3/17/23
Student Council: Thank you to everyone that donated to the Student Council fundraiser! We collected dog food, cat food, dog beds, treats, toys, and old towels to be donated to the Oak Park Animal Care Foundation! Thank you for your generosity!
March is Music in Our Schools Month! We are celebrating the importance of music in our school and our lives in many ways throughout March. For the last week, we will be having a MIOSM Spirit Week. Help us celebrate Music in Our Schools Month by dressing up each day! Check out the theme for each day
here!
Monday, come dressed from the ’50’s as we celebrate music from 1950.
Tuesday is Hippie Day (music from the ’60s and 70’s),
Wednesday is hip-hop from the ’80s,
Thursday is country/Ranchera Day
Friday is Rock Star/favorite musician day
We need your support! Please complete this year’s Illinois 5Essentials Survey before March 31. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback to the school and district and support Hatch on a larger scale. We are currently at 21%! It should only take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If parents have more than one child that attends the same school, they may elect to participate multiple times. For parents with children enrolled in multiple schools, we recommend that they participate in the survey for each school. Thank you for your support!
2023 Illinois Parent Survey
Jacob Grant Author Visit: All K-2 students will attend an author visit with
Jacob Grant on Tuesday, March 21! This is an amazing opportunity for our students. If you want to purchase a signed book, please fill out the attached form and
pay here (or use the Q.R. code linked in the form). This form will also be going home with your students. Make sure to check their take-home folders!
Spring Picture Day: Will be held on Friday, April 12, 2023. Siblings currently enrolled in the same school may be photographed together. If you would like your children photographed together, please fill out the flier sent home with your child. PLEASE Note if siblings have their picture taken together, they will NOT be photographed individually. Also, Avoid wearing shades of green, as all students will be photographed against a green screen.
3rd-5th grade families-2023 Hatch Science Fair information has been updated on our website. Please click this link to learn more!
CPU Lesson 5: This week, our kindergarten - third-grade students learned to use their assertiveness skills to report sexual abuse and to not keep secrets about touching. We are teaching students the Never Keep Secrets Rule about touching and letting them know they can and should seek help if they are being abused, and we stress the importance of continuing to tell people until they get help. Our fourth and fifth-grade students were also taught never to keep secrets about someone breaking the Private Body Parts Rule. Additionally, they were taught that it’s never your fault if someone breaks this rule, that breaking this rule is always wrong, and that people who break it may do things to try to keep it a secret. Next week we will wrap up our Child Protection Units and return to teaching Second Step after spring break. Here are our home links:
Sarah Mendez
Hatch School Principal
1000 N Ridgeland Ave
Oak Park, IL 60302
(708) 524-3095
D97 Updates/Reminders:
Ramadan begins next week! District 97 wants to ensure that our students who observe Ramadan (March 22-April 20) are supported and comfortable. This form aims to understand how we can best accommodate our students’ needs during this time. We aim to provide a safe and inclusive environment that respects religious observances while ensuring students have access to necessary resources and support. We value your input and appreciate your participation in this process. Your feedback will help us to tailor our approach and develop appropriate accommodations that meet the needs of our students. If your student does not observe Ramadan, or if they do and do not need accommodation, you do not need to complete this form. Thank you for your cooperation and support.
Parent University on Student Social-Emotional Wellness - April 19
Oak Park and River Forest High School will host an in-person parent university session on Wednesday, April 19, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Topics will include student mental wellness, substance use prevention, and more. The event is open to all families in Oak Park, River Forest, and the surrounding communities.
Brooks Robotics Pop-Up Summer Camp 2023: Brooks Robotics is excited to announce a pop-up summer camp for rising 5th and 6th graders who want to learn the basics of VEX Robotics but have little or no experience with building or coding robots. You will create a robot to compete in a good old-fashioned game of “Get your trash out of my yard!” VEX style. Under the watchful eye of our very own high school mentors, the aspiring engineers will strategize, build, and code a robot that will clean up their backyard of vexing trash with their teammates. After the robots are built, randomly selected teams of 2 will square off in round-robin matches and play ‘clean the backyard games. Players on both sides will keep throwing, rolling, or sliding pieces of VEX trash back and forth until the timer stops; the team with the least mess wins!! At the end of match play, all teams participate in a final tournament to determine the camp champions!!
When:
- Monday, June 12, 2023, thru Friday, June 16, 2023
- Choice of 2 sessions
- 8:30 am - 11:30 am OR
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Where:
Brooks Middle School
325 S. Kenilworth
Oak Park, IL 60304
What will you do?
- Learn about robotics and coding in a fun environment!!
- Meet coaches and mentors
- Strategize gameplay options.
- Design, build, and code a robot to play the game.
- See how your robot performs in match and tournament-style competitions!!
How do you register?
Hosted by
- Brooks Robotics Team Coaches and H.S. Mentors (former competitive members)
Terms of Participation
- Open to rising 5th or 6th graders students with little or no robotics experience.
- Interest in learning the basics of VEX robotics
Brian Shinners
Brooks Design Teacher
Process for Reporting Positive COVID-19 Cases to D97 Schools
If a student or staff member tests positive for COVID-19, they must complete the following steps:
- To notify the school nurse and receive a return-to-school date, families/staff must complete the confidential COVID-19 Positive Case Notification Form as soon as possible following the positive test. Information provided will also be shared with the Oak Park Department of Public Health.
- Families must continue to report student absences via the school attendance line, and staff must enter their absences in Frontline.
To see the rules for isolation and quarantine, click here. Additional resources are linked below.
