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Columbia Gorge News
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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HRVHS teacher
creates outside
classroom
Hood River Valley High School English teacher Nan
Noteboom has created a “COVID-safer” learning environ-
ment for students by moving her classroom outside.
Last spring, her classroom was moved to the portables,
and this spring, as district staff began to plan for the return of
school, she replaced all of her tables — which were too close
together — with desks that could be separated. “I had gotten
the tables off the discard pile anyway, so I had them set up
south of the portables building, near the track; they stay
outside all the time,” she said. Using a portable whiteboard
and a tripod for her computer so she can livestream or use
Google Classroom to project lessons, she takes turns using
the outdoor classroom with fellow English teacher Hunter
Scholtz. She also created a courtyard area for kids to use,
Liliana Tokstad
Wordsearch pro
putting out plants, bird feeders, a bird bath and a squirrel
feeder. “There’s plenty of nature as well — the FFA lamb reg-
ularly chimes in on our class discussions,” Noteboom said,
and Mount Hood is also visible.
Pictured above are Mia Rivera, Jacqueline Elias, Adriana Trejo,
and Yearbook Editor Sophia Kaden; and Noteboom teaching fifth
period Writing 122 to seniors in the outside classroom space.
Photos courtesy of Nan Noteboom
Columbia Gorge News’ young reader of the week is
Liliana Tokstad, 7, of Hood River. Liliana likes the word-
search on the weekly Kid Scoop page, B1. She also is a
frequent shopper of the ads that run in the paper, circling
her favorite items.
Columbia Gorge News has weekly content for chil-
dren, including Kid Scoop, that provides age-appropriate
interactive and engaging activities to sharpen educational
skills at school and at home. The feature provides activities
that include educational links such as language arts, letter
sequencing, spelling and skim and scan reading skills.
Let us know how your family uses our local news. Email
info@gorgenews.com.
White Salmon
sixth grader takes
first in contest
Marti’s winning art design.
Contributed photo
Lola Marti, 12, White Salmon, won $5,000 for
her classroom at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson
Intermediate School.
Photo by Chelsea Marr
Lola Marti, 12, a sixth grader at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson
Intermediate School, White Salmon, earned $5,000 for her classroom after
winning first prize in a creative contest highlighting Suicide Prevention
Month.
She entered the contest at the suggestion of her art teacher, Patricia
Carpenter. The Comprehensive Healthcare contest (www.comphc.org) was
open to all students in grades sixth through ninth, encouraging conversations
about mental health, according to a press release. The contest invited a cre-
ative art or essay that expresses what suicide prevention and mental health
mean to them.
Marti’s creative art cover won the grand prize of $5,000 for her classroom,
taught by Laura Meyer at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate
School.
“This is what I think about when I think about the suicide program,” Marti
said when asked how she came up with the art design. She said she was “real-
ly happy and surprised” when she learned she’d won.
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