th & 15th - Grades 3rd-6th - NM-MSSA (Math and Language Arts)

April 16th & 17th - Grades 7th-8th - NM-MSSA (Math and Language Arts)

We're grateful for your partnership educating your child!

Ask your students what they learned about the arts this week!

• Music - Selections from Beethoven (5th symphony, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise)

• Art - A classical art review

• Vocabulary -
• Astound (verb); to fill with bewilderment or wonder
• Astounding (adjective); surprisingly impressive or notable

If you have questions, please contact our front office at (505) 722-8922.

• April 1st - Students vs Staff Basketball Games

• April TBD - Murder Mystery Dinner Fundraiser (Postponed)

• April 28th - Early Start (7:45am)/Early Release (1:15pm)

School Breakfast/Lunch Menu

School Website

Hózhó Athletics/Schedule

The kindergarten classes recently finished their own artistic renditions of Bruegel's painting, Children's Games. They created large drawings of themselves and their classmates playing on the playground. They were not allowed to draw stick people. They were taught a few lessons on how to draw people and then took 4 class periods to make their own Children's Games image. Come see their artwork that is now hanging in the kindergarten hallway.

Click Here for K-8 Weekly Lesson Summary

We only have one more Unit to go in our Second Step Program! Our upcoming Unit will focus on Problem-Solving for K through 5th and Managing Relationships & Social Conflict for 6th through 8th. Below is a list of the overall objectives and themes for each grade. Breakdowns of each lesson will resume next week.

Kindergarten through 5th Grade: Students learn how to apply their emotion management and communication skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict.

Themes Include:

• Conflicts

• Decision-Making

• Relationships

• Staying Calm

• Thoughts and Emotions

• Perspective-Taking

6th Grade through 8th Grade: Students learn strategies for developing and maintaining healthy relationships, perspective-taking, and dealing with conflict. This unit’s content helps students learn to honor and understand differences based on varied personal, familial, and cultural backgrounds.

Themes Include:

• Conflicts

• Growth Mindset

• Perspective-Taking

• Relationships

Hózhó Academy Charter School

Principal: Juliane Hillock principal@hozhoacademy.org

Email: office@hozhoacademy.org
Website: https://hozhoacademy.org/
Location: 515 Park Ave, Gallup, NM, USA
Phone: (505) 722-8922
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hozhoacademy
Twitter: @HozhoA