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Hawthorn Eagles Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 3 Hope Newsletter October, 2013
Dear Parents,
Thank you to everyone who attended Student – Led Conferences!
Thank you to everyone who supported the book fair!
Dr. Deborah L. Swensen Principal
Please join us for these
Important Dates:
Our next Town Hall meetings are as
follows:
Thursday, Oct. 23
rd 6 – 7:30 p.m.
International Baccalaureate – focus
on PYP Primary Years Program
(PYP – grades K-5)
and Middle School Years
(MYP - grades 6 – 9)
Transdisciplinary instruction.
Thursday Nov. 15
th 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Anti-bullying and
International Baccalaureate Traits.
OCTOBER DATES! Red Ribbon Week
October 7th
-11th
Regional Cross Country
October 8th
Last Day of 1st Quarter
October 16th
First Day of 2nd
Quarter
October 22nd
Friday, October 25th
Box Top Dress Down Day
Halloween Parade
Middle School Dance
Be sure to print off our monthly
Calendar to keep track of the
dates!
EGYPTIAN CHARIOT RACE!!!! AND A GREAT BIG THANK YOU!
FUNDRAISER SUCCESS! We are so excited to announce that Mr. Alm, Mrs. Moreno and Mrs. Haslam have won
our All For Books contest and will be participating in our very first Egyptian Chariot
Race! They are great supporters of our book fair and have agreed to dress up as
one of our Ancient Egyptian characters and race to the finish!!
Thank you everyone that donated their change to support the Scholastic Book Fair.
We brought in almost $90.00 and they will match it all! Woo Hoo!
We also want to thank Porter Birchum for his donation to the carnival! He alone
has helped raise over $200 for Hawthorn with just his few hours of time and his
very yummy Italian Ice. Thank your friends for helping and making our carnival
more successful for Hawthorn.
We want to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who came to the Fall Carnival. It
was a huge success and we appreciate everyone so much! With the back to school
donations and the income from the carnival, we are able to give the school a check
for $10,000!! We wouldn't be this successful without all the generous and caring
parents! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at
A special shout out as well to the Carnival Committee! Great Job!
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HOPE (Hawthorn Organization of Parents and Education)
Hey Parents,
I wanted to introduce myself to you; I am Sheri Sorensen, the HOPE
president this year! I have four kids ranging from 2nd-9th grade! I am
excited to be here and excited for this year at Hawthorn Academy!
We have made it through the first few weeks of school! I can't thank
everyone who has helped in any way through Back to School Night,
Patriots Day, pizza Friday, Family Carnival, our Silent Auction, class room
help, the book fair, sports and any other thing! This school wouldn't be
what it is without all of our volunteers! I love being at the school and
always seeing you there! It makes a difference to our kids and they see
it! Already, with just a few fundraisers, we are a third of the way to our
fundraising goal for this year! Isn't that exciting!
Please continue to log your hours! It truly is important!
*This next month we have Red Ribbon Week and our Halloween parties.*
If you can help in anyway please send me a quick message and I can put
you in contact with the right people!
As always please like HOPE on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hawthorn-Academy/107577582632975
and check out our new website! www.hopehappenings.org. These two
places you will find the latest info, last minute needed help along with
some other fun stuff!
If I can help you with anything please feel free to contact me!
♡Sheri Sorensen ♡
President: Sheri Sorensen [email protected] President Elect: Robin Walker [email protected] Treasurer: Taralee Clarke [email protected] Secretary: Brigitte Todd [email protected] Middle School Coordinator: Lori Holt [email protected] Newsletter Chair: Amara Gulsby [email protected] Website Chair: Cherideth Starr
Our next HOPE Meeting is: October 11th at 8:30 a.m. EVERYONE is invited to join us!
September
Classroom
Climbers Dorota Misztela Mindy Hillman Megan Pettit
September
Activity
Climbers Taralee Clarke
Laura Holt Kelli Vorwaller
Be sure to login your volunteer time so you can get credit! You can also
email your hours to Taralee Clarke (email above) or Stephanie Rendon at
[email protected] with your hours if you forgot to enter them or
if you put in any volunteer time from home.
DID YOU KNOW???
The board in the lobby is to help motivate each family to get their 30 volunteer hours in. Each Hawthorn
family will be listed on the board and for every 5 hours, they'll earn a
sticker!!!..Then when that family reaches their “gold star” at 30 hours they
will be invited to our quarterly lunches to thank them for their time! Our
school year goal for volunteer hours is 13,000 so we need as much help as
we can get to reach that goal and make Hawthorn a success!!
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We are looking forward to another strong year.
SOARING ACADEMICALLY:
If you want to have your child learn to love books you can do the following:
Read aloud regularly to your child (10 – 15 minutes a day)
Listen to your child read Take turns choosing books
Have fun with the stories. Try using different books to make the characters come alive.
Remember that no matter the age of a student, strong language skills can help he/she be a better reader and all around student.
Hearing new words or unfamiliar words in conversation will help students understand words in their books/texts
Encourage your student to expand on answers to questions: “Why do you think so?”, “What else happened?” This will help your student learn to talk about events and give his opinion.
Writing is so important for students to master. Let him practice at home.
Write what he/she remembers about the school day. Start with a couple of sentences.
Write about his opinion on something that is happening in school, the community, the family.
We are so excited to have the opportunity to participate
in the Road to Success reading program.
The goal of the program is to encourage improvement in
literacy which will help develop daily and lifelong reading
habits, specifically by READING EVERY DAY to improve
vocabulary, proficiency, and communication skills. This is
an incentive based program for our kindergarten through
6th grades. When the student completes their class
assigned reading minutes for 5 days they earn one
ticket, if they read for 7 days they earn a 2nd ticket.
