Get into the holiday spirit by celebrating our Holiday Spirit Week next week! Find the flyer below with the specific theme days. Wear your festive attire to your grade-level Zooms to share with your online classmates and your teacher.

If you'd like to be featured on our webpage, email your photo to Mrs. Forgach, Elementary Blended Point of Contact, at cforgach@bloomsd.k12.pa.us. 

Happy Spirit Week! 

We wish to send out a huge thank you to our elementary Blended students who decorated a pumpkin for the second annual pumpkin decorating contest!  We loved all of the entries so much that we decided to give them all a prize!

Pictured above, top row, from left to right, are pumpkins by:

- Addien, Grade 1 - Most Intense

- Winnie, Grade 4 - Prettiest

- Lily, Grade 4 - Most Fun

Pictured above, bottom row, from left to right, are pumpkins by:

- Sylar, Kdg. - Most Unique

- Sophie, Grade 1 - Cutest

- Megan, Grade 5 - Most Creative

- Mackenzie, Grade 5 - Scariest

- Catherine, Kdg. - Most Magical

We're happy to announce that the 2nd Annual Blended Pumpkin Decorating Contest starts Monday! All K-5 students working online are eligible to participate. Please find a flyer attached that includes more information. We hope you will consider participating!

Good morning, Panther families! This is just a reminder that today is picture day for our students working in the Blended Online Learning Program. If you already made an appointment, we look forward to seeing you at the District Office (728 East Fifth Street) during your assigned time. 

We are pleased to announce Children's Museum Virtual Tours for all K-5 students working in the Blended Online Learning Program. Please see the attached flyer for more information!

Children's Museum Virtual Tour Schedule

This is a reminder that the Bloomsburg Area School District is off this week, September 27-October 1, 2021. The online program remains open outside of school hours, though. For any students who have fallen behind in coursework, this is a great time to complete work. As a reminder, however, our teachers and staff will not be available for morning meetings, office hours, grading, or responding to emails. 

Picture Day for students working in the Blended Online Learning Program is scheduled for October 13, 2021 at our District Office (728 East Fifth Street). Appointments are available between 8:30am-3:30pm that day.

 Feel free to visit the Lifetouch website at www.mylifetouch.com. (Please use Google Chrome in order to access the site.) Our Picture Day ID is EVTD6TTS4 and can be found on the flyer.  If you prefer to pay in person, order forms will be available on October 13.

Please contact the appropriate Point of Contact listed below to schedule your appointment.

• Grades K-5: Melissa Day, mday@bloomsd.k12.pa.us, 570.784.5000, ext. 3302
• Grades 6-8: Heaven Reinard, hreinard@bloomsd.k12.pa.us, 570.784.6100
• Grades 9-12: Jerome Manley, jmanley@bloomsd.k12.pa.us, 570.784.6100

We are well underway with our 2021-2022 school year!

Please reach out to the appropriate contacts if you have any questions or concerns regarding our program:

• K-5: Mrs. Melissa Day, mday@bloomsd.k12.pa.us
• 6-8: Mrs. Heaven Reinard, hreinard@bloomsd.k12.pa.us
• 9-12: Mr. Jerome Manley, jmanley@bloomsd.k12.pa.us

We are excited for the return of our Panthers online again this school year! All students who were enrolled in the Blended Program by Wednesday, August 18 should have received a phone call yesterday regarding pick-up of resources.

Was your child enrolled but you didn't receive a call? Please call us at 570.784.6100 to confirm your phone number and email address.

All students enrolled will receive an introductory email today with all of the information needed to start on Monday.

Fall enrollment for our Blended Online Learning Program has begun. With online coursework facilitated by our Bloomsburg teachers available from K-12, this program offers an online alternative while still remaining a part of Panther Nation. All students who wish to learn online this year, including those who were in the Blended Program last year, must be enrolled through our Central Registrar, Taylor Welliver, twelliver@bloomsd.k12.pa.us or 570.784.6100.

For more information on the program, please join us at one of our upcoming informational sessions, which are open to families from all buildings, listed below:

• Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 5:00pm: Memorial Elementary School for interested K-8 families
• Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 5:00pm: Secondary Complex for all interested K-8 families
• Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 7:00pm: Secondary Complex for all interested 9-12⁺ families
• Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 1:00pm: Via Zoom for all interested K-12⁺ families  
  • The link will be available on www.bloomsd.org/blended on August 12, 2021.
  • The virtual session will be recorded and the video is available here.
• Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 5:00pm: Secondary Complex for all interested 9-12⁺ families
• Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 7:00pm: Secondary Complex for all interested K-8 families

All students enrolled in the Blended Program by August 18, 2021 will begin online coursework on the first day of school on August 23, 2021. Those enrolled after August 18 are not guaranteed the availability of online coursework by that date.

Whether working online or on-campus, we look forward to seeing all of our Panthers soon!