5.26.26 MEMO

Please click here to sign up for any open dates for announcements. We have a few weeks left of school, and we would love to see as many classrooms as possible take on a day for announcements. A June sign-up list has also been added to the document.

Please download the ODR form to your computer before filling it out. Then, "save as" and name it after you've filled it out. Finally, email your new completed copy to Jesse and Callie.

We are really getting close to the end! I want to encourage you all to hang on tight. Even in the final few weeks of school, it's important to continue to explicitly teach kids our routines, procedures, and expectations. It seems like these are skills we would only explicitly teach at the beginning of the school year, but the truth is that kids need this explicit teaching throughout the entire year- even the final weeks of school! Please take the time to rehearse, redo, practice, and reinforce expectations regularly through these final weeks. Holding strong to basic expectations helps our students' stress levels lower. Reminding kids that the boundaries will stay in place through the end of the year helps them relax. I'm here to support you in any way I can.

May 27: 3rd-5th Math Performance Task

May 28: 5th grade WCAS

Kim and Sabrina shared a fun end-of-year idea at our staff meeting this past Tuesday. The 3D printed Hawks will be hidden around the school, likely during the week of June 8. Kids and staff will find the hidden Hawks all over the school and turn them into Kim, who will have a grid to place them on. If, as a whole school, we can fill the grid with hidden hawks, staff (who want to) will run a "blow-up costume/mascot" race out on the field for the kids to watch... then we can do an all-school recess for a bit. We can talk in our PLC time about logistics. The possible mascot race could be Thursday the 11th or Monday the 15th.

Olympia High School Commons

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

4-5:30 p.m.

This year Scott Boe will be honored at the event. Any staff who would like to attend and help honor Scott and his service to the Olympia School District are invited! Please join us!

Attached here is the field day schedule. It is almost identical to last year, and there are not enough words to fully express the gratitude I feel for Melinda for making this day happen for our Hansen community. Field Day is one of the most memorable days for an elementary student. Let's get out there, play hard with our kids, and make some memories with them!

Attached in the field day schedule is a google form to sign up to help Melinda set up the morning of Field Day. The google form is also attached here.

Kim Moore has some notes to share from her final district tech meeting of the year:

Blocking videos about people who stream themselves playing games. The data shows that many students are watching these videos. Blocks cannot block everything. It may block things it shouldn’t. Create a HelpDesk ticket to unblock a site. Teachers can whitelist sites by pushing links out via SecURLy Classroom.

Scenario 1: If you are moving classrooms that both have mimio boards. Save any documents from one board to another by saving to your staff Google Drive OR take a flash drive and copy items to the flash drive and transfer to the new board. 

Scenario 2: Moving from a classroom that does have a mimio into a room that does NOT have a mimio. If the request is voluntary, then the cost is on the school. If it is an involuntary move, then tech will provide a panel on a cart until installation for the mounted panel is approved. 

This coming Wednesday, May 27, is our final PLC time during planning time. Our main topic of conversation will be to take a look at the draft of next year's master schedule. If there's time, we take one more look at class lists for '26-'27.