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HINTGEN ELEMENTARY February 2020
Dream—Believe—Achieve—Discover
Empower Every Child, Every Day
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Greetings Hintgen Families,
Tuesday, February 4 Winter is still here and although the temperatures have a been a
Parent Series—5:00-8:00 PM—Hintgen Cafeteria
bit warmer than average, we know that February tends to be the
Wednesday, February 5 coldest month, so hang in there!! Before we know it, we will be
Preschool Registration Starts 6:30 AM listening to see if the Groundhog is predicting an early spring or 6
Thursday, February 6 more weeks of winter. What do you think will happen?
Gr 1—Field Trip Heider Center
Friday, February 7
During the past month we have had an opportunity to engage in
Read Your Heart Out our PBIS reteaching rotations, and also had another all school
Give Kids A Smile Morning Meeting.
Monday & Tuesday, February 10 & 11
Marco’s Pizza—15%-20% to Hintgen PTO if During February, there is a stretch of time where there are few
you mention Hintgen when you order. See interruptions to instruction and students are able to really start to
attached flyer for more information flourish and make progress toward their end of the year
Tuesday, February 11 expectations at their grade level. As teachers finish up winter
Parent Series—5:00-8:00 PM assessments, they have an understanding of where students are at
Hintgen Cafeteria in their learning and can then tailor ongoing instruction to meet
Wednesday, February 12
their needs. As your child’s report card recently came home, I
Gr 5—Field Trip Viterbo—PM encourage you to reach out to your son/daughter’s teacher if you
have any questions or concerns with their progress.
Thursday, February 13
Gr 5—Field Trip Viterbo—PM
In addition, I continue to encourage you to keep those home
Friday, February 14 routines of checking backpacks, doing any homework right away
No School—WWEC Conference for and then supporting your child to read at home outside of school.
District Staff
Did you know that there is a direct relationship between the
Monday, February 17 amount of reading done and overall reading achievement? The
No School—Staff Development winter months are a great time to snuggle up with a good book
Hintgen PTO Mtg—LMC 5:30 PM and model reading to your child, engage in reading with them and
Tuesday, February 18 support them as they read on their own. You will notice that there
Parent Series—5:00-8:00 PM is a section devoted to reading outside of school and what we are
Hintgen Cafeteria doing consistently in each classroom here at Hintgen for out of
Wednesday, February 19 class reading. I encourage you to model reading for your
Winter Walk to School Day—see flyer at the back of this child(ren)!
newsletter
Tuesday, February 25 I also encourage you to stay attuned to the weather as we continue
Parent Series—5:00-8:00 PM Hintgen Cafeteria into February.
As always, I welcome you to stop in, email or call with any
Kindergarten 2020-21
suggestions on how to continue to make Hintgen a great place to
If you are planning on sending be! Stay warm this winter season!
your child to Kindergarten at
Hintgen next school year, please Your partner in education—Amy Oliver, Principal
call the Hintgen office to confirm
608-789-7767 or send back the lavender sheet
that was sent home.
Check out the School District of La Crosse website and the Hintgen website at: www.lacrosseschools.com
HINTGEN NEWS
FORWARD EXAM UPDATE
The Wisconsin Forward Exam and Dynamic
JOIN THE HINTGEN PTO! Learning Maps (DLM) are Wisconsin Student
We would like to invite you to join our Hintgen PTO. The PTO Assessment System required
meets on the 3rd Monday each month in the Hintgen Conference assessments. The 2020 assessment window
Room (across from the office) at 5:30 pm. Please consider opens March 23 and runs through May
joining us at a meeting, or helping out in any capacity as we are 1. The Forward Exam is designed to gauge
always looking for additional parent supports. There are many how well students are doing in relation to the Wisconsin
ways you can be a PTO member. If you have any questions or Academic Standards. These standards outline what students
want to know ways to become involved, please contact our PTO should know and be able to do to be college and career ready.
