Hawthorne Happenings
Music at Hawthorne
We are pleased to announce that Mr. John Hahn will be our new Music teacher at Hawthorne. Mr. Hahn joins us with twenty-three years of experience as a music educator and eighteen years of experience as a Broadway musician. He has taught students in general music, chorus, orchestral strings, band and ensembles.
We are excited for our first musical celebration on December 13th with our second graders, which will include a sing-along. So warm up those voices second grade families! We will update you on the performance groups in next week's Hawthorne Happenings.
Our Portrait of a Mount Pleasant Learner focus for November is Empathy. When we are empathetic, we understand and share the feelings of others as if they were our own. We can also see things from different points of view. As part of character education, students will learn to recognize and understand the feelings of others and see things from their point of view.
Ways to support developing Empathy at home:
Ask your child to use a feelings word when having a conversation.
Ask your child to consider how someone else feels in a situation. It is great to do this with characters in the books you are reading together.
Engage in role-playing focused on identifying and sharing thoughts and feelings.
When there is a family disagreement, work through it together, noticing and naming the different points of view.
