2-12-17
Good afternoon!
I hope you and your family are having a great weekend! We enjoyed another great week with your children! I spent a great deal of time this week involved in meetings that were focused on improving our services to our students and community. All of these meetings involved productive efforts. The topics of these meetings ranged from individual student's needs with parents and teachers to providing better access to our community members to available resources through specific community resources like: Opportunity Knox, KAT, Ohio Benefit Bank, and The Knox County Health Department. We are very thankful for continuing these focused and productive conversations. We will be continuing these types of conversations and better inform you once we finalize more details.
Please enjoy your weekly updates below:
We are Proud of Our "Kids Changing the World Club!"
The "Kids Changing the World Club" is a student created and student lead club. This student organization has committed their efforts to making blankets for Nationwide Children's Hospital. There is no doubt that these students have the power to change and have a positive impact on our world. We are very proud of all of them!
Student Headphones Needed:
Please make sure your child has TWO PAIRS of headphones for classroom use. We are finding ourselves falling short of ensuring all students have headphones for school use. These headphones are important for when students are working on individualized projects and/or tasks on a computer.
Reminder-NATIONAL COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY NIGHT at CHIPOTLE-This Wednesday-2/15 from 4-8pm
Columbia Elementary PTO will receive 50% for our Playground Renovations
All customers MUST mention Columbia Elementary or show THIS FLYER in person or on phone. Be sure to SHARE THIS FLYER with everyone you know in Mount Vernon.
Tiger Up Time-2/15/17-This Wednesday:
*Be sure to wear your Tiger Up Shirt
Our Topic: Responsibility for yourself and others
We will be teaching the following objectives:
-Open discussion on what does it mean to be responsible for themselves and others
-Students need to understand the importance of good role modeling and the impacts of negative role modeling.
-Students need to be able to relate responsibility to both their school and personal lives.
-Students need to be able to connect how they can be responsible and good role models to their friends.
-Students need to be able to give the teacher action steps of how they are going to be both responsible and good role models
Our Guest Speakers will be:
8th Graders from MVMS
Do you have an old Smart Phone or know someone that has an old Smart Phone that they would be able donate to our school?
I am currently looking for Old Smart Phones that people would be willing to donate to our school for permanent use. These phone would be completely reset to factory settings for classroom instruction. If you have any connections to old Smart Phones that are just in storage somewhere that you or other folks do not want, please let me know and bring them in to our office. My end goal is to bring virtual reality to our students to all them to see the world and even inside of the human body for instructional purposes.STATE TESTING COMING SOON-Please Plan and Prepare
As the Super Bowl was last weekend, our students also have their Super Bowl on the following dates:
| English Language Arts | Math | Science | Social Studies | |
| 3rd Grade | 3/28-3/29 (Must pass to be promoted to 4th Grade) | 4/27-4/28 | NA | NA |
| 4th Grade | 3/23-3/24 | 4/25-4/26 | NA | 5/1 (Both Sessions) |
| 5th Grade | 3/21-3/22 | 5/3-5/4 | 5/2 (Both Sessions) | NA |
These State Tests allow our best and brightest to take on the State of Ohio in our Super Bowl. In addition to the great competition, these tests measure the proficient level of each student based on state standards. These students highly impact instructional decisions for your child. In addition to our efforts during school, it is also important to prepare them outside of school. The key is that students not only need to be able to get the correct answer on any of these tests, but they also need to explain their answer in paragraph form. While reading a selection, they need to also be able to explain their answers with references back to the selection.
Be sure to check out the LINK on the Columbia Elementary Website under "Quick Links for Students" to The Ohio Department of Education's Practice Tests, Successmaker, and Math Magician,
*It is important to note that each State Test Subject has two sessions each.
Columbia Cares-Tabs Needed
As you may recall, last year we had two students that created the Columbia Cares Program. They had a vision of paying forward to other people in need. This lead our school to collecting care packages for cancer patients at Nationwide Children's Hospital. This was an awesome experience for all parties involved.
As our desire is to continue this annual tradition at Columbia Elementary, we will be collecting Tabs (i.e. Pop Tabs) soon for The Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House is a "home away from home" for families that are with their hospitalized children at Nationwide Children's Hospital. With our efforts and the efforts of many others, families are able to stay in this residence for little or no cost to take care of their children. Our collected tabs will help fund these efforts.
Columbia Elementary PTO Meeting Update:
Last Tuesday, I was thankful to see both mothers and fathers attend our PTO Meeting. We had an awesome discussion. Thank you to all of those people that attended! Please CLICK HERE to view our PTO Notes.
Important Upcoming Dates:
2/14-Valentine's Day:)
2/14-Valentine’s Day Parties-2:45-3:30pm
2/15-Tiger Up Assembly-Parents Welcome-2:30-3:30pm
2/15-National Chipotle Columbia Elementary Night on Coshocton Road (4-8pm with Our Flyer)
2/17-Spring School Pictures
2/20-Presidents Day-No School
2/21-5th Grade Camp Parents MTG at Middle School Library at 6:30pm
2/27-5K Meeting in Library at 4pm
3/3-Student of The Month Pizza Party
3/9-End of Third Nine Weeks
3/22-4/3/17-PTO Flower Sale
4/26/17-PTO Flower Delivery
5/18-Field Day (AM) and Water Day (PM)
5/22-KDG Registration at Columbia Elementary
Columbia Elementary State Testing Dates 2016-17 Thank you for allowing us to serve your children!
Matt
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