December menus are posted. Check out all of the awesome breakfast and lunch options for the upcoming month!
https://www.m289.org/o/northbrook/page/school-food-menus
Notice: Lunch Menu Chance for Tuesday 11/7
For Blackstone's October kind deed, our students made fliers to spread the message about the dangers of drugs. This week during Red Ribbon Week, Sullivans is so kind to put our fliers in their grocery bags. We hope our community members enjoy our positive messages and colorful fliers. Thank you Sullivans!
Next Week (October 23rd-27th) is Red Ribbon week in our schools. Attached are all of the dress up days for Red Ribbon Spirit Week.
Next Week (October 23rd-27th) is Red Ribbon week in our schools. Attached are all of the dress up days for Red Ribbon Spirit Week.
Just a reminder that all Club's Choice Fundraiser orders are due by Monday, October 16th. See the attached flyer for additional information about online ordering, order pick up, and how we plan to use the proceeds from this fundraiser. We appreciate your ongoing support of our students in District 289.
Our Club's Choice Fundraiser kicks off today! Students will be bringing home order forms and more information.
District 289 Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up October 17th and 19th. See the posted information below. We can't wait to see you! ❤️💛💙
September 28th was "National Good Neighbor Day." All of our students at Blackstone participated in a kindness project to make a card to deliver with their parents to one of their own neighbors. Pictured are students from Mrs. Wixom and Mrs. Tolley's classes with their cards. We hope everyone in our community that got a card enjoyed this kind deed from our students!
Here are the October breakfast and lunch menus. So many great meals this month!
https://www.m289.org/o/northbrook/page/school-food-menus
Mendota 289 Spiritwear is now available. Check out the links below to place an online order with 4M graphics.
Blackstone: https://blackstonespiritwear2023.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Lincoln: https://lincolnspiritwear23.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Northbrook: https://northbrookspiritwear23.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Congratulations to the winners from our first Paw Pride reward assembly! These lucky students had their names drawn to win prizes for their great behavior.
Friday, September 15th will be Purple and Gold Spirit Day - Dress in your best purple and gold spirit wear to celebrate Mendota High School Homecoming.
Congratulations to the following students for being nominated for the principal award this week: Ava Porter, Cerenity Moss, Arianna Arteaga, Ophelia Bronski, Merakim Riniker, Graham Phillips, Callan Jordan and Addyson Fahr.
The students who were chosen as winners were Gus Eich, Kaitlyn Castaneda, Jonas Landeros and Allias Francis. Congratulations!
Click on the link below to see the Principal Weekly Report for August 28th-September 1st.
https://5il.co/23z4y
We hope everyone has checked out all of the delicious options sent home on the Puffin Pastry Fundraiser form. Order forms and money are due by September 8th. Funds raised will be used for some really great student prizes for our positive behavior assemblies at all three school this year.
Be on the lookout - Puffin Pastry order forms will be coming home with your child today!
Blackstone Weekly Report
Stacy Kelly, Principal
August 25th, 2023
We have just completed our first full week back to school. We’ve had a very smooth start to the year. The students are making new friends, meeting staff, learning rules and practicing procedures. It’s great to have everyone back in the building and ready to have a fantastic year!
We have a few new staff members at Blackstone this year. They are off to a great start and are already a part of our Blackstone family. We welcome the following new staff members: Abby Fancher (speech), Ashley Bain (special education), Tanya Milus (paraprofessional) and Erin Riordan (paraprofessional). Vicki Tolley has moved from a paraprofessional to a first grade teacher this year. Welcome new staff members!
I would like to thank the many community members and businesses who have recently donated school supplies to our students in need at Blackstone. The students were so excited to receive their new supplies. We appreciate this support!
Download the Mendota #289 app from the App Store or Play Store for district and school news, events, announcements, menus, etc. Rooms is the parent-teacher chat that is fully integrated into our district app so you have one app for everything Mendota #289. Parents should expect an email invite from edurooms to gain access. We encourage all of our parents to get access to this app as it will be used on a regular basis from the district, school and teachers.
Blackstone School is currently scheduling incoming kindergarten student readiness screeners. The screeners will take place on June 26th-June 29th at Blackstone.
If you have a child coming to kindergarten in August, please call our office at 815-539-6888 to schedule a 20 minute appointment for next week for this screener. It is mandatory for all incoming kindergarten students to have the readiness screener completed before we can add them to a class list.
Monday is Field Day. Please have your child wear their Field Day shirt if they bought one. We will have a picnic lunch. If your child does not want the hot dog lunch, please send a cold lunch. Students will get a grilled hot dog, a bag of chips, cookies and juice. No hot lunch trays will be served from the cafeteria on this day.
Students should wear tennis shoes. Please consider putting sunscreen on your child before coming to school. It will be hot! Mrs. Gallagher has adjusted some of the games due to the heat. A couple of the rotations will include coming into the building throughout the day to do the activity in the air conditioning. Students will also be given water breaks and a cool treat. We're looking forward to a great day on Monday!