co-presidents Kari Coaty (karicoaty@centurytel.net) or Jessica The Forward Exam is administered online at:
Kotek (jesskotek1021@gmail.com). Our meeting dates for this
• Grades 3-8 in English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics
school year are listed below:
• Grades 4 and 8 in science and,
February 17 March 16 April 20 May 18
• Grades 4, 8, and 10 in social studies
PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION As our testing dates/times are determined, please expect
20-21 SCHOOL YEAR communication to come from your son/daughter’s classroom
BEGINS FEBRUARY 5, 2020 teacher so that you can plan around these dates as attendance is
Preschool registration in the School District of La Crosse for the crucial once the testing begins. The test is untimed and crosses
2020-2021 school year will begin February 5th beginning at 6:30 am multiple days.
at Hogan Administration –807 East Ave S.
Registration is for Students who will be four years
old by Sept. 1, 2020.
COLD WEATHER REMINDERS
Online enrollment will be available beginning Students head outside daily unless the temperature is below 0° F
December 20th and should be completed prior to February 5. To or when the windchill is –5° or below.
secure your child’s spot at the location of your choice and to Please be sure to remind your
complete the enrollment process, please stop at the Preschool office son/daughter to check the doors in the
at Hogan and bring in your child’s birth certificate and address morning as they arrive at school and
verification beginning February 5th. Early registration is look for the penguins. If the penguins
recommended as placement is based on a first come first serve basis are up, that is the signal that it is
and spots are limited at each location. Registration hours are indoor recess due to temperatures
February 5th-7th 6:30 am – 5:00 pm. below 0° F. If it is not a penguin day,
students should proceed as usual to the back of the building and
HINTGEN URBAN GARDEN FUNDRAISER!! choose if they are heading inside for breakfast or remaining on
Save the date for Saturday, April 25th to come the playground for outdoor morning recess.
and enjoy a fundraising event at Hintgen put on
Please remind your son/daughter that in order to play on the
by Hintgen PTO. The proceeds from the
field, in the snow, or on the equipment that they must wear boots
evening’s event will be donated to our PTO to
and snow pants to school. Otherwise their job is to play on the
directly go toward our Hintgen Urban Garden, or
blacktop only, if they are missing any of these pieces of clothing.
H.U.G.
As you know we have an established garden at Hintgen that our
families, students and community love, called the Hintgen Urban
Garden, H.U.G! As spring approaches, we will begin to have our
Thank you to the following individuals and organizations for their
garden lessons indoors, planting seedlings to transplant outside,
recent donations to Hintgen:
and then have our garden begin again! This is a place where our
students, families and the community will be a part of our spring Team Marine for their donation of $500 to support students
planting and transformation. going on the Safety Patrol Trip to Washington DC!
Beer by Bike Brigade for their $250 donation to help fund
More details will be coming home about the fundraising event
schoolwide snacks for our students!
held here at school this year! SAVE THE DATE (APRIL 25TH)!
It is the policy of the School District of La Crosse, pursuant to s.118.13 Wisconsin Statues and P19 that no person on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed,
pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation or physical, mental, emotional, or learning disability, may be denied admission to any public school in this district or be
denied participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be discriminated against in any curricular, co/extra-curricular, services, recreational, or other program or activity.
HINTGEN NEWS
READ YOUR HEART OUT! WINTER IS HERE!
For the first time at Hintgen we will be celebrating an event As the weather changes please ensure that
called Read Your Heart Out. This is an event that bridges your son/daughter comes to school
Family Engagement, Community Engagement, literacy and dressed for the weather. As a reminder, we
African American history and identity. This is an event that go outside for recess 2-3 times a day, and we will go outside if the
started in the Madison Metropolitan School District in 2004 weather is 0 degrees or above. I encourage you to send your child
and has now bridged to a statewide event recognized by our with appropriate clothing to stay warm and I also encourage you to
Department of Public Instruction. For us at Hintgen, this label your child’s hat, mittens and jacket. We check the lost and
brings all of our schoolwide goals together to have a day found often and will give items to children with their names inside
celebrating reading as well as black history and culture! the clothing. If your child has already misplaced something, please
stop by our lost and found area in the Kindergarten/1st Grade
Our event will be held on Friday Feb. 7th and will start with an hallway across from the bathrooms (Lost & Found items are
all school Morning Meeting and then we will be lucky enough hanging in the red taped off area). If your child is in need of a coat
to have Hintgen families and community members coming please let us know as we have a few available at school and we also
into our building all day to read stories in classrooms that can forward on a list of resources in the community that are
represent a positive image of African available to help families.
