CMS Newsletter
Week November 25- December 4, 2020
Principal's Message
Hello All,
Centennial Middle School is launching a campaign to help members of our school community with essential needs. Caring Cougars Campaign will be accepting donations starting this week to December 11, 2020. Donations will be distributed the week of December 14, 2020
Caring Cougars is a CMS campaign to collect gift cards and distribute them to other CMS families who are in need of support purchasing essential items and groceries. Some suggestions include purchasing gift cards from Winco, Grocery Outlet, Safeway, Fred Meyers, Walmart and Target. If you are able to donate to the Caring Cougar campaign, you can drop off a gift card or any monetary donations (we can purchase the gift card for you) to our main office Monday-Friday 9:00 am-3:30 pm.
Giving and caring for others is a Cougar trait and this opportunity will bring joy and love to many families in our community. Please consider donating to this campaign that will directly support many families in our very own Centennial Community.
CMS Family
School Holiday
Monday November 23-Tuesday November 24, 2020
No School (Holiday)
Wednesday November 25-Friday November 27, 2020
In this issue you will find:
- NEW!!! Caring Cougars
- NEW!!! Counseling Corner
- NEW!!! Centennial School District - Dental Sealants - Multnomah County
- Elective Information
- Mondays Meal Service
- Multnomah County Community Resources
- Updated Check Out Library Books
- Immunization Information School Year 2020-2021
- HIGHLIGHT! Student Belongings: Last Year Student Lockers
- Check Out Books from CMS Library
- This Month In Community Class
- Yearboook 2020-2021
- EBT Pandemic Benefits
- Destiny Discovery: Library Resource
- CMS Library Corner
- Elective Schedules
- CMS Regular School Bell Schedule
- CMS Wednesday School Bell Schedule
- Purpose: Wednesday Applied Learning
- Attendance Information
- CMS Student Email Form: Activated Thursday October 8, 2020
- Chromebook Device Tech Support for Families
- YEARBOOKS are here!
- TRIO Message
- NWFS Message
- Index of Previous CMS Newsletters
NEW!!! Counseling Corner
11/20/2020
Hi Families! In keeping with this month’s theme of Responsibility for your student’s Community Lessons, this week we focused on Peer Responsibility.
First off, understanding peer responsibility means having some self-awareness around your own needs, boundaries and identity. This week’s lessons focused on how to reach out to peers by using kindness, while also knowing when to set personal boundaries. Below is a video of the importance of boundary setting that was presented in one of this week’s lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-kqr4A5gog&feature=youtu.be
Additionally, students explored ways of being a responsible friend by being a kind and helpful friend. Students were also presented with a kindness challenge to encourage reaching out to others in addition to exploring strategies and resources when they need to reach out for help.
Lastly, with Thanksgiving and multiple other holidays coming up, we want to recognize this is a very unprecedented and difficult time. The surge of cases in Oregon has made us feel more disconnected than ever, making it challenging to find something worth showing gratitude for. We encourage you to check out this resource on how even simple acts of gratitude can impact our personal and emotional well-being:
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_gratitude_changes_you_and_your_brain
As always, if you have any questions or concerns about your child, please reach out to their grade level counselor for support!
Chris_Oconnor@csd28j.org (7th grade)
Tiffany_Shaffer@csd28j.org (8th grade)
NEW!!! Centennial School District - Dental Sealants - Multnomah County
Greetings Parents/Guardians,
Multnomah County’s School and Community Oral Health Program is offering Free sealants and dental screenings at a satellite location near you. A dental screening is a quick look inside your child’s mouth to check the overall health of their teeth, and sealants will be placed if needed.
This service is available for students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
What questions do you have? Please call us at 503-988-3905.
To use this FREE service please fill out the electronic permission slip at this link:
https://forms.gle/WBUTM9brbacGVAhj6
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Saludos Patres/Tutores,
El programa de salud oral escolar y comunitaria del condado de Multnomah ofrece selladores y exámenes dentales gratuitos en ubicación cercana a usted. Una revisión dental es un vistazo rápido dentro de la boca de su hijo/a para revisar la salud general de los dientes y se les aplicará los selladores.
Este servicio está disponible para estudiantes de segundo, tercero, cuarto, sexto, séptimo y octavo grado.
