🌟📚 Exciting News! 📚🌟
Our preschoolers get to take home their first round of Just Right Reader books—to KEEP! 🎉💕 Every month, they’ll receive a new set of books to build early literacy skills and vocabulary—helping create legendary learners! 🚀📖
Enjoy reading together at home! Your support makes a BIG difference! 💛📚
✨ Brought to you through North Dakota DPI’s Legendary Learners Grant funding. ✨
Our preschoolers get to take home their first round of Just Right Reader books—to KEEP! 🎉💕 Every month, they’ll receive a new set of books to build early literacy skills and vocabulary—helping create legendary learners! 🚀📖
Enjoy reading together at home! Your support makes a BIG difference! 💛📚
✨ Brought to you through North Dakota DPI’s Legendary Learners Grant funding. ✨




Wow, our Book Blast carnival is off to an amazing start! 🎡📚
Congratulations to these two Titans for winning our first drawing prize, the Book Blast Treasure Chest! 🏆✨Students are already stepping right up to help level up our readers and earn as many books as possible for our school community. There’s still time to join the fun. Register now and invite 10+ contacts to be entered into upcoming Treasure Chest drawing! 🎟️
#booksarefun #bookraiser #bookblastadventures #epictreasurechest #treasure @go.booksarefun
Congratulations to these two Titans for winning our first drawing prize, the Book Blast Treasure Chest! 🏆✨Students are already stepping right up to help level up our readers and earn as many books as possible for our school community. There’s still time to join the fun. Register now and invite 10+ contacts to be entered into upcoming Treasure Chest drawing! 🎟️
#booksarefun #bookraiser #bookblastadventures #epictreasurechest #treasure @go.booksarefun


We’re thrilled to launch our Just Right Reader Program to support early literacy for our Birth–5 year old learners! ❤️
🎒 Coming soon to your preschooler’s backpack
🚪 Delivered to the doorsteps of our tiniest Titans not yet in school!
Together, we’ll build early literacy skills through books, stories, conversations, and everyday learning moments. 🌱📖💙
Made possible by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Legendary Learners Grant.
Stay tuned — something special is on the way! 🎉
If you have a child who plans to attend Valley-Edinburg and would like to learn more about these resources, please reach out to Alyson Hall at alyson.hall@valley-edinburgk12.com. https://vimeo.com/1224709442
🎒 Coming soon to your preschooler’s backpack
🚪 Delivered to the doorsteps of our tiniest Titans not yet in school!
Together, we’ll build early literacy skills through books, stories, conversations, and everyday learning moments. 🌱📖💙
Made possible by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Legendary Learners Grant.
Stay tuned — something special is on the way! 🎉
If you have a child who plans to attend Valley-Edinburg and would like to learn more about these resources, please reach out to Alyson Hall at alyson.hall@valley-edinburgk12.com. https://vimeo.com/1224709442
Happy Homecoming Friday from Crystal Elementary!

NOTICE: CORRECTION TO ANNUAL BUDGET HEARING LOCATION
Valley-Edinburg School District would like to clarify the location of our Annual School District Budget Hearing.
The hearing will take place:
📅 Tuesday, September 8
⏰ 5:30 p.m.
📍 Edinburg School Library
Please note that the county auditor’s published hearing notice incorrectly listed the location as Crystal School. This is incorrect. The correct location for the budget hearing is the Edinburg School Library.
We look forward to seeing you on September 8.
Valley-Edinburg School District would like to clarify the location of our Annual School District Budget Hearing.
The hearing will take place:
📅 Tuesday, September 8
⏰ 5:30 p.m.
📍 Edinburg School Library
Please note that the county auditor’s published hearing notice incorrectly listed the location as Crystal School. This is incorrect. The correct location for the budget hearing is the Edinburg School Library.
We look forward to seeing you on September 8.
Looking to continue our Tiny Titan Cheer Program at VE Elementary! See below.

A big THANK YOU to the Evenson family for the generous donation of fresh sweet corn for our school lunch today! 🌽 It was sure tasty!