American culture. In addition, thanks to
many partnerships and donations, we are
able to provide a t-shirt to every single
student and staff member! We held a t- POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS
shirt drawing contest and 5th grader, (PBIS)
Brooklyn Neuman’s design was selected
During the month of January we spend a significant amount of time
(pictured on the right). Congratulations
re-teaching expectations across our school in all environments.
Brooklyn!
Just like in the beginning of the year we want to ensure that all
Our intention is to build positive school, students know what it looks like, sounds like and feels like to be
family, and community relationships. The purpose of our safe, respectful and responsible at Hintgen. Teachers work hard to
event is to bridge literacy, family engagement and cultural re-commit to classroom agreements and remind students of
relevance. Collaborative efforts make this event meaningful, expectations. We also work as a school to reteach all other areas
purposeful, and memorable for all. such as the bathroom expectations, hallway expectations,
playground and lunchroom expectations and bus expectations. We
African American community values of unity and self- understand that students have been home for winter break and
determination guide our celebration, which joins families, need to be reminded and we want to ensure that we are explicit in
guests, staff and students –AS ONE – for Read Your Heart Out teaching so that all students can be successful. On our first week
day at Hintgen Elementary School. back from break, classroom teachers spent time re-teaching and
re-establishing their routines, procedures and expectations within
Honoring our past includes celebrating culturally relevant their classroom spaces. Then, as a school we retaught our school
forms of communication, like oral language traditions, expectations in all areas such as: the playground, the cafeteria, etc.
proverbs, storytelling, and language development. On January 10th, we held another all school morning meeting and
celebrated being halfway through the school year! As you know
Respect, dignity, and pride are portrayed throughout the our focus this year on our early release days is to ensure we are
school and all cultures come together to create a sense of “focusing on wellness of our minds and bodies” and then also
collectivism and community within our school and our greater recognizing our monthly PAW pride which is a School District Core
community. Value and character trait. These all school Morning Meetings are
always an opportunity to focus on our all school community!
The day should be an amazing event!
HINTGEN NEWS
ATTENDANCE UPDATES WIN TIME
As a reminder, the school bell rings at 7:58 What I need, or WIN time at Hintgen Elementary, is starting again on
and students head to their classrooms. Any Feb. 10th. As a school we have been working to ensure consistency
student arriving after 8:05 a.m. is considered across our grade levels in terms of meeting students needs both
tardy. Those early morning minutes at the start of the day are universally with our core instruction, and also with our scaffolds and
crucial for students to set the tone for their day and engage in supports. As a school we call this time across all grade levels WIN
classroom community building activities. Any student who time, or “what I need” where students get exactly what they need in
order to continue to make progress. Some students during this time
arrives after 8:05 needs to be sure to stop in the office and see
will be working with supports to receive interventions to help close the
Mrs. Blaha-DeBoer or Mrs. Patschull, our Administrative
gap in their instruction, while other students might have an enrichment
Assistants in the morning. They will find out the reason you were
opportunity where they are being challenged and stretched. While still
late and check you in, get your lunch choice for the day and
others might just be receiving additional practice to strengthen their
send you on your way with a little yellow pass. Students will then
independent skills and to help continue to build stamina. During WIN
take the yellow pass and bring it with them to the classroom time all teachers at that grade level and support staff work together to
teacher so the teacher can ensure they have been accounted for best meet student needs by forming groups that work together for
in both attendance and the lunch count that day. As always, if a approximately 8 weeks. I encourage you to connect with your
student comes in shortly after the bell, they are still allowed to son/daughter(‘s) teacher to find out what your child will be doing
head to the cafeteria for breakfast and they will get a ‘walking during our next cycle of WIN as this will be what they are focusing on
breakfast’ to take with them to class. If you have any questions and where/who they will be working with for the next 8 weeks during
about this, please feel free to contact me. this daily time in their schedule.
