09/22/2022
Great turnout for our very first ice cream social! Thank you to our amazing Forest Park PTO for organizing this event!
Betsy Ross Elementary
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Betsy Ross is a primary elementary school in the Forest Park School District 91. Welcome to the Home of the Stars! Betsy Ross teaches students grades K-2.
Betsy Ross Primary Elementary School serves students on the south end of Forest Park. Students that attend Betsy Ross will then go on to attend Field-Stevenson Intermediate Elementary and Forest Park Middle School.
Operating as usual
09/21/2022
We are going to show our school spirit next week!
09/19/2022
We hope you can join us for some ice cream on Wednesday.
08/31/2022
Betsy Ross Elementary updated their business hours.
Betsy Ross Elementary updated their business hours.
08/31/2022
Betsy Ross Elementary updated their website address.
Betsy Ross Elementary updated their website address.
08/31/2022
We have spirit! Yes we do! We have spirit! How about you?? Order your spiritwear today.
08/31/2022
Tonight! We hope to see you there!
08/25/2022
Follow the New Page for the Forest Park PTO!
08/24/2022
We hope to see all of our families next week at our in-person open house. You will get to step foot in your child's classroom and meet their teachers. We cannot wait to see you!!
08/15/2022
Tomorrow! Look for the Betsy Ross table!
08/04/2022
We are working with the Police department to help find crossing guards!! This is such an important role for our community! Please consider applying. School starts 8/23 let's get these positions filled!
The Forest Park Police Department is seeking qualified individuals for the position of Crossing Guard. This position requires flexible hours during days when schools are in session. A background investigation and drug screening will be conducted prior to consideration for the position.
Applications available at Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Avenue or on-line at www.forestpark.net and should be returned to Vanessa Moritz, HR Director, at Village Hall. For additional information, contact Dora Murphy at 708-615-6223 or write [email protected].
Applications accepted until position is filled. EOE.
Crossing Guard – Hourly Rate of Pay $16.73 (Hours 7:30am - 8:30am / 2:30pm – 3:30pm; occasional ½ days 7:30am – 8:30am – 11:00am – 12:30pm)
06/10/2022
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FPSD91 is excited to announce FREE Meals for all children 18 years & under. The meal served is breakfast and will be available through the duration of our summer program. (Students attending summer school will have a meal available to them)
Where: Field-Stevenson/FPMS (925 Beloit Ave)
When: June 13th - July 8th, 2022; 8:45 am - 9:45 am. (Closed on June 20th and July 4th.)
Child must be present & must remain on the property to eat.
Sign-up is preferred: bit.ly/FPMeals22
06/03/2022
Wrapping up the school year in style!
06/03/2022
Congratulations! Ms. Karen is the winner of the Key to Our Success Award for Betsy Ross this year. This award is for support staff who keep our school running and happy, and make Betsy Ross a better place! Mrs. Perry is our Betsy Ross Red Apple winner, AND the District 91 Crystal Apple winner! Each year, each school's staff nominates a winner for the school, and the Board of Education selects the district wide winner based on what was written about each nominee. We are so proud to have another Crystal Apple at Betsy Ross!!
Thanks to Mrs. Perry and Ms. Karen for helping us to shine brighter together!
06/01/2022
Make sure to register by Friday to be entered!
Current D91 Families register now for the next School year for your chance to win! Log in to the Infinite Campus Portal to complete your registration. All students whose registrations are finished & submitted on or before June 3rd, 2022 will be entered in a raffle to win a $20 Brown Cow gift card and a Pool Pass! (One winner per school) We look forward to seeing you next year!
06/01/2022
We're celebrating all of the wonderful achievements of our students this year. They all have so much to be proud of!
05/31/2022
We may be down to the final days, but our learning is far from over! Building words together is always fun!
05/27/2022
What a day we had yesterday at the Lincoln Park Zoo! We avoided the rain and took in the sights!
05/26/2022
Coding in Kindergarten? You bet! Our students used code to get their BeeBots from point A to point B in library this week!
05/25/2022
Reminder for Friday!
05/23/2022
Mrs. Seery's second graders are published authors and illustrators! They were able to create a book about animals and have it made into beautiful, hardcover books! They loved reading their pages to their class when they received it on Friday. Congratulations to our talented author-illustrators!
05/19/2022
P is for Picnic Day!
