Nob Hill Elementary is excited to announce that students from our school have been identified as
the winners of two national awards from Imagine Learning. First grader, Wesner Nelson, was
selected as one of 10 students nationwide to win a contest for his dedicated math work during the
month of December. We are so proud of Wes for passing 40 math lessons in December, which is
equivalent to over one year's worth of work. Wes earned a Kindle Fire, a Solar Charging
backpack, and a framed certificate. Wes was honored at The Hill's celebration assembly on
February 3rd. When he received his awards, he told his principal, "This is the best day of my
life"

Also honored at The Hill's celebration assembly was Mrs. Suhm's first-grade class. Mrs. Suhm’s
class worked together as a team to win an Imagine Learning award in the "1, 2, 3, Count With
Me" national math contest for successfully earning 100+ learning tokens within the first 100
days of school.  Mrs. Suhm's class will be awarded a gift card of their choice for
a class celebration from one of the following: Amazon, Pizza Hut, Papa John, or Dominos.   

Keep up the great work, Nighthawks!

Nob Hill Elementary focused this year on teaching students to create and reach goals and how to break down long-term goals into reachable short-term goals. Staff and students focused on achieving goals in three areas of student life: body, mind, and family/community. To support this effort, the NHE Specialist Team created the “Nighthawk Strong Challenge” for the 2021-22 school year:   

-To strengthen the body: run 30 miles during our weekly Mileage Club (do running)

-To strengthen the mind: read 30 books or achieve 30 points with the Accelerated Reading program (do reading)

-To strengthen the community: do 30 good deeds for family or in the community (do right).   

Families supported this effort by helping to track the books read and the “do rights” completed in the home and community.  All our students participated in mileage club; some students completed the reading portion; others served in the family/community, but we had 49 students complete the entire 30/30/30 Nighthawk Strong Challenge! 

To celebrate and finish this challenge, the entire school went on a field trip to Zaepfel Stadium to run the last mile together. The students who met every goal of the challenge received special recognition and all NHE students earned a Nighthawk Strong t-shirt! Congratulations to our challenge champions:

Ruben, Lucius, Giovanni, Sidney, Cynthia, Iszack, Octavio, Dominic, Taylor, Emiliano, Bob, Matthew, Keenon, Amir, Soletta, Sabrina, Logan, Azariah, Julianne, Jack, Adrian, Ben,  Abigail, Camila, Adam, Diego, Lena, Kayla, Kennedy, Amy, Charley, Noe, Jack, Thomas, Kaylyn, Nalah, Declan, Julia, Azalea, Michael, Ida, Scarlet, Stephanie, Penelope, Sophia, Aubree, Oswaldo, Roxanna, and Lydia. 

This opportunity would not have been possible without funding from the ROSSEY Study and the extra efforts of the wonderful NHE Specialist Team:  Mr. Luna, Ms. Hanson, Mrs. Kajrenius, and Mrs. Kaluzny. 

The Nighthawk Strong challenge is a new opportunity created by the NHE Specialist Team to help students learn to make and achieve goals to strengthen their body, mind, and family/community during the 2021-22 school year.   To strengthen the body:  run 30 miles during our weekly Mileage Club (do running); to strengthen the mind: read 30 books or achieve 30 points with the Accelerated Reading program (do reading); to strengthen the community:  do 30 good deeds for family or in the community (do right).   Families support this effort by helping to track the books read and the “do rights” completed in the home and community.   This long-term goal was split into three short-term goals or phases.  For phase 1, September-November, we had 68 students successfully complete the challenge!  We are so proud of all of our students who worked at achieving their goals, and give special congratulations to the following students for achieving their first goal of 10 miles/10 books/10 deeds:  Reuben S., Mia R., Lucius W., Laiklyn M., Julian V., Ben C., Piper R., Iszack Q., Cynthia H., Octavio T., Emiliano L., Amir M., Bob H., Giovanni B., Matthew W.,  Leilani S., Julianna R., Julianne L., Fermin B., Elsia M., Harlie B., Fiona P., Ava L., Taylor F, Gavin F, Ivanna R., Lucas G., Sophia U, Sofia C., Jalaya E., Lily M., Ireland W., Logan R., Abigail Q., Ben S., Adrian U., Adam F., Diego P., Camila C., Lena H., Charley H., Amerie M., Treyvon G., Kayla J., Kennedy S., Michael A., Julia C., Scarlet R., Sadie G., Ayden P., Dez M., Levi G., Addy K., Janessa R., Azalea D., Jack W., Noe S., Kaylyn D,  Declan D., Mariana H., Akiko A., Yaretzi C., Issaiah Q., Lydia H., Elise G., Lily L., Nalah B., and Jack C.