Weekly Message | Good evening! I hope everyone is having a terrific weekend with your friends and family! As we are beginning the second week of the second nine weeks of the school year, we continue to be impressed by the work of our students. We are looking forward to seeing all of you at our First Nine Weeks' Awards Assemblies this Friday (KDG-2 at 2pm; Grades 3-5 at 2:45pm). FYI-Please make sure you have seen your child's grade card that came home last Friday with ALL Students. Have a great week and Tiger Up!! Matt | |
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New Updates |  Columbia Elementary Bookfair is This Week: Just a reminder that The Columbia Elementary Book Fair has arrived. It will be available this week during students' will be rotating in and out of Music, PE, and Library Classes to participate in the Bookfair. It will also be open during Trick or Read tomorrow night. 5th Graders going to JA Biztown on Tuesday-10-31-17: Our 5th graders are going to JA Biztown on this Tuesday for a great realistic lesson on how economics works in our society. This experience will give our students an awesome hands on experience and allow them to see how what they are learning in our classrooms applies to their future. On a personal note, I have been a part of this experience in a different school district early in my career and thought it was very beneficial for children. Our students will be leaving for JA Biztown at 9am and returning back to school at 4:30pm. All 5th grade parents will be responsible for picking up their child at 4:30pm at Columbia Elementary. Feel free to watch this video below to learn more about the experience: You are invited: First Nine Weeks' Awards Assemblies-This Friday-11/3: We would love to see you cheer on our students during our awards assemblies: K-2 =2-2:45pm Grades 3-5=2:45-3:30pm Tiger Up-Digital Citizenship Along with Detective Bobo's (Knox County Sheriff Department) informative discussions with our students, we had great conversations in our mentor groups on Wednesday about being responsible and safe online. Some fundamental concepts of these group discussions were: a) To not share extra sensitive information about themselves with others online (i.e.home address, current location, or whether their parents are home or not). b)To watch out for scams. c)To protect their information online by creating strong passwords. d)To be positive online and report negative behaviors of others. e)If someone talks to them in an inappropriate manner or someone makes them feel uncomfortable online to tell their parents, teachers, or myself. f)The effects of both a positive and negative digital footprint. Some Resources for you to help expand this message: a) EXPLORE INTERLAND-This is a free online game system created by Google to teach children how to be "Internet Awesome." b)Interesting video on Digital Footprints. c)Edutopia d) NetSmartz e)Common Sense Media f) FBI Third Grade MV Walk: We truly appreciate all of the people involved in making our annual Third Grade MV Walk another success.This walk allows our students to learn about the deep history of their hometown. Mount Vernon is truly a great place! Please enjoy some great pictures from their walk on Friday:    Congratulations for meeting your goals! Congratulations to all of our students for meeting their grade level first nine weeks goals! It was awesome to treat all of them to extra recess for these great efforts in English Language Arts, Math, and their behavior. I really enjoyed spending this time with all of them!   You are Invited: Kenyon College and Columbia Elementary 5th Grade Presentation: Reminder: Trick or Read-October 30th: On October 30th from 6-7pm plan on being at our annual Trick or Read Event at Columbia Elementary. We are planning tons of fun activities for the students. All students are welcome to wear their costumes. We will be passing out treats. Thank you for your support of this program! Columbia Elementary Family Thanksgiving Dinner-11/21-Volunteers Needed Our tradition at Columbia Elementary is to provide a family style Thanksgiving Lunch to all of our students. As we are a family that spends a lot of time together, it is important to us that all of us celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional meal provided to all students. The traditional meal will include turkey, mash potatoes,gravy, corn, pumpkin pie, and milk. This meal will be free of charge to all students. The entire school will be eating this meal in our gym at the same time with each mentor group sitting together. In order to make this event a traditional success, we need your support: We need 20 individuals to help serve food. If you are interested, please sign up using the form below: Your lunch will be provided following this event as a token of our appreciation for your service. Parent Teacher Conferences-11/8 &11/9: Although we are open to conferences at anytime by appointment, we are designating the evening of 11/8 and all day on 11/9 to meet with you when you are available. Please contact your child's teacher to schedule a time to meet and discuss your child's academic progress, if you have not already done so. | |
Upcoming Events | 10/30-Trick or Read-6-7pm
10/30-Vision Screenings-Grades 1,3,and 5-School Library
10/30-PTO Fundraiser Kickoff-2:45-3:30pm
10/30-Trick or Read-6-7pm
10/31-5th Grade Biztown-9-4:30pm
11/3-Make-Up School Pictures 11/3-Student of the Month Lunch with Dr. Dill 11/3-First Nine Weeks Awards Assemblies: K-2 (2-2:45pm); Grades 3-5 (2:45-3:30pm)
11/5-Daylight Savings Time Ends
11/6-National Columbia Elementary Day at Chiptole-4-8pm (MUST HAVE OUR COUPON OR STATE VERBALLY that you are with our school)
11/7-Election Day
11/7-Donuts with Parents-8:15-9am
11/7-Veterans Day Assembly at 9:15am
11/7-PTO Meeting 7pm in our library.
