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
The 7th grade Advisory classes are competing in Minute to Win It challenges all week! Today was an "Eggcellent " Challenge, and after one day, the Silver Team is in the lead!
Attention CMS Parents
Our first Parent Advisory Council (PAC) Meeting is on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 in the media center. All middle school parents/guardians are welcome to attend. Please enter through the main office doors. We will discuss and plan activities for the school year. Hope to see you there!
The CPS Foundation is now a supported program of AmazonSmile! This is a great way to make a donation while you're shopping. Be sure to add us at smile.amazon.com/change.
The 7th grade LA students are working hard on making inferences using text evidence while reading "Freak the Mighty." We finished the novel today! Ask your student about how the mood changes in the ending of the book. Common assessment coming up Friday!
You will now be able to watch CHS & CMS activities not only on Channel Page, IOS & Android app, Roku but now on FIRE TV! Download the app now in the Amazon Store.
We are getting close to the climax of "Freak the Mighty!" Ask your 7th grade LA student-- What came down the chimney? There will be a quiz over chapters 12-17 on Friday! There is also a Unit 1A vocab quiz this week, so they should all be studying! Happy Wednesday!