You will notice that attendance letters will be coming home once
your child reaches 5, 8 & 10 general absences, to help keep you READING OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL MATTERS!
informed on your child’s attendance. General absences include Did you know that progress your child makes in reading
those absences due to illness, appointments without a doctor’s directly correlates to the amount of time spent reading!? Did you
note, funerals, parent excused days without prior principal also know that students should spend over 90 minutes a day
approval and all other absences. When students reach their 10- engaging in independent reading in just right books!? As a school
day limit, absences become unexcused until a doctor’s note is we have been taking steps towards making sure that literacy is our
provided. Unexcused absences can lead to truancy #1 focus in all that we do this year. As teachers we have been
learning new ways and strategies to engage students as readers, and
proceedings. Being at school is important for your child’s
the importance of ensuring uninterrupted times of independent
success. If you would like to contact someone proactively about
reading in the classroom. During the school year we also kicked off
your child’s attendance or to address concerns, please contact
our fall parent night on the importance of reading and how you can
Ryan Schmidt our School Counselor/Social Worker.
help your son/daughter when they are reading at home.
Thank you for making attendance a priority!
As part of our efforts between home and school we want our students
to be successful in reading and make the gains necessary at each
STAFF DEVELOPMENT grade level. We cannot do that alone and kids need to read outside
of school to achieve that. Starting in February, you will notice that
As students head home early or don’t attend school, teachers are
every child from Hintgen will have a daily opportunity for reading at
busy continuing their ongoing learning through Staff
home. The goal is for them to bring books home from school or read
Development opportunities. As a building we have been
books at home each and every school night. As they read, they can
focusing on working towards our School Improvement Plan
keep track of how long they read with the goal of 20 minutes for
which identifies goals on both Equitable practices for our
students in grades K-2 and a goal of 30 minutes for students in grades
students and also focus on growing our knowledge and
3-5. As kids read, they can then keep track of their reading with the
understanding of Literacy strategies to help our students grow as
daily reading sheet that will be coming home each night. As they
readers. As a result, our ongoing learning is focused on these
indicate the amount of time spent reading, as a parent, you can then
continued efforts. Teachers not only are part of new learning but
initial it and they can bring it back to school the next day. Reading at
there is opportunity for them to connect and collaborate around
home, and outside of school, is essential in order for students to
their learning with both their grade level team members and
make the necessary progress in reading. During the month of
also our staff as a whole at Hintgen. Thank you for continuing to
February, we will also again share with you ways that you can help to
support these opportunities for ongoing learning for our staff.
support your child as they read at home. Together we can ensure
your child achieves success!
February
Connecting children to healthy food and nature
Winter Produce
Around this ,me of the year it’s hard not to miss the
wonderful taste of garden fresh produce. When we don’t
have the chance to get hands-on in the garden it is
important to keep kids involved in the prepara,on and
choosing of healthy foods.
Oven roasted vegetables can be an easy and tasty
addi,on to any meal. Kids can help choose and wash the
vegetables in this savory dish. Try this recipe with your
family:
Ingredients
• 1 head cauliflower cut into florets GROW, Hillview Urban
• 2 sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
• 1-2 zucchini cubed Agriculture Merger
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil or melted coconut oil GROW and Hillview are working out
• 2 garlic cloves minced details of a merger. The planned merger
• Kosher Salt, Pepper, herbs to taste will be complete in early 2020.
