Blackburn Elementary

Do you want to join our #TR1BE? We are looking for a full-time custodian to join Blackburn Elementary School's staff. Apply today by going to www.lumpkinschools.com/jobopenings! #FocusedForward #BetterTogether

Annah's Little Indian Cheer Camp is back on for this year, and registration is currently open. If your child is interested in attending, check out the details on this flyer. Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/x6b8wvka #BetterTogether #TR1BE

It's that time of the year again!! Art Show time!! (Virtual) March 18th through April 1st. Families can log onto https://artomeplus.com/blackburnelementary30534to access AND pay for their child's framed artwork. There are several "New" options this year (and ALL of this information will be on the Art Show website): * Families may pay online with a credit card using PayPal. *There is a $1 credit card processing fee and applicable tax. * If credit card payment is not the preferred method of payment, families may send in cash/checks (Please send to the office with the child's name and your name, too!! *There is a direct shipping option. For a flat fee of $10, they may have their child's (or children's, it's the same $10 price for more than one piece of art) art sent directly to them. *If they do not choose to pay for the direct option, artwork will come to Blackburn after Spring Break and Mrs. Harwood will distribute it asap! *Reproductions are available *If families cannot locate their child's art, please contact Mrs. Harwood.

Boosterthon Fundraiser is going GREAT!!! Keep up the good work! Tonight's Challenge: Student Star Video Challenge If you logged on last night to FUNRUN.COM, then today you earned your first prize for free! But if you forgot, that’s okay! You can still log on to FUNRUN.COM tonight to earn your FREE prize. But guess what?! Tonight we have a NEW challenge. Your challenge is to create your Student Star Video tonight. On FUNRUN.COM, upload a student photo and it will create your very own movie where YOU are the star! You can do it tonight, and then share it with friends and family to ask for your first pledge! You can do it! The class with the most new pledges earns a POPCORN & MOVIE chosen by the winning class!

It is not too late to order this year’s Blackburn yearbook for your child. The deadline is Friday, February 26. Just go to jostensyearbooks.com to order one today.

Call for participants. Join us in a discussion of your student's experience with online and/or in-person learning. Emory Rollins School of Public Health.

DOMINOES FUNDRAISER ALL CALL Good afternoon, Blackburn families. This is Betsy Green, principal of BES. We are going to do 2 fundraisers this year, one for Dominoes Slice The Price Cards and our annual Boosterthon at the end of February. The Dominoes fundraiser starts today and will end on Tuesday, Feb 2. The fundraiser was supposed to start on Jan 6 and end Jan 20, so anywhere you see Jan 20 on what was sent home, now it should say Feb 2. Your student will be bringing home an order form and details about the fundraiser today. Even though we are sending home an order form, we encourage all of you to do this online and not go door to door. The slice the price card costs $10 and can be used until Dec. 31, 2021. Every time you order a large pizza between now and Dec 31, you get another large pizza for free. If you order 5 large pizzas, you will get 5 free large pizzas. This card will pay for itself after the first use. You can share the link or the QR code with relatives and friends through Facebook, other social media sites, through email or text. Dominoes will send the cards ordered online directly to the people that order the cards. There are different prizes for different sales levels and families will get a free card once your student sells 12 cards. The website has a link that shows all the Dominoes that accept the card and all the Dominoes around us do accept the card. The transcript of this all call will be on our website for you to refer back to. Thank you for supporting BES.

IMPORTANT ALL CALL TRANSCRIPT Good afternoon. This is Betsy Green, principal of Blackburn Elementary School. Students will return to school on Tuesday, January 19 and we will all be happy to welcome them back. Thank you for doing an amazing job of supporting your children during this virtual learning time. When they return to school, they will need to return their Chromebooks,chargers, and all papers/supplies sent home with students. Please put these items in their backpacks and instruct them not to get them out until they get to their homeroom and their teacher asks them to get it all out. As we prepare to return to school next week, please take all precautions and do not send your child to school if they have symptoms related to COVID 19. If your child has been exposed to someone who has tested positive or they are showing symptoms, please email me or call the school directly on Tuesday for guidance. In addition, we strongly encourage all students to wear their masks as much as possible at school. We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday. We will hold our 1st semester Chief Council Ceremony on Friday, January 22. Since no visitors are allowed in the building, we will record the ceremonies and post the recordings to our website. This message will be posted on our website for you to refer back to later. Take care.

