Bulldog Bulletin
Telephone: (847) 870-3868
Absence Line: (847) 870-3869
Twitter: @D23Ross
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A Message From Your Principal |
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Dear Ross Families,
Thank you for a stellar first month of the school year. We appreciate all of your support with our initiatives and the extra time you've all spent as we've worked to get everyone back into our school routines. Hopefully, the excitement your children are exhibiting when they come home from school has been just a small sign of things to come during the remainder of the school year.
I want to remind everyone that our D23 Family Movie Night is finally here. It will begin tonight at 6:45 PM in the field behind MacArthur Middle School. Please feel free to arrive and begin gathering as early as 6:00 PM as we will be engaging as a community to enjoy Pixar's Monsters University. Concessions will also be available through the D23 PTO. Please plan to bring your own blankets for seating. A huge thank you goes out to the D23 PTO for partnering with District 23 in sponsoring this wonderful event.
Additionally, we are proud to announce that our goal to keep students in school can be supported by a screening and testing process currently being planned for District 23. Through a partnership with the Federal and State governments, the SHIELD Illinois program is now available to all schools in Illinois, free of charge. This 3rd party laboratory analysis uses the SHIELD saliva-based test developed by the University of Illinois. More information can be found HERE. We hope to launch weekly screening and on-demand testing to monitor local community spread, identify presymptomatic or asymptomatic cases, and assist in making informed quarantining decisions. It is our goal to begin on October 1st. Participation is optional but requires parental consent. Please complete this form if you are interested in your child participating in this program. More information and details will be shared as it becomes available.
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Dr. Craig Curtis
P.S. Please click on the link at the bottom of the page that allows you to "View Entire Message".
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Students in Mrs. Schoeny's class use number cards in math to practice their addition and subtraction skills. This math game also helped with doubles facts! |
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Third grade is learning about main idea and details as they read "Penguin Chicks." Some interesting facts they discovered are that father penguins keep the egg on their feet while the mom penguin searches for food. Why is that? 1. To keep the egg from instantly freezing it cannot touch the frozen ground and 2. Mom looks for food first since she is smaller than dad and has less fat to stay alive while keeping the egg warm. These are just a few cool facts third grade has learned about penguin chicks! |
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The Betsy Ross Reading Specialists are busy getting to know all the students. They are popping into classrooms either to read a story, help out with literacy and/or district assessments. Pictured here are Ms. Brusso's and Mrs. Schoeny's 2nd grade classrooms. |
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Parent-Teacher Conferences |
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This year, our parent-teacher conferences will be held virtually between October 25th and November 12th. Please be on the lookout for a communication from your child's teacher with times available to schedule a conference. Conferences will generally run between 15 and 20 minutes. If you require a translator for your conference, please let your child's teacher know. |
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Bulldog Beliefs Expectations |
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At Betsy Ross, we pride ourselves on being respectful, responsible, and safe at school and within the community. Our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program, which we call the Bulldog Beliefs, focuses on rewarding students for making positive choices and celebrating the successes we achieve as a team.
As you know, we've been earning Bulldog Bucks for following our Bulldog Beliefs expectations throughout the school day. Have you taken a moment out of your evening to ask your child how many Bulldog Bucks they've earned and what they've earned them for? Today, during school, we redeemed our Bulldog Bucks for prizes from the reward menu below. We're very excited to claim our prizes next week!
Additionally, Betsy Ross students are also in the middle of our Bulldog Beliefs Challenge. Our current challenge is raising a quiet hand and waiting your turn in class. Each classroom fills out a Google Form as a class and has a discussion about how they did toward this goal on Fridays weekly. Our goal is to earn a score of at least a "2" on the form 80% of the time. If we achieve our goal, we'll earn a special prize at the end of our challenge. So far, after 2 weeks of voting, our students have scored a "3" by exceeding expectations 26% of the time, a "2" by meeting expectations 71% of the time, and a "1" meaning we'll try again next time. This means that our goal is set at 80% and we are currently scoring at around 98%. Keep up the great work, Bulldogs!
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Second Step: Try This At Home |
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2nd Grade Families
Topic: Helpful and Unhelpful Thoughts
Summary: Ask your child whether the thoughts they have when they’re learning something new are helpful or unhelpful. Ask your child to share examples of helpful thoughts they know.
Try This at Home: Ask your child whether the thoughts they have when they’re learning something new are helpful or unhelpful. Ask your child to share examples of helpful thoughts they know.
3rd Grade Families
Topic: More Than Practice
Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will learn that if they’re practicing a skill but not getting better, they can try a new way of practicing or find someone to learn from.
Try This at Home: Ask your child to tell you something new they’ve been practicing at school. Ask if they can think of other ways to practice or someone they could learn from.
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Thank you to everyone who took the time out of their busy schedules to join us for our various tech nights over the past couple of weeks. Hopefully, you found them valuable in learning more about how we use technology within the district, whether it be Seesaw Class or Seesaw Family here at the elementary level or Schoology at the middle school level. If you were unable to join us for the presentations but are still interested in the topics, you can click on the links below to access the information from our elementary presentations. It is extremely important that parents "opt-in" and subscribe to Seesaw Family as it is one of our district's main sources of communication for grades K-5. As a result, we highly recommend that all parents review the Seesaw Family presentation below. |
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September 24: D23 Family Movie Night (7:00 @ MacArthur)
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October 8: Ross Picture Retakes
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October 11: Non-Attendance Day (No School)
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October 13: School Board Meeting (7:00 in Board Room)
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Oct. 25-Nov. 12: Parent-Teacher Conferences
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November 11: PTO Meeting (7:00) (Location TBD)
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District News and Updates |
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Important D23 Information |
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Our goal to keep students in school can be supported by an optional screening and testing process currently being planned for District 23.
Through a partnership with the Federal and State governments, the SHIELD Illinois program is now available to all schools in Illinois, free of charge.
This 3rd party laboratory analysis uses the SHIELD saliva based test developed by the University of Illinois. More information can be found HERE.
We hope to launch weekly screening and on demand testing to monitor local community spread, identify presymptomatic or asymptomatic cases, and assist in making informed quarantining decisions. It is our goal to begin on October 1st.
Participation is optional, but requires parental consent. Please complete the form below if you are interested and willing to have your child participate in this program. More information and details will be shared as it becomes available.
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PTO Update
Language Adventures will be offering Online world language enrichment programs for students enrolled at Eisenhower (K-1st grade), Betsy Ross (2nd-3rd grade), and Anne Sullivan (4th-5th grade) starting the week of October 20th, 2021! Enrollment for Language Adventures Spanish Immersion classes will begin on September 23rd, 2021, and will close on October 18th, 2021 (or when all classes have reached their maximum number of students, 12 kids per class).
- Language Adventures requires a minimum of 8 students to run the class.
- Waitlists will be established if interest exceeds space in each class.
Classes will be held online on Wednesdays or Fridays using the Zoom platform.
To enroll or learn other information please click on the button below!
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Thank you for your support. Many of you have generously volunteered your time, donated items, attended fundraising events, collected Box Tops, shopped through Amazon Smile, contributed financially, and supported us throughout the years. Your involvement makes all the difference in our district and we hope you will stay just as dedicated in the upcoming school year. Any help you can provide is always appreciated. Our PTO consists of members with children across all schools in the district. You can meet some wonderful people by getting involved. Please consider joining us for our PTO General Meetings. Here is a list of our future meeting dates:
- Thursday, September 23th
- Thursday, November 11th
- Thursday, January 13th
- Thursday, March 17th
- Thursday, May 12th
If you'd like to check out our PTO website, please feel free to click here.
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Community Partnership Resources |
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