Mrs. Earley's class had an amazing time creating their castle for the CMS food drive. Thanks so much to the families who donated.
Students happily help carry food donated for the CMS food drive.
Tomorrow is the final day of the CMS Food Drive! Advisory classrooms will build castles out of their collected food and STUCO will vote for the winners of Overall Best Castle, Most Items, Best Per Grade Level, and Most Creative. Have you donated food items yet?
CPS families we want to hear from you. If you have not completed the CPS Families Survey yet please do so today!
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Sometimes you Just Dance! Mrs. Gustafson's language arts class averaged an 89% on their vocabulary test this week, so a few minutes of celebrating was in order! Great work, 7th graders!
8th Grade Activity Night is coming up on Nov. 18th!
8th GRADE PARENTS, we need your help and support in order for this to be a successful evening. Please check the attached flyer to see if you are able to provide assistance. Any help is greatly appreciated!
CMS STUCO is hosting a Food Drive the week of Nov. 7th. Bring non-perishable food items to your advisory! Classes will build castles with the food they collect and STUCO will vote for the Best Castles at the end of the week! All food collected will be donated to the Platte County Food Bank.
8th grade science has had a busy week building roller coasters. Students needed to demonstrate knowledge of forces and how energy changes in order to be successful.
The 7th graders celebrated Halloween by creating their own Spooky Black-Out Poetry from excerpts of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. These girls from Mrs. Foster's class even came in during their free time to work on more poems! Here are some examples. Enjoy!
Mark you calendars and plan to be at CHS on November 17, 2022 and join the CPS Foundation for the Lighting of the Anchor!
With the start of Quarter 2, the 7th grade LA students started a new reading unit. It's informational text all about brain science. Ask your student what happened to Phineas Gage!
Parents & Community Members,
Please consider joining Columbus Community Hospital and Smart GEN Society next week for a timely presentation on keeping your family safe in this digital world. RSVP is requested by 10/22/2022 For more information visit https://bit.ly/3ghMB7k.
In 7th grade LA, our Explanatory Essays are due this week, and our Unit 1 Vocab Test is next week. Also, make sure your student brings back the permission slip before next week to watch "The Mighty!"
The 8th graders did such an outstanding job reading "The Outsiders" for Language Arts and really seemed to enjoy it! We are now reading the novel "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen. The main character has to find a way to deal with a troubled past in order to have a future. Look for these books and packets to be in the students' backpacks today!
Mark your Calendars! CMS Student Council will be hosting Spirit Week October 10-14th. All Dress code rules still apply.
Discoverer teams will take on the Walnut Wildcats today! All games start at 4:15 pm.
8th grade volleyball @ CMS
7th grade football @ Pawnee Park
7th grade volleyball @ Walnut
Home games will be streamed at https://striv.tv/channel/columbus/.
#godiscoverers
It was the final day for the Minute to Win It competition in 7th grade Advisory. It was Jelly Belly day, and on the final day? Maroon wins! What a fun way to end the week! Don't forget NSCAS testing in language arts classes next Monday and Tuesday.
6th grade trumpets are off to a great start learning how to play their instruments with Mr. Klee!
It was challenge #2 today for the 7th grader Advisory classes. The Iron Man/Woman challenge was making a tower without using their hands! Silver wins again!
8th grade science isn’t losing their marbles over physics. They are using them to test how height and mass affect force. #newtonslaws