05/18/2022
Teamwork makes the dream work!
05/17/2022
Mrs. Seery's second graders studied the water cycle and made their own examples to observe!
05/11/2022
Ms. Edwards' groups are embracing this sunshine with science! Her kindergarten students practiced reading about plants with Ms. Huff, and her first graders are recording their observations of their own growing plants!
05/10/2022
Theater is back! Our first graders were treated to a fantastic performance by Ms. Roybal's reading group- can you guess the readers' theater play they read? (Hint: their costumes were "just right!")
05/09/2022
H is for Hawaii! We're hula-ing our way to summer!
05/06/2022
We're cruising through our ABC Countdown, and G is for GAMES! What a Great day!
G is also for Gratitude- many thanks for the kindness and appreciation our staff has received this week. We are so Grateful!
05/05/2022
We hope to see you tonight at Betsy to hear the current proposals
for restructuing and give your feedback!
The Board of Education is holding Public Hearings. Hearings are open to all Village of Forest Park residents. Comments will be accepted in person at the hearings. Written correspondence will be accepted prior to the May Board meeting by mail: Board of Education, 424 Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, IL, 60130 Attn: Jeanette Barnes or email your comments to [email protected] by noon on May 12, 2022.
For additional information, to request special arrangements for the public hearings (interpreters) please contact Jeanette Barnes at 708.366.5700 or email [email protected]
05/03/2022
We have the BEST PTO! Thank you to Mrs. Ernst and Mrs. Pekoll for coming out in the rain to brighten our day, and to the entire PTO for your thoughtfulness!
05/02/2022
It's Book Character Day!
04/28/2022
It's Poem in my Pocket Day! Mrs. Westol's reading groups have new poems and new pockets to celebrate!
04/28/2022
The library has been a busy place this week! Our first graders are anxiously awaiting the appearance of dinosaurs from their eggs, and our second graders are budding meteorologists, studying the weather!
04/27/2022
There is so much exciting learning happening at Betsy Ross this week! Ms. Edwards' second grade students read about the awesome architect Zaha Hadid. Ms. Hadid designed very interesting buildings with flowing lines that are inspired by nature. The students then created three dimensional structures of their own out of construction paper.
04/26/2022
Last week, Mrs. Perry and Ms. Skinner's classes taught our superintendant and two of our Board of Education members about the planets!
04/25/2022
The Board of Education is holding Public Hearings. Hearings are open to all Village of Forest Park residents. Comments will be accepted in person at the hearings. Written correspondence will be accepted prior to the May Board meeting by mail: Board of Education, 424 Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, IL, 60130 Attn: Jeanette Barnes or email your comments to [email protected] by noon on May 12, 2022.
For additional information, to request special arrangements for the public hearings (interpreters) please contact Jeanette Barnes at 708.366.5700 or email [email protected]
04/25/2022
KINDNESS ROCKS! It's Kindness Week in Forest Park! If you see a decorated rock around town, please take a pic and share on Class Dojo or on social media with the hashtag so we can see them! (Please make social posts public so we can see them 😊💕)
04/21/2022
What better way to celebrate learning about the solar system than astronaut ice cream?!
04/20/2022
For National Poetry Month, Mrs. Westol's 2nd grade reading groups have been enjoying daily poems to work on fluency, rhyming, and a love of literacy!
04/14/2022
Scientific observations are more fun with peeps!
04/13/2022
Our first graders are hard at work creating slide presentations about the planets!
04/08/2022
We are so lucky to have Rosabella here at Betsy Ross to help celebrate Deaf History Month with a sign language lesson for our first graders! 🤟
04/06/2022
Our Instructional Assistants go above and beyond the call of duty every single day, and keep our children learning and thriving. We cannot thank them enough. They work directly with students to provide interventions and supports, help organize classrooms and prepare for lessons, monitor lunches, and jump in anywhere they may be needed on a moment's notice. They are the unsung heroes of our school community and we appreciate them everyday!
04/06/2022
Mrs. Halliwell's class is ready to perform an Elephant and Piggie reader's theater for their second grade buddies!
04/04/2022
April is National Poetry Month! Poems are a fun way to practice rhyming, new vocabulary, and word play with young children while you're reading aloud. Speaking of reading aloud to children in early childhood, it is one of the biggest predictors of reading success once they are school age. Plus, listening to poems and stories is just good fun! We hope you have some fun with poetry at home this month!
