Hawthorn Elementary North

Family Fun Night is Friday, November 14, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Bring your blankets or sleeping bags and enjoy watching the movie "Over the Hedge." There will be food and fun for everyone so please plan to attend.

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be Monday evening, November 24th, and Tuesday morning, November 25th. Please check with your child's homeroom teacher to sign up for a conference. Hope to see you then.

This year the English Language Development Program welcomes fifty new ELL students! Any student new to our school with a first language other than English is screened to determine his/her English language proficiency. If your child can benefit from our ELL services, you will receive a letter indicating his/her entry into our program.

The 2008 ACCESS scores were sent home for all students who were assessed last winter. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns.

Mrs. Pittman, Ms. Nesbitt and Mrs. Glenn look forward to working with your children in our reading and language classes. Some of the programs we use are Scott Foresman's My Sidewalks, Read Naturally, Santillana Intensive English, and Rosetta Stone.

We hope you will join us next Tuesday, September 16 (Grades K-2) or Thursday, September 18 (Grades 3-5) for our Back to School nights. Looking forward to seeing you then.

Our next Bilingual Parents meeting will be this Monday, February 4th at 7:00 p.m. in the MIddle School South cafetieria. Our speaker will discuss bullying. Please plan to attend this informative evening. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there!

January will be a busy month in the ELD department. ACCESS testing begins on January 14 for all ELL students in kindergarten through fifth grades. Students' language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing will be assessed.

Please mark your calendar for the next Bilingual Parents Meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 28 in the Middle School South cafeteria. Bullying will be our discussion topic.

Sunrise Scholars will begin on January 28 and run through February 28. This program, serving third, fourth and fifth ELL students, provides extra reading support using an exciting new curriculum called Camp Can-Do.

We are looking forward to meeting with parents during the November conferences. For those parents who speak Spanish, Ms. Pittman, Ms. Mendive, Ms. Fuentes and Ms. Smith will be helping out as translators. If you are unable to attend a conference next week and have questions about the progress of your ELL student, please call Ms. Pittman at 847-990-4579.