Tiger Newsflash 12-7-15

Good morning!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend with their family and friends! Ashley and I celebrated our First Wedding Anniversary.  Wow, it is hard to believe I have been married to this great lady for one year:

We have definitely learned a lot over the last year:)

These times reminded me of the best wedding gift that I received.  This gift was of course from your children.  Feel free to CLICK HERE to check out this awesome gift, if you have not seen it yet.

Let's get back to business...I want to take moment and brag about our Fifth Grade Students.  You may or may not know, that at Columbia Elementary we require all Fifth Grade Students to complete a Capstone Project before graduating from our Elementary School.  This Capstone Project encompasses the knowledge and skills they have already learned here and allows them to connect it to their next steps in their educational journey (Middle School, High School, and College/Advanced Training).  One part of this project requires these students to go interview a Middle School and High School student.  The purpose of these interviews is to better mentally prepare our students and to develop/ improve their educational habits for  the Middle School and High School.  As we encouraged all of the students to dress up for this day, the second purpose was to give our students some interviewing experience.  We believe that transitioning from Elementary to Middle School and Middle School to High School are very important transitions. It is very important that we give the opportunities to be successful in these transitions that will affect their success in life. For these reasons, we set aside time for these students to interview some Middle School and High School Students.   

Our students were impressive as they interviewed these Middle School and High School Students.  I greatly enjoyed sitting down with most of our Fifth Graders for about 20 minutes after their return to Columbia Elementary, and hearing about what they learned from this experience.  The feedback that our students gave me was very valuable. They shared with me that they had learned about why it is important to keep earning good grades, important study habits, and about the curricular and extra-curricular opportunities available in each of these schools.  Not only did they learn about these specifics but they also now know someone from these schools.  Students gave us very positive feedback about this experience, and recommended that we continue to offer such an opportunity to future 5th grade classes.  Our 5th grade students are now taking this interviewing experience, and preparing to present this information that they learned to their classmates with the use of Google Slides. We are looking forward to seeing these presentations.  

We have started a Weekly Hall of Fame for our students in Reading and Math for students in Grades 2-5.  The students in this Weekly Hall of Fame have earned an overall "A" in their Reading and/or Math classes.   

Dr. Dill’s Weekly Math Hall of Fame are:

Anne Watkins	Mark Fanning	Allison Healy	Alexis Cook	Connor Phillips	Lane Mussard
Desiree Temple	Tyler Davidson	Rhiley Grizzle	Landon Cardwell	Grace Jackson	Luke Mullins
Aspen Swingle	Zack Calabert	Devin Garrett	Chloe Calbert	Tyler Ing	Jonathan Kreager
Hailey Stagg	Layla Behnke	Patrick Frazer	Karissa Cackler	Jason Harden	Kaylee Jones
Elizabeth Miller	Mia Armstrong	Elliot Frank	Isabella Brehm-Parent	Timothy Fawcett	Brianna Flecknoe
Terry Kovach	Rachel Ruth	Mackenzie Dwello	Adyson Beaver	Haley Combs	Tyce Davidson
Abby Justice	Quentin Meadors	Avery Deshong	Aaliyah Bates	Jared Boucher	Dallas Cross
Hanna Humphrey	Brooklyn Kelley	Karley Davis	Callie Ackley	Jaden Wheeler	Wyatt Clendenen
Emily Hammond	Brady Kaufman	Konner Daughriety	Hatim Woods	Drake Seavolt	Zane Barber
Ethan Frye	Ally Jenkins	Navea Coscia	Chance Temple	Madeline Pealer

Dr. Dill’s Weekly Reading Hall of Fame are:

Elizabeth Miller	Brooklyn Kelley	Jada Coey	Waylon Martin	Josiah Colon	Nicholas Montgomery
Abby Justice	Brady Kaufman	Case Armstrong	Jonathan Kreager	Wyatt Clendenen	Sarah Hammond
Hannah Humphrey	Rhiley Grizzle	Jaden Wheeler	Arieanna Kovach	Travis Bird	Rachel Ruth
Emily Hammond	Patrick Frazer	Seth Vance	Kaylee Jones	Zane Barber	Mia Armstrong
Mark Fanning	Alexis Cook	Taylor Tolle	Summer Hall	Ilythia Combs	Jason Harden
Jake Fanning	Aric Lust	Jayden Smith	Ayden Grant	Lane Mussard	Philip Crunelle
Cooper Carpenter	Grace Jackson	Drake Seavolt	Brianna Flecknoe
Layla Behnke	Tyler Ing	Madeline Pealer	Tyce Davidson

We are very proud of all of these students!! Let's keep up the great work and let's see these lists grow!!

Important Dates:

12-7-Tonight-PTO Meeting-6pm in our library

12-14-Christmas Musical Program at Faith Baptist (State Route 586 near Twin Oak Elementary):

Students-Will arrive at 6:45pm

Program-Starts at 7pm

12-16-5th Grade Puberty Talk

12-18-Tiger Time-Honesty and Truth (Assembly at 10:15am)

12-18-Christmas Classroom Parties at 2:30pm (We will have a special visitor in our building that afternoon)

12-18-End of the Second Nine Weeks

12-21-Beginning of Christmas Break (until January 4th)

1-4-16-Classes Resume (Start of Third Nine Weeks)

        

We appreciate your continued support of our students!

Tiger Up!

Matt