Columbia Central Weekly Bulletin

Greetings Parents and Guardians,

We have a busy week at Columbia. For a review of Red Ribbon Week dress themes for the week, take a look below. We also have our family book fair night this Wednesday,. We are hosting Brookwood for our girl's basketball game on Wednesday as well. If you have any questions about registering your child for a sport this year, please reach out.

Let's make it a great week at Columbia!

Dr. Carnes

Columbia Central Middle School Principal

Monday, Oct. 23

• S.T.E.M After School -> 2:40p.m. - 3:40p.m.
• After School Homework Help -> 2:40p.m. - 3:40p.m.
• 7th Grade Girls Basketball Game -> Columbia vs. Huth @ Huth - 4:00p.m.
• 8th Grade Girls Basketball Game -> Columbia vs. Huth @ Huth - 5:00p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 24

• Jazz Band -> 7:00a.m. - 7:40 a.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 25

• Pep Band -> 7:00a.m. - 7:40a.m
• 7th Grade Girls Basketball Game -> Columbia vs. Brookwood @ Columbia - 4:00p.m.
• 8th Grade Girls Basketball Game -> Columbia vs. Brookwood @ Columbia - 5:00p.m.
• Family Book Fair Night @ 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 26

• Jazz Band -> 7:00a.m. - 7:40a.m.
• 7th & 8th Girl's Basketball Practice -> 2:30p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• S.T.E.M After School -> 2:40p.m. - 3:40p.m.

Friday, Oct. 27

• 7th & 8th Girl's Basketball Practice -> 2:30p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Upcoming Events

• October 23-27 - Book Fair
• October 25 - Family Book Fair Night
• October 31 - 11:00a.m. Early Dismissal

Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life. It presents an opportunity for parents, educators, and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages they share with their children throughout the year.

www.dea.gov/redribbon

If your student will not be present at school, please call our attendance line: 708-753-4700 Ext. 1

Dear Parents,

In this week’s Second Step lesson, your child will learn how to reflect on their experience working toward a goal, how to identify and set achievable goals by making them specific and be able to identify and distinguish between internal and external obstacles (or “roadblocks”) that can get in their way when working toward goals.

Consider trying this at home. Talk with your child about their goal-setting journey, what worked, what did not, and what they could do differently next time. Tell your child about a goal that you set and worked toward. What worked, what didn’t work, and what did you learn?

Dear Parent’s with the book fair being a week away Scholastic has a new automatic payment system for your child to purchase books called “eWallet”. Just follow the link bellow and hit the “get started red button” under the eWallet tab. You can also share the homepage to friends and family to spread more book joy! Cash, credit cards and checks payable to Columbia Central will still be accepted during the book fair. As a reminder that the book fair will be October 23rd-27th

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/columbiacentralschool

The budget for school year 2023-24 was adopted by the Steger Board of Education on September 20, 2023 and is available in the Financial Reports section of the Business Office webpage at www.sd194.org.

Is your child struggling with homework/missing assignments?

Here's how we can help:

• Students can attend after school homework help on:

Mondays and Thursdays from 2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

• Doors open for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
• School starts at 7:50 a.m.
• Attendance is a priority for students and staff.
• If your child is out sick, please call 708-753-4700 press 1 for Attendance.
• Please remind your student to be on time to each class.
• Please remind your child to sign up for the activity bus on their Google Classroom daily.

If your student is showing any flu or COVID-like symptoms, please keep them home from school and notify the nurse. Students should be kept home if he/she has:

1. Fever more than 100 degrees within the last 24 hours (must be fever free without medications)
2. Vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours.
3. Continuous coughing not relieved with cough medicine.

In case of an emergency, please ensure that you are updating the emergency contact numbers.

If your child has allergies, asthma, or will be needing to take medication(s) at school, please print off the necessary forms under the ‘Parent Resource’ tab.

Columbia Central Middle School

Email: Scarnes@sd194.org
Website: https://columbia-central-school.echalksites.com/home_page
Location: 94 W Richton Rd, Steger, IL, USA
Phone: 708-753-4700