Blacklick’s Field Day will be Wednesday, May 21, rain or shine!
Grades 3-5 will rotate through stations in the morning and Grades K-2 will rotate in the afternoon.
Please send:
A sack lunch and drink for your student. The cafeteria will be closed. Students WILL NOT be able to purchase a school lunch on this date.
A change of clothes in a plastic bag because of the water involved in some stations.
A personal water bottle.
Sunscreen on your student if they need it.
Please reach out to Mrs. Ball, Mrs. Perkins, or Mrs. Wolfe with any questions.
Your child's report card for Quarter 4 will be available in Infinite Campus on May 29. We will not be sending home paper copies of the report card this quarter.
If you are not sure of your login or password for Infinite Campus, please call the school office and Mrs. Lindsey will be able to help you (614-759-5100).
You can access your child's on-line progress report by following the steps below:
1. Log into the Infinite Campus Parent Portal here:
https://gahannajeffersonoh. infinitecampus.org/campus/ portal/gahanna_jefferson.jsp
2. Once in the portal, click on "DOCUMENTS" in the left menu and select the appropriate report card.
3. The report card will open in a new window so please be sure to allow pop ups with Infinite Campus.
4. As you move the cursor around, a menu will appear at the top of the progress report giving you an option to download or print if you desire.
All medications MUST be picked up by an adult by the end of the last day of school (Friday, May 23rd). ALL medications left behind on this date will be disposed of at the end of the day. If you need to make other arrangements for your child’s medication, please contact your school nurse directly.
Please note:
Gahanna-Jefferson Public School (in accordance with Ohio Law) requires that a new medication form be completed each school year. Each medication requires a separate form. Please contact your child’s healthcare provider to have the form(s) completed if your child must have medication available to them during the school day next year. In the fall, all new medication MUST be brought to the school by an adult. For safety reasons, students CANNOT transport medication to/from school. In addition, ALL medication must be correctly labeled and in the original container.
GJPS’s medication policy as well as all medication forms can be read and downloaded from the Gahanna-Jefferson website:
http://www.gahannaschools.org/District/HealthServices.aspx.
Please contact your school or school nurse with any questions. Have a great summer!
Alexandra Marinelli
School Nurse
614-269-4847
All Blacklick library books are now due! If your student brought home a reminder slip, please help them return their book to the library as soon as possible. TalkingPoint reminders will go out next week about any books not yet returned. Thank you for your help with this!
To encourage your student to read over the summer, they can complete the Blacklick Summer Reading Bingo, register for the public library's Summer Reading Challenge at
columbuslibrary.org/summerreading or stop in any Columbus Metropolitan Library location after May 31, or visit the sunshine on the Blacklick Library website for more suggestions (your student should be able to show you that information).
Art in Grade 2
After finishing their Great Wave inspired paintings, 2nd graders are ending the school year working on Romero Britto heart drawings! These happy, colorful and pattern filled artworks have been a delightful way to bring the bright colors of summer into our work!
Music in Grade 2
2nd graders have been learning how to play tubano and djembe drums! These are African style drums that are played with their hands. We are practicing playing the “steady beat” and the “word rhythm” of this chant:
If you see a buckeye in a tree, pick it up and give it to me!”
Library in Grade 2
Second graders did a unit on Anansi the trickster spider in African mythology. We read and listened to several stories about him, recognizing the use of repetition since they were originally shared orally. We also watched Donna Washington, a professional storyteller, to understand how people used to listen to stories.
