Tiger Newsflash 3-4-18

Weekly Message

Good evening! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend with your friends and family! This past week, I have spent a lot of time doing my required Ohio Teacher Evaluations.  In addition to my nearly daily informal walkthroughs in our classrooms, I am always impressed by the great job our teachers do with your children.  They are very creative and focused on improving your children's skills and abilities.  I am confident with you support, hard work reinforcing content at home, and our great teachers working hard in their classrooms that we will have a strong finish to this school year.  As always, feel free to contact your child's teacher with any specific academic question or concern. Please enjoy your weekly updates below. Tiger Up! Matt

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Congratulations to Our Students of The Month! On Friday afternoon, I really had a great time hanging out with our students of the month  during our pizza party in my office.  These students are fantastic! We are very proud  of each of them! KDG-2nd Grade: Grades 3-5: Mentor Lunches-This Week: Just a reminder that our students will be eating lunch with their Mentors  during their scheduled day this week.  We really enjoy this time together! Becoming A Columbia Elementary Tiger Night March 12th @ 6:30pm-PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS: Do you know a student in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade, that is looking to be one of The Best and Brightest at Columbia Elementary? Please invite the student/s and parent/s to our "Becoming a Columbia Elementary Tiger Night" at 6:30pm until 7:30pm on March 12th.  We want to share the Columbia Elementary Experience with them!  Remember that Open Enrollment will begin April 1st through our district's website.  TIGER UP-DIVERSITY This past Wednesday during our Tiger Up afternoon, we focused on diversity.   Our assembly was split up into two different areas of focus: cultural Diversity and the diversity of people with different disabilities.  Kenyon College's Office of Cultural Diversity brought two students to speak about cultural diversity and college life.  Following their presentation, I spoke to our students about people with different disabilities and how they never give up to make the most out of themselves.   I think they were amazed by the number of famous people that have done great things for our country and  world despite the disability that they may have...A disability is not a barrier to greatest but it is a challenge that  can still lead to being awesome! We want each of us to embrace the diversity among all of us and not allowing it to being a barrier in our lives.  PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE SLIDESHOW As you see below, the students participated in different challenges to  truly understand challenges that people with disabilities have in their daily lives: The Wheelchair Challenge through an Obstacle Course The Writing Your Name Blindfolded Challenge: Eating a Banana with your Non-Dominant Arm: We then further discussed these topics in our Mentor Groups following the assembly.   THE KENYON COLLEGE DANCE CLUB IS RETURNING: Starting this Friday, The Kenyon College Dance Club will be returning to Columbia Elementary. This non-school sponsored club will start on March 16, March 22nd, and every Friday until further notice after Spring Break from 3:30-4pm. If your child is interested be sure that they stay after school on Friday until 4pm. The club will meet in the cafeteria. Annual 5K Update: Theme-Superheros-Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favorite Superhero When-May 11th at Ariel Foundation Park (Rain Date-May 18th) Our Goal: To raise $10,000 in sponsorship for Improving and Replacing Technology Equipment for Classroom Instruction at Columbia Elementary.   Sponsors Are Needed: Please see our  SPONSOR LETTER for more information. There will be prizes for: Fastest Man and Woman ($75 each) Fastest Boy and Girl ($25 each) Top 10 Best Superheroes ($5 gift cards each) Community Table Check out information about Non School and PTO Sponsored Events by CLICKING HERE. *We will be improving this resource for you in the near future.

Upcoming Events

Week of March 5th-Mentor Lunch 3-5 to 3-9-Second Grade-COGAT Testing Window 3-6-PTO Meeting-7pm-Library 3-8-Yes Concert-3rd Grade-10-11am 3-8-National Columbia Elementary Night at Burger King (closest to school)-4:30-9pm (20% of all sales go to Columbia Elementary PTO) 3-9-Hygiene Talk with 4th Grade with KCHD-2:30-3:30pm 3-11-Daylight Savings Time Begins (Spring Forward 1hr) 3-12-Becoming a Columbia Tiger Night-6:30-7:30pm 3/16-Book Fair will begin 3-19-Week of Book Fair (during specials) Week of 3/19-PTO Pizza Box Fundraiser at Marcos 3-21-Donuts with Parents-8:15-8:45am 3-21-Tiger Up-Career Exploration-1:30-3:30pm 3-23 to 4-2 -Spring Break 4-3-First day back from Spring Break 4/4-Gifted Seminar-Grades 3-5 4/6-Grade Cards Go HOME 4-12-5K Planning Mtg-5-6pm in Library Reoccurring: Girl Scouts-Every Monday-3:30-4:30pm Karate Club-Every Wednesday-3:30-4:30-Until 3/14 (Then a new session will begin-TBA) Girls ON The Run-March 5th-May 14th Upcoming State Testing Dates: As the NFL is heading towards their Super Bowl, I want to share with you the dates of our Super Bowl at Columbia Elementary. During this time our students have the opportunity to show the entire State of Ohio that they are truly The Best and The Brightest.  These tests are important to your child as they give us information that will impact instructional decisions for your child for the upcoming school year. Please make a note of the following Super Bowl Dates: Day 1 Day 2 3rd Grade English Language Arts 4/19 4/20 4th Grade English Language Arts 4/12 4/13 5th Grade English Language Arts 4/17 4/18 3rd Grade Math 5/1 5/2 4th Grade Math 4/26 4/27 5th Grade Math 4/24 4/25 5th Grade Science 4/30-AM 4/30-PM

Previous & Important Updates

Paying Forward to The Ronald McDonald House: The Ronald McDonald House at Nationwide Children's Hospital needs your pop tabs. Please be sure to bring them to our school and we will donate them for you. Your efforts are very important because The Ronald McDonald House pays their entire electric bill each month through through recycling these pop tabs. PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING:) ! 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: Buy products at the store that contain the box top label Cut them out following the dotted lines on all 4 sides of the label - the box top company is very strict on this! Make sure the box top date has not expired! Glue or tape them to the box top sheet, if you need more sheets, you may copy the sheet or use a separate sheet of paper to tape them or have the school send more home DONT FORGET TO ADD YOUR CHILD’S TEACHER TO YOUR BOX TOP SHEET SO YOUR STUDENT GETS CREDIT FOR THE BOX TOPS THEY TURNED IN.  THEY WILL GO TOWARD A EARNING A CLASS PIZZA PARTY! Due Date:  TBA Thanks in advance for supporting our students! MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD's TEACHER'S NAME IS ON THE SHEET