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The CMS Student Council hosted a Food Drive last week to support the Platte County Food Pantry. All together, CMS collected 4,383 items that weighed in at a WHOPPING 3,835 pounds! Winners for the food castle building and design competition will be announced next week.
8th Grade Parents -
8th Grade Activity Night is tomorrow, Nov. 19, 5:30-7:30.
We still need donations for the Snack walk (individually wrapped snack items) and money to pay for pizza.
If you are able to donate either of these, please bring them to the front office.
Thank you!
CMS Student Council is hosting a food drive November 16-19th! All food items will be donated to the Platte County Food Bank.
The CMS Student Council would like the congratulate the August and September Navigators of the Month! Please take a moment to nominate a CMS staff member for October: https://forms.gle/eZWvPfpDcZSnxaTPA
The Discoverer Den will be open again this Friday, Oct. 1st from 3:30-4pm. Students may use their purple Discoverer Bucks to purchase items!
Today's live streamed event! CMS 8th Football https://striv.tv/channel/columbus/ Go Discoverers!
Today's live streamed events!
CHS Softball & CMS 8th Volleyball https://striv.tv/channel/columbus/
CMS 7th Volleyball https://youtu.be/syee9IgPLlw
Go Discoverers!
Student Council is hosting Spirit week from Wednesday, September 8th through Wednesday, September 15th.
September 8th is Color War! Each grade level will wear a different color!
5th Grade: Red
6th Grade: Green
7th Grade: Blue
8th Grade: Black
September 9th is Twin Day! Find a friend or two and dress the same!
September 10th is NEON day! Put on your brightest outfit!
September 13th is Movie Character Day! Dress as your favorite movie character!
September 14th is Sports day! Support your favorite team!
And Finally, September 15th is Discoverer Day! Wear your Maroon and Silver proudly!
Welcome to the weekly CASP Snaps newsletter for the Columbus Middle School After School Program. Our goal is to keep parents informed of all the fun and learning your child is experiencing. Please click on the link to see our activities. https://bit.ly/3DL2xpL
Due to the rain, flag football will not have practice today.
Parents and Students,
There will be school tomorrow at the Middle School, North Park, and the Cassette House. Thank you for being patient with us as we clean and prepare the facilities for school tomorrow, September 1, 2021.
Due to the conditions of the football fields there will be no practice for 8th, 7th and flag football today.
7th and 8th grade volleyball will have practice today from 3:45pm-5:30pm. Come dressed and ready for practice.
A few photos from the flood and water back up at CMS today.
Welcome to the weekly CASP Snaps newsletter for the Columbus Middle School After School Program. Our goal is to keep parents informed of all the fun and learning your child is experiencing during their time after school. Please contact your CASP site coordinator if want to learn more. Lori Marking (markingl@discoverers.org).
Thank you to the CPS Administration once again for the opportunity to have college students substitute at CMS. This has been a very positive experience for the CMS staff, students as well as the college students. This has been especially helpful since there is a substitute teacher shortage.
College Teacher Substitute
- Hannah Haynes has been subbing at CMS, CHS and CPS Elementary schools. Hannah will be a senior at the University of Kearney majoring in Elementary Education with an endorsement in English as a Second Language and a minor in Spanish. This fall she will be a senior at UNK.
- Madison Kerkman has been a Teacher Substitute for the 5th and 6th grades at CMS during the month of May. She has also been a Paraeducator Substitute at CMS and other CPS Elementary schools. She is majoring in Elementary and Special Education at the University of South Dakota and will start her student teaching in the fall of 2022.
- Tristan Colford will be a Junior at UNK and is majoring in Pre-Med. Tristan has been a Teacher Substitute at CMS as well as CHS and CPS Elementary schools.
Thank you to the CPS Administration once again for the opportunity to have college students substitute at CMS. This has been a very positive experience for the CMS staff, students as well as the college students. This has been especially helpful since there is a substitute paraeducator shortage.
College Paraeducator Substitutes -
- Colby Gilson has been with CMS for the entire month of May as a Paraeducator Substitute in the Grade 5 and 6 areas. Colby will graduate from Iowa Western after a summer class and will then continue his teaching degree at UNO starting in August.
- Gracie Luebbe is going to be a Sophmore at UNK and is a Reading Paraeducator Substitute at CMS.
- Emily Hall is studying Biology at UNK and will be a Sophmore. She is a Pareducator Substitute in the EL area.
- Aspen Luebbe has been a Teacher Substitute in the High Learners area and she has also been a Reading Paraeducator Substitute. Aspyn is studying Physical Therapy at UNK and will be a Junior.
CPS Families be sure to catch up on District News in the latest digital edition of the Discoveries family newsletter.
https://www.smore.com/3df5c
Band nights will be held this week on Tuesday (Apr 27) and Thursday (Apr 29) evenings from 5:30-7:30 in the CMS cafeteria. These evenings are set aside for any 5th or 6th grade student who is interested in beginning band next school year. Students will have the opportunity to try out the instruments and parents can get information about signing up for band. You can attend either night at any time during open hours.