Weekly Message | 11-20-17 Good morning! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! This past week has been outstanding! I spent a great deal of time in each classroom this past week conducting observations for the required Ohio Teacher Evaluation Process. This detailed process gives me the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time in each classroom seeing great teaching and exploring opportunities to polish our work with children. I am grateful to report that although we are always trying to improve our work, I feel and am seeing evidence of a "well oiled machine" in the making from Kindergarten to Fifth Grades. We have strength and progress that has been made in each of our grade levels. I will be taking the next couple of weeks and extending off of these observational notes to engage in productive conversations with our teachers. While there is a time commitment needed from all parties involved, these conversations will be worthwhile. On another note, as we will be taking time on Tuesday to honor our Columbia Elementary Family, please be sure to have a happy and safe Thanksgiving Weekend with your family. Do not forget how thankful we are for your children and your support of our work! Tiger Up! Matt | |
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New Updates | PTO Meeting Minutes-November 7th I really appreciated everyone coming to our PTO Meeting on Tuesday November 7th. We are truly blessed to have a strong and functional PTO. If you were unable to make it this meeting, please feel free to see the minutes from this meeting and other meeting on The PTO Section of our School Website by CLICKING HERE. Parent/Teacher Conferences: A special thank you to all of you! We cannot thank you enough for being an active parent in your child's education. Seeing all of you at our Parent/Teacher Conferences on November 8th and 9th meant a lot to us. Please do not let our communication stop there. If at anytime, you have questions and/or concerns about your child's education, please feel free to contact your child's teacher to discuss them further. There is no need to wait until our next set of Parent/Teacher Conferences (in November 2018). We can schedule appointments to meet throughout the entire school year. Your child's education is important! Kenyon College and Columbia Elementary 5th Grade Presentation-November 14th: On November 14th, our 5th graders presented their class projects to Kenyon College, Faculty, Students, and Special Guests. It was a large event held to showcase their work on learning about borderlands through English Language Arts. Please see some pictures from this event below:     MVNU Character Day-November 14th: We were grateful for all of our 4th and 5th Graders in the district to have the opportunity to not only watch an outstanding MVNU Basketball Team play, but also to learn about how important it is to have strong character. As we watch the news and hear about current events, we cannot teach about character enough...Thank you MVNU for giving our students this opportunity!! All of us truly enjoyed it!! A special thank you to Dr. Bob Atwell & Other OSU Alumni Band Members! To wish our Buckeyes good luck for the Illinois Game this past Saturday and the upcoming BIG GAME with the team up north. Dr. Atwell and other OSU Alumni Band Members visited our students this past Friday. Every year we are blessed by their presence. CLICK HERE, if you have not already viewed the video from this great assembly. Thank you to all of these great Buckeyes!! GO BUCKS!!! Columbia Elementary Family Thanksgiving Dinner-THIS TUESDAY 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. Reminder to volunteers: Please be at school at 11:30am to prepare for our students. Following this event: Please know that I have purchased lunch for you as a token of our appreciation for your service. | |
Upcoming Events |
11/21-12-1pm-Schoolwide Thanksgiving Lunch-We will need volunteers:)
11/21-Interims Go Home
11/22-11/26-No School-Thanksgiving Break
11/27-Monday-Students Return to School
11/29-Tiger Up-Conflict Resolution-1:30-2:15 (Assembly-Parents Welcome)
11/30-District Senior Citizen Luncheon at MVHS-11:30am-1:30pm
(Please contact Terry Streby if you would like more information at 740-397-7422)
12/1-Student of the Month Pizza Party
12/1-Santa Shop
Week of 12/4-Mentor Lunch Week
12/5-PTO Meeting-7pm in Library
12/6-5th Grade Puberty Talk-2:30pm
12/13-Tiger Up-1:30-3:30pm (Parents are welcome from 1:30-2:15pm)
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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