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1315 Marengo Avenue
Forest Park, IL
60130
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| Monday | 7:30am - 3:30pm |
| Tuesday | 7:30am - 3:30pm |
| Wednesday | 7:30am - 3:30pm |
| Thursday | 7:30am - 3:30pm |
| Friday | 7:30am - 3:30pm |
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2021 Cyrstal Apple Winner
We could not be happier to announce that we have another Crystal Apple winner at Betsy Ross! Ms. Choice joined our staff for this extremely challenging year, and hit the ground running to give her students her very best, day in and day out. Ms. Choice is humble, but she shone bright as we saw her provide individualized instruction to each and every student, whether they needed extra help or additional challenges. In a year when everyone had to work harder than ever, Ms. Choice stood out as going above and beyond, and that's really saying something! Our staff and the Board of Education recognized that and are grateful for her hard work and dedication. Congratulations, Ms. Choice!
2021 Key to Our Success
We are so proud of Ms. Calabrese, this year's winner of the Key to Our Success Award. Ms. Calabrese started the year assisting all three kindergarten rooms as they planned an implemented a hands-on, fully remote program. Once we hired more support staff, she helped to train our new staff members and help them get situated and feel at home. When Mrs. Frawley's maternity leave started earlier than expected, she stepped up once again to make sure our students and staff were well supported. Thank you, Ms. Calabrese!
Our PTO really goes above and beyond! We are so lucky to have such amazing support this week and every week! Thank you, South PTO!
And the Beat Goes On!
And the Beat Goes On!
Reading with sight words!
Project Kindness 2020 Gift of Love
Betsy Ross First Grade Feast 2019
Betsy Ross 2019 Halloween Parade
Cross Guards Honored
Hello to all the Children of the World!
Learning About Kindness!
The time is always right to do what is right.
Let's sing about peace all around the world!
ukelele
Hanukkah, O Hanukkah
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Almost time for Break!
Look at these lucky learners!🍀
First grade is having fun building words with -aw!
Happy Pi Day! While our students are still learning whole numbers, our staff is happy to celebrate!
The third annual International SEL Day is today, March 11, 2022! SEL Day is an opportunity to collectively spread the word about the importance and impact of social emotional learning.
At Betsy Ross, we value everyday. Whether it's as part of our Second Step SEL curriculum, embedded in Language Arts when reading and discussing what you can do when you feel blue, working cooperatively to help organize materials, identifying feelings as part of the morning meeting routine, playing kindly with friends, or even learning when and how to move our bodies in space, social emotional learning one of the biggest, most important works of childhood and needs to be honored.
Primary age students need SEL all day, everyday, and today, we celebrate it!
At Betsy Ross, we value everyday. Whether it's as part of our Second Step SEL curriculum, embedded in Language Arts when reading and discussing what you can do when you feel blue, working cooperatively to help organize materials, identifying feelings as part of the morning meeting routine, playing kindly with friends, or even learning when and how to move our bodies in space, social emotional learning one of the biggest, most important works of childhood and needs to be honored.
Primary age students need SEL all day, everyday, and today, we celebrate it!
Here's to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them!
It's School Social Workers Week! School Social Workers serve as a resource to the principal and other educators. Working closely with individual students and their families, School Social Workers create a bridge between the school and the community when linking services.-- School Social Work Association of America
Shout out and thanks to Mrs. Coco this week! Our School Social Workers have been more important than ever since March of 2020, and we're grateful to have a Social Worker in each Forest Park school supporting our students and staff.
Shout out and thanks to Mrs. Coco this week! Our School Social Workers have been more important than ever since March of 2020, and we're grateful to have a Social Worker in each Forest Park school supporting our students and staff.
Today is Read Across America Day! All of our classes participated in fun reading activities, from making Cat in the Hat hats with new buddies to exploring diverse authors to special flashlight books that reveal hidden illustration details. What a fun way to learn!
It's Rare Disease Awareness Day and we're celebrating all the strong, brave "unicorns" out there thriving and teaching us everyday!
A huge congratulations to our second grade School Citizen of the Year, Keegan! Keegan has demonstrated respect, responsibility, and leadership as a student during his time at Betsy Ross. SCOTY awared winners will be honored at a luncheon in March. Congrats, Keegan!
Making words on a fun Friday!