To help increase our holiday spirit and earn some funds, our Student Council will be selling Candy Canes for $1.00 after school at the front gates on the following dates: 12/6, 12/8, 12/9, 12/12 and 12/13.
School News
Updated Thu, Oct 5th
We apologize that there was an error in our announcement regarding the English and Spanish meetings for these parent workshops coming up next week. Please see information below.
BULLYING AND CYBER-BULLYNG (only in English)
Will be in person on Tuesday, December 13th @ 8:30 AM
In the Library
Spanish version/class:
ACOSO Y ACOSO-CIBERNETICO (ONLY IN SPANISH)
Wednesday 14th @ 6:00 PM
Via ZOOM Https://bit.ly/3TAA2IH
[Thursday, Dec 8 at 1:46 PM]
Here is the updated Zoom link info:
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3...
Meeting ID: 923 2406 3039
Passcode: 470447
Updated Mon, Dec 12th
Please join us for our Blackford PTA Dining Out Fundraiser held at Panda Express, located at 1700 Bascom Ave., on November 30th from 10:30 AM- 9:30 PM. You can order via the app or stop by the location. 20% of all sales will be donated to Blackford PTA to support enrichment programs and events for the students. Please see attached flyers. You can bring the paper flyer or show it on your smartphone. You can also order on PandaExpress.com or the App. Enter 346906 in the fundraiser code box.
Updated Wed, Nov 30th
Please join us for our second ELAC Meeting of the year this Friday, Nov. 18th at 8:30 AM in the Multi-Use building. Coffee and refreshments will be served. See agenda attached.
Updated Wed, Nov 23rd
THE SAN JOSE POLICE DEPARTMENT
CRIME PREVENTION UNIT AND
BLACKFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
present a workshop on the topic of Child Safety.
The workshops will be offered in Spanish and English.
Please see the attached fliers regarding each workshop being offered.
November 15th: Presentation in Spanish starting at 8:30 AM in person
November 16th Presentation in English via ZOOM starting at 6 PM
Updated Sat, Nov 26th
Please help support our student enrichment programs and community events at Blackford!
Chocolate for a good cause, what could be sweeter?
Orders must be placed by 12/2/2022
See's Candies Yum-Raising - Blackford Elementary School PTA
Please share with friends and family!
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Updated Wed, Nov 16th
Our October days have been filled with a lot of fun engaging activities for our Bobcats!
From the SJSU Women's Basketball Team visiting our BAWSI Girls program,
students learning how to play hockey during PE Prep,
visiting the PTA Pumpkin Patch and every student getting a pumpkin to take home,
BAWSI Rollers for our County OI class,
our new school librarian visiting classrooms,
Living Classroom garden lessons for TK-1st grade,
Student Council Schoolwide Door Decorating Contest,
Lights On Campbell Care event with Castlemont,
a Halloween Costume Parade with parents/family members present to join in the fun,
el dia de los muertos altar created in the spirit of love,
the month of October has been memorable, and
we are grateful for the opportunities
provided for our students!
Updated Thu, Oct 27th
We are so appreciative of how our community pulled together to help make sure we didn't lose our PTA. Last Friday, we were able to elect a new PTA Board for 22-23.
Congratulations to our new PTA Board:
President - Rachelle Johnson
Secretary - Amy Laing
Treasurer - Dulce Zuniga
Parliamentarian - Yesenia Quiroz Mendoza
Auditor - Erica Baker
Membership and Communications - Niki Cardenas
Historian - Open
Our heatfelt thanks goes out to our previous PTA Board:
President - Julie Tate Judge
Secretary - Cicelyn Tejada-Slade
Treasurer - Audrianna Correa-Jimenez
Parliamentarian - Krystal Fritzsch
Auditor - Erica Baker
Membership and Communications - Rachelle Johnson
Volunteer Coordinator - Deb Nin
Our former PTA Board worked tirelessly to make sure the PTA was still functioning and making a difference for our students, staff and community. The fact they continued through the struggles of the pandemic, Distance Learning, returning to in person and returning to everyone back on campus speaks to their determination, dedication, selflessness and love for our students and community.
Thank you from all of us!
We appreciate each of you and what you each did and contributed as a PTA Board member.
Check out Blackford PTA:
blackfordpta [at] gmail.com ()
Updated Wed, Oct 12th
This year our students are getting to experience "Innovation Time" with three inrcredible educators and Innovation Specialists:
Jason Pittman, Megan Delaye and Jonathan Natividad.
Every other week, each K-5 class meets with our Innovation Specialists to investigate science and engineering concepts, as well as visit our school garden and create student portfolios demonstrating their work, projects and experiences via SeeSaw. During this time our classroom teachers are provided planning time as a grade level team in order to review student progress towards meeting standards, respond to data, and plan for instruction.
Some examples of what our students are experiencing during this time are as follows:
-How do scientists and engineers work together? The Tinker Studio: Making Faces
-Create a catapult with curated materials
-Share ideas about what scientists do and where they work.
Scientists ask questions and solve problems.
-Design and Build things that roll.
Gallery walk-test things that roll/what do you see that is innovative?
-Matter Mysteries - Anchor Phenomenon: Bottles and Balloons. Use the Bottles and Balloons demonstration to practice making observations and observing patterns. Use sentence frames to explain that one mixture has a no reaction, but the other causes the balloon to inflate.
-Intro Matter Mysteries - testing conductivity
-What are the expectations in the garden? Respect Achievement Responsibility
-Plants are Amazing: think about what kinds of plants we will see as we walk around Blackford and go to the garden. In pairs, students find a plant they like and describe it using their senses.
We are happy to report our students are responding very positively to this new program. We are so appreciative of the hard work our Innovation Team puts forth to prepare and teach every other week.
Later this year we look forward to hosting grade level parent/family tours of our Innovation Rooms, as well as a schoowide STEAM Night. Students will also begin posting their learning to SeeSaw for parents/guardians to view. We encourage parents/guardians to please make sure they are signed up to receive and view their child's SeeSaw posts.