¿Necesitas ayuda? ¿Tiene preguntas? Llámenos al 503-988-3905
Para usar este servicio gratis, complete este permiso electrónico:
https://forms.gle/WBUTM9brbacGVAhj6
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Приветствую родителей / опекунов,
Бесплатные зубные защитные покрытия и стоматологический осмотр предлагаются в ближайшем к вам центре. Стоматологический осмотр - это быстрый осмотр рта вашего ребенка, чтобы проверить общее состояние зубов, и при необходимости нанести зубные защитные покрытия.
Нужна помощь? Есть вопросы? Позвоните нам по
503-988-3905
Чтобы воспользоваться этой БЕСПЛАТНОЙ услугой, заполните электронный бланк разрешения по этой ссылке:
Elective Information
Mondays Meal Service
Meals are served on Mondays from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the following locations.
Centennial High School
Parklane Elem
Patrick Lynch Elem
Powell Butte Elem
Meadows Elem
Bus routes.
Routes are listed on the District website.
Immunization Still Applies
Immunization Exclusion Day will be February 17, 2021 for this school year.
We have attached the immunization requirements below. Families can also go to the Immunizations page on the MESD website https://www.multnomahesd.org/shs-immunization.html for any information regarding immunizations.
If you need immunization support or information please do not hesitate to call our school office.
Russian
Spanish
Vietnamese
2019-2020 Student Belongings (from student lockers)
Families,
We still have a significant amount of student belongings at school. Please come and retrieve these as soon as you can.
Process:
- Call our front office about wanting to pick up student belongings. Please ONLY call the day you are planning to pick these up.
- Provide student full name and the team they were in last year (if possible not required).
- Provide Locker # form last year, if possible.
- Office staff will explain pick up procedures via phone.
These items will be donated to local non-profit organizations if they are not retrieved by November 15, 2020.
If you have any questions please call us at our school's main number: (503)762-3206
Yearbook 2020-2021
EBT Pandemic Benefits
Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) was approved to provide Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) benefits to students in September. Similar to the spring, benefits are provided to children who receive free or reduced price school meals through the National School Lunch Program that are not attending school in-person.
The amount of September P-EBT benefits is based on the school districts start date. All that are eligible will receive at least $100 and some will receive more benefits based on when school began. Find out more about the benefits you’ll receive based on your school district:
The initial $100 benefits were distributed on September 28th. If a child qualifies for any additional benefits beyond $100, this will be provided through a second deposit. Eligible students who receive Oregon SNAP benefits, or were mailed an Oregon EBT card with P-EBT benefits in the past, received these September P-EBT benefits on their existing Oregon EBT card. If you lost your EBT card, you can request a new card by calling a local ODHS office or calling the EBT replacement line 1-855-328-6715. New Oregon EBT cards will be mailed in October.
Call the P-EBT hotline for help addressing any issues: 503-945-6481
For more information:
CMS Library Corner
We've got new ebooks and audiobooks you can check out right now, no library card needed!
Go to soraapp.com, choose Centennial School District 28 as your school, and get reading today!
Need more information to get started? Check out our short getting started video.
Elective Schedules
Please review this with your students.
First identify what category your student falls in.
a) Do they have PE every day 1st/4th period for 7th grade or 3rd/6th period for 8th grade?
b) Do they have PE A day and Music Careers B day?
c) Do they have Choir/Band/Support Class on A day and PE on B day?
Then review the schedule they should follow for elective live meetings.
I understand there has been some confusion with ELECTIVE Live Meetings and please know that students will not and are not being held responsible for any missed live meetings. This is NEW to all of us and missed classes will happen.
Important: Students should be active in google classroom, turn in assignments, fill out activity logs an/or attendance logs and communicate with their teacher.
Here is a two page ELECTIVE OVERVIEW
CMS 2020-2021 Regular Bell Schedule
CMS Wednesdays 2020-2021 Bell Schedule & Attendance
There is attendance being taken on Wednesdays for all CLASSES 1-6 (no community).
Students must show up on google classroom and submit an assignment for every class in order to be counted present. Some teams and teachers have students log into an activity log or attendance log. Please ensure to ask your student what they are doing on Wednesday for EVERY CLASS.
Wednesday Late Start
Applied Learning: Wednesdays
-Formative Assessments
-Specialized Small Group Instruction
-PE Journals
-Finishing up a project from class.
