The weather continues to present struggles for school.  Conferences that were schedule for Monday, January 31st will move to Monday, February 7, 2011.  We hope the weather will cooperate with us and the conferences scheduled for the end of the week can be held as scheduled. 

I Love to Read Month
As we transition into the month of February we begin the celebration of I Love to Read Month. Hawthorne's theme this year is "READING ROCKS-Be a Reading Rockstar!  Your child has received bookmarks to complete for minutes read.  He/She can enter the completed bookmarks into a drawing.  There will be a READING ROCKSTAR chosen from every classroom.  The winning "ROCKSTARS" will win a special prize bag with lots of cool rockstar stuff, eat lunch with our guest author/musician, Gary Dulabaum, and be featured in the all school concert with Gary on Thursday, Feb 24th.  The more a child reads, the more chances he/she has to be a READING ROCKSTAR!  The goal is for each student to read at least 300 minutes AT HOME from February 1st-21st. 

Who is Gary Dulabaum?
We are excited to bring guest author/musician, Gary Dulabaum to Hawthorne on February 22-24 from Sourth Burlington, Vermont.   According to Gary's website, Gary wears many hats: author, songwriter, educator, poet, recording artist and musician.  Gary knows that music in the classroom can help children improve their writing skills, he also knows the power of creation and language development and that music, reading and writing have a direct link based on rhythmic patterns.