IMPORTANT ALL CALL TRANSCRIPT This is Betsy Green, principal of Blackburn Elementary School, with important information about distance learning. Students will be interacting with their teachers on a daily basis via zoom meetings. School hours for virtual learning are from 8am to 2:30pm. Students will be following the schedule set by the grade level teachers and this will be communicated through their google classroom. Teachers will also be sharing zoom links through their google classroom. Here is the pick up plan for laptops and supplies - Wednesday from 8a to 11a and 1p to 4p - If these times don’t work for you, you need to email me at betsy.green@lumpkinschools.com and we will plan a time to meet you. Here are the directions for device and supplies pickup. Parent pulls in the bus blacktop, which is the 2nd BES entrance. Please do not pull into the normal entrance as this will be one way traffic for exiting. Parent drops student off at yellow hall doors where staff will be standing, drive through the open side gate to the front lot and get into the parent pick up line. Students will be directed to cars once they have picked up all materials. Please bring an empty bookbag with each of your children for them to put all materials in for easy pickup. If you have a 3rd, 4th or 5th grader and they do not need a laptop, you do not need to come to the school. If you have a Kinder, 1st, or 2nd grader and they don’t need a laptop, you will still need to come to the school to get some instructional materials to go along with the online learning. The transcript of this call is already on our website for you to refer back to since there are so many details.

Parents and guardians, this is Betsy Green, principal at BES. Device and material pickup will occur on Wednesday from 8am to 11am and 1pm to 4pm. Tomorrow, your child’s homeroom teacher will reach out to you to determine if your student needs to borrow a device from the school. Please be patient with us as we finalize plans for device and materials pickup. We will do an all call tomorrow with very specific directions for you to follow. If you have a student returning from virtual school, please keep your device and they will do virtual school with their new teacher. If your student was changing homeroom teachers due to creating new classes in 3rd and 5th, your student will do virtual school with their new teacher. New teachers will be reaching out to you tomorrow to let you know how to access their google classroom.

Good afternoon, parents and guardians. This is Betsy Green, principal of Blackburn Elementary School with a few important announcements. LC Schools will be on Christmas break from Dec 21 through Jan 4. Students will return to school on Tuesday, Jan 5. This Friday, Dec 18 is an early release day and school will end at 11:25. The buses will pull out of the school at 11:25, so please plan accordingly to meet your children at their bus stop or be at home when the bus arrives. For example, if your child usually gets home at 3:20 then that is 25 min after the buses leave the school. So you should expect your child at 11:50 on Friday. Please figure this out ahead of time so all bus riders will have an adult at home or at the stop at the appropriate time. BES is participating in a study that is being conducted by Emory University about the school experience during this pandemic time, both virtual and traditional school. They are looking for parents of kindergarten through 2nd graders that are essential workers to join in a discussion with them about this topic. The focus group will be virtual and it will occur sometime in January. They are offering a $50 Visa gift card to all participants. If you are interested in participating, please call the school at 706-864-8180 and ask to speak to me or email me with your interest at betsy.green@lumpkinschools.com. I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Holiday Theme Week 12/14 - 12/18

𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟮, 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗖𝗦𝗦 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 LBES Staff Profile by: Brianna Mikeals BES Staff Profile by: Malaya Brown, Aubrey Cooper, and Easton Sosebee #𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙

#𝑭𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 #𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 #𝑻𝑹1𝑩𝑬

Parents! On Friday, October 23, BES will host our annual Title I meeting. This year, in keeping with the times, we will be having the meetings virtually. We will conduct the meeting at 9:00AM and then will repeat the meeting at 4:00PM. Feel free to join in with either meeting at the following Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99155561376

Good afternoon Blackburn families. This is Betsy Green, principal of BES with a few important announcements. Tomorrow, Friday, Oct 9 is the last day to order a 5th grade t-shirt. No late orders will be accepted. Please wash your child’s water bottle every couple of days. We have found some with mold in them and we don’t want children to get sick from drinking out of dirty water bottles. Next Wednesday, October 14, is a half day for students and school will get out at 11:30am. Please plan accordingly to pick up your child or meet their bus. This half day will be used for scheduled parent conferences. Take care and enjoy the rest of your day.

Issue 3 of our spotlights published today! 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 @ 𝑩𝑬𝑺 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 #𝑭𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 #𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓

Good afternoon, BES families. This is Betsy Green, principal of BES, with a couple of announcements. 1)Flu shots will be given at Blackburn by the health department on Friday, October 9. In order for your child to be able to receive their flu shot here at Blackburn, you will need to fill out the form that is being sent home today in your child’s Monday folder. The forms are due back to BES no later than Friday, October 2. Please return them to your child’s homeroom teacher and she will make sure the nurse receives all forms. 2)Framed art work that has been ordered is here at Blackburn. Artwork cannot be sent home on the bus. So, please make arrangements to pick the artwork up at school if your child rides the bus.

Virtual Students: Do you want to make sure you are in your school's yearbook this year? Click this link to sign-up for when you can come have your picture taken later in October: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C4BAEAE2FA3FE3-lumpkin #𝑭𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅

3rd graders were excited to receive dictionaries from the Lumpkin County Literacy Coalition!