-Extension of the work they do Monday/Tuesday or Thursday/Friday
-Independent work
-Paddlet Messages
-Student Discussion with peers or with teacher
-Kahoots
-Silent Sustained Reading
Whatever they do engage in doing, please ensure that your child enters google classroom and communicates with teacher via an attendance form, submitting an assignment, or communication. This is applicable for every class periods 1-6.
IMPORTANT Attendance Information
Update NEW!
If you do not want to receive attendance calls at the end of the day as indicated below your, please have your student follow the attendance procedure mentioned above under Wednesday Bell Schedule, Attendance and Late Start by 4pm for EVERY CLASS, periods 1-6.
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Beginning, Monday, September 28th, you will receive a call informing you that your student has an unexcused absence if they did not participate in class activities or have interaction with their teacher, an educational assistant or paraprofessional during the school day. Interaction can include:
- Participating in a video class, communication from the student to the teacher via chat, text message, a communication app or email;
- A phone call between the teacher, educational assistants or paraprofessionals and the student, or, for younger students, with the parent or guardian of the student; or
- Posting completed coursework on a given day.
Please ensure that your student follows the information above on WEDNESDAY Schedule, attendance and late start.
Centennial Middle School Email Permission Form
Email for students will be turned on sometimes this week and if you would like your student to have this essential communication tool, please fill out this form and submit. Submit the FORM which is the second link in this section, not the first. The first link provides information about student emails.
THESE HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACTIVATED FOR STUDENTS. If your student does not have these activated this form MUST be completed. Click on the URL two links below.
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Hello CMS Families,Please consider filling out this form for your student, if you have not done so already. This will allow students to access their school email and it will facilitate communication between teachers and students.
Please fill out permission form below (IMPORTANT):
English (Agree/Disagree From):
Spanish (De acuerdo/en desacuerdo de Documento) : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAjrQ70E73ydLBeUi3DciBmqp4gTOyYs30UdSqJDRIiB5Fpw/viewform?usp=sf_link
Russian (Согласен / Не согласен с): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdotVglZJkbolB1_FEek7xFBmCNi87dniAsY-NL0_zacBP50g/viewform?usp=sf_link
Chromebook Devise Tech Support
Please go to this website to receive Chromebook Tech Support when Needed.
2019-2020 Yearbook
We will start distributing yearbooks starting Wednesday September 30, 2020 @ CMS.
Please do not come before Wednesday to pick up your yearbook.
TRIO Educational Talent Search makes college dreams a reality for Centennial Middle School students. Find out how to apply here!
Northwest Family Services
Dear Centennial Middle School community,
Northwest Family Services is excited to announce a new series of free online workshops for parents and teens available this school year. These workshops are for any parent and their teenage child/ren in Multnomah County, and are offered monthly in both English and Spanish. Workshop topics include teen alcohol and cannabis use, the new vaping epidemic, and empowering families through increased communication. Dates, times, and registration information can be found on the attached fliers and at nwfs.org/familyworkshops.html.
We hope you will help us connect to interested families by sharing this information.
Thank you,
Terence Kennedy
Youth Alcohol and Drug Counselor
Northwest
More Opportunities:
This 2020-2021 academic year, we are offering four Multifamily Workshops for parents and teens each month about vaping, cannabis, alcohol and family empowerment, every Tuesday night from 6:00pm-8:00pm via Microsoft teams. These workshops are available in both English and Spanish. I’m attaching the Multifamily workshops calendar and also proving the links to the online registration form.
Description of Multifamily Workshops:
- Alcohol/ Cannabis and Youth - health effects of alcohol and cannabis, trends, laws, and advertisement tactics that can affect young people
- Vaping and your Health — Nicotine and Cannabis facts, trends, and interventions
- Family Empowerment — Teen brain development, connecting, and exploring values and goals together as a family
Families can register online or by calling me
English link https://www.nwfs.org/familyworkshops.html
Spanish link https://www.nwfs.org/talleresfamilia.html
NEW Multifamily Workshops for Parents and Teens:
November 2020
Cannabis and Youth 11/10/2020 6-8pm Online
Alcohol and Youth 11/17/2020 6-8pm
Family Empowerment 11/24/2020 6-8pm
December 2020
Vaping and your Health 12/1/2020 6-8pm Online
Cannabis and Youth 12/8/2020 6-8pm
Alcohol and Youth 12/15/2020 6-8pm
Family Empowerment 12/22/2020 6-8pm