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Thank you for visiting the Hoosier Road Elementary website. We hope you find helpful information here and learn more about who we are, what we do, and why we do it. You will meet a highly talented and energetic staff, you will find out about hard working and enthusiastic students, and you will even learn about the support and generosity of our parents and grandparents. Blast off with us! You’ll find the Hoosier Road Elementary Rockets to be out of this world!
Mr. Will Hurst
Principal at Hoosier Road Elementary |
School Hours
Our normal school hours are 9:00 A.M. - 3:40
P.M.
School Improvement Plan
Mission Statement
Our Mission is for all children of Hoosier Road Elementary School to become high achieving, respectful, caring students who enjoy learning. We believe:
- Children learn best in a safe, caring, and positive environment.
- Children learn best when their social, emotional, physical, and academic needs are met.
- Children are more successful when parents and the community form a partnership with the school.
- Children who enjoy learning become life-long learners
Outdoor Classroom
he Hoosier Road Outdoor Classroom, located in the northwest corner of the school grounds, was established in 2004. The outdoor classroom includes a number of features that allow Hoosier Road students to learn about the outdoors through hands-on experience and observation. Many of the plants are native plants that would have been found in the area before colonization by Europeans. Fishers, located in the central part of Indiana, is a zone 5 region according to the United States Department of Agriculture and has a minimum temperature range of -10° to O° Fahrenheit. Plants and animals that lived in short grass prairies and mixed hardwood forest habitats historically dominated the Fishers, Indiana area. The Hoosier Road Elementary outdoor classroom has areas that contain the plants and animals of these 2 types of habitats.
In the short grass prairie area of the outdoor classroom there are plants that attract butterflies and birds. (Click here for a chart listing the plantings.*) Butterflies are attracted to areas where there are large colorful and fragrant flowers. They come to collect nectar from the flowers. The butterfly garden has plants that attract butterflies and provide a safe place for them to hide from predators, wind, and the hot summer sun. There are also plants for butterfly caterpillars to eat in the garden. The butterfly caterpillars like to eat leaves of herbs and vines, nettles and seeds from plants. The Butterflies of Indiana by Ernest M. Shull is a book with plenty of information about butterflies that might visit Hoosier Road butterfly garden.
Ground Preparation Day - September 24, 2004
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Fresh topsoil has been hauled to the site of the future Native Indiana plant bed, waiting to be tilled into the ground. |
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Timbers lie in wait as plans are readied for two of the planting beds. |
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Materials were unloaded and the ground was ready to be broken. |
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Hoosier Road teachers and parents are working together as the ground preparation day begins. |
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Hoosier Road fourth grader Lauren Jacobs helps to move some dirt. |
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Mrs. Brandau and her daughter Nicole, a HRES student, take a break from hauling topsoil. |
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Hoosier Road student, Sara Brandau, stands ready to lend a hand. |
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This is the the butterfly garden all tilled and ready for planting. |
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Here’s a picture of the rock garden and two of the planting beds. Notice the two large cross sections of trees that students will use to study tree rings. |
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One of the three planting beds nearly assembled. |
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Two bird feeders hang hoping to attract more wildlife to the garden. |
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The rock garden is starting to take shape. |
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The Native Indiana planting bed is shown, freshly tilled and awaiting its bounty. |
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A variety of plants for the Butterfly garden have been dug up and donated by Mrs. Schkeryantz and are ready to be transplanted. |
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