 Our students have been busy in the Learning Garden and it is time to harvest! Please come to stock up on some veggies for the weekend tomorrow after school! It will be first come, first serve. See you there and #BeBateman
¡Nuestros estudiantes han estado muy ocupados en jardín de aprendizaje y es hora de cosechar! Venga a recibir de algunas verduras para el fin de semana de mañana después de la escuela. Será primero llegado, primer servicio. Nos vemos allí y #BeBateman  We need your help! Please vote by this Friday, June 1 to help us choose our Core Values for Bateman! Please click here to vote! #BeBatemanPlease join us for our 4th annual Fine Arts Night on Tuesday, June 12th from 5:00pm to 6:30pm. We will be showcasing student artwork and more! Por favor, únate a nosotros para nuestro 4ta anual noche de bellas artes en el martes, el 12 de junio desde las 5 pm hasta la 6:30 pm. Vamos a celebrar los trabajos artisticos y mas. 
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This is a FINAL friendly reminder that NBGC will be CLOSED Memorial Day Weekend. There will be NO programs today Friday, May 25th to Monday, May 28th. All programs will resume on Tuesday, May 29th. Please make sure to pick up your child at their school when they are dismissed on Friday. I hope you have a great Holiday Weekend.  On Saturday, May 19, the Bateman chess team returned to Nobel Elementary for the final Chicago Chess Foundation tournament of the school year. The team and some individuals had success to cap off another fine year of Bateman chess.
The 5th/6th grade team earned 2nd place out of 25 competing schools, with Gabriel Marquez leading the way with four wins in five rounds. Meanwhile, the 7th/8th grade team also got 2nd place with only two players, both of whom placed in the top 7. Cholpon Nurgazieva claimed her first trophy with a 5th place finish, and 8th grader Aaron Andino completed his Bateman chess career with a 3rd place prize. In the Advanced section, Bateman was narrowly edged out of a 2nd place trophy, but 8th grader Layla Rodriguez wrapped up an amazing Bateman run with a 6th place individual honor. Bateman is very proud to have had Layla and Aaron shine a light for our younger players as we look ahead to continued success. Remember to mark your calendars! The Bateman Chess-a-thon will be happening on Thursday, June 7. We hope to see you there! On February 22, 2018, the third graders at Newton Bateman Elementary School in Albany Park presented the final performance of their Read, Write and Act Residency, based on Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House: Showtime with Shakespeare.  This performance was the culmination of an 11-week residency from Emerald City Theatre, which was awarded to Bateman for its continued administrative leadership, the dedication of its teachers, and enthusiasm of its students for arts programming.
We recently spoke with Mrs. Soto about her experience with Emerald City Theatre. Emerald City Theatre: How did you first hear about the One Fund program? Mrs. Soto: I received a newsletter from CPS about the program about four years ago, which was my first year teaching. It sounded great and I sat down and wrote the application. We won, and the following year our Kindergarten – 3rd-grade students got to see Dragons Love Tacos – and the kids are still talking about it three years later! It made a lasting impression on the students – they feel like because they saw real professional actors on stage, that they can do it too. It gave them more motivation to achieve. ECT: Can you describe how the Read, Write and Act Residency program works? Mrs. Soto: Our 3rd-grade students worked with Héctor Álvarez and Jamie Macpherson, two teaching artists from Emerald City Theatre. They played theater games for the first few weeks, starting each time with vocal and body warm-ups, and an imagination journey – using their imagination and calming their bodies. In a couple weeks they started using the Magic Tree House book and acting it out. They put students into groups to make their own themes and story: here’s the problem, come up with your solution! They used teamwork to continue the story, acting out the scenes or making a tableau -- how can we use our facial expressions and body to tell the story, even without words? In the last couple weeks, they divided the classes into beginning, middle and end of story, and the kids created the show: how to write the script, create the characters. ECT: How involved were ECT’s Teaching Artists? Mrs. Soto: Héctor and Jamie came up with ideas, but the kids guided the action. They’d ask, “If you had a magic tree house, where would you go?” The students said they’d like to visit where their families were from. This was a lot of countries, but the overarching place was Mexico. Then we asked, “What would we do there, and how would we get there?” Jamie and Héctor did a phenomenal job. They really got to know the students and engaged with us all on ways to connect our experiences.
ECT: How has the Read, Write and Act Residency impacted your students? Mrs. Soto: It’s given them a voice of leadership. One of our 3rd graders is usually quiet and has a hard time creating social connections. But with the residency, she stepped up, and when working in a group became a leader! She found her speaking voice. Another 3rd grader is a native Spanish speaker. In class, she’s very quiet and very sweet, does her work, but says things only when she needs to. The residency gave her the confidence to speak up in the classroom, even when it comes to raising her hand, and know that her voice is important, too. Even her mom told me she’s never seen her daughter do anything like that. ECT: As you know, our Outreach programs like the Read, Write and Act Residency are supported primarily by Emerald City Theatre's patrons and supporters. Why do you think people should continue to support these programs? Mrs. Soto: The biggest reason is that it gives the students an opportunity they normally wouldn’t have, and an approach to learning that’s more than sitting in a classroom. It teaches social-emotional level skills. There was a recent article about Google, and how Google realized that while STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teaching is good, soft skills are more important to learning than pushing hard science and math -- because if people aren’t emotionally able to approach subjects, they won’t learn them as well. Giving students the opportunity to be on stage and create gives them the opportunity to learn soft skills and become more compassionate human beings. These programs provide that opportunity.
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 Last summer, when we were in the building missing the sounds of all your children’s laughter ringing in the hallways, we were talking about what a privilege it is to have such a great neighborhood school. We felt so proud to be a part of Bateman. To belong to Bateman. To Be Bateman.
Be Bateman... All year, we’ve have been asking our school community, What does it mean to Be Bateman? Is it an experience? A feeling? Well...we get to see what it is everyday: We’ve seen students collaborating on an art project outside to beautify our playground fence. Our artists show us what it means to Be Bateman. We’ve seen students tackling difficult math problems and explaining their thinking. Our mathematicians show us what it means to Be Bateman. We’ve seen it in our teams, our leaders, children’s smiles and actions. All of our students show us what it means to Be Bateman. We’ve seen teachers encouraging kind choices and positive friendships. Our staff shows us what it means to Be Bateman. These words have encompassed a whole school year and are still taking new meaning each day. What started as a small two word idea has become what we stand for at our great school. From a small action between students to a big event put on by parents...Be Bateman is alive! If you haven’t had the chance to witness what it means to Be Bateman, we hope this provides you a small snapshot. Thanks to the generosity of Elise and Gregg Jaffe and their team at Big Teeth Productions, we are yet again very proud to present a glimpse of our great school and what we all feel it means to “Be Bateman”. Enjoy and.... BE BATEMAN!  Dear Future Bateman Families,
Kindergarten registration is now open at Bateman Elementary! Please call ahead to make an appointment with our main office staff to register for the 2018-19 school year. To learn more about what you need to bring, please click on CPS Registration Checklist. If you have any questions, please feel free to call 773.534.5055. We look forward to having your family join the Bateman school community! All the best, Georgia Davos-Vetas |
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Newton Bateman Elementary School
4220 N. Richmond, Chicago, IL 60618
Phone: (773) 534-5055
4220 N. Richmond, Chicago, IL 60618
Phone: (773) 534-5055