Weekly Message | Good afternoon! I hope everyone is doing well! It has been a wonderful week at Columbia Elementary! There is no doubt that our students continue to bring smiles to our faces on a daily basis. With our students' honest stories, smiles, and laughter, they are enjoyable each and everyday. We appreciate your continued trust to serve all of them. Please enjoy your weekly updates below. Tiger Up! Matt | |
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New Updates | Reminder: Christmas Concert for Grades 3-5-Next Monday-12/18: Reminder that next Monday, December 18, 2017, we are having our Christmas Concert for Grades 3-5 at 6:30pm at The Memorial Theater(KDG-2nd Graders will be performing in May for their big concert (Districtwide)). We hope to see you there for this fantastic performance! Remember to Use Amazon Smiles for Your Shopping-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. Columbia Elementary Paying it Forward to Our Local Families for Christmas! For the last five years, we have taken empowered our children to help those local families in need during this holiday season. As Christmas morning should be a positive experience for all children, we want to be able to give this enjoyment to others. For this reason, we are assigning specific children (without including names) to specific classrooms in our school. These classrooms will be empowered to bring in items for these local children in need. After our students go home for Christmas Break and before December 25th, on behalf of our school, I will be blessing these families privately for their children. The following classrooms are going to be in charge of the following children for Christmas: Mrs. Ewers-Preschool Boy Mrs. Gregory-Preschool Girl Ms. Suarez-Preschool Girl Mrs. Souhrada-Second Grade Girl Mrs. Atkinson-First Grade Girl Mrs. Luna-Third Grade Girl Mrs Humphrey-Second Grade Girl Mrs. Scott-Second Grade Boy Mrs. Barteau-Second Grade Boy Mrs. Thomas-Fifth Grade Boy Mrs. Ferguson-Boy or Girl in KDG-Second Grades Mrs. Justice-Sixth Grade Girl No need to wrap any of these gifts. Please make sure teachers have them by the last day before Winter Break, 12/20. Tiger Up-This Wednesday (1:30-3:30pm): This Wednesday afternoon we will be focusing on Peer Pressure with our students between 1:30-3:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend our assembly from 1:30-2:15pm with Mr. Jerry Jacoby. As we know both positive and negative peer pressure affect and will affect our students lives as they grow older. During this time we will be discussing both positive and negative peer pressure which will include examples (i.e not just Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs) and will give them strategies to make positive decisions in their lives. Thank you PTO! I really appreciated our PTO coming together on December 5th for our monthly PTO Meeting. Our meetings typically are one hour in length starting at 7pm. These are productive meetings and we greatly appreciate everyone that attends! If you are unable to attend or would like to learn more, please visit our PTO Webpage HERE or on our Columbia Elementary Website (under PTO on the left side menu). Our next meeting will be on 1/9 at 7pm. We hope you can attend. Save the Date-1/25/18-Community Spaghetti Dinner and Hidden In Plain Sight Coming to Columbia Elementary at 5:30pm -More details to come:) | |
Upcoming Events |
12/13-Tiger Up-1:30-3:30pm-Peer Pressure (Parents are welcome from 1:30-2:15pm for our assembly)
12/14-Food Pick Up-PTO Fundraiser
12/14-5th Grade Field Trip to Columbus
12/15-KDG and Kenyon Dance Club Assembly-2:45pm
12/18-Christmas Concert-Grades 3-5 (KDG-2nd Grades will perform in Spring Concert)-Memorial Theater at 6:30pm
12/20-Classroom Christmas Parties-2:30pm
12/21/17-1/2/18-Winter Break
1/3/18-Students Return to School
1/9/18-5K Committee Meeting-6pm in the library
1/9/18-PTO MTG-7pm in the library
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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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