These tickets are then entered into the drawing where
the winner gets to choose a fantastic prize like an iPod
shuffle or a Scooter or a bike. This drawing will take
place approximately every 8 weeks, so there are lots of
chances to win. In addition, each classroom sets its own
reading goal and every class that reaches the classroom
goal will earn smaller prizes from our Treasure Box each
month as well as a chance to win the infamous reading
trophy for their classroom.
New this year all reading tracking is completed online by
the student or his/her parent/guardian. You should
receive account information from your student’s teacher
soon. It is simple to logon and begin tracking. If you
have any questions please contact your students teacher,
Kimberlee Telford at [email protected] or
Debbie Wright at [email protected]
HELP WANTED: Looking for ways to volunteer?
Room Parents, Assistants and Helpers Needed Teachers can always use help in the classroom! Contact Mindy Hillman for your Teachers Information!
Wellness Committee Needs YOU! Wellness Committee Needs You!
The HOPE Wellness Committee is planning many fun activities for the school year to help teach our
students and families about healthy lifestyles. This committee will be meeting monthly starting in
October. The actual date and time of the meeting is TBA. They are also starting to plan the 5th Annual
Family Fun Run and Healthy Living Festival for the Spring of 2014. If you want to be a part of this, then
please contact Stephanie at [email protected]. You can also check out the blog at
www.healthyhawthorn.blogspot.com.
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Pizza Fridays We will be taking Pizza orders on Thursdays. Elementary
Orders will be taken in class. Middle School orders will be placed during lunch time.
We cannot accept late orders! Pizza will be served on Fridays as usual.
Can you believe it's October already? The ghosts and goblins will be haunting doorsteps looking for candy in no time! While you are busy making decorations and costumes for Halloween you might also want to use those creative juices to get your projects going for Inspirations! The theme is "My Best Day Ever", so get going and draw, paint, sculpt, photograph, dance, play music, or whatever suits your fancy. Go wild and be creative! Also, Hawthorn will be the school hosting the Regional Awards Night this year
so let's show the other schools just how awesome our students are!
Hawthorn Academy SCIENCE FAIR!
The 2013 Hawthorn Academy Science Fair is coming soon. This fair is a required
assignment for all 9th grade students and all 6th grade Science Honor students. It is
optional for all other 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. This is a great opportunity and a
fun event to put your science skills to work. Our Science Fair is on December 9th. It is
time to get started! More information will be available from your student’s science
teacher.
Red Ribbon week is October 7-11. The theme is
“A Healthy Me is Drug Free!”
Please check the website for what will be going on around the school that
week.
For help with talking to your kids about drugs and alcohol visit:
www.parentsempowered.org and www.drugfreeworld.org.
We could use more volunteers to help make this week a success. Please
contact Shannon Keller at [email protected] or 801-755-6098 to
volunteer.
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Look at our new website!
http://www.hopehappenings.org/
at Hawthorn
FALL SPORTS~
Basketball Open gyms started on September 3rd 3:30-4:30. Boys and Girls will alternate the weeks.
Boys open gym dates will be: 10/1, 10/15, 10/29
Girls open gym dates will be: 10/8, 10/22, 11/5
NO PUMPKIN PATCH PARKING PLEASE!!
We are in danger of losing our Cross Country course due to many parents using the Pumpkin Patch lot
for carpool pick-up. Please do not monopolize their lot during carpool. The feeling is that we are
deterring their customers and jamming up their flow of traffic. Being conscientious that they are
running a business would help athletics maintain an amicable relationship for cross country.
Thank you Susan Jones- Athletic Director
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News and Tidbits JUST for Middle School! Hi Middle School students, teachers and parents!
We are very excited to be appointed as the new HOPE Middle School Coordinators! We are here to help organize parent volunteers, improve communication, and mainly to help the Middle School
feel like they are a valued part of Hawthorn Academy. We are planning to help them create many new opportunities for service projects and fun activities that are more applicable to teenagers! Feel free to contact us at any time with suggestions or ideas! We are looking forward to a great year!
Laura Holt [email protected]
Middle School Fundraiser:
Beginning September 11th, middle school students will be selling trash bags, yes
trash bags!! Please help the Athletics Department get a scoreboard, the Music
Department get to Anaheim, and everyone enhance our middle school camaraderie
this year!
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Last year Smith's donated $2,400 to Hawthorn Academy! through the Earn and Learn Program. Thanks to everyone who enrolled! Each fall you need to re-enroll using your Smith's Rewards card. The next time you shop at Smith's have the cashier scan the barcode below, then scan your rewards card and Smith's will donate money to Hawthorn each time you use your rewards card. You only need to have the barcode scanned once. Then give it to the person behind you in line at Smith's!
In Addition, Target's Take Charge of Education, will donate up to 1% of your purchases each time
you use your Target Red Card. Sign up for a Red Card at Target or Target.com and link it to Hawthorn Academy. When you use your Red Card you will receive 5% off of your purchases, free shipping from Target.com and earn money for Hawthorn Academy! See attached flyer for more
information.
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8 Red Ribbon Week! Regional Cross Country
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10 Red Ribbon Week!
11 Red Ribbon Week! Hope Meeting
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Last Day of First Quarter!
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FALL RECESS NO SCHOOL
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Monthly Town Hall Meeting
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Middle School Dance Box Top Dress Down
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Monthly Town Hall Meetings – All parents are invited! Mark the dates on your calendar! : Thursday October 23rd – International Baccalaureate (IB) and Primary Years Program (PYP)/November 21st – Anti Bullying and IB
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