The Hawkins Elementary School Choir from grades 3-5 entertained the Board of Education at its March 6 meeting with selections from its recent concert titled “The Day the Crayons Quit.”
The choir was led by HES music teacher Katie Brabham, who told the board that the concert was part of the March activities associated with national Music in Our Schools Month.
“Across the United States in March we take time to advocate for and celebrate having music as part of the school day,” Brabham told the board. “There’s a lot of excellent research about how music education can help students academically, emotionally and also socially. My favorite area of research is about lower elementary grades and how music education can increase reading fluency…