Instruc0ons We will move forward as GROW. You will
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. see the same high quality garden lessons
2. Spray a large cookie sheet with non-s,ck cooking spray. and farm experiences con,nue.
3. Place ingredients in a large sealed container. Shake We are excited about the possibili,es
un,l vegetables and spice blend are well mixed. this merger will bring to our community!
4. Pour vegetables onto sprayed cookie sheet. For more informa,on go to our website:
5. Place in the oven and cook for 20-25 minutes, un,l hWps://growlacrosse.org/grow-merger-
vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork. plans/
Thank You to Our Sponsors:
Hintgen
PTO
www.GrowLaCrosse.org info@GrowLaCrosse.orgPg. 2 Fall 2019
February Potatoes
Nutrition Info
One medium potato has 150 calories and provides vitamin C,
potassium and fiber.
Fun Facts
Of the more than 5,000 varieties of potatoes in the world, the most
common is the red potato.
The Irish called the potato a “spud” after the spade that was used
to dig them, called a “spudder”!
Pick:
•Choose firm, smooth-skinned
Many people believe potatoes to be the root of the plant, but they
potatoes, free of wrinkles and are actually a tuber – an underground stem.
sprouts.
•Discard potatoes with soft or Uses
rotten spots as the flavor will be The entire potato is edible! Wash well, but keep the skin on for
affected. added fiber.
Store: Instead of using butter, sour cream and cheese, try spicing up
•Depending on variety, potatoes potatoes with olive oil and seasonings such as black pepper,
can be stored for up to a couple rosemary, garlic, or basil.
months in a cool, ventilated
area. Family Friendly Activities
Check out the following books at your local library:
•Do not store whole potatoes in One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia De Felice
the fridge. Pigs Love Potatoes by Anika Denise
Potatoes, Potatoes by Anita Lobel
Prepare:
Farm2School Update: Served at School Served at Home!
•Wash and scrub the potatoes Try Fifth Season Cooperative’s Potato Fusion Blend. A colorful blend of
before use. Wisconsin red, white and gold potatoes with skins on for a rustic and
•For quick cooking, simply pierce high contrast look. The blend is diced, blanched and frozen, ready to
a washed potato with a fork & toss with seasoning and roast to finish or add to recipes for a color
and nutrition boost.
place in the microwave for 3-5
minutes or bake at 375 degrees This kid-friendly, local, frozen veggie blend is used in school cafeterias and
is now available at retail locations (Festival Foods and the People’s
for 15-30 minutes, or until soft.
Food Co-Op)! Look for it in the natural foods frozen section.
Coulee Region Farm2School is a partnership between La Crosse County Health Department, Mayo Clinic Health System –
Franciscan Healthcare, Gundersen Health System, and the School Districts of Bangor, Holmen, La Crescent-Hokah, La Crosse,
Onalaska, and West Salem.Garlic Potato and Cauliflower Mash
Serves 12 (1/2 cup per serving)
Ingredients: Directions:
4 large russet potatoes, peeled and chopped into Bring water to a boil in two medium sauce pots.
medium chunks Boil potatoes and cauliflower in separate pots until
2 medium heads cauliflower, cut into quarter size each are fork tender, about 10 minutes; remove
florets from heat and drain. Place cauliflower in a food
2 Tbsp. butter processor and process until smooth, about 2
½ cup plain Greek yogurt minutes. Place potatoes and processed cauliflower
¾ tsp. salt into a large bowl and mash using fork or potato
½ tsp. dried thyme masher. Add the butter, yogurt, salt, thyme, garlic
1 tsp. garlic powder and black pepper. Mix until all ingredients are well-
⅛ tsp. ground black pepper incorporated, about 2 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving ( ½ cup): 81 calories, 2 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 3 g protein, 13 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 184 mg
sodium
For more information on Farm2School visit:
www.laxf2s.org
Coulee Region Farm2School is a partnership between La Crosse County Health Department, Mayo Clinic
Health System – Franciscan Healthcare, Gundersen Health System, and the School Districts of Bangor,
Holmen, La Crescent-Hokah, La Crosse, Onalaska, and West Salem.You can also read
