Tiger Newsflash 1-24-16

1-24-16

Good morning!

I hope everyone is doing well! I want to first thank the 203 people that follow our blog last week.  It means a lot to have you a part of the Columbia Elementary Family! It has been a fantastic week with your children.  We continue to be impressed by their work in our classrooms.  My favorite moment this week was when I saw our Kindergarteners learning how to subtract through bowling:

It's all about learning in different ways....Great job!!



Please read our weekly updates below:

Time For A Southside Diner Experience:

Are you hungry? Be sure to go to Southside Diner and present THIS COUPON (CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR THE COUPON) between now and 1/31/16. You are able to use THIS COUPON multiple times. You dining experience will benefit the efforts that our Columbia PTO supports for our students.


Dr. Dill's Weekly Hall of Fame Nominations:

A special congratulations to the following students below, who are earning an overall A in these specific subjects:


Second Grade Math Weekly Hall of Fame 

Zane Barber	Wyatt Clendenen	Ayden Grant	Arieanna Kovach	Jonathan Kreager
Lane Mussard	Madeline Pealer	Emily Phillips	Drake Seavolt	Jayden Smith
Taylor Tolle	Jaden Wheeler

Second Grade Reading Weekly Hall of Fame:

 

Kaden Awwiller	Zane Barber	Travis Bird	Logan Brehm-Parent	Josiah Colon	Ilythia Combs
Kamryn Coscia	Philip Crunelle	Tyce Davidson	Layla Deshong	Brianna Flecknoe	Ayden Grant
Summer Hall	Kaylee Jones	Arieanna Kovach	Ty Kovach	Jonathan Kreager	Waylon Martin
Miya Montgomery	Luke Mullins	Luke Mussard	Madeline Pealer	Emily Phillips	Riley Ragor
Marques Ramos	Drake Seavolt	Jayden Smith	Taylor Tolle	Seth Vance	Jaden Wheeler
Madison Wolfe

Third Grade Reading Weekly Hall of Fame: 

Case Armstrong	Timothy Fawcett	Jason Harden	Serenity Holland	Tyler Ing
Grace Jackson	Cameron McNamara	Conner Phillips	Arianne Scott	Emily Wilcox

Third Grade Math Weekly Hall of Fame:

 

Case Armstrong	Jared Boucher	Alyse Christopher	Haley Combs	Timothy Fawcett	Sarah Hammond
Jason Harden	Serenity Holland	Tyler Ing	Grace Jackson	Aric Lust	Conner Phillips
Arianne Scott	Chance Temple	Chase Temple	Jordan Willits	Elionna Young

Fourth Grade Math Weekly Hall of Fame:

 

Aaliyah Bates	Adyson Beaver	Isabella Brehm-Parent	Karissa Cackler
Alexis Cook	Karley Davis	Mackenzie Dwello	Patrick Frazer
Rhiley Grizzle	Taylor Hart	Allison Healy	Ally Jenkins
Jada Sudderth	Tristen Waite	Brady Kaufman	Rachel Ruth

Fourth Grade Reading Hall of Fame:

 

Callie Ackley	Aaliyah Bates	Adyson Beaver	Isabella Brehm-Parent
Chloe Calbert	Landon Cardwell	Alexis Cook	Karley Davis
Avery Deshong	Patrick Frazer	Devin Garrett	Rhiley Grizzle
Allison Healy	Ally Jenkins	Brady Kaufman	Brooklyn Kelley
Quentin Meadors	Guage Ragor	Maliq Ramos	Rachel Ruth
Tristen Waite	Phoenix Woosley

Fifth Grade Math Weekly Hall of Fame:

 

Layla Behnke	Cooper Carpenter	Harlie Gaulden	John Hays
Ben Bridges	Hanna Humphrey	Zoe Mock	Patrick O’byrne
Zack Calbert	Ryan Richert	Desiree Temple	Annie Watkins

Fifth Grade Reading Weekly Hall of Fame:

 

Mia Armstrong	Xavier Arndt	Cooper Carpenter	Jake Fanning
Emily Hammond	John Hays	Hanna Humphrey	Abby Justice
Elizabeth Miller	Ri Miller	Devyn Smith	Annie Watkins

We are proud of ALL of you!

Grades 3 & 4-Goals Met for The Second Nine Weeks:

On Friday, we celebrated the success of our Third and Fourth Graders by playing Dodgeball at the end of the day.  Check out these intense pictures below as they not only work hard in the classroom, but they also get serious on the Dodgeball Court:

We had a blast!! Their hard work does pay off...:) 

Be Sure to Get Your 2015-16 Yearbook:


Don't miss out on ordering yearbooks! It's a great way to look back at the school year. The deadline is February 5th. You can order online here:book.hrimaging.com or send a form in to school.”

UPDATE: State Testing Reward for Students that passed ALL Sections of The State Test for the 14-15 School Year:

As you may recall, I had promised the students last year that they would get a pool party if they passed all parts of their state tests. The State Department of Education through a wrench in this plan by delaying the release of those scores and debating on what the best way was to test our students, Summer quickly became winter for this planned outdoor pool party...not good....As I wanted to keep my word to the students, we had to go to a "Plan B."

With the support of our PTO, we are renting a Video Game Truck that will hold a maximum of 20 students per time.  In this game truck the students will be able to play: Smash Brothers, Football, Basketball, Mario Cart, Minecraft and other school appropriate games.  Since there are a approximately 50 students (current Students at Columbia) that passed ALL Sections of their State Tests. We will need to divide these students into three smaller groups.  These smaller groups will be assigned a 40 minute time period between 1:30-3:30pm on February 5th. This should be fun! More details will come. Again, I truly appreciate the PTO's support in these efforts!

Follow Up Talk with Grades 3-5 about Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs-February 19:

Officer Ruth, a Columbia Elementary Parent, has graciously offered to meeting with our students in Grades 3-5 on February 19th to further discuss the facts about Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs.  As Sheriff Shaffer did a fantastic job with our entire school this past month, we felt following this presentation that the older students still had remaining questions and things that they wanted to discuss further. Taking this moment as a learning opportunity, we felt it would be valuable to follow up with the older students for a deeper discussion. This discussion will take place on February 19th at 2:45pm.  Please know we encourage all parents to attend.


State Testing Tentative Schedule Update:

As we noticed some schedule conflicts, we had to adjust our schedule for Spring State Testing Schedule.  Please know this remains to be tentative but I want you to have it in order to plan:

Grade	English Language Arts	MATH	SS	Science
3	4/27, 4/28	4/14.4/15	NA	NA
4	4/18,4/19	4/20,4/21	4/26	NA
5	5/3,5/4	5/5, 5/6	NA	4/29

IMPORTANT Upcoming Dates:

2-4-PTO MTG at 7pm

2-5-Students of the Month Lunch with Matt

2-5-State Testing Reward for Students that passed all parts in the 14-15 School Year 1:30-3:30 (40 min blocks of time)

2-8-PTO 5K Planning Meeting at 4:30

2-9-End of First Round of After School Program for Grades 3-5 Reading and Math Intervention

2-10-2 hour Delay-PD

2-12-Interims Go Home

2-15-Presidents Day-No School

2-19-Spring Pictures

2-19-ATOD Assembly-Grades 3-5 at 2:45 with Officer Ruth

2-22-Start of Second Round of After School Program

3/1-3/10-Second Grade CoGats

Thank you for your continued support of our students!

Tiger Up!
Matt



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