Stuff The Bus = Great Success!

This past Friday and Saturday, Central Cambria Middle School teachers and students from CCMS Student Council organized a Stuff the Bus event at Ebensburg Wal-Mart.  The purpose of the event was to collect food donations for the Special Deliveries project that will be kicking off in the fall.  This project will provide a backpack of food to any student who needs one each Friday during the school year.  Students will return their empty backpacks on Monday to be refilled the following Friday.  The goal is for all of our students to have food to eat seven days per week throughout the year.

First Student, the district's transportation contractor, provided a bus and volunteers for the event.  To say this was a great success would be an understatement.  Thanks to the generous support from the community, we raised over $1,000 and filled many bins with various food items.  Thank you to our teachers, student council members, First Student, Ebensburg Wal-Mart, and the community for making this event a great success!  Here are some pictures from the event:

 Student Council volunteers

 How often do you see empty space on shelves at Wal-Mart?  
Thank you to generous community members who purchased items to donate!

Here are some pictures of bins filled to the brim with donations!

Stuff the Bus Event for CC Special Deliveries!

Stuff the Bus

for CC Special Deliveries

Sponsored by First Student and Central Cambria Education Foundation

Friday, June 12th 9am-5pm

Saturday, June 13th 9am-5pm

Walmart, Ebensburg

Please Help by Purchasing:

Fruit Snacks (any kind)

Pop Tarts

Capri Suns/Kool-Aid Pouches

EZ Mac

Cereal (Single Serving Size, Any Kind)

Cereal, Granola Bars (Any Size)

*Monetary Donations Are Appreciated As Well*

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Final Week Events at CCMS

It is hard to believe that the final week of the 2015-16 school year has arrived.  Here is a schedule of events taking place this week:

Monday, 6/1:  8th grade picnic at Duman Lake

Tuesday, 6/2:  Fit & Fun Day.  All students.  

Wednesday, 6/3:  Flight 93 speakers & assembly.  8th grade students.  Final grades due.

Thursday, 6/4:  CCMS Awards Assembly starting at 8 a.m.  Parents of students receiving awards will be invited to attend.  8th grade students will depart for Kennywood after the awards ceremony has concluded.

Friday, 6/5:  8th grade field trip to the Flight 93 National Memorial.

Monday, 6/8:  Last day of school.  Middle and high school students are dismissed at 9:30 a.m.

Ford Drive For Your School Event

The following message is from Mr. Gilkey, 6th grade social studies teacher and volleyball coach:

The Swim Booster and Cross Country Boosters are once again teaming up for the Ford Drive 4 UR School event.  We are hoping that you can make it on Saturday, May 16 between 9:00 and 2:00 to Cambria Elementary school.  It only takes about 15 minutes. You show up, fill out a brief questionnaire and drive the Ford of your choice and Ford gives us $20. No sales pitch. No pressure. No cost to you. There are light refreshments and chances to win prizes.

Please try to block off 15 minutes on the 16^th to support us.

Hope to see you there!

Greater Johnstown Young Artists Exhibit

Last night at the Community Arts Center in Westmont, three CCMS students were awarded blue ribbons and a small cash prize in the “Greater Johnstown Young Artists Exhibit.”  With their selections, Central Cambria took 3 of the 6 available awards for their age group! Their work will remain on exhibit with many other student works from the region through May 29th.  Thank you to Mr. Dumm for his tremendous work with our art program.

 Two of our winners posing with their work.

Math 24 & First In Math

Over the course of this school year, Mrs. Stevens, our district's math coach, has organized a Math 24 competition among our elementary and middle school students.  Additionally, she has spearheaded the implementation of First in Math, an online math practice site which includes a variety of practice problems for students.  All CCMS students have had access to the site this year.  Jackson Elementary, Cambria Elementary, and Central Cambria Middle School held internal Math 24 competitions to determine students from each grade level who would compete at the regional competition.  Yesterday, the winners of those contests competed at a regional competition hosted by the Appalachian Intermediate Unit.  We had several students at the elementary and middle school level reach the semifinals.  Mark Losey, representative from First In Math, came to CCMS to acknowledge our students' outstanding performance on the First In Math site.  He gave awards to our top performers in each grade level, and gave the 6th grade students a pep talk since CCMS stood out among the many districts that he works with.  These were great opportunities organized by Mrs. Stevens, and we thank her for her work with our kids.

 Mr. Losey gets our 6th graders fired up!

Our 7th and 8th grade First In Math champs correctly 

solved over 45,000 problems this year!

Central Cambria students with the hardware they won at the regional Math 24 Challenge!

Upcoming Events

We recently posted several upcoming events to the CCMS events calendar.  You can view it by opening the link below:

http://www.cchs.k12.pa.us/middle/events-calendar.html

Pumped Up for PSSA Testing

Our students at Central Cambria Middle School began PSSA testing last Tuesday.  To get ready for testing each morning, we have been conducting organized physical activities to get pumped up for PSSA's.  Led by Ms. Getz and a group of CCMS teachers, our students have been jogging on the track (as weather permits) or exercising in the gym after breakfast each morning.  The impetus for this came from Ms. Getz's professional development plan for this year.  Ms. Getz researched the topic and read Spark by Dr. John Ratey, which covers a multitude of research studies linking physical activity to increased brain activity.  Our teachers have been incorporating "brain breaks" into their classroom instruction.  A brain break consists of a brief physical activity to break up extended periods of sitting.  Research shows a connection between physical activity and increased brain activity.  For this reason, we are experimenting with exercise prior to PSSA testing this year, and getting our students pumped up for PSSA's.  

 Students getting pumped up for PSSA's

 CCMS students don't do push-ups, they push the world down.

 We're here to puuuuump you uuuuupp!

Ms. Getz and her merry band of exercise fanatics.

Science Fair

A group of 8th grade students in Ms. Sossong's science class participated in a Science Fair held at Forest Hills Middle School Wednesday evening.  This was our students' first time competing in this event in recent years.  CCMS students came away with an honorable mention and a third place trophy.  These students' effort was commendable.  Thank you to Mrs. Dziack for filling in as their chaperone on short notice.

 The Team

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Yearbook Order Forms - Due 3/24/2015

Order forms and money for CCMS yearbooks are due this Tuesday, March 24th.  There will be no orders or money accepted late, and we will not have extra copies for sale when the yearbook arrives in May.  The cost for the new, full-color yearbook is $20.  Please get your yearbook order in tomorrow!