Tiger Newsflash 5-19-18

Weekly Message

5-19-18 Good evening! It has been an awesome week at Columbia Elementary this week with many meaningful activities for our students:  We had Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades performing in "Where the Wild Things Are" Musical this past Tuesday night at Faith Baptist Church. On Thursday, we had our Fifth Graders visiting Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Knox County Career Center, and Kenyon College to gain a realistic perspective on their life long goals after High School.   Lastly, on Friday, we saw our new 18-19 Kindergarten Recruits at Kindergarten Registration, and later that same day we enjoyed our Second Graders biographies presentations. It is hard to believe we have 1 1/2 weeks left of school.  Let's continue to stay focused and finish the 2017-18 School Year COLUMBIA STRONG! Tiger Up! Matt

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Update: Please join a district level conversation: Greetings  We greatly appreciate all of you who have taken the time to 'share' and 'star' thoughts in our very first "Thought Exchange".  We have five days left in our first thought exchange and still desire to hear from all of our Mount Vernon Community members, including faculty and staff.  At present we have a total of 472 participants who have shared roughly 500 thoughts about our two essential questions:  1)What are some things we can focus on in order to improve? 2)What are some things we are doing well? If you have not yet had an opportunity to participate please do so by selecting the following link |Thought Exchange| or by visiting our district website at www.mvcsd.us.  You can view the short video and follow the instructions.  If you have already participated, thank you for sharing your thoughts about Mount Vernon City Schools.  Please feel free to revisit the exchange and rate the thoughts of others as there are new ones shared daily.  Your thoughts are important to us and will help direct our efforts moving forward.  Our first exchange will end next Thursday. Our goal would be to have 1000+ participants join us in the conversation.  Thanks and take care!  William Seder Jr Superintendent Mount Vernon City Schools Variety Show-This Tuesday-2:30-3:30pm-Grades 3-5: This Tuesday some of our students in Grades 3-5 will be performing in our First Annual Variety Show.  Please  know that if your child is performing, you are welcome to attend. The performance will take place in our gym. Tiger Up-5/23-This Wednesday-1:30-3:30-Planning for College/Advanced Training after HS: On May 23rd, all students need to wear their Tiger Up shirts for our focus on their lives after High School. Our goal is to get their eyes and minds focused on setting goal to prepare themselves towards a successful path towards college and/or advanced training after they graduate High School. We feel that it is very important to get them focused on these goals now for a successful outcome later on in their lives.  For these reasons, we have established a strong partnership with COTC, MVNU, and Kenyon College.  These higher institutions of  learning will be at our Tiger Up Assembly on 5/23 from 1:30-2:15pm.  Parents are welcome to attend. Following this presentation, we will be meeting in our Mentor Groups to further discuss this goal setting process.  Field Day (AM), School Picnic, and Water Day (PM)-This Thursday-5/24 Reminder: This coming Thursday is going to be a very fun day for our students. They are going to have field day  in the morning, followed by water day in the afternoon.  Be sure that your child brings an extra pair of clothes with  her/him to school.  A towel would also be a very good idea.   For lunch we will be having our annual School Picnic.  Be sure that your child has brought her's /his's assigned item  for this picnic as seen below: Kindergarten 1-2 box(es) single serving cookies (i.e.: Little Debbie’s, Nabisco Variety Pack, etc) 1st grade 1 bag or bunch of fresh fruit (i.e: apples, clementines, oranges, bananas, etc) 2nd grade 1 package of hot dogs & 1 package of hot dog buns 3rd grade   10 prepackaged lunch size packages of chips   4th grade 1 package of cheese sticks 5th grade 24 pack of bottled water Reminder: Columbia Elementary Senior Clap Out and Lunch-5/25-This Thursday On May 25th from 12-1pm, we will be holding our third annual Senior Clap Out for those Seniors that attended Columbia Elementary School.  Please be sure to remind any Columbia Elementary Graduating Senior. They will need to RSVP to Mrs. Miller at 1-740-393-5975 by 5/23/18. Lunch will be on us and we want them to  bring their Caps and Gowns:)  LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS-May 30th Schedule: K-2 Awards Assembly-9:15-10am Grades 3-5 Awards Assembly-10-10:45am 5th Grade Graduation-11-12am Early Dismissal at 1:30pm Columbia Elementary Annual American Red Cross Blood Drive June 1st-BY APPOINTMENT: 1-6pm 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

5/22-2:30-3:20-Variety Show-Grades 3-5 in Gym 5/23-Tiger Up-Planning for College/Advanced Training-Assembly-1:30-2:15pm (Parents Welcome; Mentor Time-2:30-3:30pm 5/24-Track and Field Day-AM 5/24-Schoolwide Picnic-12-1pm 5/24-Water Day-PM 5/25-Columbia Elementary-Graduating Senior Lunch and Clap Out-12-1pm 5/28-Memorial Day-No School 5/30-K-2 Awards Assembly-9:15-10 5/30-Grades 3-5 Awards Assembly-10-10:45 5/30-5th Grade Graduation-11-12 5/30-Last Day for Students 5/30-Grade Cards go home with 18-19 Classroom Assignments 5/30-Early Dismissal at 1:30pm 6/1-Blood Drive at Columbia Elementary by appointment 2018-19 School Year Calendar

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!