Thank you to the PTO and all the parents who attended our “Parents’ Night Out” last Saturday! This week in preparation for the big parent/teacher basketball game, we held a teacher/student practice game during lunch with lots of student spectators. A fun time was had by all and the energy was contagious! We hope to see you at Brooks tomorrow. Doors open at 2:00 and tip off is at 2:30!
Family Math Night and our annual Science Fair are next Thursday, April 18th from 6-7:30pm in the cafeteria and gym. It’s a two for one deal-Math and Science in one fun-filled evening. Science Fair will be in the gym from 6:30-7:30pm and Family Math Night will be in the cafeteria from 6-7:00pm. We hope to see you all there! See the Family Math Night flyer for details.
The Hatch Student Council's "#DoSomething" April activity will be sponsoring the "Can-Do" Challenge to benefit the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry from April 1-30, 2019. Donations of non-perishable canned goods, high protein foods, and personal items can be brought to the school. Cash donations or checks made out to the OPRF Food Pantry can also be contributed. To make a direct donation for Team Hatch, use this link: Team Hatch Can-Do Challenge. Thanks to an anonymous donation of $1250, we have met the goal set for the Hatch Tiger team of $1200, and we are leading the district!
Save the date: This year's Multicultural Parade and Festival will be held on Saturday, May 4, at Julian Middle School. If you’d like to join us in representing Hatch on this year’s float, please contact the main office. Access additional information about the event >
The Hatch Steel Band will be hosting a free concert by the Northern Illinois University Steelband at Julian Middle School on Wednesday, April 17. Learn more about this event >
As we are still in the last part of cold and flu season, please remind your child about the importance of handwashing and staying hydrated!
The next event in Superintendent Kelley's community café series will take place on Thursday, April 25, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Buzz Café (905 S. Lombard). You can access additional information about this series by visiting http://bit.ly/2QtXotc.
On Monday, May 6th, the award winning author Lori Degman will be coming to talk to the K-2 students. This week in library, students received an order form to order copies of Lori's books. A copy of the order form is available here as well. Lori will autograph any books that are ordered so be sure to get your orders turned-in to the Hatch library by Friday, April 19th. Thank you to the PTO for sponsoring this great opportunity for our students!
YEARBOOK REMINDER...The deadline for purchasing the Yearbook with free shipping is Thursday, April 17. You can still order a Yearbook after April 17, but you will be charged a shipping fee. See the Flyer for more information.
Sarah Mendez
Hatch School Principal
1000 N Ridgeland Ave
Oak Park, IL 60302
(708) 524-3095
PTO Reminders
- OPEN HATCH PTO BOARD POSITIONS for 2019-2020 School Year (All board positions are two year terms). Want to get more involved in the PTO? We’re looking to fill several Board positions for next year, such as Co-Treasurer and VP of Communications. To see a brief description of each position or to sign up to run for a position, please add your name to the sign-up link here. Nominations will be taken until the April 16th PTO meeting, and voted on at the May 14th PTO meeting. If you want to learn more, please contact current co-presidents Cheri Baker at [email protected] or Chris Liskiewitz at [email protected].
- Mann Power Summer Session! After conversations with other PTO presidents, we, the Mann PTO presidents Dot Roche and Aimée Eubanks Davis, decided with our community to open this program to students in other D97 schools. This summer program will offer advanced math and reading for students whose MAP test scores typically are between the 80th – 95th percentiles, and who with additional, small group instruction, may accelerate their command of challenging math and/or reading concepts. We are mirroring this after Julian's summer bump up in math.
- Students who register must be driven personally and excited about this opportunity to grow and realize their full potential within. Homework is expected and at the end there will be an assessment to see how much of the content has been mastered. The advanced math and reading courses will run for three weeks from June 10 to June 24, Monday through Friday at Mann School. The cost will be $360.00 per course for all three weeks. Students who are doing both the morning and afternoon courses may stay for a supervised lunch, at no extra charge.
- Math: 9:00 – 11:30 AM (Pick up at 11:30 AM, if student is not attending the afternoon reading course.)
- Lunch and Recess Break: 11:30 AM – 12:25 PM (Please bring a peanut-free lunch and water bottle.)
- Reading: 12:30 – 3:00 PM (Drop off at 12:25 PM, if student is not attending the morning course.)
- To enroll, create an account and sign up here via Class Track. When you see Instructor click on your D97 school (e.g., Irving, Lincoln, etc.). If you need support, email Mann Power ([email protected]). We look forward to our children learning alongside and forming friendships with other students in D97!
- Students who register must be driven personally and excited about this opportunity to grow and realize their full potential within. Homework is expected and at the end there will be an assessment to see how much of the content has been mastered. The advanced math and reading courses will run for three weeks from June 10 to June 24, Monday through Friday at Mann School. The cost will be $360.00 per course for all three weeks. Students who are doing both the morning and afternoon courses may stay for a supervised lunch, at no extra charge.
- The PTO needs volunteers for the 2019-20 school year. Please consider volunteering to Chair one of the open positions. Our students count on parent volunteers to keep all of the wonderful PTO sponsored events up and running. All money raised by the PTO goes right back to our students in the form of discounted field trips, special assemblies, additional programming, various remodeling projects, and many other funding requests. Email Beth Sauers at [email protected] if your are interested or have questions. Thanks!
- Student Green Team: Looking for a volunteer to run this fun student club. Meetings run monthly on Fridays during lunch (day can be flexible to fit the volunteer's schedule). This is a well established club with many activities already in place that can be easily passed on to the new parent volunteer. If you are passionate about environmental issues then this is the position for you!
- Tiger Cash (Gift Card Program): Looking for a parent to run the monthly gift card program. Duties include: collecting, submitting, and distributing all orders each month, and advertising about order date for the month. All the ordering can be done at home on the computer. The volunteer would only need to be available, for a short time before or after school, the week of ordering to collect and distribute orders.
- Movie Matinee: Need a volunteer to run the popular after school event. Duties include: selecting a movie, advertising for the moving with an online sign up for students, organizing volunteers, providing concessions for purchase, checking students into event, and dismissing students when the movie is over. Movie Matinee takes place once a month on a Friday.
- Fun Fair: Did your family enjoy the Fun Fair? If so, please consider joining this well established committee.
- Benefit Days ***New Position**: The PTO is looking to add a new fundraising event next school year. Looking for a parent volunteer to organize three or more benefit days at local restaurants throughout the school year. This volunteer would contact local restaurants and set up a day for Hatch to receive cash back for every family that dines at the restaurant. Duties include: coordinating dates with Hatch and restaurants, advertising for the benefit day, and collecting money from the restaurant.
- Hatch DivCo Meeting – Tuesday, April 23rd, 7pm- Hatch Cafeteria. Parents, please join us for our committee meeting to discuss and explore our newly created focus groups. Questions please contact via [email protected]
- As always, check out the Hatch PTO website for the most up to date information at http://www.hatchpto.org/.