Our kindergarten friends were hard at work during reading today! 📚
Students are using Reading Mastery, a structured reading program that provides explicit, step-by-step instruction to help build strong foundational reading skills. Through lots of practice and repetition, students work on letter sounds, blending sounds together, recognizing words, building vocabulary, and developing reading fluency and comprehension.
These kindergarten readers are already learning that becoming a strong reader takes practice, focus, and lots of trying! We are proud of their hard work! ⭐
Students are using Reading Mastery, a structured reading program that provides explicit, step-by-step instruction to help build strong foundational reading skills. Through lots of practice and repetition, students work on letter sounds, blending sounds together, recognizing words, building vocabulary, and developing reading fluency and comprehension.
These kindergarten readers are already learning that becoming a strong reader takes practice, focus, and lots of trying! We are proud of their hard work! ⭐


A huge thank you to an anonymous donor for their recent donation to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Valley-Edinburg Schools program! The Imagination Library provides free, high-quality books each month to children from birth to age five, helping families build home libraries and encouraging a love of reading from an early age.
We are so grateful for community members who support early literacy and help put books into the hands of our youngest learners. Thank you for making a difference! 📖
Check out this link for more information on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library:
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
We are so grateful for community members who support early literacy and help put books into the hands of our youngest learners. Thank you for making a difference! 📖
Check out this link for more information on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library:
https://imaginationlibrary.com/

It's Homecoming Week next week at VE Elementary Schools! Check out next week's dress up days for your PK-6th grade student! Go Titans!

SO COOL to have our local graphic designer, Nicole Hurt of Far North Graphics, complete this huge bus project for us!! 🖤🩶🤍 We love it!!



Our elementary kids had the best afternoon at our Back to School Swimming Party at the Hoople Pool!







A power transformer has fallen from a power pole behind Hoople Grocery this afternoon. Hoople Fire Department is asking that people stay away from this alley and do not walk between houses on this block until Ottertail has been able to clean up the area. Students have been provided this information. Thank you for your cooperation!
Here are the last home games we have available for fundraising groups to host concessions! 🍿🥤🍿Please share with other groups who may also be interested! https://forms.gle/NXCmh2pBVjMwaqSTA
Our students had an absolute blast at recess today! A HUGE thank you to our VE School Board members and community volunteers who generously gave their time to install the exciting new upgrades at our Crystal School Playground! 👏
The new Glider Swing and P6Ball game were an instant hit—and judging by the smiles, our Titans are loving them! 🖤
The new Glider Swing and P6Ball game were an instant hit—and judging by the smiles, our Titans are loving them! 🖤





When we start school next week, please remember to avoid parking in our bus loading zones at our 3 school buildings. It is important that families park in our designated drop off/pick up zones to keep our students safe. See the attached images for zone maps. Thanks for your cooperation! 🚌



Less than a week until the school year starts! 🌞🍎🌞Here's our August District Newsletter - welcome back, Titans! 🖤https://app.smore.com/n/2dema
Check out this year's Valley-Edinburg bus shuttle departures and pick up times for the 2026-2027 school year! Our daily morning shuttles will leave Hoople at 8:05AM, Crystal at 7:45AM, and Edinburg at 7:35AM. Our shuttles' final drop off time for each school is 4PM in Hoople, 3:20PM in Crystal, and 3:50PM in Edinburg. If you are on a rural route, your bus driver should be contacting you this week for your child's specific pick up and drop off times for the school year. Thanks! 🚌🌞🚌

We can’t wait to welcome all of our elementary families back for Back to School Night on Monday, August 17, from 4:00–8:00 PM at your child’s school! It’s the perfect opportunity to meet your child’s teacher, drop off school supplies, visit classrooms, and get excited for an amazing school year! 💙
More fun in Hoople that evening including:
🍽️ Lil Spuds Daycare serving up dinner for families!
🧪 STEM Play Zone will be happening at Hoople Elementary from 6:00–8:00 PM with fun, hands-on activities for kids!
🍦 Hank’s Ice Cream Truck will also be on hand for a sweet treat!
See the flyers below for all the details....See you on August 17! 🎉
More fun in Hoople that evening including:
🍽️ Lil Spuds Daycare serving up dinner for families!
🧪 STEM Play Zone will be happening at Hoople Elementary from 6:00–8:00 PM with fun, hands-on activities for kids!
🍦 Hank’s Ice Cream Truck will also be on hand for a sweet treat!
See the flyers below for all the details....See you on August 17! 🎉



The 2026-2027 school bus registration seemed to miss some families this spring, so we are going to send it out again. Let us know if your student is riding the bus this year! Please complete the linked registration to provide the name(s) of your student(s), your physical address, and when they plan to ride. If your student ONLY rides the shuttle, you do not need to complete this form. This is only for rural routes. Thanks!