11/8 & 11/9-Parent Teacher Conferences by appointment
11/10-No School & Veterans Day
11/21-12-1pm-Schoolwide Thanksgiving Lunch-We will need volunteers:)
11/21-Interims Go Home
11/22-11/26-Thanksgiving Break
12/1-Santa Shop12/1-Student of The Month Pizza Party with Dr. Dill 12/5-PTO Meeting@ 7pm in the library Week of 12/4-Mentor Lunch 12/13-Tiger Up-1:30-3:30 12/18-Christmas Concert-Grades 3-5 (KDG-2nd Grades will perform in Spring Concert)-Memorial Theater at 6:30pm
12/21/17-1/2/18-Winter Break
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Previous & Important Updates | Kroger Cares Sign Up Today Be sure to sign up for our Columbia Elementary PTO Kroger Cares Program. This is a way for our PTO to automatically raise funds for Columbia Elementary Students without costing you anymore money. Be sure to reenroll each year in the program if you already have an existing account. This Program will not COST YOU ANY MONEY:) CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP or RE-ENROLL Amazon Smiles-Sign Up Today The Amazon Smiles Program will cost you NO ADDITIONAL MONEY as you make your purchases on SMILE.AMAZON.COM. However, it will help support our Columbia Elementary PTO in supporting the students at Columbia Elementary.
Stay Connected:
At Columbia Elementary, we pride ourselves on communicating with you. We like to keep you up to date with things that are happening in our school and in our classrooms. Including face to face communication with your child’s classroom teacher, here are a few more ways to stay connected:
1) Class Dojo-KDG, 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades are using Class Dojo in their classrooms to communicate with parents about activities and classroom behavior. Please speak with your child’s classroom teacher to learn more. If you do not have a classroom code to connect, be sure to ask your child’s teacher for it in order to connect. You are able to download the Class Dojo App to your phone by going to THIS WEBSITE .
2) Twitter:
New to Twitter..No worries! Check out THIS SHORT TUTORIAL VIDEO.
Follow your child's classroom with one of the following handles:
KDG-@Columbiakinders
1st-@Souhrada_Suarez
2nd-@2ndColumbia
3rd-@3rdHumphrey and @mrs_scott3rd
4th-@mv_columbia_4th
5th-@mv_columbia_5th
Columbia Elementary-@Columbia_Tiger
My Handle-@drmjdill
3) Facebook:
Be sure to like us on facebook HERE or at mvcolumbia.
4)Columbia Elementary Website:
On our website you will find important information, useful links, our Columbia News Crew's Morning Announcements, and more.
Be sure to CHECK IT OUT HERE.
MV LIVE:
Did you miss the HS Game and you still want it watch it? Are you unable to leave your home on a Friday night and you really want to watch MVHS in action? Now you can have it all! Check out our live and archived MV LIVE STREAM by CLICKING HERE or go to our www.mvcsd.us
*We are currently exploring other ways to use this same technology.
BOX TOPS For Education:
Collection All Year Long
The PTO will be collecting Box Tops for Education for our school again this year. This is easy, free money to help support Columbia Elementary in getting supplies for our classrooms or fun treats/events for our students! They will be hosting a competition amongst the school to see which class can collect the most box tops! (This will be done four times this year). Please feel free to bring in the box tops at anytime throughout the school year, and they will be applied towards your child’s classroom collection. Each quarter, the classroom that brings in the most box tops will earn a reward. This quarter, the willing classroom will have a
PIZZA PARTY
Directions:
Due Date: Friday, October 20, 2017
Thanks in advance for supporting our students!
Paying Forward to The Ronald McDonald House:
The Ronald McDonald House pays their entire electric bill each month through the donation of pop tabs. Feel free to continue to donate your pop tabs to our school, and we will continue to donate them directly to them to provide electric for the families that have loved ones receiving treatment at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
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